《身體就像聖母瑪利亞》/魯米

身體就像聖母瑪利亞，每一個人心中都有一位耶穌。

有誰不在創造，神聖地創造呢？所有生靈都在創造。

當大地或靈魂盡情創造美時，

去好好感受真藝術的價值吧。

親歷者在那樣的時刻就會知道，

道是真實的，存在於萬物之中。

從它永恆的存在之中，

演化出宇宙萬物，

我們被賜予生命。

儘管也需要「出生」。

是的，道也需要「出生」!

從一隻手的愛撫中、從一首歌中、

從一支舞蹈中「出生」，而賦予萬物生機。

身體就像聖母瑪利亞，我們每個人，

是的，每個人都有一位內在的耶穌。

肖林振/譯

THE BODY IS LIKE MARY

The body is like Mary, and each of us has a Jesus inside. Who is not in labor, holy labor? Every creature is.

See the value of true art, when the earth or a soul is in the mood to create beauty;

for the witness might then for a moment know, beyond any doubt, God is really there within,

so innocently drawing life from us with Her umbilical universe—infinite existence . . .

though also needed to be born. Yes, God also needs to be born!

Birth from a hands loving touch. Birth from a song, from a dance, breathing life into this world.

The body is like Mary, and each of us, each of us has a Christ within.

—Rumi

From the Penguin publication The Purity of Desire:100 Poems of Rumi