涉水之先

Before wading in

便已濯足其間了

bathe the feet

歌亦如是

The songs are like this

詠亦如是

the odes

默默旋舞

the quiet whirling dances

亦復如是

Lips and teeth trembling

唇齒輕顫

at the ripple of the far shore

彼岸的漣漪

flooding this one

便漫越

Unending

此岸

consciousness

無涯涘

的意識

The lotus joins leaf to leaf

in the river of oblivion

蓮葉田田

戲水忘川

I drink

with you

與你

a kind of

共飲

death,

一種

life a kind of death,

死

a death

雖生猶死

like death

雖死

猶死

Waves above

waves below

波濤在上

if one drop wets the lip

波濤在下

it must be another

滴水沾唇便是

world

別一番

人世

We meet in the same river

the same relentless flow

輪迴永在

你我相遇

inviting each other

同一的河流

to tie this untied boat

輪迴永劫

你我相邀

繫此

不繫之舟