虛堂和尚語錄 8.20

English (machine translation) 8.20

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8.20

Ascending the hall, he brought up [the following]: "A monk asked Yunju, 'From what do the mountains, rivers, and great earth exist?' Yunju said, 'They exist from deluded thought.' The monk said, 'If I imagine a bar of gold, can I get it?' Yunju just rested." The master said, "Yunju only just rested, and this monk had nowhere to hide his body."

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