[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [如淨和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a) › 2.39 # 如淨和尚語錄 2.39 如淨和尚語錄 2.39 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.39) 除夜小參。年盡月盡日盡時盡。以拂子劃一劃云。盡情劃斷。舉拂子云。者箇無盡。還見麼。喚作清涼拂子。受用無盡。今夜共諸人分歲。說法無盡。所以春水滿四澤無盡。夏雲多奇峯無盡。秋月揚明輝無盡。冬嶺秀孤松無盡。一年如是。過去無盡。一年如是。到來無盡。若恁麼見得。日日眼睛定動。時時鼻孔軒昂。依舊年月日時悉皆無盡。雖然盡與無盡。與者拂子。總不相干。正當恁麼。忽有箇漢。出來對眾。奪却免見葛藤無盡。大家慶快無盡。其或未然。伏聽處分。擊拂子云。斬新曆日明朝看。大歲騎牛倒上天。舉。僧問香林。如何是衲衣下事。香林云。臘月火燒山。師頌云。衲衣下事火燒山。臘月家貧徹骨寒。堪笑連延曾未息。眉毛焦赤面皮斑。 > Minor convocation on New Year's Eve: "The year is exhausted, the month is exhausted, the day is exhausted, the hour is exhausted." > Drawing a stroke with his whisk, he said: "Utterly stroke it off!" > Holding up the whisk, he said: "This one is inexhaustible! > Do you still see it? > Calling it Qingliang's whisk, > its functioning is inexhaustible. > Tonight, parting with the year together with all of you, > the preaching of the Dharma is inexhaustible. > Therefore, the spring waters filling the four marshes are inexhaustible; > the summer clouds forming many wondrous peaks are inexhaustible; > the autumn moon casting bright radiance is inexhaustible; > the winter ridges showing off solitary pines are inexhaustible. > One year is like this: the past is inexhaustible; > one year is like this: what arrives is inexhaustible. > If you can see it like this, > day by day your eyes move steadily, > hour by hour your nostrils flare high; > as of old, year, month, day, and hour are all inexhaustible. > Although it is so, exhausted and inexhaustible > have nothing whatsoever to do with this whisk. > Just at such a time, if a fellow should suddenly come out before the assembly > and snatch it away to avoid seeing inexhaustible entangling vines, > everyone would rejoice with inexhaustible joy. > If this is not yet so, prostrate yourselves and listen to the ruling." > Striking with the whisk, he said: "Look at the brand-new calendar tomorrow morning; > the Grand Year rides an ox upside down to heaven." > He cited: "A monk asked Xianglin, 'What is the matter beneath the patch-robe?' > Xianglin said, 'In the twelfth month, fire burns the mountain.'" > The Master made a verse: > "The matter beneath the patch-robe is fire burning the mountain; > in the twelfth month, the household is poor and bone-chillingly cold. > How laughable that the continuous flames have never ceased; > the eyebrows are singed red, the facial skin mottled." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.38) - [Next: 2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.40) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a~en-mt.2.39) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.39) · Pramāṇa