虛堂和尚語錄 3.36

English (machine translation) 3.36

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3.36

He then said: "For this year's Lantern Festival, the prefecture puts on ten-tenths of lanterns to rejoice with the people; only in the halls and verandas of Mount Mao are they half bright and half dim. Passersby brush shoulders with the bare pillars and bump foreheads with the lanterns. King Dīpaṃkara heard this and came forth, wishing to manifest his original light to perform a great Buddha-work. This mountain monk gave him a mighty shout. Why? The monastery already has its own monk officers; why trouble oneself to forcefully stick one's head out?"

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虛堂和尚語錄 — Classical Chinese