勤劳种菜供僧

公任水头已即改充当菜园之园头。凡一切蔬菜种植必细心研究其种籽良否。地质肥沃否。栽秧压蔓合时否。栽者培之。倾者扶之。并以大悲圣水灌溉园蔬作食此菜者速得无生。

宣化偈曰：
服劳执役任园头。以身示范启颛蒙。
当知今日人天师。功在鼓山老圃中。

Tirelessly laboring to raise vegetables to offer to the Sangha

The Master undertook the responsibilities of water boy, and then became the gardener. It was necessary for him to examine each vegetable plant to see whether or not it was well hoed, fertilized, and ready to be transplanted or not. He bolstered the plants and braced those which fell over. He irrigated the vegetable garden with water sanctified by the Great Compassion Mantra, so that those who ate these vegetables would quickly realize the unproduced.

The verse says:
He toiled in service attending to the tasks of vegetable gardening.
An exemplar of the regulations, he was an inspiration to the ignorant.
You should know that today's teachers of gods and men
Are supported by the gardener of Ku Shan Mountain.