虛堂和尚語錄 1.66

1.66

Ascending the hall, he cited: "'At dusk I take off my socks and sleep; at dawn I rise and casually tie on my leggings. During the night, the wind blew the fence down; the administrator calls a general labor, and the servants split bamboo strips to bind it up.'" The Master said, "All quarters say that old man Shun sits within the armor of doing nothing; how could they know the flowers of a withered tree in the three winter months, or the snow on a cold cliff in the nine periods of summer?"