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.

　　參話頭有的只參「無」，我又叫你們參「有」，可是你也不要參「無」，也不要參「有」。「那我究竟怎麼辦呢？」你不要著急，一定有辦法的。在外道的經典上一開始是用「啊」「嚘」兩個字，他們說一切不是有就是無，不是無就是有，「啊」就是無，「嚘」就是有。我們不可以參「啊」，也不可以參「嚘」，那參什麼呢？我們參「非無非有」，也不無也不有。什麼是不無？什麼是不有？非空非色，非無非有，非是非非，非垢非淨，非去非來。這個「非」當「不」講，「無」就是個真空，「有」就是個妙有。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，你要找出那個無形相的；凡所有相皆是虛妄，能夠說出來的都是假的，所以六祖大師說「密在汝邊，與汝說者即非密也」現在我講的這不是秘密，是顯宗的教理，你的秘密還要你自己去找。