RECOGNIZE YOUR MIND, a reflection

Were one’s intellectuality to achieve the highest grade on schooling, nonetheless one’s mind might turn one out to be such an ignoramus. Thus, recognize yet practice your mind! (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

KENALI BATINMU

Sekalipun secara intelektual engkau mendapatkan nilai tertinggi di sekolah, bisa jadi batinmu teramat sangat bodoh.(Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

KEMARAU AND PENGHUJAN

And thus one was related to one’s own sibling as are the two seasons of the equator sphere: kemarau and penghujan. When kemarau arrived, within its dry and hot days were engraved flaring anger, sharp acrimony, and tears. When penghujan took its turn, its wet and rainy hours offered contentment, longings, and encounter. Yet along the changes of seasons, kemarau plots never a treachery against penghujan.

KEMARAU DAN PENGHUJAN

Persaudaraan yang indah serupa dua musim di wilayah khatulistiwa. Ketika kemarau terukir kemarahan, kesengitan, air mata. Ketika penghujan terpetik kegembiraan, kerinduan, pertemuan.

Kemarau tak pernah berkhianat kepada penghujan. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

CO-CREATORS, a reflection

Besides, those that have met “the path” looked the termites, ants, and aphids as co-creators of wooden works. Even before an artist’d creative intelligence was set in aorse, these tiny living-beings have been at their labour upon or within the tree, diligently. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

CO-CREATOR

Rayap, semut, dan kutu adalah co-creator bagi orang yang telah bertemu “jalan”. Sebelum kecerdasan kreatifnya mulai bergerak, makhluk-makhluk hidup super kecil itu telah bergiat mengawali karya-karyanya. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

WALLET. a reflection

Have you ever looked deeply into the inside of your pocket and, with attention, observed the contents of your wallet? When one is truly at a mindful state, one is certainly capable to see that one keeps up with oneself not only cards, money, and coins, but also greed, anger, and attachment.

DOMPET

Pernahkah Anda betul-betul meneliti apa “isi” dompet di saku pakaian yang sedang Anda kenakan?

Apabila batin Anda cukup cerdas, Anda akan mampu melihat bahwa di samping bermacam-macam kartu, lembaran rupiah, Anda membawa serta juga berlembar-lembar keserakahan, kemarahan, dan kemelekatan! (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

DAYLIGHT AND NIGHT, a reflection

Yet one’s sibling was to oneself but as is daylight to night.

Upon daylight were cast sundry desires, whereas within nightfall lay suppertime in togetherness. Be the sky overcast as gloomy as it would, daylight never seeks vengeance against the darkness of night. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

SIANG DAN MALAM

Persaudaraan yang indah serupa siang dengan malam.

Di dalam siang tercetak perbedaan keinginan. Di dalam malam terpacak santap bersama. Seberapa pun gelapnya awan mendung, siang tak mau menaruh dendam kepada malam. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

DEPOSITORY, a reflection

When one wilfully hurt any of human kind or other living-beings, one was actually adding on more suffering, and all at once putting it out at interest, into one’s future-life depository which oneself shall eventually receive. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

TABUNGAN
Ketika dengan sengaja kau telah menyakiti seseorang atau makhluk hidup lainnya, kau telah menambahkan pada tabungan masa depanmu penderitaan yang akan kau terima berikut bunganya. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

Contribution, a reflection

Although it may be considered for the smallest value, charity that one gave to each living-being in suffering and anguish, either unrealized or rewardless, is accounted among the contributions for the better of the present-day world. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

KONTRIBUSI
Sekecil apa pun kebajikan yang kauberikan untuk menolong setiap makhluk yang sengsara dan menderita, kau telah berkontribusi untuk dunia yang sedikit lebih baik dari kemarin. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

Acces, a reflection

Just as one has experientially encountered the path of “Jalan Kayu”, one would therefore be capable to see through one’s intelligence that the earth, the air, fire, and water were the firsthand-creators of every single concavity, crack, and thus giving access into original carvings of the universe itself. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

AKSES
Apabila Anda telah bertemu “Jalan Kayu”, tanah, angin, api, dan air, dapat mengkomunikasikan kepada kecerdasan Anda segala lekuk, celah, dan pahatan yang orisinil dari alam semesta. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)