Float, Trust, Enjoy
“…No one looks back and regrets leaving the world. What’s regretted
is how real we thought it was! How much we worried about phenomena and how little we considered what moves through form. ‘Why did I spend my life denying death? Death
is the key to truth!’ When you hear lamenting like that, say, not out loud, but
inwardly, ‘What moved you still moved you, the same energy. But you understand
perfectly now that you are not essentially a body, tissue, bone, brain, and muscle. Dissolve
in this ear vision. Instead of looking down at the six feet of road immediately
ahead, look up to see both worlds, the face of the living king, the ocean shaping and carrying
you along. You’ve heard descriptions of the sea. Now float, trust, enjoy the motion.’”
Rumi (from the Coleman Barks translation)
