虛堂和尚語錄 10.109

10.109

無則都寺玉几寫予夢影，自散席後言音不相接者十二年，今上徑山請贊，筆老墨澁，勉而書之。

When Prior Wuze painted my dream-shadow at Yuji, twelve years had passed without our words or voices connecting since the assembly dispersed. Now he has ascended Jingshan to request a panegyric. The brush is aged and the ink is sluggish, but I have exerted myself to write it.