from The Boat by Kabir

How lucky Kabir is, that surrounded by all this joy
he sings inside his own little boat.
His poems amount to one soul meeting another.
These songs are about forgetting dying and loss.
They rise above both coming in and going out.

translated by Robert Bly

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  2. “To what shore would you cross, O my heart? there is no traveler before you, there is no road:
    Where is the movement, where is the rest, on that shore?
    There is no water; no boat, no boatman, is there;
    There is not so much as a rope to tow the boat, nor a man to draw it.
    No earth, no sky, no time, no thing, is there: no shore, no ford!
    There, there is neither body nor mind: and where is the place that shall still the thirst of the soul? You shall find naught in that emptiness.
    Be strong, and enter into your own body: for there your foothold is firm. Consider it well, O my heart! go not elsewhere,
    Kabîr says: “Put all imaginations away, and stand fast in that which you are.”

    translated by Rabindarnath Tagore

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