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# 虛堂和尚語錄 7.85

虛堂和尚語錄 7.85

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [7.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.7.85)

鍊實而食，擇木而棲，靈靈自晦，物物難齊，秋歛巢虛睡穩，  
夢破月印清溪。

> Eating only after refining the fruit, roosting only after selecting the tree; / Luminous, yet keeping oneself obscure; myriad things are hard to make equal. / Autumn gathers in: the nest is empty, sleep is sound; / The dream broken, the moon prints upon the clear stream.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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