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+++ ljwrites:translation:caigentan:start [2025/09/16 17:54] (current) – [15. When the poor and virtuous...] ljwrites
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 Fruit begets flower; flower bears fruit\\
 Know that blessings reach us for cause.
 ### 12. Whether autumn bug or...
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  of melancholy, and the other joy?\\
 Ancient tree and newly-bloomed flower\\
- hold the same vital will to live,\\
+ hold the same will for vitality,\\
  so why willfully differentiate\\
  one as unseemly and the other lovely?
+### 13. All lands share...
+萬境一轍 原無地着箇窮通\\
+萬物一體 原無處分箇彼我，\\
+世人 迷真逐妄 乃向坦途上 自說一坎坷，\\
+從空洞中 自築一籓籬 良足慨哉。
+All lands share a single way\\
+ and never were some closed and some clear;\\
+All creation is but one\\
+ and never was there a divide 'twixt you and me.\\
+Yet the world, truth-tricked and chasing phantasms,\\
+ pits the level road all uneven and rutted; \\
+ and in lacuna vast builds encircling walls.\\
+Is this not a lamentable state of affairs?
+### 14. Great works and vast plans...
+大烈鴻猷 常出悠閑鎮定之士 不必忙忙，\\
+休徵景福 多集寬洪長厚之家 何須瑣瑣。
+Great works and vast plans always stem \\
+ from relaxed and steady persons of quality;\\
+ there is no need to be so urgent and busy.\\
+Auspicious omens and blessings immense\\
+ flock to homes of extensive, abundant generosity;\\
+ so why be small-minded and petty?
+### 15. When the virtuous poor...
+貧士肯濟人 纔是性天中惠澤，\\
+鬧場能學道 方爲心地上功夫。
+When the virtuous poor delight in giving aid,\\
+ that is a boon from Heaven-given nature indeed.\\
+When the Way is sought in cacophony and tumult,\\
+ surely the work builds on the bedrock of the soul.