宗鏡錄 1.8

1.8

What our Buddha proclaimed with his golden mouth fills the oceanic treasury, also intended to guide and encourage later students. With the master's wisdom and eloquence, he unfolded and expounded the myriad phenomena, illuminating the one mind. In Chan he swam across rivers; in wisdom he spread clouds. Even enumerating and praising them, one could never record them completely. I have merely composed this brief preface to extol and promote its circulation.