緇門警訓 2.30

2.30

You have already left home, titled 'person of the Way.'
You do not bow to parents, nor act as subjects to sovereigns and emperors.
The whole world reveres you together, serving you like a deity.
They bow their heads and pay homage, regardless of wealth or poverty,
Esteeming your pure cultivation, benefiting yourself and benefiting others.
The gravity of their reductions and sacrifices is 'a single grain weighs seven pounds.'
How is it that you are negligent and indolent, unable to repay their kindness?
Indulging in wanton wandering and leisure, body and mind are vexed in vain.
Consuming offerings without precepts, upon death you will enter Mount Tai.
Eating burning iron and drinking molten copper poured down your throat—
Agonies such as these are set forth in the Dharmapada.
Now, therefore, I admonish and instruct: you should change and draw close to virtue!