萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 5.57

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The Master said: The Shiji records that Pan Yue and Xiahou Zhan were friends, both having handsome appearance. Zhang Wei praised the jade of Mr. He as lustrous and flawless, and the pearl of Marquis Sui as round and unbored. Whittling a square bamboo staff round, cutting away purple plush felt, grinding white jade into an ivory comb, forging yellow gold into brass chopsticks, tying a knot on a bowstring, fixing a handle on an almsbowl—try turning your light around to reflect quietly and see: who is not like this? Baizhang said: 'The numinous light shines alone, far transcending sense organs and objects.' Once you agree, you have not escaped sense organs and objects; cast away the path of agreement, and organs and objects are naturally empty. Once the six sense organs and six sense objects are empty, the six consciousnesses naturally return to the sea of awakening. Whenever an object has corners and edges, it cannot turn smoothly. If you wish to be dynamic and free, without adhesion and without reliance, merely set your eye on where there is agreement and disagreement, and naturally you will not abide on this shore, not abide on the other shore, and not abide in midstream. This is why Dongshan half agreed and half disagreed, and why Shushan could not fully assent. Do you still know this person's plan of return? 'The golden lock and mysterious barrier cannot detain him; / walking on different roads, he still revolves in saṃsāra.'