[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) › [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103) › 27.340 # 廣弘明集 27.340 廣弘明集 27.340 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [27.340](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.27.340) 五玉已潤談而信。八桂雖芳風乃操。妙理至言惟聖寶。不自伊人孰弘道。照空觀法識遷流。撫俗瞻凡厭生老。絕滅情嗜斷歡怡。縱落豪榮棄彫藻。親愛倏忽信風煙。財利悠悠若塵草。測以龍雲豈曰高。濯足江漢更慚皓。 > The five jades are moist, trustworthy in speech; / Though the eight laurels are fragrant, they are steered by the wind. / Wondrous principles and supreme words are the treasures of the sages alone; / If not for these persons, who could propagate the path? / Illuminating emptiness and contemplating phenomena, they discern transience; / Comforting the secular and regarding the ordinary, they weary of birth and aging. / Severing passions and cravings, cutting off pleasures and joy, / They abandon high rank and discard ornate embellishments. / Beloved kinsmen are fleeting, truly like wind and smoke; / Wealth and profit are vast and aimless, like dust and weeds. / Measured by dragons and clouds, how could they be called high? / Washing one's feet in the Jiang and Han rivers, one feels even more ashamed before their purity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 27.339](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.27.339) - [Next: 27.341](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.27.341) - [Up: 27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.27) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103~en-mt.27.340) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.27.340](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.27.340) · Pramāṇa