葉や枝が木にあるように、学ぶことは人にあります、そして彼はそれなしではいけないと言うことができます。しかし、学ぶことは本を読むことだけでなく、私たち自身の生き方と統合するために私たちが研究することでもあります。戦士の家に生まれた人は、階級や階級に関係なく、最初に軍の偉業と忠誠の功績を知り、毎日1つの口述を聞くだけで、1か月で30を知ることができます。教訓。言うまでもなく、彼が1年で300の教訓を学んだ場合、その時間の終わりに彼ははるかに良くなるでしょう。したがって、人は彼の心を3つの部分に分けることができます：彼は悪い考えを捨て、良い考えを取り入れ、そして彼自身の知恵に親密になるべきです…私はこの原則を貫く人を尊敬し、賢明に呼びます、彼は単一の漢字の知識を欠いていますが。他のことを学んだ人は、どんなに知識が深かっても避けたいと思います。それがこの僧侶がどれほど浅くて才能がないかです。

„Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it. Learning is not only reading books, however, but is rather something that we study to integrate with our own way of life. One who is born into the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty, and, listening to just one of his dictums each day, will in a month know 30 precepts. Needless to say, if in a year he learns 300 precepts, at the end of that time he will be much the better. Thus, a man can divide his mind into three parts: he should throw out those thoughts that are evil, take up those ideas that are good, and become intimate with his own wisdom… I would honor and call wise the man who penetrates this principle, though he lacks the knowledge of a single Chinese character. As for those who are learned in other matters, I would avoid them regardless of how deep their knowledge might be. That is how shallow and untalented this monk is.“


この世では、侍だけでなく、下層階級の召使いも異なる性格で生まれており、見た目で誤解されがちです。第一に、差別のある男性は計画者と見なされます。第二に、遠視の深い男性は臆病者と見なされます。そして第三に、乱暴な行動をしている男性は本物の戦士と間違えられます。これらは大きなエラーです。

„In this world, not only samurai, but also servants down through the lower classes are born with different characters, and people are apt to misjudge them by appearance. First, men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.“


蜀道難 難於上青天(The road to Shu is harder than scaling the sky afar)
地崩山摧壯士死(Under the crumbled peak the five brave warriors died)

噫籲嚱，危乎高哉！蜀道之難，難於上青天！
蠶叢及魚鳧，開國何茫然！
爾來四萬八千歲，不與秦塞通人煙。
西當太白有鳥道，可以橫絕峨眉巔。
地崩山摧壯士死，然後天梯石棧相鉤連。
上有六龍回日之高標，下有衝波逆折之回川。
黃鶴之飛尚不得過，猿猱欲度愁攀援。
青泥何盤盤，百步九折縈巖巒。
捫參歷井仰脅息，以手撫膺坐長嘆。
問君西遊何時還？畏途巉巖不可攀。
但見悲鳥號古木，雄飛雌從繞林間。
又聞子規啼夜月，愁空山。
蜀道之難,難於上青天，使人聽此凋朱顏！
連峯去天不盈尺，枯鬆倒掛倚絕壁。
飛湍瀑流爭喧豗，砯崖轉石萬壑雷。
其險也如此，嗟爾遠道之人胡爲乎來哉！(也若此 一作：也如此)
劍閣崢嶸而崔嵬，一夫當關，萬夫莫開。
所守或匪親，化爲狼與豺。
朝避猛虎，夕避長蛇；磨牙吮血，殺人如麻。
錦城雖雲樂，不如早還家。
蜀道之難,難於上青天，側身西望長諮嗟！


Oh, but it is high and very dangerous!
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.
...Until two rulers of this region
Pushed their way through in the misty ages,
Forty-eight thousand years had passed
With nobody arriving across the Qin border.
And the Great White Mountain, westward, still has only a bird's path
Up to the summit of Emei Peak –
Which was broken once by an earthquake and there were brave men lost,
Just finishing the stone rungs of their ladder toward heaven.
...High, as on a tall flag, six dragons drive the sun,
While the river, far below, lashes its twisted course.
Such height would be hard going for even a yellow crane,
So pity the poor monkeys who have only paws to use.
The Mountain of Green Clay is formed of many circles-
Each hundred steps, we have to turn nine turns among its mound –
Panting, we brush Orion and pass the Well Star,
Then, holding our chests with our hands and sinking to the ground with a groan,
We wonder if this westward trail will never have an end.
The formidable path ahead grows darker, darker still,
With nothing heard but the call of birds hemmed in by the ancient forest,
Male birds smoothly wheeling, following the females;
And there come to us the melancholy voices of the cuckoos
Out on the empty mountain, under the lonely moon....
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.
Even to hear of it turns the cheek pale,
With the highest crag barely a foot below heaven.
Dry pines hang, head down, from the face of the cliffs,
And a thousand plunging cataracts outroar one another
And send through ten thousand valleys a thunder of spinning stones.
With all this danger upon danger,
Why do people come here who live at a safe distance?
...Though Dagger-Tower Pass be firm and grim,
And while one man guards it
Ten thousand cannot force it,
What if he be not loyal,
But a wolf toward his fellows?
...There are ravenous tigers to fear in the day
And venomous reptiles in the night
With their teeth and their fangs ready
To cut people down like hemp.
Though the City of Silk be delectable, I would rather turn home quickly.
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky....
But I still face westward with a dreary moan.