The monk walked a simple road Young, strong and strong He passed the final exam in just a week He fought hard with his fists And with a bench and a pole He answered all the questions of the abbots then He stood on the pillars for a day Holding cups of boiling water He studied the mantras of the sutra He ate half a cake in a day He knew both poisons and medicines He already knew how to heal He was cheerful and perky He wanted to know a lot He asked for permission To see another distant place To get acquainted with teaching To quench his sorrow The firm vowed to return After ten long years And eat alms Even if the world collapses A simple monk walked on the road Walked for a week or two Sees a large and dark forest The forest does not grow on a mountain The monk entered the forest and sees A very old old man Strikes a simple blow with his hands Very quickly like a cricket Hey listen, venerable Don’t consider it hard work Stop hitting trees Fight with me here The venerable one smiled And shouted to him, hold on The monk collapsed from the blow And lies under the tree The monk just wanted to get up To fight as he taught But the second blow immediately He was switched off immediately It took a long time for him to come to his senses The old man was gone It was truly a miracle Oh yes, the venerable monk wandered for many years He saw many different places He studied not shy If he needed an answer He slept on the rocks in the trees He ate stew and grass He prayed regularly He saw dreams in reality Here The time is coming for the monk And the monk goes then Where he hasn’t been for ten long years, it’s time to go there He came having learned a lot Proud of everything that he learned And he immediately got to a meeting with the patriarch Speak where he was, what he saw The patriarch asks What he learned, what he heard Was he in the Tibetan mountains I walked a lot, venerable And for ten long years I learned to cross the river I run like light Yes, your deeds are terrible And you walked for a long time in vain What you taught for years They don’t study here for a day Abbot took the monk and led him to the river. There the monks passed through a bridge along the river….
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru