寒山·《凡读我诗者》英译

凡读我诗者，心中须护净。

悭贪继日廉，谄曲登时正。

驱遣除恶业，归依受真性。

今日得佛身，急急如律令。

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Poetics on Cold Mountain

Han Shan

If you would read my poems,

Prepare yourself well: be pure of mine;

Open your tight-fisted heart; flatter

None but honesty with your upright world;

From the bag of Self, unpack evil,

Refolding what remains, your Buddha-body.

This is your first assignment. Do it now,

And quickly. I speak an empire’s law.