景德傳燈錄 29.5

29.5

法性本來常寂。蕩蕩無有邊畔。安心取捨之間。被他二境迴換。歛容入定坐禪。攝境安心覺觀。機關木人修道。何時得達被岸。諸法本空無著。境似浮雲會散。忽悟本性元空。恰似熱病得汗。無智人前莫說。打爾色身星散。

The Dharma-nature is originally constantly tranquil, / vast and without boundaries. / Pacifying the mind between grasping and discarding, / one is turned around by those two realms. / Composing the countenance, entering absorption, and sitting in meditation, / gathering in objects, pacifying the mind, with coarse and subtle thought— / this is a wooden automaton practicing the Way; / when can it ever reach the other shore? / All phenomena are fundamentally empty without attachment; / realms are like floating clouds that must disperse. / Suddenly awakening to the original emptiness of one's fundamental nature / is just like breaking into a sweat from a burning fever. / Do not speak of this before the unwise, / lest it shatter your physical body into scattering stars.