67The Buddha's Wisdom in Everyone嚴經智慧
Introduction 示眾
一塵含萬象，一念具三千。何況頂天立地丈夫兒，道頭知尾靈利漢，莫自辜負已靈、埋沒家寶麼？
A single speck of dust holds the ten thousand things. A single thought contains the whole universe. So what of a full-grown man, standing tall between heaven and earth? Say the first word and he already knows the last. You sharp ones: don't sell yourselves short and bury the treasure you were born with.
華嚴經云：「我今普見一切眾生，具有如來智慧德相，但以妄想執著，而不證得。」
The Flower Garland Sutra says: "Now I see that every living being is already complete with the wisdom and the marks of a Buddha. They simply fail to realize it, tangled up in delusion and grasping."
Verse 頌
天蓋地載，
成團作塊。
周法界而無邊，
析隣虛而無內。
及盡玄微，
誰分向背？
佛祖來償口業債，
問取南泉王老師，
人人只喫一莖菜。
It covers the sky, holds up the earth,
clumps into a ball, packs into a lump.
It fills the whole universe and has no outer edge.
Split it past the last atom and find no inner core.
Push all the way down to the finest grain:
who could mark off front from back?
Buddhas and ancestors come to pay off their debt of words.
Go ask old teacher Nanquan,
where everyone just eats a single stalk of greens.