禪林寶訓 1.19

1.19

Dajue said: “Shun Laofu was endowed with a simple and straightforward nature, not knowing matters such as weighing and measuring or trading and accumulating. Every day he had fixed routines that he never altered in the slightest. Even tending the lamps and sweeping the floor he did with his own hands. He once said: ‘The ancients had the admonition, “A day without work is a day without food.” What kind of person am I?’ Even in declining old age, his resolve became firmer. Someone said: ‘Why do you not employ attendants?’ Laofu said: ‘Passing through the cold and heat, rising and sitting are irregular; I do not wish to fatigue them.’”