孟郊诗

Poems of Meng Jiao


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夏日谒智远禅师

Summer day, paying respects to my Chan master


吾师当几祖
说法云无空
禅心三界外
宴坐天地中

My master has many lineages,
Expounds the law as a cloud lacking nothing.
Chan heart beyond the three worlds
Sits feasting amid Heaven and Earth.

院静鬼神去
身与草木同
因知护王国
满钵盛毒龙

Peaceful temple, gods and ghosts depart.
Body and all things as one.
Because he knows to protect our kingdom,
He fills his begging bowl with dragon's poison.

抖擞尘埃衣
谒师见真宗
何必千万劫
瞬息去樊笼

Arousing myself from my dusty tatters,
I visit the master to see the true model.
Why wait for a million kalpas?
In a twinkling, depart from your confinement.

盛夏火为日
一堂十月风
不得为弟子
名姓挂儒宫

From midsummer's fiery sun until the
Autumn winds arrive, we share one hall.
I may not be his disciple, but his
Exemplary nature hangs in my ancestral hall.

-- 孟郊


废话

One must keep in mind that for the spiritually-minded, there is no religion. There is only the living Way. Meng Jiao spent his life upon the Way.


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