‘Tis not that the journey of cultivation is painful,
Karma from generation upon generation is blocking you.
Steel your will,
     eliminate karma,
     cultivate xinxing,
And become a Buddha who keeps forever the human body.

September 15, 1994

^[3] The term used in the Chinese text here, yinguo, has the sense of preordained fate, or causality, stemming from conduct at an earlier time or in a previous life.