[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) › 7.28 # 緇門警訓 7.28 緇門警訓 7.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.7.28) 觀水莫觀污池水。污池之水魚鱉卑。登山莫登迤邐山。迤邐之山草木稀。觀水須觀滄溟廣。登山須登泰山上。所得不淺所見高。工夫用盡非徒勞。南方幸有選佛地。好向其中窮妙旨。他年成器整頹綱。不負男兒出家志。大丈夫休擬議。豈為虛名滅身計。百年隨分覺無多。莫被光陰暗添歲。成都況是繁華國。打住只因花酒惑。吾師幸是出家兒。肯隨齷齪同埋沒。吾師幸有虹蜺志。何事躊躇溺泥水。豈不見吞舟之魚不隱卑流。合抱之木不生丹丘。大鵬一展九萬里。豈同春岸飛沙鷗。何如急駕千里驥。莫學鷦鷯戀一枝。直饒講得千經論。也落禪家第二機。白雲長是戀高臺。莫罩朝籠不暫開。為慰蒼生霖雨望。等閑依舊出山來。又不見。荊山有玉名璚瑤。良工未遇居蓬蒿。當時若不離荊楚。爭得連城價倍高。 > In observing water, do not observe the water of a foul pool: / In the water of a foul pool, fish and turtles are small and mean. / In climbing mountains, do not climb rolling foothills: / On rolling foothills, grass and trees are sparse. / In observing water, one must observe the vastness of the azure ocean; / In climbing mountains, one must climb the heights of Mount Tai. / What one gains will not be shallow, what one sees will be lofty; / When effort is exhausted, it is not in vain. / In the South, fortunately, there is a ground for electing buddhas; / Go there and thoroughly explore the wondrous purport! / In future years, when your vessel is formed and you restore the declining order, / You will not fail the resolve of a man who left home. / Great hero, cease your wavering! / How could you ruin your life's plan for empty fame? / In a hundred years, when taking one's measure, one feels there is not much time; / Do not let time covertly add to your years. / Chengdu is moreover a city of splendour and bustle, / Where people linger only through being beguiled by flowers and wine. / Fortunately, my master is one who has left home; / Would you willingly follow petty men and be buried together with them? / Fortunately, my master possesses an ambition like the rainbow; / Why hesitate and wallow in the mud and water? / Have you not seen that a boat-swallowing fish does not hide in shallow streams, / And a tree of many arm-spans does not grow on barren hills? / When the great roc spreads its wings ninety thousand leagues, / How can it be likened to the gulls flying along the spring shore? / How much better to swiftly ride a thousand-league steed / And not learn from the wren clinging to a single branch! / Even if you could expound a thousand sutras and treatises, / You would still fall into the secondary mechanism of the Chan house. / The white clouds are ever in love with the high terrace; / Let them not cover the morning cage without opening for a moment! / To soothe the common people's hope for copious rain, / Casually step forth from the mountains as before. / And have you not seen: / In Mount Jing there is a jade named Qiongyao; / Before meeting a skilled artisan, it lay among weeds and briars. / Had it not left Jing and Chu at that time, / How could its value have doubled to rival a city's worth? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.7.27) - [Next: 7.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.7.29) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023~en-mt.7.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.7.28) · Pramāṇa