景德傳燈錄 29.56

29.56

At Guizong, phenomenon and principle are cut off; / the solar disc is right at high noon. / Sovereign at ease like a lion, / relying on no thing whatsoever. / Solitary, walking the peaks of the four mountains; / roaming freely along the three great roads. / Yawning, flying birds tumble down; / stretching, hosts of evil are terrified. / When the trigger is set up, the arrow easily strikes; / when the shadow vanishes, it is hard for the hand to cover. / Setting out and displaying like a craftsman's skill, / cutting and tailoring like a measuring rule. / Skillfully carving ten thousand kinds of names, / Guizong still resembles the earth. / Speech and silence, sounds and voices are cut off; / the principle is subtle, feelings cannot touch it. / Discarding an eye, one turns deaf; / grasping an ear, one turns blind. / A single arrow-point pierces the three barriers; / clearly seen is the road behind the arrow. / How admirable is the great man, / who prior to Heaven is the mind-ancestor. / (Case ti [of the canon], Nirvāṇa Sūtra, fascicle 27: "A true lion king, leaving his den at dawn, stretches and yawns.")