無門關 1.3

1.3

On the fifth day of the first month in the second year of Shaoding, respectfully encountering the sacred festival of Tianji, your subject monk Huikai, having previously on the fifth day of the twelfth month of the first year printed and circulated forty-eight cases of the dynamic encounters of the Buddhas and patriarchs with comments, prays for the sacred person of the reigning Emperor: may he live ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand times ten thousand years! Your Majesty the Emperor: I respectfully wish that your sacred brilliance equal the sun and moon, and your sagacious longevity rival heaven and earth; that the eight directions sing of a ruler possessed of the Way, and the four seas rejoice in the transforming influence of non-action.