The Awakened State

 We do not know how to sleep even 

 So, how can we think of waking up?

 What we call sleep 

 Is the paralysis of the cells of the body 

 As soon as the body becomes hale and hearty  

The tension of the worldly play begins,

The awakened state transcends the tension 

It is the awakened state of a buddha

Plunged in meditation 

Where there is neither the sun nor the moon

And yet there is neither darkness nor the light 

It is the state of nirvana.