Who Will Call You on the Phone?

谁给你打电话？

If by making a phone call, you could bring your father’s teacher back to life, then it would be worthwhile to make that call; otherwise it is of no value. You have so many worries. When it is time for you to die, who will worry about you? Who will call you on the phone? Your time now is more precious than gold and you should therefore sit in meditation and cultivate wholeheartedly everyday. Only then are you a filial child and a hero worthy of respect. You are simply wasting too much time being concerned with mundane affairs everyday from dawn till dusk. Writing a letter now, making a phone call later, buying stuff at the mall—all these are wasting your precious time! When visiting the restroom, do hurry up! Do not take this opportunity to take a break! During tea break, do not look for a chance to engage in casual conversation. All these are wasting time!

These will make the hard work and progress you have made go down the drain. Just when you are starting to merge with emptiness, you engage in mundane affairs during your break and straightaway your “emptiness” is no longer empty. During the period of meditation, you must take care of your meditation topic. You must cultivate hard. If you have no concept of self and others, then if someone is coming, so be it. If somebody is leaving, so be it. You will not seek to communicate with them in any way. If it is someone you know, ignore them; if it is someone you do not know, you should ignore them all the more!

如果你打电话，能叫你爸爸的师父又活了，可以打，否则打这个电话太没有价值。你担心那么多，那你自己要死的时候，谁担心你？谁给你打电话？现在你的时间比黄金都贵重，你应该天天打坐修行，这才是你父母的好儿子，顶天立地的大丈夫。你一天到晚就是管闲事，这儿写一封信，那儿打个电话，又到街上买东西，你浪费太多时间了。还有，到厕所要快一点，不要借机休息休息；喝茶的时候，找机会谈谈话，这都是浪费时间，把你所用的功也都失去了。刚刚能和虚空合而为一，你一休息打闲岔，又变成「有」了，没能「空」下来。在坐禅期间，自己要照顾自己的话头，自己用自己的功。因为无人无我，谁来就来，谁走就走，谁和谁也不说话，谁和谁也不要打招呼。和你认识的，你也不要理；不认识的，你更不要理他。