Mokushōzan

默照銘

默默忘言，昭昭現前。鑒中廓爾，體處靈然。

Silent, forgetting words. Clear and distinct, manifesting before oneself. In the mirror, vast and open. In the body, spiritual and natural.

靈然獨照，照中還妙。妙處玄微，玄微妙照。

Spiritually, alone it illuminates. In illumination resides the marvelous. The marvelous is deep and subtle. The deep and subtle illuminate marvelously.

照中不見，妙處不有。不有之體，不無之用。

In illumination, one sees nothing. In the marvelous, there is nothing. The body of non-having, the function of non-not-having.

用而不有，體而不無。不無之體，不有之用。

The function without having, the body without being. The body of non-being, the function of non-having.

體用一如，同歸玄路。全體全用，全用全體。

Body and function are one, returning together to the deep way. Whole body, whole function. Whole function, whole body.

全體無功，全用無用。無功之功，無用之用。

The whole body is without merit. The whole function is without utility. Merit without merit, utility without utility.

正是無功，正是無用。無功之功，始契本宗。

Here is the without-merit. Here is the without-utility. Merit without merit accords with the fundamental school.

本宗非有，亦非無有。非有非無，是名正受。

The fundamental school is not being, nor non-being. Neither being nor non-being — this is called the right reception.