少欲知足
Contentment with Few Desires
唐宏覺禪師。誡徒眾云。汝既出家。如囚免獄。少欲知足。莫貪世榮。忍饑忍渴。志存無為。得在佛法中。十生九死亦莫拋棄。
Master Tang Hongjue, a Zen master, admonished his disciples, saying: "Since you have left home to become monastics, it is like a prisoner being freed from jail. Be content with little, know when you have enough, and do not crave worldly glory. Endure hunger and thirst, and keep your mind set on the unconditioned. Having found your place in the Buddha's teachings, do not abandon it even through ten lives and nine deaths."