文／南宋．張九成 (1092-1159)

春天月夜一聲蛙，撞破乾坤共一家。

正恁麼時誰會得？嶺頭腳痛有玄沙。

──選自《嘉泰普燈錄》

Heaven and

Earth Shatters

Zhang Jiucheng (1092 - 1159, Northern Song Dynasty)

English translation: Ven. Miao Guang

The croak of a frog in the Spring moonlight

Shatters heaven and earth all into one.

By whom is such a moment understood?

At the peak is Master Xuansha with his painful foot.

── from Jiatai Pudeng Lu

(Record of the Jiatai Era’s Transmission of the Lamp)