虛堂和尚語錄 9.60

9.60

Ascending the hall to give thanks for taking up the whisk at the winter vegetarian banquet: "Giving the profound and wondrous Buddha Dharma as an alms offering to people is like a sparrow filling the azure sea. Making offerings of the supreme flavor of clarified butter to people is like arsenic mixed in honey. It is their habitual karmic condition from past lives; even a Buddha cannot save them. Jingshan is as bright as the karma mirror; here, you have nowhere to seek an advantage."