法演禪師語錄 2.71

2.71

On the occasion of inviting the fundraising monastics, he ascended the hall and said, "The work of creation and transformation, under the gate of the patriarchs, makes the generative qi of Heaven and Earth—spring, summer, autumn, and winter; it resolves the inverted minds of sentient beings into permanence, bliss, self, and purity. Yet if we go by where patch-robed monks function, it is not so at all. Even transforming the great earth into yellow gold and churning the long rivers into clarified butter would still not satisfy Baiyun. If suddenly someone were to come forth and say, 'Talking like this, you are merely a fellow of insatiable greed,'" he said himself, "Well said! Practice!"