虛堂和尚語錄 1.35

1.35

Ascending the hall: "'In late spring, when the spring clothes are already made, five or six capped youths and six or seven boys bathe in the Yi, take the breeze at the Rain Altars, and return chanting.' The Master sighed deeply and said: 'I agree with Dian!'" The master said: "Watching someone ride a horse through a window—it is indeed so. Patch-robed monks wear black robes and protect the black pillars; in the end they never say to you: 'Faintly the pines twist and bend; / vaguely the rocks are mottled and colorful.'"