人天眼目 3.122

3.122

"What is merit of merit?"
The Master said, "Not sharing."
He also said, "So blended there is nothing taboo;
beyond this, what more is there to seek?"
(Dahui said: "'Merit of merit' means that both phenomena and environment are empty; it means the great liberation of effortless functioning. Answering 'Not sharing' means there is no phenomenon that can be shared. The meaning of not sharing reverts entirely to the side of merit, just as in the Dharma realm phenomena and phenomena are unobstructed. Before you, there is no me; before me, there is no you. Thus Jiashan said, 'Here there is no old monk, and before the eyes there is no ācārya.' Such explanations are all tending toward and rendering service, accomplishing within the four daily deportments the mundane and supramundane without failing to circulate throughout; this is called the Five Ranks of Merit.")