Question | Answer |
Till Hearts End by: | Chayasi Sunthonphiphit |
Translated by: | James N. Mosel and Burton Raffel |
1st stanza | My mind glows,
Knows no fear of the darkness and its tight web,
Though the stars blur and the moon's dim rays,
Are sucked into nothingness,
And the oneness of man still cannot be found. |
2nd stanza | Though the sky splits and crackles,
Drops no gentle music,
Though a rooster's hurried crowing jars ears,
And a frightened dog goes whimpering up and down. |
3rd stanza | This clear light inside me,
Pushes the wild,heavy night back:
It will never flicker, it can never change,
Neither pain nor sorrow can reach it. |
4th stanza | The earth swings in circles,
Soon light must break through,dawn
Hanging,golden and clear all over the world,men
Living like men. |
5th stanza | In the lonely night I lie listening to my own heart,
The darkness so thick I could lose my way,
Except for the faint, echoing chant,
Of the most precious words ever written. |
6th stanza | Words like drops from heaven
Falling fro wisdom, strength, peace, beauty, into waiting heart,
These two small hands will move as this mind leads them,
Will carry Buddha's divine law
Here to this earth, until this heart no longer beats |