[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法演禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995) › 3.18 # 法演禪師語錄 3.18 法演禪師語錄 3.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995.3.18) 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." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995.3.17) - [Next: 3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995.3.19) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995~en-mt.3.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1995.3.18) · Pramāṇa