虛堂和尚語錄 9.28

9.28

次日上堂：「一氣不言，發自九囦之底；初爻無象，肇為萬化之宗，依舊雲物呈祥，山林改觀。忽有箇漢，向陰陽未判已前打破漆桶，又且如何？若果然，生鐵也須粉碎。」

The next day he ascended the hall: "The one breath is wordless, issuing from the bottom of the nine abysses; the first hexagram line has no form, beginning as the ancestor of the myriad transformations. As before, clouds and creatures display auspicious signs, and mountains and forests transform their appearance. If a fellow suddenly broke through the lacquer tub before yin and yang were divided, how would it be then? If it were truly so, even cast iron must be shattered to powder."