虛堂和尚語錄 2.127

2.127

乃云：「日日日東上，日日日西沈，無為無事者，子細好推尋。既是無為無事，又推尋箇甚麼？若推尋佛法要妙，每日起來，呵奴使婢，說東道西，無非在他影子裏；若推尋舊歲未去、新歲未來，東村王老夜燒錢，野鬼閑神俱飽足，者裏又無爾插嘴處，畢竟如何？」擊拂子：「一年三百六十日，斷斷月建寅為首。」

He then said: "Day after day, the sun rises in the east; day after day, the sun sinks in the west. For one without doing and without affairs, carefully make an investigation. Since there is neither doing nor affairs, what is there to investigate? If you investigate the essential wonder of the Buddhadharma, getting up every day, scolding the servants and directing the maids, talking of east and speaking of west, it is nothing other than being in its shadow. If you investigate the old year not yet gone and the new year not yet come, Old Wang of the eastern village burns spirit money at night, and wild ghosts and idle spirits are all satisfied and full. Here, too, there is no place for you to cut in. In the end, how is it?" Striking with his whisk: "Three hundred and sixty days in a year; without question, the month established in yin is the head."