景德傳燈錄 10.12

10.12

又問。如何是陀羅尼。師指禪床右邊曰。遮箇師僧却誦得。又問。別有人誦得否。又指禪床左邊曰。遮箇師僧亦誦得。云某甲為什麼不聞。師曰。大德豈不聞道。真誦無響真聽無聞。云恁麼則音聲不入法界性也。師曰。離色求觀非正見。離聲求聽是邪聞。云如何不離色是正見。不離聲是真聞。師乃有偈曰。

He also asked, "What is a dhāraṇī?"
The Master pointed to the right side of the meditation platform and said, "This monk here can chant it."
He asked again, "Can anyone else chant it?"
[The Master] pointed to the left side of the meditation platform and said, "This monk here can also chant it."
[The monk] said, "Why did I not hear it?"
The Master said, "Venerable Sir, have you not heard it said: 'True chanting has no sound; true listening has no hearing'?"
[The monk] said, "If so, then sound does not enter the nature of the Dharma realm."
The Master said, "To seek seeing apart from form is not right view; to seek hearing apart from sound is perverse listening."
[The monk] said, "How is not parting from form right view, and not parting from sound true hearing?"
The Master then delivered a verse: