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Wumen Huikai | 2018-06-23 | Download | AI assisted translation

佛语心为宗，无门为法门。既是无门，且作么生透？岂不见道：从门入者，不是家珍。从缘得者，始终成坏。恁么说话，大似无风起浪、好肉剜疮！何况滞言句、觅解会，掉棒打月，隔靴爬痒，有甚交涉！	The Buddha’s teaching takes mind as its principle and no-gate as its dharma gate. Since it is gateless, how does one pass through it? Have you not heard it said: “What enters through a gate is not a family treasure. What is gained through conditions is subject, from beginning to end, to formation and decay.” To speak in this way is much like raising waves where there is no wind, or cutting into sound flesh to make a wound! How much less is there any relevance in clinging to words and phrases, seeking intellectual understanding, striking at the moon with a stick, or scratching an itch through one’s boot!
慧开绍定戊子夏，首众于东嘉龙翔，因衲子请益，遂将古人公案，作敲门瓦子，随机引导学者，竟尔抄录，不觉成集。初不以前后叙列，共成四十八则，通曰“无门关”。若是个汉，不顾危亡，单刀直入，八臂那吒拦他不住。纵使西天四七、东土二三，只得望风乞命。设或踌躇，也似隔窗看马骑，眨得眼来，早已蹉过！	In the summer of the wuxi year of the Shaoding era, Huikai was head of the assembly at Longxiang in Dongjia. At the request of patch-robed monks seeking instruction, he took the koans of the ancients as tiles for knocking at the gate, guiding students according to their capacities. They were then copied down, and before he knew it, they had formed a collection. They were not originally arranged in any sequence; altogether there are forty-eight cases, collectively called “The Gateless Gate.” If you are a true person, disregarding danger to life and limb, you will charge straight in with a single blade; even Nata with his eight arms will be unable to stop you. Even the twenty-eight patriarchs of India and the six patriarchs of China will have no choice but to flee at the mere sight of you and beg for their lives. But if you hesitate, it is like watching a rider pass by through a window: in the blink of an eye, the opportunity has already slipped away!
颂曰：大道无门，千差有路。透得此关，乾坤独步。	Verse: The great Way has no gate; A thousand different paths lead to it. Pass through this barrier, And you alone stride beneath heaven and earth.

佛语心为宗，无门为法门。既是无门，且作么生透？岂不见道：从门入者，不是家珍。从缘得者，始终成坏。恁么说话，大似无风起浪、好肉剜疮！何况滞言句、觅解会，掉棒打月，隔靴爬痒，有甚交涉！

The Buddha’s teaching takes mind as its principle and no-gate as its dharma gate. Since it is gateless, how does one pass through it? Have you not heard it said: “What enters through a gate is not a family treasure. What is gained through conditions is subject, from beginning to end, to formation and decay.” To speak in this way is much like raising waves where there is no wind, or cutting into sound flesh to make a wound! How much less is there any relevance in clinging to words and phrases, seeking intellectual understanding, striking at the moon with a stick, or scratching an itch through one’s boot!

慧开绍定戊子夏，首众于东嘉龙翔，因衲子请益，遂将古人公案，作敲门瓦子，随机引导学者，竟尔抄录，不觉成集。初不以前后叙列，共成四十八则，通曰“无门关”。若是个汉，不顾危亡，单刀直入，八臂那吒拦他不住。纵使西天四七、东土二三，只得望风乞命。设或踌躇，也似隔窗看马骑，眨得眼来，早已蹉过！

In the summer of the wuxi year of the Shaoding era, Huikai was head of the assembly at Longxiang in Dongjia. At the request of patch-robed monks seeking instruction, he took the koans of the ancients as tiles for knocking at the gate, guiding students according to their capacities. They were then copied down, and before he knew it, they had formed a collection. They were not originally arranged in any sequence; altogether there are forty-eight cases, collectively called “The Gateless Gate.” If you are a true person, disregarding danger to life and limb, you will charge straight in with a single blade; even Nata with his eight arms will be unable to stop you. Even the twenty-eight patriarchs of India and the six patriarchs of China will have no choice but to flee at the mere sight of you and beg for their lives. But if you hesitate, it is like watching a rider pass by through a window: in the blink of an eye, the opportunity has already slipped away!

颂曰：大道无门，千差有路。透得此关，乾坤独步。

Verse: The great Way has no gate; A thousand different paths lead to it. Pass through this barrier, And you alone stride beneath heaven and earth.

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