[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) › 9.124 # 虛堂和尚語錄 9.124 虛堂和尚語錄 9.124 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.124) 師乃云：「神功遜宅，大覺開基，六百年興廢異常，一萬指栖身屋老，從頭改作，特地新條。乘時操鐵石之心，談笑際風雲之會，六龍起舞，五鳳爭高，不須立石紀功，秪此見聞不昧。忽有箇出格道流，出來道：『虛堂老子，是則是，以幻修幻，有何妙理，遽然成此器業？』山僧只向他道：『自從咸淳戊辰之秋鳩工，至己巳六月一十日落成。』」 > The Master then said: "The divine merit abdicated the residence, and Great Awakening laid the foundation. For six hundred years of extraordinary rises and falls, ten thousand fingers lodged in an aged building; from the very beginning it has been renovated, creating a brand new order. Seizing the moment with a heart of iron and stone, we converse and laugh amidst the gathering of wind and clouds. Six dragons rise in dance, and five phoenixes vie in height. There is no need to erect a stone to record the deed; this seeing and hearing alone is not deluded. If an extraordinary fellow of the Way should suddenly come forth and say, 'Old man Xutang, granted it is so, but using illusion to cultivate illusion, what wondrous principle is there in abruptly completing this functional establishment?' the mountain monk would merely say to him: 'The work was assembled in the autumn of the wuchen year of the Xianchun reign, and completed on the tenth day of the sixth month of the yisi year.'" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.123) - [Next: 9.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.125) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.9.124) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.124) · Pramāṇa