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You think of the Path - Ram Tzu (Wayne Liquorman) - Ramesh Balsekar Tribute

 

 

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:54 AM PDT

You think of the Path

by Ram Tzu (Wayne Liquorman)

You think of the Path

As a long arduous climb

Up the mountain.

You concede there may be

Many paths

But you’re sure

All have the same

Exalted goal.

Ram Tzu knows this…

There ARE many Paths.

Like streams

They flow effortlessly

(though not necessarily painlessly)

Down the mountain.

All disappear

Into the desert sands below

— from No Way: For the Spiritually “Advancedâ€, by Wayne Liquorman

/ Photo by mateo caprari /

Ramesh Balsekar died this past weekend, on September 27. He was a well-known as a spiritual teacher of Advaita Vedanta, the Hindu nondualist tradition. So I thought it might be appropriate to remember him through this poem by one of his best known Western students Wayne Liquorman (who sometimes writes under the pen name of Ram Tzu).

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In this poem, why do you suppose Ram Tzu has reversed the traditional image of the spiritual journey, transforming it from a path (or many paths) that go up a mountain into many streams that flow down a mountain… and disappear into sands? What is he saying about effort and non-effort? What does the image of the streams disappearing into the sands say about his nondualist perspective?

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Ram Tzu (Wayne Liquorman)

US (1950 - )

Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist

Secular or Eclectic

 

 

 

 

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Dogma

 

 

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:52 AM PDT

Dogma is for those

who have tired

of the search.

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