莫拉維（魯米Rumi）,元文琪 譯
瑪斯納維全集（三）
宇宙


53 或許有人對母體內的胎兒說： 子宮外另有一個絕妙的天國。
54 在那遼闊無垠的神奇境地，綠樹成陰，果品無以數計。
55 那裡群山巍峨，江河奔流不息，百花盛開，草原耕田一望無際。
56 那裡睛空萬里，一片燦爛輝煌，日高照月皎潔，無數繁星閃亮。
57 那裡微風吹拂，來自南北西方，人們喜笑顏開，到處鳥語花香。
58 那絕妙的境界，語言實難形容，何必悶在黑暗肚腹忍氣吞聲？
59 被禁錮在骯髒、狹窄的子宮， 遭受困苦，只得以吸血為生。
60 聞聽此說，胎兒斷然加以否認， 怎麼也不肯接受這套奇談怪論：
61 子宮外另有天地？這絕不可能！ 騙人的把戲，無異於白日做夢。
62 因見所未見，聞所未聞， 於是乎只有矢口加以否認。


Masnavi, book 3
‘Rumi Wisdom – Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master’
by Timothy Freke
The Universe


What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
‘Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.
The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?’
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
‘You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.’
One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, ‘ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.’


《Rumi：在春天走進果園》
回家的路


一隻螞蟻在打穀場上匆匆行走，
它扛著一顆麥粒，在巨大的麥垛間穿行，
它對它周圍的豐盛一無所知。
它以為，它的一顆麥粒就是愛的全部。 同樣，我們選擇一粒微小的種子，然後奉獻出自己的全部。
這個身體、一條道路或一個老師。
要看得更寬、更遠。
每個人的本質都能看見，
而那本質之眼看見什麼， 他就會變成什麼樣的人。
薩杜恩Saturn。來萊曼Soloman？！
海洋從一隻水罐中傾倒而出，
你會說，海洋在魚兒中游泳！
這奧秘給你的渴望帶來平安，
並把回家的路變成家。


Rumi, Trans. by Coleman Barks
The Road Home


An ant hurries along a threshing floor with its wheat grain,
moving between huge stacks of wheat,
not knowing the abundance all around.
It thinks its one grain is all there is to love.
So we choose a tiny seed to be devoted to.
This body, one path or one teacher.
Look wider and farther.
The essence of every human being can see,
and what that essence-eye takes in, the being becomes.
Saturn. Solomon!
The ocean pours through a jar,
and you might say it swims inside the fish!
This mystery gives peace to your longing
and makes the road home home.

瑪斯納維全集（四）

521 人啊，從外表看你是一個小世界，但實質上你是一個大世界。
522 從表面上看果樹是果實的根基，實際上，採摘果實才是種樹的目的。
523 假如不是為了讓果樹結出果實累累，園丁又怎麼會把果樹辛勤栽培？
524 可見果樹是由於果實才得以延續生命，儘管表面看來果實要依賴果樹才能誕生。

Masnavi，book 4

Therefore in form thou art the micro-cosm, therefore in reality thou art the macrocosm.
Externally the branch is the origin of the fruit; intrinsically the branch came into existence for the sake of the fruit.
If there had not been desire and hope of the fruit, how should the gardener have planted the root of the tree?
Therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit, (even) if in appearance it (the fruit) was generated by the tree.