[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) › 3.129 # 虛堂和尚語錄 3.129 虛堂和尚語錄 3.129 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.129) 師云：「日短夜長，晷運新添一線；高來低去，洪鈞轉自九淵。陰魔潛伏道芽生，陽氣發時無硬地，使得十二時辰底，元酒大羹，聊旌薄禮；被十二時辰使底，漏巵瓦缶，尚且不甘。任教葭管吹灰，箇裏本無迂謝。驀然有箇漢出來道：『老師情量未脫，被二十四氣使得七顛八倒。』山僧只得休去。何故？家肥生孝子，國霸有謀臣。」 > The Master said: "The days are short and the nights are long; the sundial's track has freshly gained a line. The high comes and the low goes; the great potter's wheel turns from the nine abysses. Yin demons hide away and the sprout of the Way grows; when the yang breath bursts forth, there is no hard earth. For one who can use the twelve periods of the day, plain water and unseasoned broth serve as a token of modest courtesy; for one who is used by the twelve periods of the day, a leaking goblet and an earthenware pot are still not enough to satisfy him. Even if the reed-pith pipes blow their ash, here inside there is fundamentally no roundabout thanks to be made. If suddenly someone were to come forward and say, 'Old teacher, you have not shed feelings and calculations, being tossed topsy-turvy by the twenty-four solar terms,' this mountain monk could only desist. Why? A prosperous house breeds filial sons; a hegemonic state has scheming ministers." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.128) - [Next: 3.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.130) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.3.129) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.129) · Pramāṇa