虛堂和尚語錄 3.49

3.49

Informal gathering upon entering the summer retreat: "The Dharma King who destroys existence has a great dhāraṇī gate named Perfect Enlightenment, which can accomplish knowledge of all modes and destroy all Dharma gates. Beside dreams, illusions, and shadows, he gathers patch-robed monks from the four quarters; within ninety days, fixing a term and setting a limit, they must break through the black lacquer tub and accomplish the wisdom-body. Even so, just as with the regulations of the Western Heaven, is there still this news or not?" He struck with his staff: "Li Guang's divine arrow; Zhang Xu's cursive calligraphy."