虛堂和尚語錄 6.22

6.22

[He] brought up: "Wuzhuo went to Mount Wutai. Mañjuśrī asked, 'From where has the Venerable come?' He said, 'From the south.' [Mañjuśrī] asked, 'How is the Buddha Dharma maintained in the south?' He said, 'The bhikṣus of the final age rarely observe the precepts.' [Mañjuśrī] asked, 'How large is the assembly?' He said, 'Perhaps three hundred or five hundred.' Wuzhuo then asked, 'How does the Upādhyāya maintain it here?' [Mañjuśrī] said, 'Ordinary beings and sages dwell together; dragons and snakes are intermingled.' [Wuzhuo] asked, 'How large is the assembly?' [Mañjuśrī] said, 'The front three-three, the back three-three.'"