虛堂和尚語錄 10.113

10.113

Miaoyuan once reverently perused our master's sermons from ten assemblies, such as Nanping and Shuangjing, where the instructions and expositions were exceedingly numerous; what a pity that not all were carved onto printing blocks! Formerly, I attended the master at Lingxiao, and on that occasion made this request, but he did not consent. Now the patch-robed monks of the monasteries all wish to circulate them, so I have respectfully compiled them into a Latter Collection. If those who peruse it understand what lies beyond the words and know where to return, then how could my master's words be superfluous? In the fifth year of Xianchun, the cyclical year jisi, on the Day of the Buddha's Attainment of the Way, Miaoyuan, junior disciple and Dharma-heir, newly appointed abbot of Gushan in Fuzhou, reverently writes.