人天眼目 2.76

2.76

Sound and form cannot reach it; the path of language cannot explain it. Clearly evident throughout past and present, from the very beginning it has never been interrupted. Revealing the Way through words is merely an accommodation for the present age; raising the whisk and twitching the eyebrows are circumlocutions used to instruct and guide. How could a naturally superior adept need to be prodded and admonished? Those of medium or lower capacity seek a standard at the point of the fishhook. If the response to their potential is not wondrous, whose fault is it? If one hesitates still further, it only adds to the clumsiness. 'The Appendant Belt of Principle' means that Principle is the upright rank. Within that upright rank, there is not a single dharma—it is completely empty and identical with the limit of reality. In that actual ground of principle, not a single speck of dust is admitted.