Before wading in

涉水之先

bathe the feet

便已濯足其間了

The songs are like this

歌亦如是

the odes

詠亦如是

the quiet whirling dances

默默旋舞

Lips and teeth trembling

亦復如是

at the ripple of the far shore

唇齒輕顫

flooding this one

彼岸的漣漪

Unending

便漫越

consciousness

此岸

無涯涘

The lotus joins leaf to leaf

的意識

in the river of oblivion

蓮葉田田

I drink

戲水忘川

with you

a kind of

與你

death,

共飲

life a kind of death,

一種

a death

死

like death

雖生猶死

雖死

Waves above

猶死

waves below

if one drop wets the lip

波濤在上

it must be another

波濤在下

world

滴水沾唇便是

別一番

We meet in the same river

人世

the same relentless flow

輪迴永在

inviting each other

你我相遇

to tie this untied boat

同一的河流

輪迴永劫

你我相邀

繫此

不繫之舟