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Fǎ Sù Yùn Yù Bù Chéng Sì Xī Yāo Shé Qǐ Jū
The hair on the head becomes pure white.
And these people breed offspring that are inept
that their following inheritors fail to succeed in the system.
And so they feel anxious knowing they will die an early death.
Their daily life is at a standstill and
Jū Bèi Liè Dào Qì Duàn Xī
they feel exhausted and inferior.
The Dao can bring about the breaking away from these influences.
Sān Shī Gŭ Dòng Zhì Zhào Sǐ Shàng Jiē Dāng Xiū Zhāi Xíng Xiāng Sòng Jīng
Fū Zhāi Jiè Sòng Jīng Gōng Dé Shèn Zhòng Shàng Kĕ
The Three Corpses (San Shi) agitate for the omen's portent
Everyone, when it is suitable, studying and fasting from meat,
having retired into a room to burn incense and chant the liturgies.
Now, to have a person who is fasting and in abstinence,
and is chanting the liturgy with skill
and a kind, moral heart is very important for rising upwards.
But
Shēng Huà Tāi Gēn Bǎo Shēn Dé Dào Xià Chú Xié Huì Yǐ Dù Zhào Mín Shēng Sǐ
Initial Life-Transformation Fetal-Root (Sheng Hua Tai Gen) will preserve the body.
The result will be to gain the Way (Dao).
Beneath this one must get rid of that which is Perverse and Dirty,
because with regards to time,
the mass of the people, regarding life and death,
willingly receive and endure it,
Shòu Lài Qí Fú Nán Shèng Gù Yuè Wú Liáng Pŭ Dù Tiān Rén
and instead rely on their own happiness and good fortune
Hardship and disaster, to be overcome - for these things it is superb.
Therefore, they name it 'Boundless and Immeasurable to Relieve Souls Out of
Purgatory' (Wu Liang Pu Du).
And so can finally achieve Celestial Beinghood.
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