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# 虛堂和尚語錄 10.140

虛堂和尚語錄 10.140

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [10.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.10.140)

窮廝煎，餓廝吵，父子不同途，大家相脫卯，萬頃湘江洗不清，無生曲調何時了。

> Poverty fries them together, hunger quarrels between them; / Father and daughter walk different paths, all pulling apart the mortise and tenon. / Ten thousand leagues of the Xiang River cannot wash it clean; / When will the melody of the unborn ever come to an end?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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