虛堂和尚語錄 1.171

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1.171

Ascending the hall for the Lantern Festival: "Tonight, lanterns are burned everywhere to make offerings to the Lord on High. Following the custom, Wansong also burns a single bowl, universally inviting the four kinds of sages and six kinds of ordinary beings to enter this shadow together, popping their heads out and sinking in. Should there be someone who does not enter, I will take up Deshan's staff and strike him right across the back. Why? The original auspicious light of the past Buddha Dīpaṅkara was just like this."

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虛堂和尚語錄 — Classical Chinese