萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 1.88

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Case: The king of an East Indian country invited the Twenty-seventh Patriarch, Prajñātāra, to a vegetarian meal. (More often than not, going off to pay oral debts.) The king asked, 'Why do you not read the scriptures?' (Receiving emolument without merit makes eating and sleeping uneasy.) The Patriarch said, 'This poor path-farer's inhalation does not abide in the skandhas or dhātus; exhalation does not involve the myriad conditions. I constantly turn such a scripture in hundreds, thousands, myriads, and kotis of scrolls.' (Carried away by praising and eulogizing boundless excellent causes.)