法演禪師語錄 3.18

3.18

上堂云：「無邊身菩薩將竹杖量世尊頂，丈六了又丈六，量到梵天不見世尊頂相，乃擲下竹杖，合掌說偈云：『虛空無有邊，佛功德亦然，若有能量者，窮劫不可盡。』大眾！無邊身菩薩說偈且止，諸人還解自量也無？若教老僧自量，直是無下手處。不見古人道：『㪷充佛座功德難量，盞子燒香紫雲靉靆。』何故如是？別是一家春。」

Ascending the hall, he said: "Boundless Body Bodhisattva took a bamboo staff to measure the World-Honoured One's crown: sixteen feet, and sixteen feet again, measuring all the way to the Brahmā Heaven without seeing the mark of the World-Honoured One's crown. Thereupon he threw down the bamboo staff, joined his palms, and spoke a verse: / 'Empty space has no boundary; / the Buddha's merit is also like this. / If someone were able to measure it, / throughout exhausted kalpas it could not be depleted.' / Great assembly! Set aside the verse spoken by Boundless Body Bodhisattva; do you all understand how to measure yourselves? If you have this old monk measure himself, there is simply no place to begin. Have you not seen the ancients say: 'A peck-measure filling the Buddha's seat: its merit is hard to measure; burning incense in a small saucer: purple clouds drift hazily.' Why is it like this? Another realm of spring entirely."