虛堂和尚語錄 10.82

10.82

黃梅不墜腰間石，鄮嶺惟栽帶雨松，四十餘年今有驗，長長短短用無窮。祖衣未得入手，萬緣先以頓空，無柄钁頭何處著，一時分付丙丁童。

At Huangmei, the stone at the waist never fell;
on the ridges of Mao, he planted only rain-bearing pines.
Over forty years, today there is proof:
long or short, its use is boundless.
Before the ancestral robe came into his hands,
all conditions were first suddenly emptied.
Where can the handleless mattock be placed?
All at once, entrust it to the fire-boy Bingding.