Who can choose the ground? To abandon hell and take heaven
only speak the good Dharma, like picking the best and wonderful flowers.
| 何人能择地？ 舍地狱取天，惟说善法句， 如采善妙华。
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The learner can choose the ground, abandoning hell and taking heaven
speaking the wonderful Dharma well, able to pick the various wonderful flowers.
| 学人能择地， 舍地狱取天，善说妙法句， 能采众妙华。
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Cut the forest, not the tree, because fear arises from the forest
Having cut the forest and extinguished it, the bhikṣu attains perfect peace.
| 截林勿截树， 因林生怖畏，截林而灭已， 苾刍得圆寂。
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Cutting the forest without uprooting it, because fear arises from the forest
not cutting even a tiny bit, causing the mind to be bound.
| 截林不断根， 因林生怖畏，未断分毫间， 令意生缠缚。
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Cutting the forest without uprooting it, because fear arises from the forest, the
mind's attachment is hardest to leave, like a calf's love for its mother.
| 截林勿断根， 因林生怖畏，心缠最难离， 如犊恋爱母。
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One should cut off one's own attachment, like a dried-up lotus pond, cease
one's traces and receive the right teachings, the Buddha says the bliss of nirvāṇa.
| 当自断爱恋， 犹如枯莲池，息迹受正教， 佛说圆寂乐。
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Like a desirable flower, beautiful in color but without fragrance
skillful words are like this, without fruit and no reward.
| 犹如可意华， 色好而无香，巧言华如是， 无果不获报。
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Like a desirable flower, beautiful in color and fragrant, skillful
words are like this, they will definitely receive good rewards.
| 犹如可意华， 色好而香洁，巧言善如是， 必获其好报。
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Like a bee collecting flowers, not destroying the color and fragrance, but taking
the taste and flying away, a bhikṣu enters the village in the same way.
| 犹如蜂采华， 不坏色与香，但取味飞去， 苾刍入聚然。
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Not going against others' likes and dislikes, not observing what is done or
not done, but only observing one's own bodily actions, whether correct or incorrect.
| 不违他好恶， 勿观作不作，但自观身行， 若正若不正。
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Like a ditch filled with filth near a great road
a lotus flower grows in it, fragrant and very pleasing.
| 如田粪秽沟， 而近于大道，其中生莲华， 香洁甚可悦。
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There is birth, there is death. Ordinary people enjoy being on the
edge. The wise love to leave. They are true followers of the Buddha.
| 有生必有终， 凡夫乐处边，慧人爱出离， 真是佛声闻。
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Gathering many wonderful flowers, they make garlands and adornments. Sentient beings
accumulate wholesome roots, and in future lives they become even more excellent.
| 多集众妙华， 结鬘为步摇，有情积善根， 后世转殊胜。
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Like the beautiful flowers of the mālati and the pure flowers of the
makuṭa, if greed and anger are eliminated, the bhikṣu is pure and fragrant.
| 如末哩妙华， 末拘罗清净，贪欲瞋若除， 苾刍净香洁。
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Like a person who gathers beautiful flowers, concentrating without distraction, due to sleep
they encounter a flood and are suddenly brought down by the Lord of Death.
| 如人采妙华， 专意不散乱，因眠遇水漂， 俄被死王降。
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Like a person who gathers beautiful flowers, concentrating without distraction
the mind of desire is insatiable and always afflicted by poverty.
| 如人采妙华， 专意不散乱，欲意无厌足， 常为穷所困。
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Like a person who gathers beautiful flowers, concentrating without distraction, not
yet obtaining true wealth and treasures, one is long afflicted by poverty.
| 如人采妙华， 专意不散乱，未获真财宝， 长为穷所困。
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If one does not see the king of death, with wisdom illuminating like a
pure flower, the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 若不见死王， 慧照如净华，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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If greed, anger, and delusion are cut off, like discarding the roots of poisonous
flowers, the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 贪瞋痴若断， 如弃毒华根，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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If the root of greed is eradicated, like a flower floating on water
the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 贪根若除断， 如华水上浮，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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If the root of anger is eradicated, like a flower floating on water
the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 恚根若除断， 如华水上浮，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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If the root of delusion is eradicated, like a flower floating on water
the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 痴根若除断， 如华水上浮，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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Just as a person making a flower garland, the mind is greedy and
insatiable, not exhausting the poison of this world, the three roots constantly bind.
| 如人结花鬘， 意乐贪无足，不尽现世毒， 三根常缠缚。
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Contemplating the body as a fragile vessel, illusory phenomena as a mirage, cutting off
the blooming flowers of Māra, not seeing the path of the Lord of Death.
| 观身如坏器， 幻法如野马，断魔华开敷， 不覩死王路。
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This body is like a mass of foam, knowing this illusory and magical Dharma, cutting
off the blooming flowers of Māra, not seeing the path of the Lord of Death.
| 是身如聚沫， 知此幻化法，断魔华开敷， 不覩死王路。
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The root of arrogance is eradicated, like a flower floating on water
the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 我慢根除断， 如华水上浮，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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If the root of stinginess is eradicated, like a flower floating on water
the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 悭悋根若断， 如华水上浮，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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If the root of the branch of craving is eradicated, like a flower floating
on water, the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 爱支根若断， 如华水上浮，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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If there are no roots of afflictions, and one attains the good causes and effects
of retribution, the bhikṣu reaches the other shore, like a snake shedding its old skin.
| 若无烦恼根， 获报善因果，苾刍到彼岸， 如蛇脱故皮。
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