[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [虛堂和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000) › 2.33 # 虛堂和尚語錄 2.33 虛堂和尚語錄 2.33 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.2.33) 乃云：「衣穿肘露，戶破家殘，要知𠘶極泰來，自然有時有節。衲僧家更更做夢，一日趲得一日是好手，誰管爾布裩懶洗，不展臥單，縱饒使得十二時，贏得口邊生白醭。寶林與麼告報，只打淨潔毬子。莫有和泥合水與物俱化底麼？近前來，我要識爾。」良久以主丈畫云：「將成九仞之山，不進一簣之工。」 > He then said: "With torn clothes and exposed elbows, broken doors and ruined house, if you wish to know when extreme adversity brings prosperity, naturally there are proper seasons and junctures. Patch-robed monks dream on and on; if you can push through day by day, that is being an adept. Who cares if you are lazy about washing your cloth shorts and do not spread your sleeping mat? Even if you manage to control the twelve hours, all you will gain is white mold growing around your mouth. When Baolin gives an announcement like this, it is only to strike a clean ball. Is there anyone who mixes with mud and water and transforms together with things? Come forward; I want to know you." After a good while, he made a stroke with his staff and said, "A mountain of nine fathoms about to be completed lacks the work of a single basketful of earth." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.2.32) - [Next: 2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.2.34) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.2.33) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.2.33) · Pramāṇa