續傳燈錄 22.43

22.43

婺州雙溪印首座。自見真淨徹證宗猷。歸遁雙溪。一日偶書曰。折脚鐺兒謾自煨。飯餘長是坐堆堆。一從近日生涯拙。百鳥𭊷花去不來。又以觸衣碎甚。作偈曰。不挂寸絲方免寒何須特地裊長竿。而今落落零零也。七佛之名甚處安。

Head Monk Yin of Shuangxi in Wuzhou, from the time he saw Zhenjing, thoroughly verified the ancestral principles. He returned to reclusion in Shuangxi. One day, he casually wrote: / 'The broken-legged pot slowly simmers by itself; / after finishing the meal, I constantly sit like a heap. / Ever since my livelihood became clumsy of late, / the hundred birds carry flowers, flying off and coming no more.' / Also, because his everyday robe was extremely tattered, he composed a verse: / 'Only when unhung with a single thread does one escape the cold; / why bother especially with a fluttering long pole? / Now that it is so threadbare and falling to pieces, / where can the names of the Seven Buddhas find a place?'