Monday, June 5, 2017

Jennifer Welwood - The Dakini Speaks



My friends, let’s grow up.
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.
Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice.
Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost.
It’s simple — how could we have missed it for so long?
Let’s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings,
But please, let’s not be so shocked by them.
Let’s not act so betrayed,
As though life had broken her secret promise to us.
Impermanence is life’s only promise to us,
And she keeps it with ruthless impeccability.
To a child she seems cruel, but she is only wild,
And her compassion exquisitely precise:
Brilliantly penetrating, luminous with truth,
She strips away the unreal to show us the real.
This is the true ride — let’s give ourselves to it!
Let’s stop making deals for a safe passage:
There isn’t one anyway, and the cost is too high.
We are not children anymore.
The true human adult gives everything for what cannot be lost.
Let’s dance the wild dance of no hope!


 

8 comments:

  1. Well said! So true!
    All flies with time
    Only the clear presence
    of the moment now
    may show our way

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  2. This is Wonderful! I saw it first on Facebook and am so happy to find its author!
    I'd like to post it on my (tiny & semi-private) aging blog - with credit and a link back to you - if you'll allow it.
    https://omnicrone1.typepad.com/itsavillage/

    It won't really get much traffic there, but it will be valued and appreciated.

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  3. Thanks you! SOOOOOOOOOOO on time during this time of loss in my life. Giving myself to it fully!!!!!!!

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