Do you know the truth of immortality? If you know, seek not lightly.
First turn back and examine yourself; you must weigh a deceitful heart before speaking.
Immortals have arts, not untaught, but one must have predestined affinity.
If everyone could easily attain them, celestial secrets would be readily told.
Learning the Way and immortality requires steadfast will, a firm mind without doubt.
Thus nurturing the heart without end, they also say to test gold with fire.
Your minds are thick with thorns; a good root sprouts and turns to demon.
If you can first align with the immortal's intent, even without a share, what can be done?
With an unclear heart and wicked deeds, whatever you do is bound to be wrong.
Seeking nothing for self, asking nothing of others, think how it's better to have never begun.
Such reflection is natural; just teach your own heart to stay firm.
Look at achievers past and present: their spiritual terrace is surely not so.
Not yet meeting a determined one, you wish to see; encountering people, your heart shifts a hundred ways.
Why is transmission easy or hard? It's because the mystic gate remains untempered.
I ask you, why not consider? Your own poverty or success lies with the vast heavens.
But be patient and abide by your lot; people say where there's musk, naturally there's fragrance.
I, Jade Toad, am a mountain forest guest; finding a good-hearted person is hard.
For now, while my straw sandals are strong, face like peach-red, eyes truly dark.
Jade Toad, you're also quite foolish; why not shake your sleeves and return to rest?
Where there's a chance to aid others with provision, then rival Zhong and Lü in grace and flair.
Unknown to any, alone I go; white clouds for miles, no looking back.
As before, I'll keep my three-legged pot, and brew clear wind and bright moon.