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

The True Face of Water

Look at your reflection in a still pool

and see the true face of water.

Schwenk on Water and Renunciation

"What enables water to accomplish this? By renouncing every self-quality it becomes the creative substance for the generation of all forms. By renouncing every life of its own it becomes the primal substance of all life. By renouncing every fixed substance it becomes the carrier of all substance transformation. By renouncing every rhythm of its own it becomes the carrier of each and every rhythm"

Theodor Schwenk

Letting Love Make Me!

Instead of making love

I could let love make me

And dissolve me

Over and over

The Ego's Cell Service

The Ego is answering all calls!

 When we receive cellular (our living cells) information, the ego will answer the call and say something like, "Hello, ok, we've got a problem here, something is definitely wrong! Uh, we don't know exactly what it is yet, but it's going to require a lot of hard work and effort to fix" The ego hates to be unemployed and if it ever was, it might realize that it is actually a big nothing. So it's got to keep creating problems to be solved by... you know who!