Badness of any person is
what you look like.
Reflect well on the pure heart!
- The pure heart is the Sun and the Moon
(Verse No. 152)
みな人のあしきはおのが姿なり
よくかへりみよ清き心を
はすなはち 日月なり
（お歌第152号）
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Althought the upstream is...
Although the upstream is
the end of clear stream,
its water get roiled
by the boats that go in this world
(Verse No. 174)
水上は清き流れのすゑなれど
世渡る舟に水のにごれる
（お歌第174号）
the end of clear stream,
its water get roiled
by the boats that go in this world
(Verse No. 174)
水上は清き流れのすゑなれど
世渡る舟に水のにごれる
（お歌第174号）
Some lives float by abandoning thier bodies...
Even though some lives would float
by abandoning their bodies
in crossing the river of this world,
sad are the bodies that
care only about the boat
(Verse No. 180)
身を捨てて浮かむ瀬もある世渡りに
舟のみおしむ身こそかなしき
（お歌第180号）
by abandoning their bodies
in crossing the river of this world,
sad are the bodies that
care only about the boat
(Verse No. 180)
身を捨てて浮かむ瀬もある世渡りに
舟のみおしむ身こそかなしき
（お歌第180号）
Abandon everything
I am with a heart
that wants to abandon
my body and self.
O! I want to abandon
even that heart!
(Verse No. 185)
身も我もすてむと思ふ心なる
その心をもすてまほしさよ
（お歌第185号）
that wants to abandon
my body and self.
O! I want to abandon
even that heart!
(Verse No. 185)
身も我もすてむと思ふ心なる
その心をもすてまほしさよ
（お歌第185号）
Becoming the one and only sincerity
Abandoning all my body, self and heart,
will I become
the one and only sincerity of
the Heaven and the Earth!
(Gobun No. 145)
身も我も心もすてて天つちの
たつたひとつの誠ばかりに
will I become
the one and only sincerity of
the Heaven and the Earth!
(Gobun No. 145)
身も我も心もすてて天つちの
たつたひとつの誠ばかりに
In the roundness withtout an end
The person who has
a round heart in the roundness
resides in the roundness
without an end
(Gobun No. 136)
まるき中に丸き心をもつ人は
かぎりしられぬ○き中なり
（御文第136号）
a round heart in the roundness
resides in the roundness
without an end
(Gobun No. 136)
まるき中に丸き心をもつ人は
かぎりしられぬ○き中なり
（御文第136号）
Anything will be still not enough always!
Living in this world saying,
"It is still not enough, it still is not enough!"
(Gobun No. 92)
まだたらぬまだたらぬとて世に住めば
まただらぬことばかりなりけり
（御文第92号）
"It is still not enough, it still is not enough!"
you will find anything still not enough always
(Gobun No. 92)
まだたらぬまだたらぬとて世に住めば
まただらぬことばかりなりけり
（御文第92号）
Nothing is more fun than being lost!
Nothing is more fun than being lost!
Without being lost, there is no fun.
(Verse No. 150)
迷ひほど世に面白きことぞなき
迷ひなければ楽しみもなし
（お歌第150号）
Without being lost, there is no fun.
(Verse No. 150)
迷ひほど世に面白きことぞなき
迷ひなければ楽しみもなし
（お歌第150号）
Brothers of sincerity
Nothing in this world is more precious than sincerity.
Just with sincerity, all the people around the four seas
can be brothers!
(Gobun No. 142)
誠ほど世にありがたきものはなし
誠一つで四海兄弟（けいてい）
（御文第142号）
Just with sincerity, all the people around the four seas
can be brothers!
(Gobun No. 142)
誠ほど世にありがたきものはなし
誠一つで四海兄弟（けいてい）
（御文第142号）
Seeing with borrowed light under the rising Sun...
Not knowing the Sun
even though being born in
the Land of the Rising Sun,
they have to see
with the borrowed light lit
on branches and leaves
(Verse No. 162)
日の本に生まれながらに日を知らず
枝葉にともすひをかりて見る
（お歌第162号）
even though being born in
the Land of the Rising Sun,
they have to see
with the borrowed light lit
on branches and leaves
(Verse No. 162)
日の本に生まれながらに日を知らず
枝葉にともすひをかりて見る
（お歌第162号）
Appearance of harvests
There are many springs that
flowers bloom but bring no fruits.
How magnificent is
the autumn's appearance
that brings harvests
when the time is ripe!
(Verse No. 159)
花咲きて実らぬ春のおほかりき
時きてみのる秋のよそほい
（お歌第159号）
flowers bloom but bring no fruits.
How magnificent is
the autumn's appearance
that brings harvests
when the time is ripe!
(Verse No. 159)
花咲きて実らぬ春のおほかりき
時きてみのる秋のよそほい
（お歌第159号）
Monday, 10 November 2014
Stay alert of clouds and fogs!
Clear away, clear away!
But even after many attempts of
clearing away,
stay alert of clouds and fogs!
(Gobun No. 261)
はらへどもまたはらへどもはらへども
油断のならぬかかる雲きり
（御文第２６１号）
But even after many attempts of
clearing away,
stay alert of clouds and fogs!
(Gobun No. 261)
はらへどもまたはらへどもはらへども
油断のならぬかかる雲きり
（御文第２６１号）
Emerging clouds are so hard to clear away!
Clear away, clear away!
But even after many attempts of
clearing away,
the emerging clouds are
so hard to clear away!
(Verse No. 160)
祓へどもまた祓へども祓へども
祓ひがたきはいずる雲かな
（お歌第160号）
But even after many attempts of
clearing away,
the emerging clouds are
so hard to clear away!
(Verse No. 160)
祓へどもまた祓へども祓へども
祓ひがたきはいずる雲かな
（お歌第160号）
Facing the Sun everyday...
Facing the Sun everyday
I feel from my heart
the gladness that
I have an everlasting life
(Verse No. 158)
日々に朝日に向かひ心から
限りなき身と思ふ嬉しさ
（お歌第158号）
I feel from my heart
the gladness that
I have an everlasting life
(Verse No. 158)
日々に朝日に向かひ心から
限りなき身と思ふ嬉しさ
（お歌第158号）
Everything is the mandate of the Heaven...
Thinking that everything is
according to the mandate of the Heaven,
I feel anything but thankfulness
(Verse No. 156)
何事もみな天命と思ひなば
ただありがたきばかりなりける
（お歌第156号）
according to the mandate of the Heaven,
I feel anything but thankfulness
(Verse No. 156)
何事もみな天命と思ひなば
ただありがたきばかりなりける
（お歌第156号）
Friday, 7 November 2014
When every wish comes true...
When every wish comes true
according to my heart's desire,
I feel grateful
asleep or awake!
(Verse No. 142)
To my self that I've entrusted
to the Heaven,
how gladdening
the Heaven's giving is!
(Verse No. 143)
Because
every wish comes true
according to my heart's desire,
I feel grateful
asleep or awake!
(Verse No. 144)
何事も心のままにかなひなば
ねてもさめてもありがたきかな
（お歌第142号）
天地にまかせまつりしわが身には
あたへ給ひしことの嬉しさ
（お歌第143号）
何事も心のままにかなふゆゑ
ねてもさめてもありがたきかな
（お歌第 144号）
according to my heart's desire,
I feel grateful
asleep or awake!
(Verse No. 142)
To my self that I've entrusted
to the Heaven,
how gladdening
the Heaven's giving is!
(Verse No. 143)
Because
every wish comes true
according to my heart's desire,
I feel grateful
asleep or awake!
(Verse No. 144)
何事も心のままにかなひなば
ねてもさめてもありがたきかな
（お歌第142号）
天地にまかせまつりしわが身には
あたへ給ひしことの嬉しさ
（お歌第143号）
何事も心のままにかなふゆゑ
ねてもさめてもありがたきかな
（お歌第 144号）
Whatever I face is blessed
When I live in this world
with gratitude to anything,
whatever I face is blessed.
(Gobun No. 143)
何事もありがたいにて世にすめば
むかふものごとありがたいなり
（御文第143号）
with gratitude to anything,
whatever I face is blessed.
(Gobun No. 143)
何事もありがたいにて世にすめば
むかふものごとありがたいなり
（御文第143号）
Everything is the work of the Heaven
When I think
everything is the work of the Heaven,
nothing makes me suffer and
nothing toils me.
(Gobun No. 168)
何事も天のなすのと思ひなば
苦にもせわにもならぬものなり
（御文第168号）
everything is the work of the Heaven,
nothing makes me suffer and
nothing toils me.
(Gobun No. 168)
何事も天のなすのと思ひなば
苦にもせわにもならぬものなり
（御文第168号）
Monday, 3 November 2014
Just enjoy the heart of the heaven!
Nothing is better
than just to enjoy
the heart of the heaven
asleep or awake!
(Gobun No. 151)
何事もただ楽しむにしくはなし
ねてもおきても天の心を
（御文第151号）
than just to enjoy
the heart of the heaven
asleep or awake!
(Gobun No. 151)
何事もただ楽しむにしくはなし
ねてもおきても天の心を
（御文第151号）
Sincere is your heart
Sincere is your heart that thinks everything is
of the heaven!
(Verse No. 147)
何事も天のものとぞ思ひつる
君の心ぞまことなるらむ
（お歌第147号）
of the heaven!
(Verse No. 147)
何事も天のものとぞ思ひつる
君の心ぞまことなるらむ
（お歌第147号）
A sin is made when...
A sin is made when a man
thinks as if any thing were
of his own creation even though
everything is of the heaven.
(Verse No. 164)
何事も天のものにてあるものを
わがもの顔でつくる罪とが
（お歌第164号）
thinks as if any thing were
of his own creation even though
everything is of the heaven.
(Verse No. 164)
何事も天のものにてあるものを
わがもの顔でつくる罪とが
（お歌第164号）
Looks like a house that does not shake...
With a thick pillar of heart standing
a heart looks like a house that
does not shake
for thousands of generations!
(Verse No. 138)
つき立てる心の柱太ければ
千代もうごかぬ家と見えける
（お歌第138号）
a heart looks like a house that
does not shake
for thousands of generations!
(Verse No. 138)
つき立てる心の柱太ければ
千代もうごかぬ家と見えける
（お歌第138号）
The rising sun dissolves the regret of the sin...
It indeed is the rising sun that
dissolves the regret of the sin
that formed among dews and frosts.
(Verse No. 137)
露霜にむすべる罪の悔しさを
おもひとくこそ朝日なりけれ
（お歌第137号）
dissolves the regret of the sin
that formed among dews and frosts.
(Verse No. 137)
露霜にむすべる罪の悔しさを
おもひとくこそ朝日なりけれ
（お歌第137号）
The moon has already set...
What a pity to sleep until the time
when the moon has already set
and the sun is already up!
(Verse No. 136)
月は入り日ははやいでし時までも
ねて暮らすこそあはれなりけれ
（お歌第136号）
when the moon has already set
and the sun is already up!
(Verse No. 136)
月は入り日ははやいでし時までも
ねて暮らすこそあはれなりけれ
（お歌第136号）
Friday, 31 October 2014
Changeless
In the light of Heaven-illuminating Goddess
should there be any difference between
the times of powerful gods
and today!
(Verse No. 14)
天照らす君の光は千早振る
神代も今もかわらざらまし
（お歌第14号）
should there be any difference between
the times of powerful gods
and today!
(Verse No. 14)
天照らす君の光は千早振る
神代も今もかわらざらまし
（お歌第14号）
I am the beginning of the Way!
Now at the dawn when
the moon sets and
the sun rises,
I indeed am the beginning
of the Way!
(Verse No. 133)
月は入り日の今いづるあけぼのに
我こそ道のはじめなりけれ
（お歌第133号）
△
The world is not coming to the end!
What a pity it is to think
the world is coming to the end
even though the world is the same
in the times of powerful gods or now!
(Verse No. 123)
千早振る神代も今も同じ世を
みな末の世と思ふあはれさ
（お歌第123号）
the world is coming to the end
even though the world is the same
in the times of powerful gods or now!
(Verse No. 123)
千早振る神代も今も同じ世を
みな末の世と思ふあはれさ
（お歌第123号）
O the true children of gods, don't distress your parents!
O the true children of powerful gods
who were born of those gods,
do not bring distress to your parents!
(Gobun No.19)
千早振る神の生み出す生みの子よ
親の心をいたましむるな
（御文第19号）
who were born of those gods,
do not bring distress to your parents!
(Gobun No.19)
千早振る神の生み出す生みの子よ
親の心をいたましむるな
（御文第19号）
All depends on your heart
This is the world where
enjoyment or suffering
all depends on your heart.
(Verse No. 120)
楽しむもまた苦しむも
かつてしだいの浮き世なるらむ
（お歌第120号）
enjoyment or suffering
all depends on your heart.
(Verse No. 120)
楽しむもまた苦しむも
かつてしだいの浮き世なるらむ
（お歌第120号）
The dlight of the heaven and the earth
That any delight is mine,
won't I think
because any delight is just
of the heaven and the earth.
(Verse No. 187)
楽しみもわが楽しみと思ふまじ
ただ天つちのたのしみにして
（お歌第187号）
won't I think
because any delight is just
of the heaven and the earth.
(Verse No. 187)
楽しみもわが楽しみと思ふまじ
ただ天つちのたのしみにして
（お歌第187号）
Just go on living all with the heart of enjoyment
To keep or to discard
won't I think.
I will just go on living all with
the heart of enjoyment.
(Verse No. 168)
たもつともまたすつるとも思ふまじ
ただ楽しみの心ばかりに
（お歌第168号）
won't I think.
I will just go on living all with
the heart of enjoyment.
(Verse No. 168)
たもつともまたすつるとも思ふまじ
ただ楽しみの心ばかりに
（お歌第168号）
The heart of the person who confronts you is a mirror...
The heart of the person
who confronts you is a mirror;
it constantly reflects
who and how you are.
(Verse No. 119)
立ち向かふ人の心は鏡なり
おのが姿を移してやみん
（お歌 第119号）
who confronts you is a mirror;
it constantly reflects
who and how you are.
(Verse No. 119)
立ち向かふ人の心は鏡なり
おのが姿を移してやみん
（お歌 第119号）
The origin of heart is one
Appearance does vary according to each person
but the origin of heart is one.
(Verse No. 166)
姿こそみなそれぞれにかはれども
心のもとは一つなるらむ
（お歌第166号）
but the origin of heart is one.
(Verse No. 166)
姿こそみなそれぞれにかはれども
心のもとは一つなるらむ
（お歌第166号）
A wise person's practice
To nurture the invisible one heart,
this is the practice of a wise person.
(Gobun No.149)
姿なき心一つを養ふは
かしこき人の修行なるらむ
（御文第149号）
this is the practice of a wise person.
(Gobun No.149)
姿なき心一つを養ふは
かしこき人の修行なるらむ
（御文第149号）
Let the invisible heart live!
If you let the invisible heart live and use it,
its effect will fill across the universe!
(Verse No. 61)
姿なき心を生けてつかひなば
天（あめ）が下にぞみちわたるらむ
（お歌第61号）
its effect will fill across the universe!
(Verse No. 61)
姿なき心を生けてつかひなば
天（あめ）が下にぞみちわたるらむ
（お歌第61号）
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Last year's calendar
Think only about this moment!
Last year's calender is indeed of no use.
(Zasshu No. 4)
さしあたることのみ思へ人はただ
去年のこよみ役に立つまじ
（雑集第4号）
Last year's calender is indeed of no use.
(Zasshu No. 4)
さしあたることのみ思へ人はただ
去年のこよみ役に立つまじ
（雑集第4号）
Three-year-old again
As one of the disciples sang celebrating of his sixtieth year (the completion of one big Chinese zodiac cycle) that
In the blessing of the heaven and the earthgrows the hearts of gods
in me that becomes a three-year-toddler
again from this year on:
It is indeed a big blessing to become
a three-year-old toddler again from this year on;
the blessing will even be bigger
if you could become a baby again!
(Verse No. 111)
門人還暦の寿に、
ことしより三つ子になりて天つちのめぐみにそだつ神のふところ
と 詠みいでたれば
ことしより三つ子となるもありがたし
赤子となればなほありがたきかな
（お歌第111号）
In the blessing of the heaven and the earthgrows the hearts of gods
in me that becomes a three-year-toddler
again from this year on:
It is indeed a big blessing to become
a three-year-old toddler again from this year on;
the blessing will even be bigger
if you could become a baby again!
(Verse No. 111)
門人還暦の寿に、
ことしより三つ子になりて天つちのめぐみにそだつ神のふところ
と 詠みいでたれば
ことしより三つ子となるもありがたし
赤子となればなほありがたきかな
（お歌第111号）
Think only about this moment!
Think only about this moment!
Yesterday is already gone and
tomorrow is still unknown.
(Verse No. 113)
さしあたることのみ思へ人はただ
きのうはすぎるあるは知られず
（お歌第113号）
Yesterday is already gone and
tomorrow is still unknown.
(Verse No. 113)
さしあたることのみ思へ人はただ
きのうはすぎるあるは知られず
（お歌第113号）
Being all mouth, being all ears!
Come here and
listen being all ears
to the Way that I preach
being all mouth!
(Gobun No. 49)
"When my heart preaches, departing my own heart, it is only my mouth that preaches. At such a time, the sermon comes out somehow naturally of my mouth in the absence of the ego. It means that the Heaven makes me preach. And when the listener also listens only with his ears, there truly is oneness."
ここに来て口ばかりにてとく道を
耳ばかりにてきき給へ
（御文第49号）
「心はおのが心をはなれて説くときは、口ばかりなり。そのとき何となく無心の所にいづるなり。これすなはち天のいはしむるなり。また、きく人も耳ばかりにてきき給はば、まことに一体なり。」
listen being all ears
to the Way that I preach
being all mouth!
(Gobun No. 49)
"When my heart preaches, departing my own heart, it is only my mouth that preaches. At such a time, the sermon comes out somehow naturally of my mouth in the absence of the ego. It means that the Heaven makes me preach. And when the listener also listens only with his ears, there truly is oneness."
ここに来て口ばかりにてとく道を
耳ばかりにてきき給へ
（御文第49号）
「心はおのが心をはなれて説くときは、口ばかりなり。そのとき何となく無心の所にいづるなり。これすなはち天のいはしむるなり。また、きく人も耳ばかりにてきき給はば、まことに一体なり。」
the paradise is here
How sad is the heart
that falls into the hell
passing here knowing
the paradise is here!
(Gobun No. 30)
極楽と知りつつここを行きすぎて
地獄におつる心かなしき
（御文第30号）
that falls into the hell
passing here knowing
the paradise is here!
(Gobun No. 30)
極楽と知りつつここを行きすぎて
地獄におつる心かなしき
（御文第30号）
The heart is nothing but...
The heart is nothing but
the divine life force of
the heaven and the earth
that has departed from
being and non-being
(Verse No. 110)
心とは ほかにはあらず天つちの
有無をはなれし中のいきもの
（お歌第110号）
the divine life force of
the heaven and the earth
that has departed from
being and non-being
(Verse No. 110)
心とは ほかにはあらず天つちの
有無をはなれし中のいきもの
（お歌第110号）
The wise are...
The wise are those who
live wholeheartedly;
the fools are those who
die.
(Gobun No. 87)
心から生きる人こそかしこけれ
死ぬる人こそあほうなりけれ
（御文第87号）
live wholeheartedly;
the fools are those who
die.
(Gobun No. 87)
心から生きる人こそかしこけれ
死ぬる人こそあほうなりけれ
（御文第87号）
I forget my advancing age...
I forget my advancing age
when I believe from the heart
that I have the life everlasting!
(Verse No. 109)
心から生き通しぞと思ひなば
年の寄るのも忘れけるかな
（お歌第109号）
when I believe from the heart
that I have the life everlasting!
(Verse No. 109)
心から生き通しぞと思ひなば
年の寄るのも忘れけるかな
（お歌第109号）
Into the dark...
O, the people's hearts,
go into the dark
rather than into darkness!
In the sky of sincerity
does the moon reside!
(Gobun No. 257)
"The dark means one's self and it is great arrogance that one thinks even a little light enters his own self. If one strives for the faith, discarding his own wisdom, in that, he will certainly feel as if precious dawn should break. Discarding one's wisdom - that is the way of the Way."
闇（くら）きよりくらきに入よ人心
月は誠の空にこそすめ
（御文第257号）
「くらきと申す心は、自身のことと申す心にて、まことに少しでも我に明かり入り候と存じ候へば大なる慢心なり。いよいよわが知恵を捨てて信心をいたし候へば、その中に、まことに有り難き夜の明けたるごとくのことあり。いよいよわが知恵を捨つるこそ、道の道なり。」
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go into the dark
rather than into darkness!
In the sky of sincerity
does the moon reside!
(Gobun No. 257)
"The dark means one's self and it is great arrogance that one thinks even a little light enters his own self. If one strives for the faith, discarding his own wisdom, in that, he will certainly feel as if precious dawn should break. Discarding one's wisdom - that is the way of the Way."
闇（くら）きよりくらきに入よ人心
月は誠の空にこそすめ
（御文第257号）
「くらきと申す心は、自身のことと申す心にて、まことに少しでも我に明かり入り候と存じ候へば大なる慢心なり。いよいよわが知恵を捨てて信心をいたし候へば、その中に、まことに有り難き夜の明けたるごとくのことあり。いよいよわが知恵を捨つるこそ、道の道なり。」
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Clouds and fogs...
Clouds and fogs,
the natural wind blows away.
It indeed is like this
upon the understanding of
the self that does not exist.
(Gobun No. 6)
雲きりはしぜんの風のはろふなり
なき身を知ればかくのごとくぞ
（御文第6号）
the natural wind blows away.
It indeed is like this
upon the understanding of
the self that does not exist.
(Gobun No. 6)
雲きりはしぜんの風のはろふなり
なき身を知ればかくのごとくぞ
（御文第6号）
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
The blooms of the endless Way
Even though there is a saying"Yesterday's blossoms are today's dream,"
today's storm disturbs me.
(Verse No. 194)
Thinking again, composed another verse:
If the blooms of this world is blown away,
leave them as they are!
The blooms of the endless Way
will I make bloom
under the heaven and in the earth!
(Verse No. 195)
昨日（きぞ）の花けふの夢とはききつれど
今の嵐はうらめしきかな
（お歌第194号）
また思ひ直して一首
世の花は散らばや散れよ天つちに
つきせぬ道の花を咲かせむ
（お歌第195号）
today's storm disturbs me.
(Verse No. 194)
Thinking again, composed another verse:
If the blooms of this world is blown away,
leave them as they are!
The blooms of the endless Way
will I make bloom
under the heaven and in the earth!
(Verse No. 195)
昨日（きぞ）の花けふの夢とはききつれど
今の嵐はうらめしきかな
（お歌第194号）
また思ひ直して一首
世の花は散らばや散れよ天つちに
つきせぬ道の花を咲かせむ
（お歌第195号）
Within the Heaven-illuminating Goddess, anyway...
Celebrating your departure to the East (Edo), I say:
In the end of the East where you go
or in this village,
do we live within
the Heaven-illuminating Goddess,
anyway.
(Verse No. 103)
東（あづま）へ旅だち給ひしを祝し奉りてかくはべりぬ
君が行く東のすゑもこのさとも
天照る神のみうちなるらむ
（お歌第103号）
In the end of the East where you go
or in this village,
do we live within
the Heaven-illuminating Goddess,
anyway.
(Verse No. 103)
東（あづま）へ旅だち給ひしを祝し奉りてかくはべりぬ
君が行く東のすゑもこのさとも
天照る神のみうちなるらむ
（お歌第103号）
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