本来无一物、何处惹尘埃？

Because there is no thing at all, what on earth can provoke dust?

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于是火头僧慧能在菩提树下也作一首诗：“菩提本无树，明镜亦非台．本来无一物，何处惹尘埃。”

Then the head monk Huineng under the bodhi tree to make a poem:" there is no bodhi tree, mirror nor stand. Original none thing, where the dust alight."

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于是火头僧慧能在菩提树下也作一首诗：“菩提本无树，明镜亦非台．本来无一物，何处惹尘埃。”

Then the head monk Huineng under the bodhi tree to make a poem:" there is no bodhi tree, mirror nor stand. Original none thing, where the dust alight."

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