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禪林寶訓 2.54

禪林寶訓 2.54

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Classical Chinese

2.54

高菴悟和尚曰。予初遊祖山見佛鑑小參。謂貪欲瞋恚過如冤賊。當以智敵之。智猶水也不用則滯滯則不流。不流則智不行矣。其如貪欲瞋恚何。予是時雖年少。心知其為善知識也。遂求掛搭(雲居實錄)。

Reverend Gao'an Wu said: "When I first traveled to the Ancestral Mountain, I saw Fojian deliver an informal sermon saying: 'Greedy desire and wrathful anger are worse than enmity and bandits; one must counter them with wisdom. Wisdom is like water: if not used, it stagnates; if stagnant, it does not flow; if it does not flow, wisdom does not function. How then could one deal with greedy desire and wrathful anger?' Although I was young at that time, my mind knew that he was a kalyāṇamitra. Thereupon I requested to hang my bowl and staff." (Yunju Shilu)

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