虛堂和尚語錄 3.36

3.36

乃云：「今歲元宵，州家放十分之燈，與民同樂，唯有鄮山堂殿廊廡，半明半滅，往來者與露柱交肩、燈籠鬪額。燈明王聞得出來，欲顯發本光作大佛事，山僧與之震威一喝。何故？自有僧知事，何勞強出頭。」

He then said: "For this year's Lantern Festival, the prefecture puts on ten-tenths of lanterns to rejoice with the people; only in the halls and verandas of Mount Mao are they half bright and half dim. Passersby brush shoulders with the bare pillars and bump foreheads with the lanterns. King Dīpaṃkara heard this and came forth, wishing to manifest his original light to perform a great Buddha-work. This mountain monk gave him a mighty shout. Why? The monastery already has its own monk officers; why trouble oneself to forcefully stick one's head out?"