No Mediation.
Let mediation go!
If I'm to see my light,
I want before my face
No wall to check my sight.

Die mittelwand muß wegg.
Wegg mit dem Mittelweg
Soll ich mein Licht anschauen
So muss man keine Wand
Vor mein Gesichte bauen.

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Quoted as "媒介物を捨てよ、捨てよ。わたしが おのれの光を直視すべきであるとすれば、顔の前に いかなる壁も作ってはならない。" in 「閑」のある生き方 (2003 p.79) by w:Kōji Nakano (writer). Translated text from シレジウス瞑想詩集.

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