虛堂和尚語錄 1.159

1.159

師乃云：「迦葉門前，箇箇蹈著，問之則便道不知；老胡帶來，人人知有，叩之則便道不會。衲僧家如刺蝟子，無爾近傍處，固甚聞鐘聲，各各披七條？與麼會去，純樂無為之化，追回太古之風，便見耕田鑿井，曉作夕息，自然不敢違時失候。然雖如是，畢竟以何為驗？」擊拂子，「九臯鶴舞威音外，三嶋花敷大塊初。」

The master then said: "Before Kāśyapa's gate, everyone steps on it, but when asked, they immediately say they do not know. Brought by the old barbarian, everyone knows it exists, but when questioned, they immediately say they do not understand. Patch-robed monks are like hedgehogs—there is no place for you to get close. Why then, upon hearing the sound of the bell, does each put on the seven-strip robe? If you understand in this manner, purely delighting in the transformation of non-action and restoring the customs of remote antiquity, then you will see plowing fields and digging wells, working at dawn and resting at dusk, naturally not daring to violate the seasons or miss the times. Although this is so, in the end, what is taken as verification?" Striking the whisk, [he said,] "The crane dances at Jiugao beyond the Majestic Voice; flowers blossom on the three isles at the beginning of the Great Lump."