许其正：菩提心

　　　假使热铁轮，于汝顶上旋；

　　　终不为此苦，退失菩提心。

　　　　　　　　　　　　——佛经

如释迦牟尼，你端坐着

在市廛之中，在菩提树下

一列菩提心在你的胸中

亮着，悬着……

（菩提本非树

你的菩提心则是心

但可知而不可触

明净，不染尘埃，不须拂拭）

行者画地为墙

你端坐其中，如三藏，但无身（注1）

八苦在外，攀墙探首窥视（注2）

——你的菩提心

你的菩提心很亮，如一列明灯

你的菩提心悠然把八苦

全盘地置于墙外

业如热铁轮，在你的顶上旋（注3）

你不为所动，不为所苦

你说：“业诱不动我。”

墙外依旧嚣闹不宁，你端坐

胸中亮着一列菩提心

在其中，智慧发出沙沙的声音

继续不断地在萌芽，生长……

注1：无身者，无大患。语出老子。其言曰：“吾之大患，为吾有身；及吾无身，吾有何患？”

注2：八苦，生苦，老苦，病苦，死苦，怨憎会苦，爱别离苦，求不得苦，一切无常五取蕴苦，是也。

注3：业，苦之因，乃有情之行为。

Bodhi Heart

　　　　　If a hot iron wheel is wheeling above your head,

　　　　　Your bodhi heart is lost for fear of its bitterness.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　—Buddhist Scriptures

Like Sakyamuni, you are sitting straight

In business center, under bodhi tree

A bodhi heart is bright and dangling

In your heart …

(Bodhi is not a tree

But your bodhi heart is a heart

But it is knowable and untouchable

Clear, free from dust, no need to clean it)

The faquir draws a wall on the ground

You sit in it, like Tripitaka, but bodyless *

Eight bitternesses outside, peeking over the wall**

— Your bodhi heart

Your bodhi heart is clear, like a bright lamp

Your bodhi heart puts all eight bitternesses

Outside of the wall

The career like a hot iron wheel, wheeling above your head***

You are not moved, and not embittered

You say: “the career fails to allure me.”

Without the wall it is all commotion, you are sitting straight

Your bosom bright with a bodhi heart

In it, wisdom gives off a rustling sound

Continuously germinating, growing …

* He who is bodyless has no great worries. This originates from Laotse, who says: “my great worries come from my body; when I am bodyless, what worries do I have?”

** Eight bitternesses refer to bitterness of birth, bitterness of aging, bitterness of illness, bitterness of death, bitterness of hate, bitterness of separation from one’s love, bitterness of failing to get what one wants to get, bitterness of inconstancy, etc.

*** The career is the root of bitterness, an act of feeling and emotion.＠