The Living Present: NOW is the Time

[Guest guest]

A Poem of Kabir<br><br>Found in:<br><br>"The

Kabir Book,"<br><br>By Robert Bly,<br><br>Beacon

Press:<br><br>Friend, hope for the Guest while you are

alive.<br><br>Jump into experience while you are

alive!<br><br>Think...and think... while you are alive.<br><br>If you don't

break your ropes while you're alive,<br>do you

think<br>ghosts will do it after?<br><br>The idea that the soul

will join with the ecstatic<br>just because the body

is rotten --<br>that is all fantasy.<br><br>What is

found now is found then.<br><br>If you find nothing

now,<br>you will simply end up with an apartment in the City

of Death.<br><br>If you make love with the Divine

now, in the next life you will have the face of

satisfied desire.<br><br>So plunge into the truth, find out

who the Teacher is,<br>Believe in the Great

Sound!<br><br>Kabir says this: When the Guest is being searched for,

it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest

that does all the work.<br><br>Look at me, and you

will see a slave of that intensity.<br><br>-- Sant

Kabir<br><br>For more on this theme by Rumi, Jesus and Kirpal

Singh, go to:

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r>Namaste,' <br>James