97The Diamond Sutra's Scorn
Introduction 垂示
拈一放一，未是作家；舉一明三，猶乖宗旨。直得天地𨺗變，四方絕唱，雷奔電馳，雲行雨驟，傾湫倒嶽，甕瀉盆傾，也未提得一半在。還有解轉天關、能移地軸底麼？試舉看。
Pick one up, set one down: that is not yet a master at work. Raise one corner and grasp the other three, and you have already missed the point. Though heaven and earth turn inside out, though every voice in the four directions falls silent, though thunder cracks and lightning streaks, clouds roll and rain comes down in sheets, lakes tip over and mountains topple, jars and basins pour out their water, still you have not said the half of it. Is there anyone who can throw the bolt on heaven's gate and swing the axis the earth turns on? Let's see.
金剛經云：「若為人輕賤，是人先世罪業應墮惡道，以今世人輕賤故，先世罪業則為消滅。」
The Diamond Sutra says: "If a man is treated with contempt, it is because crimes from a former life should have dropped him into the lower realms. But because people scorn him in this life, the crimes of that former life are wiped clean."