虛堂和尚語錄 2.51

2.51

The next day, ascending the hall, he cited: "In former days, when ancestral teacher Ying'an resigned his duties at this mountain, he spent the summer at Jingming and instructed the assembly: 'Seventy monks from thirty-three prefectures, with donkey cheeks and horse jaws, despised by others. If the various quarters had possessed hands that could snare them, today they would have had no cause to reach Jingming.'"
The master said, "One can imagine the dragons and elephants of that time! This clumsy grandson is narrow and shallow, not daring to denigrate the various quarters; I just have a few more prefectures to rival him in secret. Why so?" Striking the staff: "'I advise you not to plant brambles and thorns; later sons and grandsons will catch their clothes.'"