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　　二十空門元不著。一性如來體自同。

　　The twenty kinds of vacancy have no basis,

　　And the oneness of the Tathagata-being

　　Is naturally sameness.

　　心是根。法是塵。兩種猶如鏡上痕。

　　Mind is the base, phenomena are dust;

　　Yet both are like a flaw in the mirror.

　　痕垢盡除光始現。心法雙忘性即真。

　　When the flaw is brushed aside,

　　The light begins to shine.

　　When both mind and phenomena are forgotten,

　　Then we become naturally genuine.

　　嗟末法。惡時世。衆生福薄難調製。

　　Ah, the degenerate materialistic world!

　　People are unhappy; they find self-control difficult.

　　去聖遠兮邪見深。魔強法弱多怨害。

　　In the centuries since Shakyamuni, false views are deep,

　　Demons are strong, the Dharma is weak, disturbances are many.

　　聞說如來頓教門。恨不滅除令瓦碎。

　　People hear the Buddha”s doctrine of immediacy,

　　And if they accept it, the demons will be crushed

　　As easily as a roofing tile.

　　But they cannot accept, what a pity!

　　作在心。殃在身。不須怨訴更尤人。

　　Your mind is the source of action;

　　Your body is the agent of calamity;

　　No pity nor blame to anyone else.

　　欲得不招無間業。莫謗如來正*輪。

　　If you don”t seek an invitation to hell,

　　Never slander the Tathagata”s true teaching.

　　栴檀林。無雜樹。郁密森沈師子住。

　　In the sandalwood forest, there is no other tree.

　　Only the lion lives in such deep luxuriant woods,

　　境靜林間獨自遊。走獸飛禽皆遠去。

　　Wandering freely in a state of peace.

　　Other animals and birds stay far away.

　　師子兒。蒙隨後。叁歲便能大哮吼。

　　Just baby lions follow the parent,

　　And three-year-olds already roar loudly.

　　若是野幹逐法王。百年妖怪虛開口。

　　How can the jackal pursue the king of the Dharma

　　Even with a hundred-thousand demonic arts

　　圓頓教。沒人情。有疑不決直須爭。

　　The Buddha”s doctrine of directness

　　Is not a matter for human emotion.

　　If you doubt this or feel uncertain,

　　Then you must discuss it with me.

　　不是山僧逞人我。修行恐落斷常坑。

　　This is not the free rein of a mountain monk”s ego.

　　I fear your training may lead to wrong views

　　Of permanent soul or complete extinction.

　　非不非。是不是。差之毫厘失千裏。

　　Being is not being; non-being is not non-being;

　　Miss this rule by a hair,

　　And you are off by a thousand miles.

　　是則龍女頓成佛。非則善星生陷墜。

　　Understanding it, the dragon-child abruptly attains Buddhahood;

　　Misunderstanding it, the greatest scholar falls into hell.

　　吾早年來積學問。亦曾討疏尋經論。

　　From my youth I piled studies upon studies,

　　In sutras and sastras I searched and researched,

　　分別名相不知休。入海算沙徒自困。

　　Classifying terms and forms, oblivious to fatigue.

　　I entered the sea to count the sands in vain

　　卻被如來苦诃責。數他珍寶有何益。

　　And then the Tathagata scolded me kindly

　　As I read "What profit in counting your neighbor”s treasure

　　"

　　從來蹭蹬覺虛行。多年枉作風塵客。

　　My work had been scattered and entirely useless,

　　For years I was dust blown by the wind.

　　種性邪。錯知解。不達如來圓頓製。

　　If the seed-nature is wrong, misunderstandings arise,

　　And the Buddha”s doctrine of immediacy cannot be attained.

　　二乘精進沒道心。外道聰明無智慧。

　　Shravaka and Pratyeka students may study earnestly

　　But they lack aspiration.

　　Others may be very clever,

　　But they lack prajna.

　　亦愚癡。亦小騃。空拳指上生實解。

　　Stupid ones, childish ones,

　　They suppose there is something in an empty fist.

　　執指爲月枉施功。根境法中虛捏怪。

　　They mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

　　They are idle dreamers lost in form and sensation.

　　不見一法即如來。方得名爲觀自在。

　　Not supposing something is the Tathagata.

　　This is truly called Kwan-Yin, the Bodhisattva who sees freely.

　　了即業障本來空。未了應須還夙債。

　　When awakened we find karmic hindrances fundamentally empty.

　　But when not awakened, we must repay all our debts.

　　饑逢王膳不能餐。病遇醫王爭得瘥。

　　The hungry are served a king”s repast,

　　And they cannot eat.

　　The sick meet the king of doctors;

　　Why don”t they recover

　　在欲行禅知見力。火中生蓮終不壞。

　　The practice of Zen in this greedy world --

　　This is the power of wise vision.

　　The lotus lives in the midst of the fire;

　　It is never destroyed.

　　勇施犯重悟無生。早時成佛于今在。

　　Pradhanashura broke the gravest precepts;

　　But he went on to realize the unborn.

　　The Buddhahood he attained in that moment

　　Lives with us now in our time.

　　師子吼。無畏說。深嗟懵懂頑皮靼。

　　The incomparable lion roar of the doctrine!

　　How sad that people are stubbornly ignorant;

　　只知犯重障菩提。不見如來開秘訣。

　　Just knowing that crime blocks enlightenment,

　　Not seeing the secret of the Tathagata teaching.

　　有二比丘犯淫殺。波離螢光增罪結。

　　Two monks were guilty of murder and carnality.

　　Their leader, Upali, had the light of a glow-worm;

　　He just added to their guilt.

　　維摩大士頓除疑。猶如赫日銷霜雪。

　　Vimalakirti cleared their doubts at once

　　As sunshine melts the frost and snow.

　　不思議。解脫力。妙用恒沙也無極。

　　The remarkable power of emancipation

　　Works wonders innumerable as the sands of the Ganges.

　　四事供養敢辭勞。萬兩黃金亦消得。

　　To this we offer clothing, food, bedding, medicine.

　　Ten thousand pieces of gold are not sufficient;

　　粉骨碎身未足酬。一句了然超百億。

　　Though you break your body

　　And your bones become powder, --

　　This is not enough for repayment.

　　One vivid word surpasses millions of years of practice.

　　法中王。最高勝。恒沙如來同共證。

　　The King of the Dharma deserves our highest respect.

　　Tathagatas, innumerable as sands of the Ganges,

　　All prove this fact by their attainment.

　　我今解此如意珠。信受之者皆相應。

　　Now I know what the Mani-jewel is:

　　Those who believe this will gain it accordingly.

　　了了見。無一物。亦無人。亦無佛。

　　When we see truly, there is nothing at all.

　　There is no person; there is no Buddha.

　　大千沙界海中漚。一切聖賢如電拂。

　　Innumerable things of the universe

　　Are just bubbles on the sea.

　　Wise sages are all like flashes of lightning

　　假使鐵輪頂上旋。定慧圓明終不失。

　　However the burning iron ring revolves around my head,

　　With bright completeness of dhyana and prajna

　　日可冷。月可熱。衆魔不能壞真說。

　　I never lose my equanimity.

　　If the sun becomes cold, and the moon hot,

　　Evil cannot shatter the truth.

　　象駕峥嵘慢進途。誰見螳螂能拒轍。

　　The carriage of the elephant moves like a mountain,

　　How can the mantis block the road

　　大象不遊于兔經。大悟不拘于小節。

　　The great elephant does not loiter on the rabbit”s path.

　　Great enlightenment is not concerned with details.

　　莫將管見謗蒼蒼。未了吾今爲君訣。

　　Don”t belittle the sky by looking through a pipe.

　　If you still don”t understand,

　　I will settle it for you.

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