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從上佛祖垂示機緣。據欵結案。初無剩語。揭翻腦蓋。露出眼睛。肯要諸人直下承當不從他覓。若是通方上士。纔聞舉著。便知落處。了無門戶可入。亦無階級可升。掉臂度關。不問關吏。豈不見玄沙道。無門解脫之門。無意道人之意。又白雲道明明知道。只是者箇為甚麼。透不過。恁麼說話。也是赤土搽牛嬭。若透得無門關。早是鈍置無門。若透不得無門關。亦乃辜負自己。所謂涅槃心易曉。差別智難明。明得差別智。家國自安寧。旹紹定改元解制前五日。楊岐八世孫無門比丘慧開謹識。

From antiquity onward, the dynamic conditions manifested by the buddhas and patriarchs were settled according to the facts, with originally no superfluous words. Tearing open the skull, exposing the eyeballs, they only wished for everyone to directly take responsibility for it, not seeking it from another. If one is an adept of the path, as soon as it is brought up, one knows where it lands. There is completely no door to enter, nor any grade of steps to ascend. Swinging one's arms, one crosses the barrier without asking the barrier guard. Have you not seen Xuansha say: 'No gate is the gate of liberation; no intent is the intent of the person of the Way'? And Baiyun said: 'Knowing clearly, it is just this; why cannot one penetrate it?' Talk like that is also smearing red clay on cow's milk. If you penetrate the Wumenguan, you have already made a fool of Wumen; if you cannot penetrate the Wumenguan, you also let yourself down. As it is said, 'The mind of nirvāṇa is easy to comprehend, but discriminating wisdom is difficult to clarify.' When discriminating wisdom is clarified, family and state are naturally peaceful. Respectfully noted on the fifth day before the lifting of the retreat, in the first year of the Shaoding era, by Bhikṣu Huikai, Wumen, eighth-generation descendant of Yangqi.