Be rather poor yet noble than otherwise,

Cultivate the root of goodness for latter times.

How can you remove your greediness,

Do charity to get rid of selfishness.

The mindful often think deep down,

Things on Earth are like bubble and clouds.

Even our bodies are at times displaced,

Let alone our properties hardly unscathed.

The Ninth Evil is Rancor, Anger for a dub,

Fire in our minds is not ignited but flares up.

When anger bursts out, it is hardly prepared,

We forewarn for you beforehand to take care.

Anger often makes brutalities emerge,

Thus, the humankind who live on Earth,

Stir up widespread hatred and rancour,

Thus, many contests for supremacy occur.

The victors boast that their strength is superior,

Then they are hated and envied by others.

The loser feel shame and take harmful actions,

Who create cruel karma and cyclic retributions.

In anger, they pay no heed to humanity,

As though the jungle tigers that were fiery.

Once they see meat, they tear it off,

Until it is ripped apart, they won’t stop.

You feel great relief after getting rid of it,

Tolerance should be learnt as your habit.

Don’t hesitate to get on with the practice,

Tolerate the stupid for their being foolish.

You should also forbear from arguments,

So you don’t displease all the attendants.

Only if you are honest and look jovial,

You can call yourself a Buddhist disciple.

If you’ve already taken refuge in Buddhism,

Quarrelling is contrary to its humanism.

Last, the Tenth Evil is Ignorance and Stupor,

Which originate from the immemorial era.

Ignorance blurs and hampers your intellect,

Often causing people to make a mistake.

Concerned to build up their transient things,

People do not cultivate their moral beings.

They weave a dubious web of annoyances.

Clinging to a world of toilings and tragedies.

In speech or deed, they rarely think over,

They keep sinning that creates a bad karma.

To erase delusion, rely on the insight boat,

Every action must be wise and righteous.

Don’t believe in whatever one advises,

If you act stupidly, you will waste your lives.

The evil, once removed, leads to good deed,

Buddha will guide you when your mind is neat.

Grow the benign tree to enjoy its scented fruit,

Even though you can’t see it, you never lose it.

Despite your being labelled as a dummy,

Do not feel down and neglect your integrity.

I wish my appeal reach out to the Monks,

And non-monk Buddhists for your response.

From now on if you want to sustain Buddhism,

Don’t take care of yourself with egoism.

If you have left home, you must sacrifice,

For the Tao, your physical and mental lives.

Don’t feign wearing the robes of votaries,

To cheat people, by carrying the rosaries.

That makes people to ridicule your portal,

No law will tolerate you from this scandal,

Cultivating yourself, do not hold large rituals,

To attract a lot of cash offerings from people,

Under the false pretext of repairing pagodas,

But you take them for your own expenditures.

Thus how couldn’t people fall in disarray,

Listening to diverse Sects’ luring sway.

The whole sangha in the country is divided,

Dharmas, pagodas and Buddhas separated.

The masses are filled up with dire depression,

They lose their self-belief and orientation.

For your sake, we don’t mind to make an effort,

Writing up a dissertation in a few words.

It is up to you to believe or not in us,

You do it or you don’t, this is not a must.

We pray for Buddhas to return from all over,

To help you no longer stay as prisoners.

STANZA:

 I lean on the verandha In the moonlight,

Watching the world, we have a heavy mind.

Since taking refuge in the Buddha,

I gave up on all my worldly bonanza.

The adherents are still delusional,

They are urged to seek for the practice portal.

I resolve to split the smog,

For the masses to enter the practice road.

 I have expounded whatever you need,

To transfer to the posterity the Way to seek.

Practice to pray for the weather to be moderate,

Peace to return to the world with Heaven’s grace.

Practise to escape from the drudgery,

For the countries from all over in harmony.

Practice for the country to be calm and prosper,

And for the Hell King to spare your Ancestors.

Practice for Buddha to change your character,

No delusion holds you down so you can fly.

Practice to enter the Buddha Boat of Insight,

For you to step on the Lotus that is blissful.