宗鏡錄 98.8

98.8

The eminent monk, the Śākya Lingrun, said: "Relinquishing wrongful attachments to external dusts, one attains discrimination of mental expressions. Relinquishing the notion of consciousness-only, one attains the true dharmadhātu. The former contemplation is without characteristics, relinquishing the characteristics of external dusts. The latter contemplation is non-arising, relinquishing the notion of consciousness-only." Furthermore, he was once climbing a mountain on an excursion with his Dharma companions when a wildfire surrounded them on all four sides. The assembly all scattered in flight, but Lingrun alone walked calmly, ascending and looking around as usual. He spoke to his followers, saying: "Outside of mind there is no fire; the fire is truly one's own mind. Thinking that the fire can be escaped, one has no means of avoiding the fire." When the fire reached Lingrun, it spontaneously subsided.