景德傳燈錄 10.12

10.12

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: