jan lili sin pi uta…
lipu Nasin la: kasi nanpa 20 pi lipu Nasin Pona
绝学无忧 | Get rid of “learning” and there will be no anxiety. | |
唯之与阿 |
How much difference is there between “yes” and “no”? | |
善之与恶 |
How far removed from each other are “good” and “evil”? | |
人之所畏 |
Yet what the people are in awe of cannot be disregarded. | |
荒兮其未央哉 | I am scattered, never having been in a comfortable center. | |
众人熙熙 |
All the people enjoy themselves, as if they are at the festival of the great sacrifice, | |
如春登台 | Or climbing the Spring Platform. | |
我独怕兮其未兆 | I alone remain, not yet having shown myself. | |
如婴儿之未孩 | Like an infant who has not yet laughed. | |
累累兮若无所归 | Weary, like one despairing of no home to return to. | |
众人皆有馀 | All the people enjoy extra | |
而我独若遗 | While I have left everything behind. | |
我愚人之心也哉 | I am ignorant of the minds of others. | |
沌沌兮 | So dull! | |
俗人昭昭 |
While average people are clear and bright, I alone am dull and dim. | |
俗人察察 | Average people know everything. | |
我独闷闷 | To me alone all seems covered. | |
澹兮 | So flat! | |
其若海 | Like the ocean. | |
飂兮 | Blowing around! | |
若无止 | It seems there is no place to rest. | |
众人皆有以 | Everybody has a goal in mind. | |
而我独顽似鄙 | I alone am as ignorant as a bumpkin. | |
我独异于人 | I alone differ from people. | |
而贵食母 | I enjoy being nourished by the mother. |