Interspiritual Meditation, Part 5

7/30/2018

Interspiritual Meditation - Hindu Meditation

Meditation 5 out of 5

Loosen the load of sweetness I’m carrying,

The sling-knot is biting into my shoulder

This day has been so meaningless,

I feel I can’t go on.

When I was with my teacher, I heard a truth

That hurt my heart like a blister.

The tender pang of seeing

Something I loved as an illusion.

The flocks I tended are gone.

I am a shepherd without even a memory

Of what that means, climbing this mountain.

I feel so lost.

This was my inward way, until I came

Into the presence of the Moon, this new knowledge

Of how likenesses unite.  Good friend,

Everything is you.  I see only God.

Now the delightful forms and motions 

Are transparent.  I look through them

And see myself as the Absolute. And here’s the answer to the riddle of this dream:

You leave, so that we two

Can do One Dance.

 -Lalla, tr. Coleman Barks