Castles in the Sky Translation

The metaphor of the three-story building

In the past, there were rich fools who were ignorant and ignorant. When I arrived at Yu Fu's house, I saw the three-story building, which was tall, majestic and beautiful, and spacious. I felt longing for it, so I thought: "I have money, and I will not be less than that. How come I didn't build a building like this?" The carpenter asked: "Does that mean his house is upright?"

The carpenter replied: "I did it."

Even if he said: "Now you can build me a building like this He."

At that time, the carpenter built the building through the earth.

When a fool sees the earth being built to build a house, he still has doubts and cannot understand, so he asks: "What do you want?"

The carpenter replies: "Build a three-story house."< /p>

The fool replied: "I don't want to build a two-story house, so you can build me the top roof first."

The carpenter replied: "There is no such thing! Why not build the bottom roof?" How can we build a second-story house if we don’t build a second-story house?”

The fool said: “I don’t need to build a second-story house now. The best."

When people heard this, they laughed strangely and said: "How can anyone get the best without building the first house?"

For example, the World Honored One! The fourth generation of disciples, unable to diligently cultivate and respect the Three Jewels, are lazy and want to seek the path and fruit, so they say: "I don't need the remaining three fruits now, but only seek to obtain the Arahat fruit." They were also ridiculed by people at that time, like those fools who have no There are differences.

Translation:

The story of building only the third floor

In ancient times, there was a very rich man, but he was extremely stupid. He came to a rich man's house as a guest and saw a three-story building that was spacious, tall, majestic, bright and airy. He was very envious and thought to himself: "I have no less money than him. Why haven't I built a building like this before?" ?” So he immediately called the carpenter and asked: “Do you know how to build a beautiful three-story building like his house?”

The carpenter replied: “I built that building in his house?” "

The rich man said: "Please build a building for me now!"

So the carpenter cleared the foundation, measured the land, made bricks and prepared them. building. When the fool saw his arrangements, he was suspicious and couldn't understand, so he asked him: "What are you doing?"

The carpenter replied: "This is the material to build a three-story building."

The fool said: "I don't want to build the lower two floors. You build the top floor for me first."

The carpenter replied: "How can there be such a thing! How can there be no such thing? If you build the bottom layer, you can build the second layer! How can you build the third layer without building the second layer?"

The fool said stubbornly: "I just don't want the lower two layers, you. You must build the top floor for me."

Some people laughed at him when they heard this story: "It's ridiculous. How can you build the second floor without building the bottom floor? The third level!”

This is just like some of the four generations of disciples of Sakyamuni Buddha who do not practice religiously and respect the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, but are lazy and lazy. After cultivating the right fruit, he said: "Now I don't need the three fruits of Sotapanna, Situagami, and Anagami. I only want to cultivate the highest fruit of the fourth Arahant." This was also ridiculed by people at the time, and this There is no difference between stupid people.

The metaphor of the three-story building

In the past, there were rich fools who were ignorant and ignorant. When I arrived at Yu Fu's house, I saw the three-story building, which was tall, magnificent, spacious and bright. I felt longing for it, so I thought: "I have money, and I will not be less than that. How come I didn't build a building like this?" The carpenter asked: "Does that mean his house is upright?"

The carpenter replied: "I did it."

Even if he said: "Now you can build me a building like this He."

At that time, the carpenter built the building through the earth.

When a fool sees the earth being built to build a house, he still has doubts and cannot understand, so he asks: "What do you want?"

The carpenter replies: "Build a three-story house."< /p>

The fool replied: "I don't want to build a two-story house, so you can build me the top roof first."

The carpenter replied: "There is no such thing! Why not build the bottom roof?" How can we build a second-story house if we don’t build a second-story house?”

The fool said: “I don’t need to build a second-story house now. The best.

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When people heard about it, they laughed strangely and said: "How can anyone not build the first house to get it?" "

For example, the disciples of the fourth generation of the World Honored One are unable to diligently cultivate and respect the Three Jewels. They are lazy and want to seek the fruit of the path, so they say: "I do not need the remaining three fruits now, but only seek to obtain the fruit of Arahantship." "It was also ridiculed by people of the time, just like those fools.

Translation:

The story of building only the third floor

In ancient times Once upon a time, there was a very rich man, but he was extremely stupid. He came to a rich man's house as a guest and saw a three-story building that was spacious, tall, majestic, bright and airy. He was very envious and thought to himself: "My money is not as good as mine." Why hasn't he built a building like this before? So he immediately called the carpenter and asked, "Do you know how to build a three-story building as beautiful as his house?" "

The carpenter replied: "I built the building in his house. "

The rich man said: "Please build me a building now! "

So the carpenter cleared the foundation, measured the land, made blanks and laid bricks, and prepared to build the building. When the fool saw his arrangements, he doubted and couldn't understand, so he asked him: "What are you doing? "

The carpenter replied: "This is the material to build a three-story building. ”

The fool said: “I don’t want to build the lower two floors. You build the top floor for me first.” "

The carpenter replied: "How can there be such a thing! How can you build a second floor without building a bottom floor! How can we build the third level without building the second level! ”

The fool said stubbornly: “I just don’t want the lower two floors. You must build the top floor for me.” "

When some people heard this story, they laughed at him: "It's ridiculous. How can you build the second and third floors above without building the lower one!" ”

This is just like among the four generations of disciples of Sakyamuni Buddha, some do not practice religiously and respect the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, and are lazy and lazy, but they want to achieve positive results, so he said: “I don’t need the three fruits of Sotapanna, Stagam, and Anagam now, I just want to achieve the highest level of the fourth Arahat. "This was also ridiculed by people at the time, and was no different from this fool.