Amid the Buddhist chanting from the Pizhi Tower in the famous Lingyan Temple, a spring gushes out from a cliff.
The spring is also known as Qinquan Spring and Dugu Spring. The cast iron by the spring is shaped like a kasaya, so it is named Jiasha Spring (Kasaya Spring). After undergoing thousands of years of wind rain, the cast iron has been rusty, but the water remains as clear as jade, as Yan Bi, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, wrote: The luxuriant hill contains a jade-like spring; its clear stream won’t be stained by worldly dust.
Evening drums and morning bells add Zen elements to the spring pool. The spring water from stone crevices of the cliff wall gurgles like flowing crystal, appearing as clear as a mirror. The winding fountainhead and the emerald moss show great vigor and vitality.
The running water sounds more melodious when going farther. The converged spring water flows all the way, without regret for the past, or fear of the future. When entering the square stone pool, it seems to tell a story of youth through the splashes of water.
Listen. The spring water seems to prefer the outer world. After ending its tortuous way, it finally runs into a large pool via a stone-carved dragon mouth, splashing in all directions.
It ripples, and finally falls silent.
Nourishing the monks of the Lingyan Temple for millennia, the Jiasha Spring has interpreted the supreme realm of highest excellence like water and benefits to all beings with its inexhaustible flow.
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