The Path of Love (not Fear)
or the under-appreciated practice of dying a little bit every day
It has been said:
of my own I am nothing.
.
(Don’t be afraid to die)
.
Imagine!
to die our sense of self
into that bleak void,
that Big Nothing.
……………………..
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Don’t be afraid to die.
.
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Don’t be afraid to die.
I mean now, today, and again tomorrow. Die a thousand deaths. Don’t worry: our true self is indestructible. What dies over and again is our ego, everything we cling to, our fears, our mistaken identities, our hopes, our regrets.
With every death we die we free ourselves up, we shed another layer, like a snake
sheds an old skin.
Another step closer to our radiant self.
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Don’t be afraid to die.
(even if I am,
still,
at times,
again)
.
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Let go
Let go of what we’re not.
Our jobs, our mortgage
If we were right
If we got it right
If we’re good enough –
there is no such thing
.
Except for in our mind.
That inner voice
Rattling on
Interrupting our peace
ego? id?
old voices that
slipped in
unnoticed
maybe when we were young
maybe yesterday
so insistently
they ring true
.
Be a farmer
weed your garden
plot by plot
so you can see it
holds flowers
as far as you can see
.
(Don’t be afraid to die)
.
Immerse your vessel
let it go
under
and be lost
Lost, and with loss,
scary leap
of faith,
that
is our doorway
into a realm
still familiar to newborns
and Fools,
– but we
deepdown, secretly,
remember
and
hold it
in our heart
ashamed, stricken and
grieving
that fated separation
eons ago
.
Don’t be afraid to die.
.
Have your vessel filled
overflowing
submerged
till
your heart runs over
with the love
that we were
created from
the love
that is our
breath
the love
that runs through every
vein
the love
that holds every nano cell of our core
and every distant
galaxy we
have not found yet
.
(Don’t be afraid to die)
.
call it God
call it Nothing
call it Everything
call it anything under the sun
There are a thousand names to
try to pinpoint the Unspeakable
it really doesn’t matter
Certainly not to the One
.
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NY 4.2.2013