一點靈光 One Point Of Numinous Light
必須覺中覺了悟中悟，一點靈光全保護。放開烈焰照婆娑，法界縱橫獨顯露。至幽微，更守固，玄關口說誰人度？我本元修大覺禪，有緣有志方記悟。」必须觉中觉了悟中悟，一点灵光全保护。放开烈焰照婆娑，法界纵横独显露。至幽微，更守固，玄关口说谁人度？我本元修大觉禅，有缘有志方记悟。」
逐句解 Line by line
You must awaken within awakening and realise within realising; / one point of numinous light is kept whole and guarded.
The sermon stops being prose here without announcing it. It closes in four rhyming couplets — 護 露 度 悟 — of which two run a regular seven and seven, while this one runs nine and seven and the third divides three, three and seven. The source sets them all on a prose line, so all four are authored as prose: the layout governs the verse flag, not the metre. 了 is the completed-action le here, joining two matched phrases, as it does twice in the previous passage.
Let the fierce flame blaze out and light the world of forms; / and through the dharma-realm, lengthwise and across, it stands disclosed alone.
婆娑 is the same pair of characters used for swaying earlier in this chapter, but the match with 法界 in the second half invites reading it instead as the Sahā world of endurance, whose name is more usually written with the two characters the other way round.
At its most hidden and most fine, guard it the more closely; / the dark gate — and who was ever ferried across by talking of it?
度 returns for the third time in this sermon, and the closing question turns it against speech itself: who was ever ferried across by talking? 更 is gèng, still more.
I from the first have cultivated the Chan of the great awakening; / only he who has the affinity and the will will keep the awakening in mind.
The sermon's closing quotation mark falls here, answering an opening mark the source never set. 緣 is the karmic thread the monks of Fulong said they lacked when they were left behind at the chapter's start.
The sermon ends in verse without announcing that it has. Four rhyming couplets, two of them regular sevens and two of them not, printed as continuous prose — and the shift is audible before it is visible, which is presumably the effect. A chain of definitions has turned into a chant.
The last couplet but one is the sharpest thing Tripitaka says all evening. The dark gate, he asks, and who was ever ferried across by talking of it? He is sitting in a stone house by night, having been carried there by force, delivering a lecture on doctrine to four spirits who asked for one — and the lecture's own conclusion is that lectures do not work.
The final line puts the condition on affinity and will. It is the same word the weeping monks of Fulong used when they said they had none, and it lands differently here: they wanted to follow and could not, while these four have arranged an entire evening and will get nothing from it either. The chapter has now used the term twice for two quite different failures to be carried across.