"Master Xun Yong Resides in Seclusion" by Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty
A group of steep green skyscrapers, carefree and forgetful of years.
Look for the ancient road through the clouds, listen to the flowing spring by leaning on the stone.
The flowers are warm, the green cows lie down, and the white cranes sleep high in the pines.
The language comes to the river at dusk, and the cold smoke falls alone.
"Teacher's Theory" Han Yu, Tang Dynasty
The ancient scholars must have teachers. A teacher is the one who preaches the truth, receives karma and resolves doubts. People are not born with knowledge, how can they be free from confusion? If you are confused and do not follow the teacher, it is confusion, and you will not be able to understand it in the end. Those who were born before me, they heard the Tao before me, and I learned from them; those who were born after me, they heard the Tao before me, and I learned from them. My teacher, do you know who was born to me one year or another? Therefore, there is neither high nor low, neither long nor short. Where the Tao exists, the teacher exists.
Sigh! It’s been a long time since teachers’ teachings were passed on! It’s hard to be free from confusion! The ancient saints were also far away from others, and they still asked if they were teachers. Today's people are also far away from the saints, and they are ashamed to learn from their teachers. Therefore, the saint will benefit the saint, and the fool will benefit the fool. Is this why saints are saints and fools are fools? If you love your son, you will choose a teacher and teach him; if you are concerned about your son, you will be ashamed of the teacher and confused. The boy's teacher teaches the readers the book and then learns its sentences. This is not what I call the person who teaches him the way and solves his confusion. I don't know how to read a sentence, I don't understand the confusion, maybe it's a teacher, or it's not a good one. I haven't seen the clarity from elementary school. A man of witchcraft, medicine, music and craftsmanship, he is not ashamed to be a physiognomist. The clan of scholar-bureaucrats would gather in groups and laugh at those who said "master" or "disciple". When asked, he said: "He is similar to that year, and the way is similar. A low position is shameful, and a high official is close to flattery." Woohoo! The way of a teacher can no longer be known. Gentlemen despise a man who is a man of witchcraft, medicine, music and craftsmanship, but now his wisdom is beyond his reach. How strange that is!
The sage is the teacher of impermanence. Confucius studied under Tanzi, Changhong, Xiang and Laodan. The disciples of Tanzi were not as wise as Confucius. Confucius said: If three people are walking together, there must be my teacher. Therefore, the disciple does not have to be inferior to the master, and the master does not have to be better than the disciple. There is a priority in learning the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art, that's all.
Zi Pan, a seventeen-year-old son of the Li family, was fond of ancient prose and was familiar with all the classics and biographies of the six arts. Yu Jiaqi was able to practice the ancient way and taught him as a teacher.
"Feng He Ling Gong Plants Flowers in the Green Field Hall" by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty
The Green Field Hall opened to occupy Wuhua, and passers-by pointed out the way to Ling Gong's house.
Why should I plant more flowers in front of the hall when my father-in-law has peaches and plums all over the world?
"Yuanshi" Bai Juyi, Tang Dynasty
The concubine Bai Shuzi of the East Palace, Zen Master Yuan of the Nansi Temple.
When we meet each other far away and have nothing on our minds.
"Hsinchu" Qing Dynasty? Zheng Xie
Hsinchu is higher than the old bamboo branches, all because of the support of old stems.
Next year there will be another new born, a ten-foot-long dragon grandson circling Fengchi.