萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.80

4.80

Compass round, square right: (The bowl is rounded; the tray is four-cornered.) / Put into action, or set aside and hidden; (Turning in a pint, revolving in a peck.) / Sluggish and stumbling is the bird perched in the reeds, (How could it know how to fly high and soar far?) / Advancing and retreating is the sheep whose horns catch the hedge, (Unable to pace alone in the great expanse.) / Eating another's food, (Quickly vomit it out!) / Lying on one's own bed. (By all means avoid taking root.) / Clouds soar, producing rain; (Spring brings forth, summer grows.) / Dew freezes, turning to frost. (Autumn gathers, winter stores.) / Jade thread matches, penetrating the needle's eye; (Continuous without gap.) / Brocade silk unbroken, vomited from the shuttle's belly. (Turned upside-down, all interconnected.) / The stone woman stops her loom as night turns toward midnight; (Patterns crisscross, the meaning naturally distinct.) / The wooden man turns his path as the moon's shadow shifts from the center. (Understanding and practice do not clash with the present path.)