虛堂和尚語錄 9.108

English (machine translation) 9.108

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9.108

The master then said: "At the fresh festival of the Lantern Festival, everywhere lamps are lit; in the capital's lanes and alleys, in markets and inns, the onlookers stand like a wall. Is it only that the lamps come before the eyes? Or do the eyes reach the lamps? If you understand, only then are you a person viewing the lamps; if not yet so, you mostly walk in the dark."

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