There’s a lot of wanting to look good,
but it’s much more difficult to do.
So they get carried away as if crazy;
Aren’t we silly, we people, creating ourselves!

Thinking it’s right, it’s good, following the advice
of ghosts, so they lose the path of morality …
sunk in the mud beneath the lotus’s roots
… blossoming all over not at all fragrant.

This makes them push ahead as if crazy
getting upset revealing their lunacy even more
showing off their very craziness,
boy it’s hard to really do good.