虛堂和尚語錄 3.53

3.53

解夏小參：「百二十日長期，孜孜矻矻，俊鶻巢雲二千年，舊話從新，黑牛臥水，與麼會，則麁中之細猶為易，細中之細猶為難。故我竺土老師，檢身不謹，以己方人，致令末代比丘，太半以鰕為目。育王一眾，善觀時變，盡在規矩之外。何故？」卓主丈：「有時拾得溪頭石，帶蘚和雲枕綠陰。」

Informal gathering upon concluding the summer retreat: "During the long term of one hundred and twenty days, working diligently and untiringly, the swift falcon has nested in clouds for two thousand years. Old tales renewed, the black ox lies in water. If understood in this way, then the subtle within the coarse is still easy, but the subtle within the subtle is still difficult. Therefore, our old teacher of India was not careful in examining himself and measured others by himself, causing the bhikṣus of the final age mostly to mistake shrimp for eyes. The assembly of Yuwang clearly observes the changes of the times, entirely outside the rules. Why?" He struck with his staff: "Sometimes picking up a stone by the stream, / Carrying moss and clouds, I pillow upon the green shade."