雲門匡真禪師廣錄 2.319

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或云：「我今年老七十八也，所作事難也。」良久問僧：「爾道淨瓶年多少？」無對。代云：「甲子會。」

He also said: "I am old this year, seventy-eight, and what I do is difficult." After a long silence, he asked a monk: "Tell me, how old is the water bottle?" There was no response. Answering on their behalf, he said: "A cycle of sixty years meets."