他(た)生(しょう)

運(うん)命(めい)を信(しん)じ、人(じん)生(せい)の波(は)乱(らん)を「一(いち)樹(じゅ)の陰(かげ)一(いち)河(が)の流(なが)れも他(た)生(しょう)の縁(えん)」と受(う)け入(い)れた。

• Believing in fate, they accepted the upheavals of life with the mindset that 'even the shadow of a single tree or the flow of a single river is a result of connections from a past life'.

同(おな)じ会(かい)社(しゃ)で働(はたら)くことになったのは、まさに一(いち)河(が)の流(なが)れを汲(く)むも他(た)生(しょう)の縁(えん)というやつだろう。

• The fact that we ended up working at the same company must be what they call fate, bringing us together even though we aren't related.

偶(ぐう)然(ぜん)知(し)り合(あ)った彼(かれ)と、実(じつ)は昔(むかし)からの因(いん)縁(ねん)があるようで、一(いち)河(が)の流(なが)れを汲(く)むも他(た)生(しょう)の縁(えん)だと思(おも)った。

• It turns out that I have a connection from the past with the man I met by chance, and even though we share the same lineage, I felt it was a connection from another life.

たった一(いち)度(ど)会(あ)っただけなのに、まるで袖(そで)振(ふ)り合(あ)うも他(た)生(しょう)の縁(えん)だと思(おも)えるほど、すぐに仲(なか)良(よ)くなった。

• Even though we had only met once, we became close immediately, as if that brief encounter was truly meant to be.

出(で)会(あ)いも別(わか)れも、全(すべ)ては宿(しゅく)命(めい)だと思(おも)い、「一(いち)樹(じゅ)の陰(かげ)一(いち)河(が)の流(なが)れも他(た)生(しょう)の縁(えん)」と諦(てい)観(かん)するようになった。

• I began to accept that both encounters and partings are all destiny, coming to a state of resignation, thinking that 'even the flow of a river beneath the shade of a single tree is a connection from a past life'.