萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.80

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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: