宗鏡錄 99.27

99.27

The Fayuan zhulin says: “Blocking the stream is not as good as damming its source; stirring boiling water is not as good as extinguishing the fire. Why is this? The source gives rise to water; if the source is not dammed, the water will not end. The fire boils the water; if the fire is not extinguished, how can the boiling cease? Therefore, one who dams the source has no need to block the stream, and it dries up of itself; one who extinguishes the fire has no need to stir the water, and it subsides of itself. Hence we know that the mind is the source and objects are the stream. If one does not examine the fundamental source of the mind, one merely revolves in pursuit of phenomena. Thought is like fire and events are like boiling water: if one does not control one's own mental ground, one merely drifts along with the stream of external objects. All these lose the root and are deluded about the source, following the stream and chasing after the branches. If one can頓 (suddenly) understand the mental ground and directly comprehend the mind-source, not seeking liberation from the dusts and not being bound to a single phenomenon, one can be said to have investigated the branches and met the root, traced the stream and found the source. Consequently, without effort it is accomplished of itself; without contrived action it is completed of itself. Revealing this one mind, the myriad phenomena are like mirrors.”