This is a rough draft of my translation of the prologue to the \u89ba\u4e16\u7d93 Jueshijing, the World Awakening Scripture, revealed by \u95dc\u5e1d Guandi probably in the late Ming or early Qing. The Chinese text which I have provided is from my critical edition, sans the apparatus, which I synthesized from several different manuscripts and inscriptions. There are no major textual variants to speak of — most are insertions or deletions of relatively minor characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1\t\u5e1d\u541b\u66f0\uff1a
2\t\u4eba\u751f\u5728\u4e16
3\t\u8cb4\u76e1\u5fe0\u5b5d\u7bc0\u7fa9\u7b49\u4e8b
4\t\u65b9\u65bc\u4eba\u9053\u7121\u6127
5\t\u53ef\u7acb\u8eab\u65bc\u5929\u5730\u4e4b\u9593
6\t\u82e5\u4e0d\u76e1\u5fe0\u5b5d\u7bc0\u7fa9\u7b49\u4e8b
7\t\u8eab\u96d6\u5728\u4e16
8\t\u5176\u5fc3\u5df2\u6b7b
9\t\u662f\u8b02\u5077\u751f
10\t\u51e1\u4eba\u5fc3\u5373\u795e
11\t\u795e\u5373\u5fc3
12\t\u7121\u6127\u5fc3
13\t\u7121\u6127\u795e
14\t\u82e5\u662f\u6b3a\u5fc3
15\t\u4fbf\u662f\u6b3a\u795e
16\t\u6545\u541b\u5b50\u4e09\u754f\u56db\u77e5
17\t\u4ee5\u614e\u5176\u7368
18\t\u52ff\u8b02\u6697\u5ba4\u53ef\u6b3a
19\t\u5c4b\u6f0f\u53ef\u6127
20\t\u4e00\u52d5\u4e00\u975c
21\t\u795e\u660e\u9452\u5bdf
22\t\u5341\u76ee\u5341\u624b
23\t\u7406\u6240\u5fc5\u81f3
24\t\u6cc1\u5831\u61c9\u662d\u662d
25\t\u4e0d\u723d\u6beb\u9aee
26\t\u6deb\u70ba\u8af8\u60e1\u9996
27\t\u5b5d\u70ba\u767e\u5584\u884c\u539f
28\tf\u6709\u9006\u7406
29\t\u65bc\u5fc3\u6709\u6127\u8005
30\t\u52ff\u8b02\u6709\u5229\u800c\u884c\u4e4b
31\t\u51e1\u6709\u5408\u7406
32\t\u65bc\u5fc3\u7121\u6127\u8005
33\t\u52ff\u8b02\u7121\u5229\u800c\u4e0d\u884c
34\t\u82e5\u8ca0\u543e\u6559
35\t\u8acb\u8a66\u543e\u5200<\/pre>\n\n\n\nFree translation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Supreme Emperor says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In life, one should value undying loyalty, piety, moral integrity, and so on. Where a man’s actions are blameless, he can stand under heaven and earth. If one is disloyal, pious, immoral, and so on, then — though his body is yet alive — his heart1<\/a><\/sup> is dead. Indeed, he lives on in disgrace.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mortal’s heart is divine, the heart is the abode of gods: shameless heart, shameless gods. If one decieves his heart, indeed how easily he deceives the gods! Thus, the noble one takes note of the Three Fears and Four Knowledges.3<\/a><\/sup> Therefore, he is cautious in his solitude, never thinking he can cheat in dark rooms — indeed, the bowels of the house can shame one. The gods closely examine all movement, all stillness — ten eyes, ten hands.4<\/a><\/sup> Inevitably they exact the proper revenge: not even a single hair is unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lewdness is the origin of ten thousand evils, piety is the origin of the one hundred virtues. If one acts contrary to these teachings, he is with a shamed heart. If it is not virtuous, then do not undertake it — one who is without a shamed heart does not do that which is not virtuous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If one burdens my teaching, he asks for my blade.<\/p>\n\n\n
- \u5fc3 x\u012bn<\/em> translates literally to “heart”, as in, the actual organ pumping blood throughout the body. However, it is often glossed as “mind” or “heart-mind” as it occupies a different semantic field than the Western metaphorical “heart.” \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
- Literally “he steals his life.” \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
- Three Fears and Four Knowledges: Heed fate, heed elders, and heed the gods. I know, heaven knows, the gods know, and my descendants know. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
- A proverbial way of referring to the innumerable spirits that judge mortals. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n
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