English Rendering
Inside the courtyard of Yunju Temple there stands an ancient Tong tree,
tall and green, in many leaves shining brilliantly;
already fifty feet high,
it continues to grow;
in the temple there lives a monk ninety years old who shows not his age;
when he first planted the tree,
it was a tiny seed;
it then grew into a tender shoot as fine as a hair;
with nothing to protect it,
and independent of all things,
it grew up straight and tall;
you who live in this world should be this way,
raising yourselves as straight and true as this tree.
