虛堂和尚語錄 8.90

8.90

Ascending the hall on the eighth day of the twelfth month: "Renouncing the honor of ten thousand chariots, enduring six years of hunger and cold, not leaving his grass seat, he realized equal and right enlightenment. Fine, it was indeed fine; but for no reason he said: 'On the night of the eighth day of the twelfth month, I suddenly beheld the bright star and had a great awakening.' This caused later descendants to divine east and divine west. In reporting this thus, does Jingci have any share of meeting the yellow-faced old fellow?" He struck with his staff: "When it is clear and dry, opening a rain drain; when there is no business, setting up an official bureau."