[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [虛堂和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000) › 8.114 # 虛堂和尚語錄 8.114 虛堂和尚語錄 8.114 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.8.114) 師乃云：「卓錐無地，空餘雙眼蓋乾坤；別有生涯，誰把寸陰消白日。百二十日長期，禁制他不住，南天台、北五臺；八萬細行，撈摭他無門，晝兜率、夜閻浮。衲僧以此護生，生無不護；以此禁足，足無不趺。摩挲主丈待西風，鉢囊鞋袋重挑起，前程忽有人問：『聞南山一夏，以靈雲兩處不答煅鍊學者，爾道得也未？』脫或擬議，老僧院子既屬他人，未免更上徑山一遭了。」 > The master then said, "With no place to stand an awl, there only remain two eyes covering heaven and earth; having a different livelihood, who would use an inch of shadow to squander the bright day? During the long period of a hundred and twenty days, they could not restrict him: Mount Tiantai in the south, Mount Wutai in the north; among the eighty thousand subtle practices, they had no door to seize him: Tuṣita by day, Jambudvīpa by night. Patch-robed monks use this to protect life, and there is no life that is not protected; they use this to confine the feet, and there are no feet that do not sit cross-legged. Stroking the staff, waiting for the west wind, picking up the bowl-bag and shoe-sack once again—if along the road ahead someone suddenly asks, 'I hear that during one summer at South Mountain, \[the teacher\] trained students with Lingyun's two places of not answering; can you speak of it yet?' If you should hesitate, then since the old monk's temple already belongs to another, I will unavoidably have to go up Mount Jing once more." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.8.113) - [Next: 8.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.8.115) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.8.114) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.8.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.8.114) · Pramāṇa