Prefer To Be Defeated In The Presence

Those Who See Worldly Life As An Obstacle To Dharma See No Dharma In Everyday Actions. They Have Not Yet Discovered That There Are No Everyday Actions Outside Of Dharma.

Students Today Should Live Fully Every Moment Of Time. This Dew-like Life Fades Away; Time Speeds Swiftly. In This Short Life Of Ours, Avoid Involvement In Superfluous Things And Just Study The Way.

When Mountains And Waters Are Painted, Blue, Green, And Red Paints Are Used, Strange Rocks And Wondrous Stones Are Used, The Four Jewels And The Seven Treasures Are Used. Rice-cakes Are Painted In The Same Manner. When A Person Is Painted, The Four Great Elements And Five Skandhas Are Used.

To What Shall I Liken The World? Moonlight, Reflected In Dewdrops, Shaken From A Crane's Bill.

Why Abandon A Seat In Your Own Home To Wander In Vain Through Dusty Regions Of Another Land? If You Make One False Step, You Miss What Is Right Before Your Eyes.