Awakening(觉醒)
Verse 1
One step one stair—the righteous way
One inch one insight—the crooked way
Some climb slow for steady and stay
Some turn and break for a shorter way
We gaze at the same mountain yet paths divide
We seek the same truth yet hearts abide
Lost in doubt and light advance or retreat both in strife
Can’t tell what’s wrong what’s right
Pre-Chorus
Shortcuts aren’t evil slow paths aren’t true
Epiphanies aren’t wrong—obsession’s the root
So much in this world opposites hard to cohere
Turn around another door appears
Chorus
Right or wrong in this human world
Just a shift in the mind unfurled
Trapped or awake right before your eyes
Break or hold in a single thought’s rise
Gradual growth like smoke sudden insight like flame
Shine on one fate all the same
No need to judge who’s in sky who’s in abyss
We sail the same boat to bliss
Verse 2
Follow the rules fear to stray a bit
Break the norms fear to fall into pit
Some cling to reason dare not cross a bit
Some shift their mind suddenly see the fit
Hardship binds tight left and right all in plight
The more we split right and wrong the less we see light
Right and wrong lie not in form but in heart’s core
Not in the path but where the heart’s door
Pre-Chorus
Shortcuts aren’t evil slow paths aren’t true
Epiphanies aren’t wrong—obsession’s the root
So much in this world opposites hard to cohere
Turn around another door appears
Chorus
Right or wrong in this human world
Just a shift in the mind unfurled
Trapped or awake right before your eyes
Break or hold in a single thought’s rise
Gradual growth like smoke sudden insight like flame
Shine on one fate all the same
No need to judge who’s in sky who’s in abyss
We sail the same boat to bliss
Bridge
A thousand paths up the hill one hall in the heart
When good arises light departs
No need to be trapped in right and wrong’s frame
A pure heart makes the path tame
Outro
When mind’s pure Buddha’s in the hall
When mind’s twisted demons stand tall
Life’s but a single thought’s span
A straight heart is your guiding plan
When mind’s pure Buddha’s in the hall
When mind’s twisted demons stand tall
Ask not if you walk straight or crooked
Ask if your heart is peaceful look