虛堂和尚語錄 9.11

9.11

He ascended the hall: "Do not love cool and refreshing; cool and refreshing is like fire, like boiling water. Do not hate blazing heat; blazing heat is like ice, like accumulated snow. Neither loving nor hating is not yet the place of untrammeled ease. Ever since Yang Cigong met Venerable Tianyi Huai, he gave free rein to his surging eloquence, evaluating [the masters of] all quarters, and all proclaimed him a later rebirth of the bhikṣu Dharmākara. Jingshan alone has never believed this. In the final analysis, what kind of person is this?" Striking the staff, [he said]: "In a pure dynasty, Yang relies on lecturing; in a degenerate age, the Buddha's Tooth Boy."