人天眼目 2.101

2.101

Venerable Fengxue of Ruzhou addressed the assembly, saying: 'Those with the eye of study, when confronting the occasion, must directly allow the great function to appear before them; do not confine yourselves to petty details. Even if you understand before words are spoken, you are still bogged down in husks and deluded by wrappings. Even if you are thoroughly versed beneath phrases, you will not avoid wild views along the way. I urge all of you: whatever understanding you relied on others to form in the past, with its dual forks of bright and dark and doubtful feelings about ordinary and sage—sweep it all away at once! Make each of you roar like a lion cub! Stand like a cliff ten thousand fathoms high—who would dare look at it straight on? To look at it straight on is to be blinded!' (An ancient master commented: "A single phrase subtly contains the tune of a thousand ages; the myriad layers of clouds scatter when the moon first rises. Letting down a line of a thousand feet, the intention lies in the deep pool.")