Grass-eating animals do not dislike

To change their pastures;

Critters born in the water do not dislike

To change their waters. They all

Make a small change, but do not lose

What is the great and regular requirement

Of their nature and the way of survival.

For this reason, any joy, anger, sadness

And delight do not enter into their chests

In connection with things of existence.

Now the space under the sky is occupied

By all sorts of beings in their total unity.

When they possess that universal unity

And equally share it, then their limbs

And hundred parts of their bodily frames

Are but so much dust and dirt, while death

And life, their ending and their beginning,

Are but as the succession of day and night,

Which cannot disturb their enjoyment

Of every single moment of Life.

And how much less will they be troubled

By gain and loss, calamity and happiness,

Misfortune and good luck -- things to which

Only the humans are so strongly attached!