awake #4

Dec 02, 2011 18:55

The Mirror (from The Secret Rose Garden)
- by Mahmud Shabistari, (1250? - 1340)

Your eye has not strength enough
to gaze at the burning sun,
but you can see its burning light
by watching its reflection
mirrored in the water.

So the reflection of Absolute Being
can be viewed in the mirror of Not-Being,
for nonexistence, being opposite Reality,
instantly catches its reflection.

Know the world from end to end is a mirror;
in each atom a hundred suns are concealed.
If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water,
from it will flow a hundred clear oceans;
if you look intently at each speck of dust,
in it you will see a thousand beings.
A gnat in its limbs is like an elephant;
in name a drop of water resembles the Nile.
In the heart of a barleycorn is stored a hundred harvests.
Within a millet-seed a world exists.
In an insects wing is an ocean of life.
A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye.
The core at the center of the heart is small,
yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there.

- thanks to bobby1933 for this. check his jnl for more wisdom!

"A gigantic mirror, millions of miles across. And in it will be the gigantic face of man, smiling back at himself. 'Hi!'" - (I've always got to add some damn koan to gum up the works!)

s- poetry - 'awake' (series), s- 'awake' (series), interconnectedness, universal eye, all * entropism, consciousness/ nature of consciousness, space - solar - and see geological, mirror, shanti, all * consciousness, shabistari - mahmud, transcendentalism

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