[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) › 3.24 # 虛堂和尚語錄 3.24 虛堂和尚語錄 3.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.24) 行禮到大慈，請上堂：「見不見之形，對揚有準；察不察之色，撈摝無垠。若能轉向那邊，鴉飛不度，不以形器拘、不以色塵礙，自然超諸聖廛，出大方表，溪山雲月處處同歸，水鳥樹林互相顯發。然雖如是，爭柰我慈峯老子未肯橫點頭在。何故？」卓主丈：「壺中自有佳山水，終不重尋五老峯。」 > Having arrived at Daci to pay his respects, he was invited to ascend the hall: "Forms unseen and seen have standards for facing and matching; appearances inspected and uninspected have no bounds in seeking. If you can turn to that side where even a crow cannot fly across, unconstrained by vessels of form and unobstructed by dust of appearances, you will naturally transcend the dwelling of all sages and emerge beyond the great quarter; mountain streams, clouds, and the moon everywhere return together; water birds and groves of trees mutually reveal \[the truth\]. Although this is so, what can be done about the fact that my old man of Cifeng has not yet nodded his head horizontally? Why?" Striking his staff, he said: "'Within the gourd there are fine landscapes of its own; / never again will I search anew for the Five Old Men Peaks.'" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.23) - [Next: 3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.25) - [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.3.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.24) · Pramāṇa