虛堂和尚語錄 10.58

10.58

清淨本然，臭煙熢㶿，抹過兩重關，放出遼天鶻。然侍者，將謂吾孤負汝，汝元來孤負吾，偷眼涅槃臺上望，果然做得死工夫。

Purity is fundamentally so; foul smoke billows and smolders.
Striding past two barriers, he releases a falcon soaring into the distant sky.
Attendant Ran! You thought I had failed you, but you originally failed me!
Peeping up at the Nirvāṇa Platform, truly you performed dead work.