虛堂和尚語錄 1.103

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1.103

Ascending the hall on the Double Fifth: "Among human beings the four hundred and four illnesses each have a medicine; only ingrained flaws are hard to cure. Even if Sudhana reaches out his hand to take it, it is merely administering medicine according to the illness, failing in the end to obtain the medicine of no-illness. And what is the medicine of no-illness?" Striking the staff, he said: "First, one must abstain from dietary indiscretions!"

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