示雪洲坐禪
Instructions for Snow Island Meditation
坐禪秪為明心性,不明心性坐何禪?坐若便為禪道了,石頭成佛已多年。
Sitting in meditation is only for awakening the mind-nature. If you haven't awakened your mind-nature, what meditation are you doing? If sitting itself were the entire path to enlightenment, Even stones would have become buddhas long ago.
工夫不間四威儀,聽板聞鐘好下疑。打破未生時面目,卻來爐畔受鉗鎚。
Practice should be continuous in all four postures—walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. When you hear the board or the bell, it's an opportunity to investigate your doubt. Once you break through the face you had before you were born, come back to the furnace to be shaped and forged.