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Lalla

Learning the Scriptures is Easy

One Shrine to the Next

"The only offering you can make to God is your increasing awareness." ~  Lalla

Learning the Scriptures is Easy

Learning the scriptures is easy;
but living them, that's hard.
Far easier to read words on a page
than to seek the living heart of things.


Fumbling through the fog of study,
stumbling, I lost my last words.
     -- And my vision cleared.
     Oh the sight that met me then!


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Translated by Ivan M. Granger

"The mind is what sleeps. What recognizes itself as God is awake." ~  Lalla

One Shrine to the Next

One shrine to the next, the hermit can't stop for breath.
Soul, get this! You should have looked in the mirror.
Going on a pilgrimage is like falling in love
with the greenness of faraway grass.


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Translated by Ranjit Hoskote

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