緇門警訓 2.57

2.57

染緣易就道業難成。不了目前萬緣差別。只見境風浩浩凋殘。
功德之林心火炎炎。燒盡菩提之種。道念
若同情念成佛多時。為眾如為己身。
彼此事辦。不見他非我是。自然上敬下恭。
佛法時時現前。煩惱塵塵解脫。

Defiling conditions are easy to approach; the karma of the Way is hard to accomplish. If one does not understand the various differentiated conditions right before one's eyes, one will only see the winds of external sense-objects raging intensely, withering and devastating the grove of merits; the fire of the mind blazes fiercely, burning up completely the seeds of bodhi. If your thoughts of the Way were like your emotional thoughts, you would have accomplished buddhahood long ago. Act for the assembly as you would for your own body, and both your tasks and others' will be accomplished. When you do not see others as wrong and yourself as right, naturally those above will be respected and those below treated with deference. The Buddhadharma will constantly manifest before you, and in speck of dust after speck of dust afflictions will be liberated.