You must find it yourself

要你自己去找

Some investigate the topic of ‘nonexistence,’ and I tell you to investigate ‘existence.’However, you want to investigate neither of them. What should you investigate then? There must be a solution. The texts of the externalists start with the syllable E or O. They say that all phenomena are either existent or nonexistent. E means ‘nonexistence’and O is ‘existence’. We do not investigate E or O. We shall investigate ‘neither nonexistence nor existence’. What is not nonexistence? What is not existence? It is neither emptiness nor form, neither nonexistence nor existence, neither defiled nor pure, neither going nor coming. Nonexistence refers to true emptiness. Existence refers to wonderful existence. True emptiness is not empty, and wonderful existence does not exist. When true emptiness is not empty, then there is wonderful existence; when wonderful existence does not exist, then there is true emptiness. True emptiness and wonderful existence are two and yet not two. True emptiness and wonderful existence have form. You must locate that which is formless. Anything with form is said to be unreal. That which can be expressed in words is all false. That is why the Sixth Patriarch says, “The secret lies within yourself; what has been spoken to you is not secret.” What I am telling you is not something secret. It is the teaching of the non-secret schools. You have to find the secret yourself.

参话头有的只参「无」，我又叫你们参「有」，可是你也不要参「无」，也不要参「有」。「那我究竟怎么办呢？」你不要着急，一定有办法的。在外道的经典上一开始是用「啊」「嚘」两个字，他们说一切不是有就是无，不是无就是有，「啊」就是无，「嚘」就是有。我们不可以参「啊」，也不可以参「嚘」，那参什么呢？我们参「非无非有」，也不无也不有。什么是不无？什么是不有？非空非色，非无非有，非是非非，非垢非净，非去非来。这个「非」当「不」讲，「无」就是个真空，「有」就是个妙有。真空不空，妙有非有。真空不空，所以才有妙有；妙有不有，所以又是真空。真空和妙有，二而不二。真空妙有是有形相的，你要找出那个无形相的；凡所有相皆是虚妄，能够说出来的都是假的，所以六祖大师说「密在汝边，与汝说者即非密也」现在我讲的这不是秘密，是显宗的教理，你的秘密还要你自己去找。