辯正論 3.75

3.75

周孝愍皇帝（諱覺）明裕研機。疎通弘遠。天縱神武。民歸獄訟。握金鏡以居尊。齊玉衡以建極。時逢剝喪。世距雲雷。地絡絕維。曦輪掩曜。邅迴九服。震駭百靈。既而象緯重章。宸樞再紐。惟叡作聖。知機曰神。周保元年大弘像化。海內名德慕義歸仁廣開解脫之門。洞啟菩提之路。欲使天窮有頂等被慈雲。地極無邊俱蒙慧日。

Emperor Xiaomin of Zhou (personal name Jue) was brilliant, magnanimous, and deeply discerning; he was open-minded, versatile, and far-sighted. Naturally endowed with divine martial prowess, the people submitted their disputes to him. Holding the golden mirror he occupied the exalted throne; balancing the jade celestial armillary sphere he established the supreme standard. Meeting with decline and loss, the age encountered storms and thunder. The terrestrial net broke its main cords, and the solar disk obscured its radiance. Turmoil swept through the nine regions, striking fear into the hundred spirits. Soon, the astronomical patterns shone bright again, and the imperial pivot was fastened anew. Through wisdom one becomes a sage; knowing the imperceptible is called divine. In the first year of Zhoubao, he broadly propagated the likeness teaching. The renowned and virtuous within the seas admired righteousness and took refuge in benevolence, broadly opening the gates of liberation and profoundly revealing the path of bodhi, desiring that the highest heavens of the peak of existence all receive the cloud of loving-kindness, and that the boundless limits of the earth all bask in the sun of wisdom.