宗鏡錄 98.60

98.60

先洞山和尚心丹訣云。吾有藥。號心丹。煩惱爐中鍊歲年。知伊不變胎中色。照耀光明遍大千。開法眼。覩毫端。能變凡聖剎那間。要知真假成功用。一切時中鍛鍊看。無形狀。勿方圓。言中無物物中言。有心用即乖真用。無意安禪無不禪。亦無滅。亦無起。森羅萬像皆驅使。不論州土但將來。入此爐中無不是。無一意。是吾意。無一智。是吾智。無一味。無不異。色不變。轉難辯。更無一物於中現。莫將一物制伏他。體合真空非鍛鍊。

The late Venerable Dongshan’s Secret of the Citta Elixir says:
“I have a medicine called the citta elixir,
Refined for months and years in the furnace of kleśas.
I know it does not alter its embryonic color;
Its luminous brilliance shines throughout the great chiliocosm.
Opening the Dharma eye, gazing at the tip of a hair,
It can transform the ordinary and the holy in a single instant.
If you wish to know the genuine and false achieving function,
Watch it tempered in the forge through all periods of time.
It has no shape, neither square nor round;
In words there is no thing, in things there are words.
To use it with intentional citta is to violate its true function;
With no deliberate intent to settle in dhyāna, there is nothing that is not dhyāna.
Neither extinguished nor arisen,
The dense array of myriad phenomena are all deployed by it.
No matter the province or land, just bring it along;
Cast into this furnace, there is nothing that is not right.
Not a single intent is my intent,
Not a single wisdom is my wisdom;
Not a single flavor fails to differ.
Its color does not change, ever harder to discern;
Not a single further thing appears within it.
Do not take a single thing to subdue it;
Its substance merges with true emptiness, not forged through tempering.”