密菴和尚語錄 1.67

1.67

冬至日入新眾寮，上堂：「天不言，四時行；地不言，萬物生；聖人不言，垂衣拱手萬國來王；衲僧不言，移凶星為吉曜，揑大地作伽藍。裁長補短，革故鼎新，便見玲瓏八面峭峻一方，坐斷溪山包羅風月。且入門一句作麼生道？一陽來復後，瑞氣自騰騰。」

On the winter solstice, upon entering the new monks' quarters, he ascended the hall: "Heaven does not speak, yet the four seasons proceed; earth does not speak, yet the myriad things are born; the sage does not speak, yet with folded robes and clasped hands the myriad kingdoms come to pay court; the patch-robed monk does not speak, yet he turns ominous stars into auspicious luminaries and pinches the great earth into a saṅghārāma. Cutting the long to patch the short, abolishing the old to establish the new, one then sees eight-sided lucidity and a precipitous quarter, cutting off the streams and mountains, encompassing the wind and moon. Now, what is the phrase upon entering the gate? After the single yang returns, the auspicious vapor rises of its own accord."