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)

Right Views, a reflection

(1)
The eyes that have encountered “the path” can no longer be deceived by thoughts into which ethic and aesthetic judgements or pragmatic conventions are rammed. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

(2)
To the eyes that sees with the right views, a tree’s impairment, which it has carried since its very first day on, are neither perceived as matter of normal and no-normal nor of good and no-good. Instead, to those that have achieved the right views, everything that is given birth by mother nature makes none but natural matters. Thus, on one’s flowing of creativity, not a single question is raised whatsoever defect might flaw the wood, except how one integrates one’s intelligence into a co-creation with the tree trunks. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

Mata Benar
(1)
Mata yang telah bertemu “jalan” tidak akan dapat lagi dikelabui oleh pikiran-pikiran yang dicekoki berbagai penilaian etis, estetis, atau konvensi-konvensi moral. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)


(2)
Bagi orang-orang yang memiliki “mata benar”, kecacatan yang dibawa lahir dan bertumbuh oleh batang-batang pohon tidak menjadi masalah normal atau tidak-normal, bagus atau tidak-bagus. Bagi orang-orang yang memiliki mata benar segala yang dilahirkan ibu bumi hanyalah perkara-perkara natural. Karena itu, dalam proses kreatifnya, apa pun kecacatan pohon-pohon, persoalan yang hadir di hadapannya hanyalah, bagaimana mengintegrasikan kecerdasannya ke dalam kerjasamanya dengan batang-batang pohon tersebut. (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

Anger, a reflection

To those that have begun to “walk the path”, whenever anger arises, its flaring up is a mean of one’s coming back to the conscious breathing. “Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must take care of my anger.” (Bulan Sorbadjati & Barata Sena)

KEMARAHAN
Bagi orang-orang yang telah mulai terlatih pada “jalan”, tiap kali kemarahan muncul, kemarahan itu menjadi sarana yang transformatif untuk mendapatkan pencerahan dari guru-guru welas-asih yang tangguh. (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)

Destructed Table

                                    Photo by FD.Sukhmana