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# 虛堂和尚語錄 9.41

虛堂和尚語錄 9.41

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [9.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.41)

結夏小參：「西天那蘭陀寺，不曾禁足，法令森嚴；給孤園中，不立期限，得道者多。故我大覺世尊，具真天眼宿命通，觀東土兒孫，不受戒律，心游邪徑，故下制以禁之，令其九十日內，速證道果。山僧聞得，不覺寒毛卓竪，不敢預聞。何故？」擊佛子：「但持鷄狗戒，不學祖師禪。」

> At the informal gathering for entering the summer retreat: "At Nālandā Monastery in the Western Heaven, footsteps were never confined, yet their monastic statutes were solemn and strict; in Anāthapiṇḍada's park, no time limit was established, yet many attained the Way. Therefore our Greatly Awakened World-Honoured One, possessing the true divine eye and the knowledge of past lives, observed that his descendants in the Eastern Land would not observe the precepts and Vinaya, their minds wandering along deviant paths; hence he laid down regulations to confine them, making them quickly realize the fruit of the Way within ninety days. When this mountain monk hears of this, his hair involuntarily stands on end; I do not dare take part in hearing it. Why?" Striking the whisk, he said: "Merely keeping the precepts of chickens and dogs, they do not study ancestral master Chan."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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