虛堂和尚語錄 8.6

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8.6

The Master then said: "Linji planted pines; Old Lu tread the pestle; Yangshan cleared fields for millet; Dizang cultivated the fields. They manifested a stretch of the patch-robed monk's family tradition, serving as standards for the monasteries for thousands of ages. Arriving here, why do the hairs of the Two Groves stand on end?" He struck with his whisk: "Passing through the place where the gibbons cry in the Ba Gorges, even hearts and livers of iron would be broken."

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虛堂和尚語錄 — Classical Chinese