廣弘明集 16.58

16.58

The Way entails common accords; / The Principle has no twofold return. / Illumining quiescent stillness, they are the same; / In form and appearance, both are negated. / A thousand Awakened Ones bend to respond, / Alternately tapping the hidden mechanism. / The seven revered ones are far away; / Gratefully we reflect upon their departures of old. / The past is already extinguished; / The future is without form. / A single kṣaṇa does not stay; / The three thoughts pass away together. / Neither permanent nor abiding, / Neither present nor past. / Though the Bhadrakalpa is long, / It is instantaneous like an echo. / Lodging in forests and leaning against trees, / Leaving the house and forsaking the family, / Former Buddhas and later Buddhas— / In their traces, there is neither high nor low. / Some wander in the adamantine realm, / Some are shaded beneath the dragon-flower tree. / Those who can master this purport / May be counted like the Ganges' sands. / In glorious blooms and myriad throngs, / They share this wondrous summit. / Earlier or later, varied and uneven, / Each vows according to strength. / Secretly tracking to propagate the Way, / When their numbers end, they ascend. / Vowing to behold the coming aeons, / May they forever bring virtue to conscious beings.