生死事
明 憨山德清大師（1546～1623）

生死不流轉，流轉非生死。
若實不流轉，生死無窮已。
諦觀流轉性，流轉當下止。
不見流轉心，是真出生死。

──《憨山老人夢遊集》卷四十七

Life and Death
Hanshan Deqing (1546 - 1623, Ming Dynasty)
English translation: Cindy Choi

The cycle of birth and death does not turn,
What turns would not be birth and death;
That which remains unturning in essence,
Would make life and death unending.

By contemplating the nature of turning,
The process of turning immediately stops;
By not seeing the mind that turns,
One thereby exits the cycle of birth and death.

── from Hanshan Laoren Mengyou Ji (Collection of Old Man Hanshan’s Dream Travels)