Translation of Bai Yujing

In ancient times, there was a very rich man, but he was very stupid. He visited a rich family and saw a three-story building, which was spacious, tall, solemn, gorgeous, bright and airy. He was very envious and thought, "I have no less money than him." Why didn't I build such a building before? " So he immediately called a carpenter and asked, "Do you know how to build a beautiful three-story building like his home?"

The carpenter replied, "I built that building in his house."

The rich man said, "please build me a building now!" " "

So the carpenter cleaned the foundation, surveyed the land, made bricks and prepared Gai Lou. When the fool saw his arrangement, he became suspicious and could not understand it. He asked him, "What are you doing?"

The carpenter replied, "This is the material for building three floors."

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

The carpenter replied, "There is no such thing!" How can you build a second floor without building the ground floor! How to build the third floor without building the second floor! "

The fool stubbornly said, "I just don't want the bottom two floors." You must build me the top one. "

Some people laughed at him after hearing the story: "Strange, ridiculous. How can the second and third floors above be built without covering the next floor? "

Just like among the four generations of disciples of Sakyamuni Buddha, some people are disrespectful and practice the three treasures of respecting Buddha, law and monk, but they are lazy and want to correct their achievements. So he said, "I don't need Su Da, Stuhan and Anahan now, I just want to achieve the highest fruit of the fourth Siraitia grosvenorii." This was also laughed at by people at that time, no different from this fool.