[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [緇門警訓](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023) › 5.6 # 緇門警訓 5.6 緇門警訓 5.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.5.6) 汝師年老中山寺。朝暮無人可瞻侍。不歸掃洒執巾瓶。師資禮法合也未。汝母兼又年紀高。除汝一人更無二。望斷秋風未見歸。倚門日日長垂淚。離師棄母入山來。所圖畢竟成何事。安貧樂道固所難。住箇茅菴豈容易。也要種竹栽松。也要鉏山掘地。也要運水搬柴。也要澆蔬灌芋。也要行道諷經。也要攝心除睡。藜羹黍飯塞飢瘡。淡虀薄粥通腸胃。人生皆為口體忙。我亦未免形骸累。自家心地如未明。業識茫茫無本據。水邊林下暫經過。吾汝皆非久居計。月江和尚有書來。勉汝歸寧有深意。開緘未讀便抽身。不負來音全孝義。有言孝為百行先。在俗在僧誰不然。侍師奉母名敬田。何須入眾并參禪。忽然思靜又嫌喧。短策不妨閑往還。 > Your master is old at Zhongshan Monastery, > Morning and evening with no one to look after and attend to him. > Not returning to sweep and sprinkle, or hold the towel and pitcher— > Does this accord with the ritual propriety between master and disciple, or not? > Your mother is, moreover, advanced in years; > Besides you alone, there is no second child. > Looking out through the autumn wind, she has not seen you return; > Leaning on the gate day by day, her tears long flow down. > Leaving your master and abandoning your mother to enter the mountains, > What, after all, do your aims accomplish? > Being content with poverty and delighting in the Path is indeed difficult; > Dwelling in a thatched hut—how could it be easy? > One must plant bamboo and cultivate pines; > one must hoe the mountains and dig the earth; > One must carry water and haul firewood; > one must water the vegetables and irrigate the taros; > One must practice the Path and recite scriptures; > one must gather the mind and banish sleep. > Goosefoot broth and millet rice plug the wound of hunger; > Bland pickles and thin congee clear the bowels and stomach. > In human life all are busy for the sake of mouth and body; > I too cannot escape the burden of this physical frame. > If your own mind-ground is not yet illumined, > The karmic consciousness is vast and adrift, without a fundamental basis. > Passing through by waterside and under trees for a short while, > For neither me nor you is this a plan for long dwelling. > Upādhyāya Yuejiang has sent a letter, > Urging you to return home to inquire \[after your kin\] with deep meaning. > Opening the seal, before reading it, immediately withdraw your person; > Do not fail the incoming message, fulfilling both filial piety and righteousness. > There is a saying: 'Filial piety comes first among the hundred practices'; > Be it among the laity or among the monastic saṅgha, who is not like this? > Attending to one's master and revering one's mother is called the field of respect; > What need is there to enter the assembly and practice Chan inquiry? > If suddenly you long for quiet and dislike clamour, > With a short walking stick it is fine to leisurely come and go. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.5.5) - [Next: 5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.5.7) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023~en-mt.5.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.5.6) · Pramāṇa