虛堂和尚語錄 8.89

8.89

Ascending the hall the following day: "The sun's shadow shifts; the winter solstice arrives in the south. The carp of the Eastern Sea drums its cheeks and shakes its fins; the blunt-nosed viper of the South Mountain stretches its brows and breathes out vapor. Only that old fellow Zhaozhou has no sense, dragging a tattered mat to sleep in the daytime. Jingci, seeing injustice on the road, utters 'Sulu xili'. Why so? For fear that this old fellow behind our backs is taking advantage of people."