Thursday, July 6, 2023

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī - Love is the sea of not-being

 

 

 Subtle degrees
of domination and servitude
are what you know as love
but love is different
it arrives complete
just there
like the moon in the window
like the sun
of neither east nor west
nor of anyplace
when that sun arrives
east and west arrive
desire only that
of which you have no hope
seek only that
of which you have no clue
love is the sea of not-being
and there intellect drowns
this is not the Oxus River
or some little creek
this is the shoreless sea;
here swimming ends
always in drowning
a journey to the sea
is horses and fodder and contrivance
but at land's end
the footsteps vanish
you lift up your robe
so as not to wet the hem;
come! drown in this sea
a thousand times

 


 

Monday, July 3, 2023

Simó Necic - Off\me

 

When you think of me
I am a thought
Sometimes a feeling, that comes as a thought
Sometimes a thought, that comes as a feeling.

I am not that.
This image, created, done.

I am not the words, the names that have been learned, written, imprinted, carved.
Words that draw your image, your map of reality,
of someone’s and something’s and sometime’s
Reality
Images of you and me and the other,
It is, we are – not, not this, not that.

You might be aware of it, but even “awareness” is not what you are, what I am.
Awareness
is just another idea, a coordinate on the map of the mind, in the mindscape.
The whole lot is unknown, it remains unknown, and no study, no practice, no teaching, no science, no experience, no exploration
can ever grasp it.

There’s no coming close, no going beyond, nothing to reach.
Imagination is a great painter.

It can appear like a mystery
but it is not even a mystery.
Nothing can be revealed,
but the drawing, the painting appears in such mysterious, vivid colors.
There must be order, higher purpose,
but the order might just be the love for creating,
repetitive patterns, stories so vibrantly appearing, so real, looking like impressive sandcastles on the beach of life,
facing the ocean
to be washed away.

The order is love, life.
But “love” is not the order, love has no order, no pattern.
Life, love,
does not prefer one name, one appearance over the other.
It is rather like the ocean, between offering habitat and flooding it.
A natural force like fire, able to burn everything to ashes, and the ashes being the nurturing soil for rise, growth.

All life is appearance, transience.
Colorful names and images that seem to be real, separated, individual, apparent things, that have edges, but the image is blurring, fading.

Memory, that turns into oblivion.
The ocean swallowing, assimilating it.
Alive.

 


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