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# 明覺禪師語錄 5.74

明覺禪師語錄 5.74

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [5.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.5.74)

時雨灑如膏，萬卉皆滋益，枯根甘自休，也似春無力。  
耕夫曉尚眠，蠶婦夜多息，從茲家業荒，共落風塵跡。

> Timely rain sprinkles like rich cream,  
> All the ten thousand plants receive moisture and benefit.  
> Withered roots willingly rest on their own,  
> Also as if spring had no strength.  
> The plowman still sleeps at dawn;  
> The silkworm woman rests much at night.  
> From this, family livelihoods become desolated,  
> Together falling into the traces of wind and dust.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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