大慧普覺禪師語錄 3.15

3.15

Ascending the high seat on New Year's Day upon newly stretching the Dharma drum: "In the new year, strike the new drum, / Universally bestowing the new Dharma rain. / The ten thousand things all follow the new, / Each and every one conforming to rule. / Samantabhadra, the Great Being, rejoices with delight, / Seizing the moment to fling open the doors, / Releasing the white elephant king— / Nowhere in all the land can it be found!" Holding up his staff, he said: "Only this does not belong to old or new; casually opening its mouth, it swallows the Dharma body." Throwing it down, he said: "What is it? Inside the thousand-year peach pit, it is originally the old kernel."