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It's like the first scales -- the two trays held at the point of balance.
Place the counterweights and the objects on the trays,
they sway, the slightest adjustment perpetuating motion
and our eye strives to ascertain level.
But balance is obtainable:
There is enlightenment.
There is a point at which there is no more fear.
There is center,
acceptance.
I have experienced these points.
But.
Keeping those scales in balance is the trick:
as life is change, so do the measures,
the allotments--
and you sway
(your heart on that tray.)
Nothing new in this sentiment: Jack Kornfield points out, in After the Ecstacy, the Laundry, that it is possible to attain an enlightenment -- and then lose it. The mistake, his point, is to think that once you're enlightened, you've reached the final destination, the goal, the prize.
I didn't finish the book because I need no convincing.
Place the counterweights and the objects on the trays,
they sway, the slightest adjustment perpetuating motion
and our eye strives to ascertain level.
But balance is obtainable:
There is enlightenment.
There is a point at which there is no more fear.
There is center,
acceptance.
I have experienced these points.
But.
Keeping those scales in balance is the trick:
as life is change, so do the measures,
the allotments--
and you sway
(your heart on that tray.)
Nothing new in this sentiment: Jack Kornfield points out, in After the Ecstacy, the Laundry, that it is possible to attain an enlightenment -- and then lose it. The mistake, his point, is to think that once you're enlightened, you've reached the final destination, the goal, the prize.
I didn't finish the book because I need no convincing.