山中示弟 - 王维

Mountainside Lessons for My Students - Wang Wei

山林吾喪我
冠帶爾成人
莫學嵇康懶
且安原憲貧
山陰多北戶
泉水在東鄰
緣合妄相有
性空無所親
安知廣成子
不是老夫身

In mountain woods I forget self-consciousness,
with official insignia you’ve become useful men.
Don’t take lazy Jikang as an example,
be comfortable with poverty like Yuanxian.
Huts face north in the shadow of the mountain,
and just to the east there’s a flowing spring.
All that we see is void and cannot be valued,
though an original cause underlies everything.
Can we be certain that the immortal Guang Chengzi,
and this old man are not one in the same?