虛堂和尚語錄 7.13

7.13

百卷非文字，精探海藏深，老胡三寸舌，鏡主幾生心。
力破塵勞網，能銷曠劫金，歸原何所似，
花底囀靈禽。

A hundred fascicles are not mere letters; / Penetrating deeply into the ocean treasury. / The old barbarian's three-inch tongue; / How many lifetimes of mind for the Master of the Mirror? / Powerfully breaking the nets of defiling toil, / Able to melt the gold of vast kalpas. / What is it like to return to the source? / Beneath the blossoms chirps a numinous bird.