萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.80

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師云。圭峯科此一段。謂之妄心頓證。又名忘心入覺。萬松下四箇不字。謂不起不滅不知不辨。此四八三十二字。諸方皆為病。此處為藥。且諸方病者。不起妄念。豈非焦芽敗種。不滅妄心。豈非養病喪軀。不假了知。豈非暫時不在如同死人。不辨真實。豈非顢頇佛性籠桶真如。且道。如何是四藥。須是天童修合將來。頌云。

The Master said: Guifeng cataloged this passage, calling it 'sudden realization of the deluded mind,' and also named it 'forgetting the mind and entering enlightenment.' Wansong appended four 'no's, meaning: not giving rise, not extinguishing, not knowing, not discerning. These four-by-eight thirty-two characters are taken everywhere as diseases; here they are taken as medicine. Now as for the diseases seen everywhere: not giving rise to deluded thoughts—is this not scorched sprouts and rotted seed? Not extinguishing the deluded mind—is this not nurturing disease and ruining the body? Not adding analytical knowledge—is this not, being absent for a moment, just like a dead person? Not discerning what is real—is this not muddling buddha-nature and conflating tathatā? But tell me: what are the four medicines? It must be Tiantong who compounds them. The verse says: