Split-Second

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"Mazie Lane" <sraddha54@h...> wrote:

 

There was a moment, a split second decision

that redefined the terms of surrender in me.

Between the laughter and the sadness, a Buddha stepped in,

and I never knew calmness could be so still here,

here in my Heart that's still, everything's so still.

Unkindness and chaos must do what they do what they do...

But the river is flowing either side of my being, under, over,

tumbling and landing like a cat, on all four feet, in me.

Calligraphy shut eyelids, seeing script, Arabic,

Sanskrit, and etheric strokes upon my soul,

strokes upon my soul.

Shalom, Shanti, Peace,

Compassion and Serenity, in seeing misunderstandings,

tightly entwine.

In that split second lapse of making a judgement,

the Buddha stepped in and I became a Bo tree.

I became a Bo tree.

 

 

.....All can come to rest under the welcoming shade

of such a tree, all weary travellers, pilgrims,

who have left themselves to find themselves.

Beloved stood at the door, waving them Farewell,

and Beloved stands there now, Arms open wide in

the Embrace for Which all yearning hearts long.

Call it fate, or plate tectonics, or some mysterious

impulse moving like a secret spring that suddenly

breaks ground and bubbles into an Oasis midst the

dry dust desert of the soul, but one might just get the

shoulder tap to stop, sit, and be still!

Requiem. Requiem in aeternum. Requiescat in Pace.

Drink in This... Silence.

Swim in it, Dear Thirsty Ones!

 

O Beloved --

we are drowning in the same sacred waters.

First there is the struggle,

then the body relaxes.

We die.

And then

there is

 

EVERYTHING!

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

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