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Matching the Rhymes of Bai Letian's "Rejoicing That Huangfu the Tenth Called on the Day My Fast Ended" (次韻白樂天出齋日喜皇甫十訪)次韻白樂天出齋日喜皇甫十訪
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 2 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.
飢喫慵眠渴飮盃。寧關佛法有遮開。樂天齋出眞堪笑。齋在何邊更出來。
Hungry I eat, lazy I sleep, thirsty I lift the cup — what has that to do with the Buddha's law having its barring and its opening? That Letian came out of his fast is truly laughable: where is the fast, that he should come out of it again?
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欲飮故喜
He rejoiced because he wished to drink.
佛法。有遮門開門。
In the Buddha's law there is a gate that bars and a gate that opens.