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title: "天如惟則禪師語錄 · 示昱藏主"
description: "天如惟則禪師語錄由小師善遇編錄，成書於元代。內容收錄了惟則禪師的開示、法語、書信及詩偈，系統闡述了禪宗心性思想與修行方法，強調淨土與禪法的融合。該語錄繼承了臨濟宗風，並融匯華嚴、天台教理，是研究元代禪宗思想的重要文獻，對後世禪淨雙修之風影響深遠，在佛教史上具有承前啟後的權威地位。"
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### 示昱藏主

> Shi Yu, keeper of the canon

佛祖無上妙道。初非強生節目。且非異端揑恠。又非甚高難行之事。只是你日用常行見成受用底。強而名之喚作自性天真佛。又喚作自己主人公。近而言之。你一切時一切處用釋迦老子眼睛耳朵見色聞聲。用達磨大師舌根鼻孔出言吐氣。極而論之。十方諸佛諸祖各各赤窮。性命盡在你掌握之中。揑聚放開無不由你。你若果有者箇操略。管取諸佛諸祖向你面前納欵有分。就你手裏乞命無由。你若未具超宗越格底眼目。又無縛虎拏龍底手段。未免一切處一切時。見色被色礙聞聲被聲礙。以至出言吐氣皆是白日青天開眼𥧌語。是故圓覺經云。由有無始本起無明。生已主宰一切。眾生生無慧目。身心等性皆是無明。誠哉是言也。既自失其主宰。又且聽命於無明。由是不能轉物。為物所轉。一箇娘生髑髏被他穿却。一條死活命根被他管却。你却甘心向黑暗稠林中粘手綴脚無自由分。就滔天苦海裏頭出頭沒無解脫期。教中說為真可憐愍。勞他古佛世尊不忍坐視。拖泥帶水多設方便為你解粘去縛。下而諸祖不惜眉毛。示汝一機一境一挨一拶。如擊石火如閃電光。如疾𦦨過風如奔流度刃。如金剛圈如銕酸餡。百種千般一一控你箇出身之路。你若是箇銅頭銕額漢。撥著便轉。如師子兒向萬仞懸厓一拶便解翻身。哮吼一聲百獸腦裂。始有少分衲僧氣槩。豈不見臨濟大師三度問黃檗佛法的的大意。三遭痛棒。後被大愚點著。不覺打破漆桶。却道元來黃檗佛法無多子。者箇便是一拶翻身底樣子。從此海上橫行。作陰涼樹子。蓋覆天下兒孫。後來白雲端和尚云。一拳拳倒黃鶴樓。一踢踢飜鸚鵡洲。有意氣時添意氣。不風流處也風流。者箇是通身痛快。不忝為臨濟兒孫底樣子。吾受業師。孫昱藏主勵志參禪。果能奮發勇往。莫道白雲臨濟。當知達磨大師釋迦老子盡在你脚尖頭。切忌等閑蹉過。

> The Buddha's supreme, wondrous path is not originally something forced into existence as an artificial construct. It is not some heretical fabrication, nor is it an impossibly lofty and difficult practice. It is simply what you already have, what you already use, right in your everyday activities. Force a name on it and it is called the Innate Buddha of Your Own Nature. It is also called your own True Master. To put it in near terms: at all times and in all places, you see forms and hear sounds with Shakyamuni Buddha's eyes and ears. You speak and breathe with Bodhidharma's tongue and nostrils. To speak in ultimate terms: all the Buddhas and Patriarchs of the ten directions are utterly stripped bare—their very lives are in the palm of your hand. Whether you gather them up or let them go, it is entirely up to you. If you truly have this capacity for maneuver, I guarantee that all Buddhas and Patriarchs will have a share in surrendering before you. There will be no way for them to beg for their lives from your hands. But if you have not yet attained the eye that leaps beyond conventions, and you lack the skill to bind tigers and seize dragons, then inevitably, in every place and at every time, when you see forms you are obstructed by forms, when you hear sounds you are obstructed by sounds. Even your speech and breath are nothing but sleep-talk in broad daylight with your eyes wide open. Therefore the Perfect Enlightenment Sutra says: "Because of beginningless fundamental ignorance, from the moment of birth it takes charge of everything. Beings are born without the eye of wisdom. The very nature of their bodies and minds is all ignorance." How true these words are! Having lost your own command, you then take orders from ignorance. Thus you cannot turn things around—instead, things turn you around. This skull born of a mother is pierced through by it. This root of life and death is governed by it. Yet you are content to stick your hands and trip your feet in the dense dark forest with no freedom at all. In the towering sea of suffering, you bob up and down with no end to your liberation. The teachings call this truly pitiable. The ancient Buddhas and World-Honored Ones, unable to bear sitting by and watching, dragged themselves through mud and water, setting up countless skillful means to untie your bonds and release you. Further down, the Patriarchs, not sparing even their eyebrows, showed you one moment, one situation, one prod, one thrust—like a spark struck from stone, like a flash of lightning, like a swift flame passing through wind, like a rushing stream crossing a blade, like a diamond noose, like an iron-tasting dumpling. A hundred kinds and a thousand manners, each one offering you a way out of the birth-and-death cycle. If you are a man of bronze head and iron brow, poke him and he turns. Like a lion cub on a ten-thousand-fathom cliff, one prod and he flips over. One roar and the brains of a hundred beasts split open. Only then do you have a fraction of a monk's mettle. Have you not seen how Master Linji three times asked Huangbo about the essential meaning of the Buddhadharma and three times received a painful blow? Later, when Dayu pointed it out to him, he suddenly smashed open the lacquer bucket and said, "So Huangbo's Buddhadharma is nothing much after all." This is the very model of flipping over at a single prod. From then on he traveled freely across the seas, becoming a tree of cool shade, covering the children and grandchildren of the world. Later, Elder Baiyun Duan said: "One punch knocks down the Yellow Crane Tower. One kick turns over Parrot Island. When the spirit is there, add more spirit. Where it is not elegant, still be elegant." This is the model of one whose whole body is fully alive, who is not unworthy to be called a descendant of Linji. My own teacher, Sun Yu the Canon Keeper, roused his will and practiced Zen meditation. If you can truly rouse yourself and press forward with courage, do not speak of Baiyun and Linji—you should know that Bodhidharma and Shakyamuni Buddha are right at the tips of your toes. Above all, do not carelessly let them slip past.