人天眼目 1.13

1.13

Snatching away the person but not the environment / inherently brings with it ambiguity. / Intending to seek the profound tenet, / does thinking on it not rather incur blame? / The black dragon's pearl gleams brilliantly, / the toad and laurel cast swirling shadows. / Face to face there is no inter-resonance; / one is still likely to remain stuck in the net. / (Dahui said: 'The heart of this verse rests mainly on "The black dragon's pearl gleams brilliantly, the toad and laurel cast swirling shadows." For these two lines are the environment. The student asks about snatching away the person but not the environment; "Intending to seek the profound tenet, does thinking on it not rather incur blame?" The main idea is simply: one must not deliberate and speculate. If one deliberates and speculates, the student misses the move of directly presenting face to face, and is then trapped in the snare of words.')