【法轮六候图第二】
2.The Six Periods of Circulation in Conformity with the Law
分开佛祖源头路，现出西方极乐轮。
法轮吸转朝天驾，消息呼来往地归。
If one discerns the beginning of the Buddha's path,
There will be the blessed city of the West.
After the circulation in conformity with the law,
There is a turn upward towards heaven when the breath is drawn in.
When the breath flows out energy is directed towards the earth.
片时成六候，一刻会源头。
夫道从中生，元机莫外求。
One time-period consists of six intervals(hou).
In two intervals one gathers Moni(Sakyamuni).
The great Tao comes forth from the center.
Do not seek the primordial seed outside!
且道之妙用，莫如法轮；运行不蹊，莫如道路；迟速不等，莫如规则；限数不差，莫如候法。
The most marvelous effect of the Tao is the circulation in conformity with the law.What makes the movement inexhaustible is the path.What best regulates the speed are the rhythms (kuei).What best determines the number of the exercises is the method of the intervals (hou).
是图也，大法备全，而西来真面目无不在此矣。且其中之元妙行持，莫如呼吸；消息往来，莫如阖辟；不外道路，莫如真意；有所起止，莫如界地。
This presentation contains the whole law, and the true features of the Buddha from the West are contained in it.The secrets contained in it show how one gets control the process by exhaling and inhaling, how the alternation between decrease and increase expresses itself in closing and opening, how one needs true thoughts in order not to deviate from the way, how the firm delimitation of the regions makes it possible to begin and to stop at the right time.
舍己从人，备著此图，全泄天机。愚夫俗人得之，亦无不成也。苟无其德，纵有所遇，天必不附其道。何也？德之于道，如鸟之羽翰，缺一无所用也。必须忠孝仁义，五戒全净，然后有所望焉。
I sacrifice myself and serve man, because I have presented fully this picture which reveals the heavenly seed completely, so that every layman and man of the world can reach it and so bring it to completion.He who lacks the right virtue may well find something in it, but heaven will not grant him his Tao.Why not? The right virtue belongs to the Tao as does one wing of a bird to the other: if one is lacking, the other is of no use.Therefore there is needed loyalty and reverence, humaneness and justice and strict adherence to the five commandments [of Buddhism: Do not kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, nor drink alcohol nor eat meat]; then only does one have the prospect of attaining something.
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