The Preservation of Life (4)
養生主（四）
1 Pheasant living in the swamp can find a bug to eat by walking average ten steps, and find a place to drink by walking around a hundred steps.
生長在沼澤區的野雞，牠們平均走十步才能找到一個小蟲子吃，走一百步才能找到一個飲水的地方。
2 The living condition in the swamp is rather bad. To feed themselves, pheasants toil to look busily for food but none of them would like to stay in the hencoop for there is easy and have plenty of food.
沼澤區的生活條件實在不好。為了填飽肚子，一天忙忙碌碌的確實辛苦。然而沒有一隻野雞願意被關在籠子裡，享受那比較豐盛的飼料。
澤雉十步一啄，百步一飲，不蘄畜乎樊中。
3 Those men of perfect practice are like so. They prefer a leisurely and free life and evade official positions as immediately as possible.
修行完備的人也是這樣。他們喜歡悠遊自在的生活，對官位他們是避之唯恐不及的。
神雖王，不善也。
4 Nevertheless, it is not easy to live in a leisurely and free life.
然而要擁有逍遙自在的生活也不容易。
The poem by Su Dongpo goes:
蘇東坡有詩曰:
Though happy in drunken time, But most time people still awake.
醉中雖可樂，猶是生滅境。
I prefer to stay between the drunk and the awake, Enjoy the best stage of life.
云何得此生，不醉亦不醒。
Mr Liu’s cattle is so big, It can’t conserve its buttocks and neck.
癡如景升牛，莫保尻與領。
Agile as Jun living in east out of city, Be bound and had its hair cut for making brush pen.
黠如東郭娩，束縛作毛穎。
Even Ji Kan recluse for his practice, Was killed for unexpected affairs at end of the day.
乃知嵇叔夜，非坐虎文炳。