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# 虛堂和尚語錄 7.254

虛堂和尚語錄 7.254

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [7.254](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.7.254)

三呼檮下愧靈襟，湖海叢林已遍尋，忘却飛猿舊時路，  
到頭曾不厭初心。

> Calling three times beneath the block of wood, ashamed before your numinous mind; / Lakes and seas, Chan groves have all been sought throughout. / Forgetting the flying ape's old path, / To the very end you never weary of the initial aspiration.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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