仁智法忍赤山

公栉风沐雨。正古人所谓读万卷书。须行万里路者。公实地体验矣。庚寅五十一岁。宜兴礼仁智和尚。时修显亲寺。密祖出家处。过夏。到句容。礼法忍和尚。助其修赤山茅蓬。住此过冬。

宣化偈曰：
赤山老人法忍僧。领众薰修般若空。
勤担瓦石除积垢。搬运泥水炼性功。

Meeting Jen Chih and Fa Jen of Ch'ih Shan

Having been " combed by the wind and bathed by the rain," the Master had truly embodied the ancient saying: " After reading the ten thousand books, one should walk ten thousand miles." In the year 1891, the master was fifty-one years old. At I Hisang (Pleasant Abundance), he bowed to the Venerable Master Jen Chih, who was then in the process of repairing Hsien Chin Monastery. This was the place where patriarch Mi Tsung had left the home life. The Master spent the summer there and then went to Chu Jung, where he bowed to the High Master Fa Jen and lent his aid in reparing the thatched huts of Ch'ih Shan. The Master spent the winter there.

The verse says:
The old man of Ch'ih Shan is Dharma Maser Fa Jen,
Who induces people to steep themselves in the Prajna of emptiness.
They diligently shoulder tile and stone and eradicate all filth;
Moving water and hauling mud is the work of forging one's nature.