緇門警訓 1.3

1.3

金輪世主之公論。先哲儒宗之偈讚。於其中焉。或者以為直指單傳掃空文字。有所立言悖違宗旨。必告之曰。神機活脫石火電光。殺活縱擒不涉功用。斯惟直接上根。中下之流不堪覷著。眷彼雜花四法界內。終之以事事無礙。明其不捨一法。而無適不可者。豈殆所謂理悟則一事修無窮。而顯權宜機應者之準繩也歟。嘉禾巹禪人刊行是書。將使人人因言以見事。因事以見理因理以見心。因心以見性。而復厥本有自然之天。與夫因指以見月。因月以忘指。因忘以忘月。而忘厥所忘之忘者。同出而異名。此又事理互融。空有絕待。心佛眾生三無差別者之剩語也。尚何警訓之有哉。尚何警訓之有哉。

...the fair judgments of golden-wheel monarchs and the gāthās and praises of ancient sages and Confucian masters among them. Some might think that pointing directly and transmitting solely sweeps away written words, and that setting down words contradicts the fundamental principle. One must tell them: divine workings are alive and free, like sparks from flint or flashes of lightning; killing and reviving, releasing and capturing do not involve deliberate effort. This is intended only for directly receiving those of supreme capacity; those of medium and lower faculties cannot bear to look upon it. Regard the four dharmadhātus within that Avataṃsaka, culminating in the unobstructed interpenetration of phenomenon and phenomenon, clarifying that not a single dharma is abandoned, and that nothing is inappropriate. How could this not be the standard that reveals provisional expedients and responses according to capacity, in accordance with the saying, 'When principle is awakened to, it is one; yet cultivation of phenomena is boundless'? Chan practitioner Jin of Jiahe has published this book, intending that everyone, through words, may see phenomena; through phenomena, may see principle; through principle, may see the mind; and through the mind, may see the nature, thereby returning to their inherently natural reality. This shares the same source though differing in name with seeing the moon by means of the finger, forgetting the finger by means of the moon, forgetting the moon by means of forgetting, and forgetting the very forgetting that was forgotten. These are further superfluous words of those for whom phenomena and principle interpenetrate, emptiness and existence transcend duality, and mind, Buddha, and sentient beings—these three—are without distinction. Still, what admonitions and instructions could there be? Still, what admonitions and instructions could there be?