Look well at your own faults, and do not let them show
outside. Each one has his own faults, like the light dust that flies.
| 善观己瑕隙， 使己不露外，彼彼自有隙， 如彼飞轻尘。
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If you claim to be faultless, then merit and demerit will both come to
you. Only seeing the faults of others, you always harbor the thought of ignorance.
| 若己称无瑕， 罪福俱并至，但见他人隙， 恒怀无明想。
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Knowing shame is the best among the long-lived. How can they
be bound by greed? The strong and fearless have short lives.
| 知惭寿中上， 焉以贪牵缚，力士无畏忌， 斯等命短促。
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Knowing shame does not exhaust one's life. Always seeking pure
conduct, with unimpaired deportment, one should contemplate true holy life.
| 知惭] cf.【丽】不尽寿， 恒求清净行，威仪不缺漏， 当观真净寿。
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The world is universally blind and dark, with few eyes of
wisdom. Many birds fall into nets, but few are born in heaven.
| 世间普盲冥， 智眼尠尠耳，群鸟堕罗网， 生天不足言。
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Observing the world's decaying phenomena, one only sees the transformation
of various forms. The foolish bind themselves, entangled in darkness
They also do not see the practices, observing them as nonexistent.
| 观世衰耗法， 但见众色变，愚者自系缚， 为暗所缠绕，亦不见于行， 观而无所有。
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Sentient beings all have a self, giving rise to suffering for them
Each does not see the other, not seeing the thorn of wrong views.
| 众生皆有我， 为彼而生患，一一不相见， 不覩邪见刺。
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Observing the causes and conditions of this thorn, sentient beings are greatly attached
I create, but they do not exist. They create, but I do not have.
| 观此刺因缘， 众生多染著，我造彼非有， 彼造非我有。
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Sentient beings are bound by arrogance, attached to arrogance and delusion
They are not free from the brink of birth and death.
| 众生为慢缠， 染著于憍慢，为见所迷惑， 不免生死际。
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Those who have attained and those who will attain are both subject to the defilement
of objects. They practice the root of illness and realize all that is to be learned.
| 已得与当得， 二俱受尘垢，习于病根本， 及觉诸所学。
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Observing those who uphold precepts, those with pure conduct, and those who
attend to the sick and weak - this is called reaching the brink.
| 观诸持戒者， 梵行清净人，瞻侍病瘦者， 是谓至边际。
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Observe the bubbles on water, also observe the mirage. Do not observe
the body in this way, and you will not see death coming.
| 当观水上泡， 亦观幻野马，如是不观身， 亦不见死至。
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Observe the bubbles on water, also observe the mirage. Do not observe the
world in this way, and you will not see the King of Death.
| 当观水上泡， 亦观幻野马，如是不观世， 亦不见死王。
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Observe the body in this way, like a king's colorful chariot. The foolish
are attached to it, but the wise seek to be far away from it.
| 如是当观身， 如王杂色车，愚者所染著， 善求远离彼。
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Observe the body in this way, like a king's colorful chariot. The
foolish are attached to it, but the wise are far away from it.
| 如是当观身， 如王杂色车，愚者所染著， 智者远离之。
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Observe the body in this way, as the cause of various illnesses
Illness and foolishness come together - how can it be relied upon?
| 如是当观身， 众病之所因，病与愚合会， 焉能可恃怙？
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Observe the painted image, the lapis lazuli blue hair. The foolish take
it as a condition, not seeking to cross to the other shore.
| 当观画形像， 摩尼绀青发，愚者以为缘， 不求越彼岸。
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Observe the painted image, the lapis lazuli blue hair. The foolish
take it as a condition, the wise are disgusted with it.
| 当观画形像， 摩尼绀青发，愚者以为缘， 智者所厌患。
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Forcefully adorning the ugly and defiled body with painted forms, the foolish
take it as a condition, yet do not seek to liberate themselves.
| 强以彩画形， 庄严丑秽身，愚者以为缘， 亦不求自度。
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The eight parts of nails and hair, the two parts of eyes and
ears, the foolish are attached to them, yet do not seek to liberate themselves.
| 爪发为八分， 双部眼耳珰，愚者所染著， 亦不求自度。
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Attached to desire, defiled by desire, not investigating the conditions of afflictions, not
giving rise to afflictions, one should cross over the flow of desire and existence.
| 著欲染于欲， 不究结使缘，不以生结使， 当度欲有流。
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Not escaping from the garden, escaping from the garden and returning to the
garden, one should further observe this person, escaping from bondage and returning to bondage.
| 非园脱于园， 脱园复就园，当复观此人， 脱缚复就缚。
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Now abandoning the position of heavenly king, not creating the basis of birth and death, seeking
to be free from the suffering of hell, I wish to hear about the bliss of nirvāṇa.
| 今舍天王位， 不造生死本，求离地狱苦， 愿说圆寂乐。
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The blue-robed one with a white parasol covering his body, the charioteer driving a single wheel
observing that he has not yet escaped from defilements, seeking to sever the bonds and attachments.
| 青衣白盖身， 御者御一轮，观彼未离] cf.【丽】垢， 求便断缚著。
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Many people seek refuge in themselves, the spirits of mountains, rivers, and
trees, gardens, and shrines, hoping to be spared from suffering and difficulties.
| 人多求自归， 山川树木神，园观及神祀， 望免苦患难。
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This is not the supreme refuge, nor is it auspicious. If there are
those who take refuge in this way, they will not escape from all suffering.
| 此非自归上， 亦非有吉利，如有自归者， 不脱一切苦。
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If there are those who take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and
the Sangha of monks, and cultivate the noble four truths as seen by wisdom,
| 若有自归佛， 及法苾刍僧，修习圣四谛， 如慧之所见，
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Suffering arises from the causes and conditions of suffering. One should transcend the root
of this suffering. The noble eightfold path leads to the extinction of the sweet dew.
| 苦因缘苦生， 当越此苦本，贤圣八品道， 灭尽甘露际。
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This is the highest refuge, not without benefit. If there are
those who take refuge, they will be liberated from all suffering.
| 是为自归上， 非不有吉利，如有自归者， 得脱一切苦。
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Those who have seen, will see, and should see, as well as those who have not seen and should
see, those who have seen and will see again, and those who have seen and will not see again.
| 观已观当观， 不观亦当观，观而复重观， 观而不复观。
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Those who have seen and will see again, who discern the original nature
of those, considering day as night, the precious body will soon be destroyed.
| 观而复重观， 分别彼性本，计昼以为夜， 宝身坏不久。
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Those who have seen and will not see again, who though seeing do
not see, like seeing but not seeing, who see and also do not see.
| 观而不重观， 虽见亦不见，如见而不见， 观而亦不见。
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How is it that one sees and does not see? How is it said that one sees and
does not see? Because of what does one see and not see? Because of what does one see.
| 云何见不见？ 何说见不见？因何见不见？ 因为出何见。
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Just as one does not contemplate suffering, one should always deeply contemplate
oneself, to understand the root of suffering, this is called the subtle contemplation.
| 犹若不观苦， 常当深自观，以解苦根原， 是为明妙观。
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Who causes ordinary people not to contemplate the origin of the
aggregates? By observing them, one removes darkness and sees great illumination.
| 谁令凡夫人， 不观众行本？因彼而观察， 去冥见大明。
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