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There's a moon in my body...

There's a moon in my body,
but I can't see it!
A moon and a sun.
A drum never touched by hands,
beating, and I can't hear it!

As long as a human being worries about when he will die,
and what he has that is his,
all of his works are zero.
When affection for the I-creature
and what it owns is dead,
then the work of the Teacher is over.

The purpose of labor is to learn;
when you know it, the labor is over.
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
comes, the petal falls.

The musk is inside the deer,
but the deer does not
look for it:
it wanders around looking for grass.


Kabir

Translated by Robert Bly

 


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