勅修百丈清規 8.68

8.68

The three venerable elders of the Xianchun era—Yishan and Huiji—are both masters whom I revere; only Yunweng I never met, yet upon reading his Jingmutang Poetry Scrolls, I came to recognize how profound Yunweng was. All three old masters wished to revise the pure rules to establish the institutions of a generation, and their disciples will surely be able to carry it through to completion; yet when one looks at those who wield the levers of the world and observes the means by which they uphold the world, they do not measure up to this—how could they not feel ashamed? In the winter of the bingchen year of the Yanyou era (1316), while touring the ancient monastery of Zhizhe, I had these reflections upon seeing this, and accordingly inscribed them at the end. Du Ben.