Instant Enlightenment

"Instant Enlightenment"

Just add water

The House of Joy

My bags are flying open

I'm finally home 

in the house of Joy

Love is the Sea of Non-being

Love is the sea of not-being

and there the intellect drowns.

This is not the Oxus River

or some little creek

this is the shoreless sea;

here swimming ends

always in drowning.

A journey to the sea

is horses and fodder and contrivance

but at land's end

the footsteps vanish.

You lift up your robe

so as not to wet the hem;

come! drown in the sea 

a thousand times.

The moon passes over

the ocean of non-being.

Droplets of spray tear loose

and fall back on the cresting waves.

A million galaxies

are a little foam

on that shoreless sea.

RUMI - Fragments, Ecstasies

Translation by Daniel Liebert