名人诗歌|五言古诗英汉对照-晨诣超师院读禅经

柳宗元

晨诣超师院读禅经

汲井漱寒齿， 清心拂尘服，

闲持贝叶书， 步出东斋读。

真源了无取， 忘迹世所逐；

遗言冀可冥， 缮性何由熟？

道人庭宇静， 苔色连深竹；

日出雾露余， 青松如膏沐。

澹然离言说， 悟悦心自足。

Five-character-ancient-verse

Liu Zongyuan

READING BUDDHIST^{1 CLASSICS WITH ZHAO}

AT HIS TEMPLE IN THE EARLY MORNING

I clean my teeth in water drawn^{2 from a cold well；}

And while I brush my clothes, I purify my mind；

Then, slowly turning pages in the Tree-Leaf Book,

I recite, along the path to the eastern shelter.

The world has forgotten the true fountain of this teaching

And people enslave themselves to miracles and fables^3.

Under the given words I want the essential meaning,

I look for the simplest way to sow and reap my nature.

Here in the quiet of the priest's templecourtyard,

Mosses^{4 add their climbing colour to the thick bamboo；}

And now comes the sun, out of mist and fog,

And pines that seem to be new-bathed；

And everything is gone from me, speech goes, and reading,

Leaving the single unison^5.