Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Wunen Shuzhong (恕中無慍禪師語錄)
世尊降生
The Buddha's Birth
奇哉千歲烏龜殻。靈聖昭於未灼前。一自當陽鑽破後。都盧不直半分錢。
How strange, the thousand-year-old turtle shell,
Its sacred spirit shone before being carved.
But once the sun's rays pierced it through,
It wasn't worth even half a coin.