Supreme learning is free of unease.
Assent or rebuke - how much is their difference?
Beauty or ugliness - what is their difference?
Those who are to be respected by people
also cannot be those who disrespect people.
So vast, it is boundless!
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The populace is so happy,
as if enjoying a huge banquet
or strolling up to a terrace in springtime,
while I remain so quiet and unresponsive,
like a newborn who has not yet smiled;
so listless, as if without a place to return.
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The populace all have plenty,
but only I have less than enough -
is mine the mind of a fool? So dimwitted!
The benighted are so brilliant,
while I am the one who appears befuddled!
The benighted are so discerning,
while I am the one who is so muddleheaded!
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So vague, as if it were blurry!
So nebulous, as if it had nowhere to tarry!
Everyone else has abilities,
while I am the one who is stupid and uncultured!
For, what I want differs completely from
all others, through cherishing nourishment
from the Mother.
