文/唐.香嚴智閑(?~898)
去年貧未是貧,今年貧始是貧,
去年貧猶有卓錐之地,今年貧錐也無。
──選自《聯燈會要》
Last Year’s Poverty
Xiangyan Zhixian
(? - 898, Tang Dynasty)
English translation: Venerable Miao Guang
Last year’s poverty
was never poverty,
only that of this year is considered poverty.
Last year’s poverty
can put you in that position,
yet that of this year gives no foothold at all.
── from Liandeng Huiyao
(Collection of Essential Material of the Chan School’s Successive Records of the Lamp)