It is written in the Buddhist Canon...

I saw The Ashes of Time Redux recently and I think it's going to be a great source of material.

Actually, one of the hardest tasks in all this is trying to track down the correct characters, there are quite a few which look the same, and some are impossible to find if they have no obvious radical.

I suppose when this is your language, you just know the words and where to look them up...

"It is written in the Buddhist Canon: 'The flag is still. The wind is calm. It is the heart of man that is in turmoil'"

As far as I can work it out, these are the characters being displayed:

是   旗   佛

人   未   典

的   動   有

心   風   云

自   也

己   未

在   吹

動

And these are common meanings:

佛 fat6 / fat1 - Buddha; Buddhist; Buddhism

典 din2 - rule; statute; law; canon

有 jau5 / jau6 –have

云 wan4 - say; simplified form of 雲

旗 kei4 - flag, banner

未 mei6 - not yet, not

動 dung6 - move, stir; change, alter

風 fung1 / fung3 –wind

也 jaa5 - also; (affirmative particle)

吹 ceoi1 - to blow; to puff; brag; boast

是 si6 – is

人 jan4 –person

的 dik1 - possessive suffix

心 sam1 – heart

自己 zi6 gei2 - oneself; self

在 zoi6 - at; in; on