[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) › [虛堂和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000) › 1.51 # 虛堂和尚語錄 1.51 虛堂和尚語錄 1.51 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.51) 冬至小參：「天寒人寒，針頭削鐵，滴水滴凍，畫餅充飢。丹霞燒木佛，餓狗齧枯髏；鏡清不展單，胡餅裏覓汁。從上老漢既把不定，未免隨時逐節，便見陰消陽長，小去大來，暖律飛灰，繡紋添線。只如無陰陽地，還有遷變也無？」卓主丈：「月似彎弓，少雨多風。」 > At the informal gathering for the Winter Solstice: "The weather is cold and people are cold; carving iron with a needle's point. Water drips and freezes instantly; drawing a cake to satisfy hunger. Danxia burns a wooden Buddha; a hungry dog chews a dry skull. Jingqing does not spread his sleeping mat; seeking gravy inside a sesame cake. Since the old men from of old could not keep firm, they could not help following the seasons and pursuing the solar terms: thus one sees the yin waning and the yang waxing, the small departing and the great arriving, ashes flying at the warm pitch-pipe, and threads added to embroidered patterns. But in the land of neither yin nor yang, is there still any change?" He struck with his staff: "The moon is like a curved bow; little rain, much wind." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.50) - [Next: 1.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.52) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.1.51) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.51) · Pramāṇa