Hands of Yama 

 

Master JiGong advised the cultivators of TAO,

"Everyone of you is of superior wisdom

However, even though you can leap beyond a thousand-mile

Even though you are a great marathon runner

But still, you cannot run away from the hands of Yama (ruler of the underworld)

Even though you are a hero and your martial arts are peerless

Still, you can’t escape the kick from impermanence and fall

Take a look at your national heroes

The idols within your hearts

These heroes could be so peerless in their martial skills

And become everyone’s idols

They can make so many people fall with one kick

But could they conquer ‘impermanence’?

No, they couldn’t

Instead, they were fallen by just a gentle kick from impermanence

Hence, no matter how adaptable people are

No matter how high and unsurpassed their wisdom is

They cannot fight against a gentle blow from the impermanence

When Yama sends the blank paper over (issue an order)

Mustn’t people let go what their hands have grasped

And leave the human world?

Hence, being in the midst of the Heaven and the earth

Man must not regard oneself as unsurpassed and superior to others

Or consider oneself as the center of everything

There are Heavens above a Heaven

There are Men superior to a man

Disciples! You should understand that you are just a grain in a vast sea

Just a grain of sand

Be very sure that you don’t get attached to the beautiful scenes

Before your eyes and that year after year

You spend the time only in serving your own interests

Only in serving your own happiness!" 

Advising us to be far-sighted

The role that we must played are just a matter of several decades

Soon we will leave this world

We must do our best to sacrifice and help others

To escape from the hands of Yama

By initiation of TAO and practise and propagate TAO

It is said that we shall have salvation

We wouldn’t face the Yama

Our souls will ascend to Heaven

Master JiGong shall receive us

And take us to meet Maitreya Buddha

Then LAO MU.