What are We Waiting For?
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This is the moment.
This is what we have.
This is what is real.
If we like this moment, if we approve,
If it’s a shitty moment, one we don’t want…
It’s what we got.
To be
Right
Here
Right
Now.
To be present
With life
As it is,
Such a
Core
Kripalu
Teaching.
Why bother?
Why bother being present?
Most people don’t.
If you are reading this—
You know why.
Life exists
In
The
Moment.
Love
Exists
In
The
Moment.
Right here,
Right now.
Give us the courage
And
The
Strength
To be present
With
What
Is.
What are we waiting for?
~~~
Here is a poem by Hafiz, the Persian lyrical poet from the 1300’s. It does sound like, for a guy from so very long ago, he nevertheless knows plenty about 2023. Check it out:
Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.
Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God?
Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child’s training wheels
To be laid aside
When you can finally live
with veracity and love.
Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.
That this is the time
For you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.
Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is Sacred
~~~
I couldn’t resist—I had to share this Mary Oliver gem:
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?”
From House of Light
~~~
I love that line,
What else should I have done?
And,
If not now,
When?
What will you do
Today
To
Be here,
Right here,
To practice
Being
Right
Here,
Right now?
What are we waiting for?
~~~
In gratitude for our time together,
May the work we do
Benefit all beings.
Let’s end our time with this classic by Tracy Chapman:
All blessings,
Aruni