禪林寶訓 3.75

3.75

辯首座出世住廬山棲賢。常携一笻穿雙屨。過九江東林。混融老見之呵曰。師者人之模範也。舉止如此。得不自輕。主禮甚滅裂。辯笑曰。人生以適意為樂。吾何咎焉。援毫書偈而去。偈曰。勿謂棲賢窮。身窮道不窮。草鞋獰似虎。拄杖活如龍。渴飲曹溪水。饑吞栗棘蓬。銅頭鐵額漢。盡在我山中。混融覽之有愧（月窟集）。

When Head Monk Bian stepped into the world to reside at Qixian on Mount Lu, he constantly carried a single bamboo staff and wore a pair of sandals. Passing by Donglin in Jiujiang, the venerable Hunrong saw him, scolded him, and said, 'A master is a model for others. When your deportment is like this, can you avoid degrading yourself?' The host's courtesies were extremely perfunctory. Bian laughed and said, 'In human life, enjoying oneself in contentment is pleasure; what fault is mine?' Lifting his brush, he wrote a verse and departed. The verse said:
'Do not say Qixian is poor; / The body is poor, but the Way is not poor. / The straw sandals are as fierce as a tiger, / The walking staff as alive as a dragon. / Thirsty, I drink Caoxi water; / Hungry, I swallow chestnut burrs. / Iron-headed and bronze-browed fellows, / All abide in my mountains.'
Hunrong felt ashamed upon reading it. (Yueku Collection)