虛堂和尚語錄 5.18

English (machine translation) 5.18

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5.18

Moist stone is not jade; / Beautiful water is not gold. / Yu the Great dredged and flowed westward; / Bian He wept as his jade was sunk in earth. / Splendid and vast, / Polishing past and present.

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虛堂和尚語錄 — Classical Chinese