The chapter on śramaṇas teaches the correct Dharma, and disciples receive and practice it, attaining the purity of understanding and liberation. | 沙门品者，训以法正，弟子受行，得道解净。 |
The eyes, ears, nose, mouth, body, and mind are always
upright. The bhikṣus practice like this, and can avoid all suffering.
| 端目、耳、鼻、口， 身意常守正，比丘行如是， 可以免众苦。
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The hands and feet do not rashly commit offenses. The speech is restrained and
in accordance with practice. Always internally delighting in samādhi, guarding the one practice in tranquility.
| 手足莫妄犯， 节言顺所行，常内乐定意， 守一行寂然。
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Learning should guard the mouth, speaking gently and calmly. The Dharma and meaning are the basis, and speech must be gentle.
| 学当守口， 宥言安徐，法义为定，言必柔软。
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Delighting in the Dharma, desiring the Dharma, contemplating the peaceful
Dharma. The bhikṣu relies on the Dharma, being correct without wasting.
| 乐法欲法， 思惟安法，比丘依法， 正而不费。
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Learning without seeking profit, without loving others' practices. The bhikṣu likes others, but cannot attain concentration.
| 学无求利，无爱他行，比丘好他， 不得定意。
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The bhikṣu takes little, thus attaining non-accumulation. Praised by devas and humans, born pure and undefiled.
| 比丘少取， 以得无积，天人所誉，生净无秽。
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The bhikṣu is compassionate, loving and respecting the Buddha's teachings
Deeply entering tranquility and insight, extinguishing practices and then at peace.
| 比丘为慈， 爱敬佛教，深入止观， 灭行乃安。
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All names and forms are non-existent, do not be deluded. Not close, not worried, then one is a bhikṣu.
| 一切名色，非有莫惑，不近不忧， 乃为比丘。
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The bhikṣu's boat is light when the middle is empty. Eliminating desire, anger, and ignorance, this is nirvāṇa.
| 比丘扈船， 中虚则轻，除婬怒痴，是为泥洹。
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Abandoning the five, cutting off the five, contemplating the five
faculties, able to discern the five, then crossing the deep river.
| 舍五断五， 思惟五根，能分别五， 乃渡河渊。
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Dhyāna is without carelessness, not disturbed by desire, not swallowing molten copper, tormenting one's own body.
| 禅无放逸，莫为欲乱，不吞洋铜， 自恼燋形。
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Without dhyāna there is no wisdom, without wisdom there is no dhyāna. The path comes from dhyāna and wisdom, reaching nirvāṇa.
| 无禅不智、 无智不禅，道从禅智，得至泥洹。
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One should study entering emptiness, dwelling in tranquility
enjoying solitude, contemplating the Dharma with a single mind.
| 当学入空， 静居止意，乐独屏处， 一心观法。
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Always controlling the five aggregates, subduing the mind like water, pure and harmonious, it becomes the taste of nectar.
| 常制五阴，伏意如水，清净和悦， 为甘露味。
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Not accepting anything, being a wise bhikṣu, controlling the senses and knowing contentment, upholding the precepts and discipline.
| 不受所有， 为慧比丘，摄根知足，戒律悉持。
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Born, one should practice purity, seeking good teachers and friends, the
wise help one become a person, crossing suffering and bringing joy.
| 生当行净， 求善师友，智者成人， 度苦致喜。
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Like the flowers of the guardian tree, when ripe they fall by themselves, releasing desire, anger, and ignorance, birth and death are naturally released.
| 如卫师华，熟如自堕，释婬怒痴， 生死自解。
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Stopping the body and speech, the mind guards the profound silence, the bhikṣu abandons the world, this is called receiving tranquility.
| 止身、止言， 心守玄默，比丘弃世，是为受寂。
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One should admonish oneself, internally contending with the mind, guarding the
body and contemplating the truth, the bhikṣu is only at ease.
| 当自勅身， 内与心争，护身念谛， 比丘惟安。
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I myself for myself, considering there is no self, therefore I should diminish myself, only then am I considered wise.
| 我自为我，计无有我，故当损我， 调乃为贤。
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Rejoicing in the Buddha's teachings, one can rejoice greatly, until reaching solitude, practicing extinction and eternal peace.
| 喜在佛教， 可以多喜，至到寂寞，行灭永安。
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If one practices the Buddha's precepts, this
illuminates the world like the sun without obstruction.
| 傥有少行， 应佛教戒，此照世间， 如日无曀。
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Abandoning pride and all arrogance, like a lotus born from water, pure
Learning can abandon this and that, knowing this is superior to that.
| 弃慢无余憍， 莲华水生净，学能舍此彼， 知是胜于故。
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Cutting off love without longing, not accepting like a
lotus. The bhikṣu crossing the river, superior to desire clear.
| 割爱无恋慕， 不受如莲华，比丘渡河流， 胜欲明于故。
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Cutting the stream, self-reliant, the mind turns away from desire. The compassionate do not cut off desire, with single-minded intent, still running.
| 截流自恃， 逝心却欲，仁不割欲，一意犹走。
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For it! For it! Must forcefully restrain oneself
Abandoning the household, the mind still becomes defiled.
| 为之！为之！ 必强自制，舍家而懈， 意犹复染。
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For those who practice laxly, the weary mind is not eliminated. Not practicing pure and chaste conduct, how can one attain the great treasure?
| 行懈缓者，劳意弗除？非净梵行， 焉致大宝？
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What is the practice of a śramaṇa? If the mind is not restrained, with every step one becomes attached, and only follows after thoughts.
| 沙门何行？ 如意不禁，步步著粘，但随思走。
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Wearing the kasaya robe over the shoulders, evil is not diminished. Those
who engage in evil and evil conduct will fall into evil paths.
| 袈裟披肩， 为恶不损，恶恶行者， 斯堕恶道。
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Untamed and difficult to admonish, like a tree withered by the wind. Doing for oneself, why not be diligent?
| 不调难诫，如风枯树，作自为身， 曷不精进？
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Resting the mind is not about shaving, and arrogance is not about precepts. Abandoning greed and contemplating the path is truly resting the mind;
| 息心非剔， 慢𫍙无戒，舍贪思道，乃应息心；
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Resting the mind is not about shaving, and carelessness is not
about faith. Being able to extinguish all suffering is the supreme śramaṇa;
| 息心非剔， 放逸无信，能灭众苦， 为上沙门。
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