37Panshan: No Mind to Find
Introduction 垂示
掣電之機，徒勞佇思。當空霹靂，掩耳難諧。腦門上播紅旗，耳背後輪雙劍，若不是眼辨手親，爭能搆得？有般底，低頭佇思，意根下卜度，殊不知髑髏前見鬼無數。且道不落意根、不抱得失，忽有箇恁麼舉覺，作麼生祗對？試舉看。
A flash of lightning leaves no time to think it over. A thunderclap right overhead, and you can't cover your ears in time. A red flag waves on the crown of your head; twin swords spin behind your ears. If your eye isn't sharp and your hand isn't sure, how could you ever grab hold? There's a kind of person who drops his head and chews it over, who weighs and measures it down in the gut, never realizing he sees nothing but ghosts swarming in front of a skull. Now tell me: without falling into the thinking mind, without clutching at gain and loss, if someone suddenly throws out a line like this, how do you answer? Here's a case to test you.
盤山垂語云：「三界無法，何處求心？」
Panshan put it out there: "In the three worlds there is no thing. Where will you look for mind?"