佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.29

9.29

'Illuminating itself, it displays a solitary radiance.' Under your own heels, there is originally this stretch of radiance; it is just that you routinely use it in darkness. Therefore, Great Master Yunmen arrays this radiance before you. But what is everyone's radiance? 'The storeroom, the triple gate.' This is where Yunmen displays the solitary radiance. Panshan said: 'The mind-moon is solitary and round, its light swallowing myriad forms.' This is the true and eternal singularly exposed. 'Then, for you, he opens a single line.' He also feared people would attach to the storeroom and the triple gate. Setting aside the storeroom and the triple gate, in the morning the flowers wither and the tree casts no shadow; the sun sets and the moon darkens; the entire universe and great earth are pitch black. Do you all still see? 'When looking, who does not see?' Tell me, who does not see? Arriving here, within light there is darkness, within darkness there is light; just like the steps before and behind, one can naturally see. Xuedou says: 'Seeing or not seeing?' versifying 'A good thing is not as good as nothing.' Should see, yet does not see; should be clear, yet is not clear. 'Riding the ox backwards, one enters the Buddha hall'—entering into the black lacquer tub! You must ride the ox backwards into the Buddha hall for yourself and see what principle this is.