禪林寶訓 3.12

3.12

Xuetang said: "When I was at Longmen, Lingyuan resided at Taiping, and the authorities troubled him with unreasonable demands. Lingyuan wrote in a letter to my late teacher: 'Acting uprightly allows one to practice the Way; to act in peril is impossible. Residing as abbot through crooked compromise is truly not my wish. It would be better to give free rein to my mind among the thousands of crags and myriad ravines, eating my fill of grass and grain each day to live out the rest of my life; what more should I yearn for?' In less than ten days, a call came from Huanglong, whereupon he seized the opportunity and returned to Jiangxi."