廣弘明集 27.340

27.340

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.