tree of knowledge

tree of knowledge

what have you experienced
in the world today? 

nothing said the tree
for nothing has ever happened to me
i have been here within
stillness always
untouched by personal experience

i have been here as a new dawn

and sparkling waters of clarity

i have been here eternally alone 

like the full moon set in a

dark, starry night..

i have been as i am 

free and unborn like the sky

spacious and untainted

i have not been within coming and going 

as the world is
i have been here as timeless
absolute perfection
the world knows me not 

the suffering knows me not 

the man of shadow knows me not 

the wave of thought knows me not 

the intellect knows me not 

the dream knows me not 

the one that is becoming knows me not 

the one that is chasing pleasure 

knows me not 

the one that dies and is reborn knows me not 

the one that lives and breathes separation

knows me not 

for i am not of the worldly way 

i am as precious still waters

free and impersonal, non-dual

not to be *seen* by the eyes or heard by the ears

or tasted by the tongue ....

i live *alive* and well always as beauty, peace
and boundless joy..

i am not separate from anything or anyone 

nothing can be separate from me 

not a mountain or a single grain of sand 

i am sat chit ananda

shadowless, perfect and whole
deathless
tree of knowledge