西方合論 1.17

1.17

於是禪人悲淚交集，自云：「若不遇子，幾以空見賺過一生。子生我矣！」懇求案集，作禮而去。時萬曆庚子仲春之二十有三日也，袁宗道伯修甫書於白蘇齋。

Thereupon, the Chan practitioner shed tears of mingled sorrow and joy, saying of himself: "Had I not met you, I would have nearly spent my whole life in vain through the view of emptiness. You have given me life!" Earnestly requesting a copy of the work, he made obeisance and departed. This was the twenty-third day of the second month of spring in the gengzi year of the Wanli era [1600], written by Yuan Zongdao, styled Boxiu, in the Baisu Study.