景德傳燈錄 22.9

22.9

Chan Master Zhao of Baoguo Cloister in Fuzhou. The Master ascended the hall and said: "If I act with full dynamic functioning, where will you grope for it? Because root capacities are not equal, you immediately end up lacking shame. Do you understand yet? Now, I will make an entry path for all you benevolent ones." He then struck the rope-seat twice and said: "Do you see yet? Do you hear yet? If you see, then see directly; if you hear, then hear directly. Do not calculate within sense-consciousness; that will only turn into delusion and upside-down thought without any time of emergence. Take care!" Once, because a Buddha stupa was struck by lightning, someone asked, "Why was the stupa and temple of the ancestral Buddha struck by lightning?" The Master said, "Action penetrating heaven." The monk said, "Since it is action penetrating heaven, why did it strike the Buddha?" The Master said, "In such action, where does one see any Buddha?" The monk said, "How can one deal with the devastation?" The Master said, "What do you see?"