釋門自鏡錄 2.95

2.95

'You have already renounced household life and abandoned your worldly physical form; you should devote all your effort to bringing about harmony with nirvāṇa. Why are you restless and agitated, finding no joy in quiet seclusion? The scriptural Way wastes away while worldly affairs abound. Not treading the pure and white, you turn back into the mud and mire. A life fleeting as a passing shadow may end in a single moment; the agonies of hell can hardly be written out in full. Now I admonish and exhort you: you should venerate the classic teachings.'