Who Will Call You on the Phone

　　誰給你打電話？

　　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!

　　如果你打電話，能叫你爸爸的師父又活了，可以打，否則打這個電話太沒有價值。你擔心那麼多，那你自己要死的時候，誰擔心你？誰給你打電話？現在你的時間比黃金都貴重，你應該天天打坐修行，這才是你父母的好兒子，頂天立地的大丈夫。你一天到晚就是管閑事，這兒寫一封信，那兒打個電話，又到街上買東西，你浪費太多時間了。還有，到廁所要快一點，不要借機休息休息；喝茶的時候，找機會談談話，這都是浪費時間，把你所用的功也都失去了。剛剛能和虛空合而爲一，你一休息打閑岔，又變成「有」了，沒能「空」下來。在坐禅期間，自己要照顧自己的話頭，自己用自己的功。因爲無人無我，誰來就來，誰走就走，誰和誰也不說話，誰和誰也不要打招呼。和你認識的，你也不要理；不認識的，你更不要理他。