Good Friend, everything is You

[Guest guest]

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Loosen the load of sweetness I'm carrying.

The sling-knot is biting into my shoulder.

 

This day has been so meaningless.

I feel I can't go on.

 

When I was with my teacher, I heard a truth

that hurt my heart like a blister,

 

the tender pain of seeing

something I loved as an illusion.

 

The flocks I tended are gone.

I am a shepherd without even a memory

 

of what that means, climbing this mountain.

I feel so lost.

 

This was my inward way, until I came

into the presence of a Moon, this new knowledge

 

of how likenesses unite. Good Friend,

everything is You. I see only God.

 

Now the delightful forms and motions

are transparent. I look through them

 

and see myself as the Absolute. And here's

the answer to the riddle of this dream:

 

You leave, so that we two

can do One Dance.

 

- Lalla

14th Century North Indian mystic

 

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From Coleman Barks'

" Naked Song "

Maypop 1992