禪關策進 1.91

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汝等從今發決定心。晝三夜三。舉定本參。看他是箇甚麼道理。務要討箇分曉。日久歲深。不煉昏沈。昏沈自退。不除散亂。散亂自絕。純一無雜。心念不生。忽然會得。如夢而醒。覆看從前。俱是虛幻當體本來現成萬象森羅全機獨露。於這大明國裏。也不枉為人。向此法門。也不枉為僧。却來隨緣度日。豈不暢哉。豈不快哉○終日念佛。不知全是佛念。如不知。須看箇念佛的是誰。眼就看定。心就舉定。務要討箇下落。

"From now on, arouse a resolute mind; three times during the day and three times during the night, hold fixed your fundamental investigation, looking to see what principle it is, making sure to seek a clear resolution. As days and years accumulate, without training away torpor, torpor naturally recedes; without eliminating distraction, distraction naturally ceases. Pure and unmixed, mental thoughts do not arise. Suddenly you understand it, like awakening from a dream. Looking back at before, all was empty and illusory, while the fundamental essence itself has been originally ready and complete, and the myriad phenomena stand arrayed with their total functioning solely revealed. In this Great Ming realm, it will not have been in vain to be a human being, and toward this Dharma gate, it will not have been in vain to be a monk. Then, going on to spend your days according to conditions—how delightful it will be! How joyous it will be! All day reciting the Buddha, you do not know that it is entirely the Buddha reciting. If you do not know, you must inspect: 'Who is the one reciting the Buddha?' Let the eye gaze fixedly, and the mind hold it fixedly, making sure to seek out its whereabouts."