虛堂和尚語錄 2.169

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元宵上堂：「世間之燈，莫若心燈最明，心燈一舉，則毫芒剎海，光明如晝，其間不善剔撥者，雖有如無。要見心燈麼？」卓主丈：「仰山開畬，歸宗拽石。」

Ascending the hall on the Lantern Festival: "Of the lamps of the worldly realm, none is brighter than the lamp of the mind. Once the lamp of the mind is raised, then trichiliocosms as minute as hair tips are bright as day. Those among them who are not good at trimming and stoking it, though they have it, it is as if they have none. Do you want to see the lamp of the mind?" Striking his staff: "Yangshan opens up the slash-and-burn field; Guizong drags the stone."