I Am Here Lyrics

First I gave up action

Then idle words

And lastly thought itself

Now I am here

Ridding my mind of distraction

Single-pointed I shut out sound and all the senses

And I am here

Meditation is needed

Only when the mind is distracted

By false imagining

Knowing this I am here

Without joy or sorrow

Grasping nothing spuming nothing

O Master I am here

What do I care if I observe or neglect

The four stages of life?

Meditation controlling the mind

These are mere distractions!

Now I am here

Doing or not doing Both come from not knowing

Knowing this fully I am here

Thinking of what is beyond thinking is still thinking

I gave up thinking and I am here

Whoever fulfills this fulfills his own nature and is indeed fulfilled