景德傳燈錄 29.36

29.36

Śrāvakas detest clamor and seek quietude, / Just like casting aside flour to seek cakes. / Cakes have always been flour; / Fashioned by people, they undergo a hundred transformations. / Affliction is itself Bodhi; / No-mind is itself no-realm. / Birth and death are no different from nirvāṇa; / Greed and anger are like flames, like shadows. / The wise have no mind to seek Buddhahood; / The foolish cling to the deviant, cling to the correct. / In vain they spend an entire life in emptiness, / Never seeing the wondrous crown of the Tathāgata. / Thoroughly comprehending that the nature of lust is empty, / The cauldron of boiling water and burning coals naturally cool.