惑ひきて悟り得べくもなかりつる
心を知るは心なりけり
心を知るは心なりけり
- Roma-ji
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Madoikite satori ubeku mo nakaritsuru kokoro o shiru wa kokoro narikeri
- English Translation
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Having wandered so,
a heart that seemed never fit
for enlightenment,
what comes to know that heart
is the heart itself alone.
- Meaning
- The heart that wandered so long that it seemed it could never be enlightened, what comes to know that heart is the heart itself.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 875
Headnote: "On the passage in the commentary, 'to awaken to the mind, to realize the mind'"
The topic comes from the phrase in the Commentary on the Mahāvairocana Sutra, 'to awaken to the mind and realize the mind,' the teaching that what awakens and what is awakened to are both one's own mind. What comes to know the heart that wandered so long it seemed it could never be enlightened is none other than the heart itself, the poet says, putting the teaching of mind knowing mind into plain words.
First line, “madoikite”: having wandered on.
Second line, “satori ubeku mo”: as if able to attain enlightenment.
Third line, “nakaritsuru”: it was not so.
Fourth line, “kokoro o shiru wa”: what knows that heart, answering 'awaken to the mind.'
Fifth line, “kokoro narikeri”: narikeri marks realization; it is the heart; the fourth and fifth lines repeat kokoro.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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