宗鏡錄 98.61

98.61

先曹山和尚云。古佛心牆壁瓦礫是者。亦喚作性地。亦稱體全功。亦云無情解說法。若知有。這裏得無辯處。十方國土。山河大地。石壁瓦礫。虛空與非空。有情無情。草木叢林。通為一身。喚作得記。亦云一字法門。亦云總持法門。亦云一塵一念。亦喚作同轍。若是性地不知有。諸佛千般喻不得。萬種況不成。千聖。萬聖盡從這裏出。從來不變異。故云十方薄伽梵。一路涅槃門。

The late Venerable Caoshan said: “That the mind of the ancient buddhas is walls, tiles, and rubble—this is also called the nature-ground, also called complete merit of the substance, and also called insentient things expounding the Dharma. If you know its existence, here you attain the place without dispute. The lands of the ten directions, the mountains, rivers, and great earth, stone walls, tiles, and rubble, space and non-space, the sentient and the insentient, grasses, trees, groves, and forests—all together form a single body. This is called ‘receiving prophecy’; it is also called the ‘single-syllable Dharma gate’; it is also called the ‘dhāraṇī Dharma gate’; it is also called ‘a single dust mote and a single thought’; it is also called ‘traveling the same rut.’ If one does not know its existence in the nature-ground, the buddhas cannot illustrate it with a thousand metaphors, nor can they portray it with ten thousand comparisons. The thousands of sages and ten thousand holy ones all emerge from here, and from the beginning it has never changed. Therefore it is said: ‘The Bhagavans of the ten directions [travel] one single path through the gate to nirvāṇa.’”