一燈螢然 萬籟無聲 此吾人初入宴寂時也 曉夢初醒 群動未起 此吾人初出混沌處也 乘此而一念廻光 炯然返照 始知耳目口鼻皆桎梏 而情欲嗜好悉機械矣 (前 146)
A lonely lamp flickers like a firefly, and all the sounds of the world are silent. Now is the time for us to sleep comfortably. Consciousness awakened from dream at dawn, but not all movements of the world have occurred yet. Now is the time for us to get out of the chaos. Here, if turning the light back inside as insight, you can recognize that the eyes, ears, nose, and tongue are all root of hardships, and that emotions and preference are what ghost machine had made. (Book1 146)
The five senses are called our enemies. We live with the enemy.
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