禪林寶訓 1.31

1.31

演祖曰。師翁初住楊岐。老屋敗椽僅蔽風雨。適臨冬莫。雪霰滿床。居不遑處。衲子投誠願充修造。師翁却之曰。我佛有言。時當減。劫高岸深谷遷變不。常安得圓滿如意自求稱足。汝等出家學道。做手脚未穩。已是四五十歲。詎有閒工夫。事豐屋耶。竟不從。翌日上堂曰。楊岐乍住屋壁疎。滿床盡撒雪珍珠。縮却項。暗嗟吁。翻憶古人樹下居（廣錄）。

Patriarch Yan said: "When my grandfather in the Dharma first resided at Yangqi, the old roof and decaying rafters barely warded off wind and rain. It happened to be late winter; snow and sleet covered his bed, and he had no place to rest in comfort. Monks sincerely offered to carry out repairs and construction. The grandfather in the Dharma rejected them, saying: 'Our Buddha said: This is the time of the decrement kalpa, when high banks become deep ravines, changing impermanently. How could one obtain complete satisfaction to seek one's own sufficiency? You have left home to study the Way, yet before your footing is steady, you are already forty or fifty years old. How could you have leisure time to occupy yourselves with building a lavish house?' In the end he did not consent. The next day he ascended the hall and said: / 'Living for the first time at Yangqi, the walls are sparse and bare; / Across the whole bed scatter pearls of snow. / Pulling in my neck, I silently sigh, / Turning back to remember the ancients living beneath trees.'" (From the Extensive Records).