Monday, March 12, 2007

Again Rumi

The breeze of dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth
across the doorsill,
where the two worlds touch.
the door is round and open ,
Don't go back to sleep.

From The Essential Rumi 'translation by Coleman Barks with John Moyne 1995 chap:4

Be content with own nothingness

Let me drown myself in solitude,
alone in a crowd,
and be content with own nothingness.
No fame,no recognition,
no rose petals to shower ,
No pain in the heart only
be content with own nothingness.
With so much peace within,
nothing can come between,
me and my nothingness.

Its a Divine Gift,
the journey of discovering oneself from within.
By lifting the veil on my heart,
and my offered prayer and the loving work ,
of my two weak hands.......You are teaching me to remember,
who am I in this karmic cycle of my life,
and be content with own nothingness.

Shree