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Poetry
Chaikhana
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About Yung Chia (Hsuan Chueh)Timeline (665 - 713) |
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In my early years, I set out to acquire learning, (from The Song of Enlightenment)
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In my early years, I set out to acquire learning,
And I studied commentaries and inquired into Sutras and Shastras. Distinguishing among terms and characteristics, I didn't know how to stop. Entering the sea to count the sands I exhausted myself in vain. But the Thus Come One reprimanded this folly: What benefit is there in counting other's treasures?! Unsuccessful all along, I felt I had practiced in vain. Many years I wasted as a transient, like dust in the wind.
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