佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 7.37

7.37

"Both gathering in and both letting go—how should this be taken as the essential principle? (Who knows how many there are? Thoroughly lucid on all eight sides. They thought there really was such a thing.) / Riding a tiger has always required peerless skill. (If one does not have an eye on the crown of the head and a talisman beneath the elbow, how could one get to this point? As for riding it, there is no harm; one only fears you cannot dismount. If one is not such a person, how can one clarify such a matter?) / Having laughed, he knows not where to go; (Even searching throughout the four hundred commanderies for such a person, he is hard to find. The words still ring in the ears; for thousands and tens of thousands of kalpas there is a pure breeze.) / It should only stir the sorrowful wind for a thousand ages." (Where is he now? Bah! Since it was a hearty laugh, why should it rather stir the sorrowful wind? The great earth is pitch black.)