釋鑑稽古略續集 3.76

3.76

Chan Master Wuji, whose taboo name was Wu, was originally from Shu. At the age of twenty he cast off worldly entanglements, dedicating himself exclusively to seated investigation and mindfulness of the Buddha. Binding bamboo to make a hut, he strove without flagging. The Master said: "Having no thoughts attaches to emptiness; having thoughts attaches to grasping. When both being and non-being are forgotten, there is neither emptiness nor grasping." He also said: "Silent illumination has neither upper nor lower; its brilliance penetrates everywhere. Originally there is neither black nor white; what place does it not contain?" His verse conferring the Dharma said:
"I have no Dharma to transmit,
And you have no mind to receive it.
With a mind free of both transmission and reception,
Who would fail to attain realization?"
The Master had a "Prescription for the Mind Medicine" that circulated in the world. He also had a verse on the revolving lantern:
"Round and round it roams, only to roam again;
No clear-eyed person points out the head of the path.
Extinguish that single spark within the mind,
And blades, spears, men, and horses all cease at once."