虛堂和尚語錄 10.89

10.89

In the Song there was a renowned monk who called himself Lanxi. With a single walking stick rising high above Mounts Min and E, he journeyed ten thousand leagues southward to inquire in the lands of Wu and Yue. At Yangshan he received the seal of mind, yet to the end he did not recognize ignorance; raising his feet weighing a thousand jun, he was willing to practice the family style of Songyuan. Riding a raft upon the great ocean, he traveled widely throughout the land of Japan; with profound silence like rolling thunder, he held three grand seats of five hundred monks. Accumulated over months and years, it became this collection. Chan Practitioner Ren, having long attended the snowy courtyard, came from afar to visit Siming to carve the blocks where words cannot reach, striving to make the correct lineage circulate without end; take care not to gaze at the forest to quench your thirst.