虛堂和尚語錄 3.58

3.58

達磨大師忌拈香：「赤幡隨行，自謂神機莫辯，及到白鷺洲頭，死在老蕭言下，聲沈魏國，影脫孤龕，當法門垂秋之際，痛思已往之蹤，薦此溪毛，少伸追遠，霜飛大野，木落崇崗，膽裂心摧，未話先咽。」

Burning incense on the memorial day of Great Master Bodhidharma: "With the red banner following your procession, you considered your divine mechanism beyond deciphering. Yet upon arriving at Bailuzhou, you died beneath old Xiao's words. Your voice sank in the state of Wei, and your shadow parted from the solitary niche. At this time when the Dharma gate approaches autumn, painfully pondering the traces of the past, I offer this stream-waterweed to extend slightly the remembrance of the remote past. Frost flies across the vast wild, and leaves fall from the high ridge; with gallbladder torn and heart shattered, before speaking I choke back tears."