Matching the rhymes of Academician Yi, who answered the earlier poem again and sent it to me次韻李學士復和前詩來贈
兩家相貴往來連。來不煩招往不牽。碁手勝饒聊寓戱。酒腸優劣亦隨便。從吾所好無非道。得意而遊卽是仙。百歲浮生能幾許。各鞭其後盡天年。
Our two houses hold each other dear, and the coming and going is unbroken Coming, there is no bother of being summoned; going, no one drags us along At go we win and we give handicaps, entrusting it all to play And whether the wine is strong or weak we also take as suits us Following what I love, there is nothing that is not the Way And roaming with my wishes met, that itself is being an immortal How much is there to a hundred years of floating life Let each of us whip it on from behind and use out the years we were given
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百全
Baekjeon (百全)
指口唯期日飮連。虛襟早斷俗情牽。終身學道功何得。緣督爲經計獨便。久矣忘家心已佛。偶然落世骨猶仙。中存不皺君如會。休歎容顔化逐年。
Pointing at my mouth, I promise only to go on drinking day after day And with an empty breast I long ago cut off being drawn by worldly feeling All my life I studied the Way, yet what merit did I gain Following the middle course and making it my rule is the one ease I have It is long now: having forgotten the house, my mind is already Buddha I fell into the world by chance, yet my bones are still an immortal's If you know that there is something within that does not wrinkle Then do not sigh that the face changes year by year
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君好見楞嚴。故云。
You love to read the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, and so I said this.
換酒囊錢莫惜抽。春來何處不携遊。爲君作質蒙頻斲。與世同波各善游。暖暖妹妹翻自笑。狂狂伋伋始宜休。逢場觸物皆禪味。花月猶能落話頭。
Do not spare the purse money for buying wine and keep it in When spring comes, where could we not go hand in hand to play For your sake I serve as the stock and am often pared away And riding the waves along with the world, each of us swims well My old self-satisfaction in a narrow knowing now seems laughable to me And the wild, flustered doings had better be given up now Every ground I meet and every thing I touch has the taste of Zen (禪) So even the flowers and the moon fall into a koan (話頭)
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暖暖妹妹 — The character in the source text is 「妹妹」, but taking it as an error for 「暖姝」 in the Xu Wugui chapter of the Zhuangzi (the look of being self-satisfied in one's own narrow knowing), it has been emended in the reading. — translator
病中塵筆暫妨抽。楷洗今還付醉遊。殘迹似雲雖卷斂。聖恩如海足涵游。接花栽藥春方樂。嘯月吟風老未休。我欲更開耆舊會。憑君先辦錦纏頭。
Being ill, it was hard for a while to draw out my dust-laden brush Now I have washed it clean and entrust it again to drinking and play The traces left me are like clouds, and have been swept away But the king's grace is like the sea, ample enough to swim in Grafting flowers and planting medicinal herbs, spring is just now a delight And whistling at the moon and chanting of the wind I do not stop, old as I am I would hold a gathering of old friends once again So I ask you first to get ready the silk to be laid on the entertainers
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近者有此會。予亦有心。故有此句。
There was such a gathering of late, and I too had a mind for it; hence this line.