廣弘明集 30.32
English (machine translation) 30.32
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30.32
The Five Peaks rest on spiritual foundations; / the Four Waterways surge with tossing fords. / Seeking in motion is considered wisdom of square and compass; / keeping silence marks tranquil benevolence. / If one does not delight in emerging or retreating, / one's inclinations must rely on a constant cause. / Seeking the Origin, one communes with antiquity; / penetrating the past, one envisions the recluse sages. / Pure as jade beneath the crags, / like a chiming bell he rinses in the Yi River's shores. / Rolling up blossoms, he conceals them in dense mist; / shaking out his coarse hemp robes, he brushes away dust. / In outward traces he coils like an inchworm with the Way; / in inward virtue he stretches forward like a soaring dragon. / High and aloof, he faces no slaughter like Shan Bao; / his lot is unlike the starvation of the loyalists of Mount Shouyang. / With a long whistle, he returns to forest and peak, / desolate and carefree, entrusting himself to the Great Potter.
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