景德傳燈錄 29.207

29.207

閑坐冥然聖莫知。縱言無物比方伊。石人把板雲中拍。木女含笙水底吹。若道不聞渠未曉。欲尋其響爾還疑。教君唱和仍須和。休問宮商竹與絲。

Sitting leisurely in stillness, even the sages cannot know; / Even if one speaks, there is nothing with which to compare it. / The stone man claps the clappers amidst the clouds; / The wooden maiden blows the reed-pipe at the bottom of the water. / If you say it cannot be heard, you have not yet understood; / If you wish to seek its sound, you will only doubt again. / I tell you to sing and harmonize, and you must harmonize; / Do not ask about the pentatonic notes, or bamboo and string.