When matters arise during the day — or when a decision remains unresolved — and one rises in the dead of night, the rights and wrongs suddenly become clear, revealing the errors made earlier. One then realizes that the failure to perceive one’s true nature stemmed entirely from the agitation and confusion that obscured one’s fundamental essence. The ancients said, “In stillness, one perceives the true nature of Suchness,” and “When the waters of nature are clear and still, the pearl of the mind reveals itself.” How true it is!
by Grand Master Lian Chi (蓮池大師), the Eighth Patriarch of Pure Land Buddhism
靜之益 (一) – 錄自明末蓮池大師《竹窗隨筆》(初筆)
日間有事，或處分不定，睡去四五更起坐，是非可否忽自了然，日間錯處於此悉現。乃知爾來不得明心見性，皆由忙亂覆卻本體耳。古人云:「靜見真如性。」又云:「性水澄清，心珠自現。」豈虛語哉?
Buddha Mind 