虛堂和尚語錄 8.64

8.64

上堂：「識心達本，坐井觀天，窮理盡性，水中撈月，抹過兩重關，且向行住坐臥處借人鼻孔出氣。直饒與麼，猶墮在圓覺四病。作麼生得獨脫無依去？」卓主丈云：「長憶江南三月裏，鷓鴣啼處百花香。」

Ascending the hall: "Recognising the mind and reaching the fundamental is looking at the sky while sitting in a well. Exhausting principles and exploring nature to the utmost is scooping the moon out of water. Even if you step past these two checkpoints and for a while borrow someone else's nostrils to breathe through in walking, standing, sitting, and lying down—even if you go straight on like this, you still fall into the four sicknesses of Perfect Enlightenment. How can one attain independent liberation without reliance?" Striking his staff, he said: "I long remember the third month south of the river: / Where the partridge cries, all the flowers are fragrant."