for Maggie
Find a quiet place,
aside the human race.
You will need little care,
just a straight-backed chair.
Settle comfortably in, realizing
Realizing Self is no sin.
Breathe in and out,
and all else rout.
Let your body go.
So there you are . . . just so.
Close now your eyes not to see.
NOW--ready? Just be.
Recite your words
till they end.
Ever, so, slow.
Then again. Go.
No one's perfect.
Ego's mind will wander.
Stay awake for best effect.
Work is hard there--beyond yonder.
Demons may appear.
Watch them, do not fear.
Let them also go.
Slow. Again.
For twenty min!
(You can afford the time.
Where you're going--
No need for silly rhymes!)
There you did it.
And on the morrow,
You will come and sit.
Same time and place,
to let ego go a pace.
Not self but Self,
the safest, treasured space.
Rewards aplenty,
those minutes twenty.
Peace and One--
The goal that is no goal.
What better spent to awaken?
yours and my and our immortal soul.
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* Refer to the works of Eknath Easwaran.
[Not so obvious. You have to experience it, not read or talk about it. Or bother yourself with silly rhymes like this one. What you are after but not after (the goal that is no goal) is more important and powerful than words can express. The ineffable.]
