§10 三重楼喻
(10) three - storied house
往昔之世，有富愚人，痴无所知。到余富家，见三重楼，高广严丽，轩敞疏朗，心生渴仰，即作是念：“我有财钱，不减于彼，云何顷来而不造作如是之楼？”
once there was an ignorant rich man who, one day, went to another rich man's three-storied house. struck with admiration by the imposing, spacious, airy and well - lighted building, he said to himself, "i'm no less rich than he. why don't i have the same house built as this one?"
即唤木匠而问言曰：“解作彼家端正舍不？”
thereupon, he sent for a carpenter and said, "can you construct an imposing house exactly like that one?"
木匠答言：“是我所作。”
that carpenter replied, "it's i who built that one."
即便语言：“今可为我造楼如彼。”
he went on, "now you may build a house like that one for me."
是时木匠即便经地垒墼作楼。
the carpenter began first to level the ground, afterward laid the foundation stones and then drove in piles for walls.
