虛堂和尚語錄 10.60

10.60

鰐鄉枯瘠人，悟得傳心訣，無根樹子，一植便活，不知寒影落誰邊，但覺腥風起天末。植禪者，休甄別，當爐不避熱鐵。

A withered and gaunt man from the crocodile realm,
he awakened to the secret of mind-transmission.
A rootless tree,
once planted, comes to life.
Not knowing whose side its chilly shadow falls upon,
he only feels a fishy wind rising at the horizon's edge.
Chan Practitioner Zhi, make no distinctions!
Facing the furnace, do not avoid the red-hot iron.