虛堂和尚語錄 10.166

10.166

明知客自發明後，欲告歸日本，尋照知客通首座，源長老，聚頭說龍峯會裏家私，袖紙求法語，老僧今年八十三，無力思索，作一偈以[尹/?/貝]行色，萬里水程以道珍衛。咸淳丁卯秋，住大唐徑山（智愚）書于不動軒。

Guest Prefect Ming, after having his awakening, wished to announce his return to Japan. He sought out Guest Prefect Zhao, Head Monk Tong, and Elder Yuan; gathering together, they discussed the family assets within the Longfeng assembly. Sleeving paper, he requested Dharma words. This old monk is eighty-three years old this year, without the strength to ponder; I have composed a verse to furnish his departure. Over ten thousand leagues of sea passage, may you protect yourself with the Way. In the autumn of the dingmao year of the Xianchun era, Zhiyu, residing at Jingshan in the Great Song, wrote this at Budongxuan.