One seed.....................

The House among the Roses   Monet    Oil on Canvas    1925

Can you find another market like this?

Where,
with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? 

Where,
for one seed
you get a whole wilderness?

For one weak breath,
the divine wind?

You have been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.

Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.

It no longer has the form it had, 

but it's still water, The essence is the same.

This giving up is not a repenting.
It is a deep honoring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly
for God’s sake!

Don’t postpone it.
Existence has no better gift.

No amount of searching
will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.

-Rumi,  The Seed Market

 

This..................................

The universe is a form of divine law,

your reasonable father.

When you feel ungrateful to him,

the shapes of the world seem mean and ugly.

Make peace with that father, the elegant patterning,

and every experience will fill with immediacy.

Because I love this, I am never bored.

Beauty constantly wells up, a noise of springwater

in my ear and in my inner being.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms

of those who have submitted to the mystical life.

Leaf sounds talk together like poets

making fresh metaphors.  The green felt cover slips,

and we get a flash of the mirror underneath.

Think how it will be when the whole thing

is pulled away!  I tell only one-thousandth

of what I see, because there is so much doubt everywhere.

The conventional opinion of this poetry is,

it shows great optimism for the future.

But Father Reason says,

No need to announce the future!

This now is it.  This.  Your deepest need and desire

is satisfied by the moment's energy

here in your hand.

-Rumi

the elegant patterning................

The universe is a form of divine law,
your reasonable father.

When you feel ungrateful to him,
the shapes of the world seem mean and ugly.

Make peace with that father, the elegant patterning,
and every experience will fill with immediacy.

Because I love this, I am never bored.
Beauty constantly wells up, a noise of springwater
in my ear and in my inner being.

-Rumi

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Timeless counsel...............

Wisdom for the ages, shared freely by the Execupundit, here