佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.46

8.46

"The six consciousnesses without effort pose a question." When the ancients studied the Path, cultivating themselves to this point, it was called the "effort of no-effort." It is just like an infant: though it has eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, it cannot distinguish the six dusts, because it is effortless. Having reached such a stage, one then subdues dragons and tames tigers, sits and sheds the body, or passes away standing up. If people today could simply set aside the myriad surroundings before them all at once, why would one need to reach the eighth stage or above before being like this? Even in this state of effortless application, mountains are still mountains and waters are still waters. Earlier, Xuedou's verse said: "Alive, having eyes, he is yet the same as dead; why must the adept be scrutinized with medicinal cautions?" Because Zhaozhou and Touzi were adepts, it is said: "An adept master has tested where it comes from. On vast, rushing water, striking a ball." Touzi said: "Thought after thought flowing without stop." Do you all know where it lands? At the end, Xuedou teaches people to look for themselves with their own eyes; therefore he says: "Where it lands, it does not stop: who knows how to watch it?" This is Xuedou's living phrase. But tell me, where does it land?