如淨和尚語錄 1.31

1.31

秋旱上堂。一葉落空索索。天下秋乾剝剝。大眾。若還坐在者裡。總是渴死底漢。且作麼生。討條活路。清涼有箇方便。卓拄杖一下霹靂。一聲滂沱大霔。笑看烏藤倒上樹。

Ascending the hall during an autumn drought: "A single leaf falls, bare and desolate; all under heaven is autumn, parched and peeling. Assembly, if you still sit here, you are all fellows dying of thirst. Tell me, how will you seek a way of life? Qingliang has an expedient." He struck the staff once: "A clap of thunder, a torrential downpour! Laughingly watching the black vine climb backward up the tree."