Heart and Mind

Some seek Liberation from the pain of being “someone”,
Some seek Illumination with the Inner Radiance,
The most fortunate among us, ache for both…

Liberation… and Illumination,
Freedom from bondage to the painful contraction of selfhood,
Living imbued with Bliss of our Essence, no longer veiled.

Those who seek Liberation from the knot of egoic contraction,
Arrive, if they are Blessed, at the Vanishing of that felt sense,
And feel, where “I” existed, a Serene Emptiness.

Those who long for Illumination with the Bliss of their Essence,
Come, if they are Blessed, to the ever-available presence,
Of the Fullness, Completion, and Bliss.…

How tragic, though, for the felt sense of “I” to have vanished,
And the Serene Emptiness that remains to remain only Empty.
Unfilled by Richness and Warmth of The Inner Radiance.

Or how tragic, as well, for presence of The Inner Radiance,
Ever available to the inward turning of Attention,
To arise to a suffering “I”, writing in inner pain.

And so, when using the mind to seek Liberation from “I”,
Entwined in endless concepts, theories and conjecture,
Consider, my friend, the counsel of the Heart's Longing.

And when moving in Longing in search of your Heart's Desire,
Aching with the whole of your being for “Something Wonderful”,
Consider, my friend, the counsel of the discerning mind.

And if, through Grace, “I” should vanish from Awareness…
May the Serene Emptiness, where “I” once reigned,
Be Filled with that Radiance beyond words to describe.

And if, through Grace, The Inner Radiance Shines within…
May it Shine within Serene Emptiness, free of the suffering “I”,
No longer sharing interiority with the intercessor self.

For the Heart's Desire is not simply Liberation from individuation,
Or Illumination with The Mystery that is the Heart's Desire,
But to Dance in and as that Freedom, Illumined…

With Fullness, Completion, and Bliss.