虛堂和尚語錄 9.127

9.127

The Master then said: "Since entering the summer, there has been no time at all for doing practice. Every day, one only knows how to climb the Thousand Monks Pavilion to watch over the bedding spots, or go up to the Great Awakening Hut to watch the flying clouds, toiling and bustling through the ninety days. Although it is like this, even if the Seven Buddhas were to appear, they could not find where he arises. Now that the time of pravāraṇā has arrived, the rope-end is held all the more tightly. Why? Because he is a clear-eyed patch-robed monk who will never agree to look for petty results."