萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 6.109

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The Master said: 'Seeing being, it is not being: its being decays of itself. Seeing the bizarre, do not treat it as bizarre: its bizarreness collapses of itself.' The Mahāyāna-śāstra was composed by the fourteenth patriarch, Patriarch Nāgārjuna. It says: 'All dharmas, because of all causes and conditions, should exist. All dharmas, because of all causes and conditions, should not exist.' This is turning the hand up and turning the hand down. Langya took the high seat and said: 'Seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing are all causes of birth and death; seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing are all the root of liberation. It is like a lion turning and leaping: south, north, east, west, with no fixed place at all. If all of you do not understand, for the time being do not disappoint old man Śākya. Hūṃ!' This is why he does not fall behind Gautama. Gautama is Sanskrit, fully rendered Qiaodamo, and translated here as 'Earthly Excellence', meaning that aside from the devas, among humans on earth he is most distinctly supreme. Just now, in the final five hundred years, far removed from the era of the sages, people are mostly negligent. How can one succeed in not falling behind? Tear right through past and present!