法演禪師語錄 2.75

2.75

因齋上堂云：「不寒不暖喜春遊，士女傾心結預修，自覺一生如幻夢，始知百歲類浮漚。子規啼處真消息，芍藥開時野興幽，此箇門風誰會得，等閑白却少年頭。」

Ascending the hall on the occasion of a vegetarian feast, he said: / "Neither cold nor warm, we delight in the spring outing; / Men and women pour their hearts into building merits for the afterlife. / One spontaneously perceives a lifetime to be like an illusion or a dream, / Only then knowing a hundred years are like floating bubbles. / Where the cuckoo cries is the true message; / When the peonies bloom, the wild spirit is deep and secluded. / Who can understand this lineage style? / In vain the hair of youth turns white."