Ragged and starving you approach the market and the streets.
Even covered in dust, why would the laughter cease?
The bees and butterflies are happy because flowers have bloomed on a withered tree.
In order to be of benefit to sentient beings, you are free to act in whatever way you see fit. You cultivate the way of the bodhisattva in wandering here and there through the steets and marketplaces. You perform the deeds of a bodhisattva: if someone asks you for whatever you are wearing or eating, you simply give it to him. Whatever you do, it is fine. If circumstances are favorable, you smile; and if circumstances are unfavourable, you still smile. With a laugh you take things as they are--like a fool! At this time, flowers have bloomed on a withered tree. Thus, whatever such a person does, he is pleasing to all sentient beings.