虛堂和尚語錄 8.86

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8.86

Ascending the hall, he cited: "Whenever Luzu saw a monk coming, he would immediately sit facing the wall. True, true indeed—without hanging a gourd, the vinegar is all the more sour; yet none has ever been seen to cut off news completely. Nanquan said: 'I always say to realize it before the Buddha appeared in the world, yet I cannot get even half a person. For him to be like that—[wait until] the year of the donkey!'" The Master took it up and said: "'The benevolent see it and call it benevolence; the wise see it and call it wisdom.'"

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