not these things

dear, know that i speak to you 

of this one heart 

it is like a beautiful glow 

it is not of the world or the changing way 

it does not have a shape 

it is not as one believes it is or hopes for it 

to be 

it is not little or big or anything in between 

it is not within a body or a mind 

it is not within a concept, diagram

or a picture 

it is not in the spoken word or in 

books 

it is not in temples or churches 

it is not in scrolls or libraries 

it is not in the earth or the sky or the 

heaven or the hell

it is not in the holy waters, 

the rituals, the prayers or the fires 

it is not in the towns or the cities 

it is not in the rain, the sun 

or the moon 

it is not in the distant or the near 

it is not in the love of other

it is not in the situation, the experience 

or the condition 

it is not in the meditation or the mantra 

it is not in the student or the teacher 

it is not in the holy, the unholy, the 

preacher or the nun 

it is not in the creature, the insect, 

the bird, the fish or the seasons 

it is not in the sitting or the standing 

it is not in the thinking or the not thinking 

it is not in the discrimination, the 

silence or the speech

it is not in the prison or the freedom 

it is not in the wise or the fool

it is not in the life or the death

it is not in the solid, the fluid or the 

stagnant 

it is not in the strength or the weakness 

it is not in the putting in or taking out 

it is not in the empty or the full

it is not in the renouncing or the holding 

it is not in the insight, the judgment, the knowledge 

the gathering in or the giving away 

it is not in the finger, the toes, the ears ,the eyes 

the face, the stomach, the chest

it is not in the eating, the drinking, the dancing, the 

communing 

it is not in the travel, the staying in or going out, 

it is not in anything that can be named, spelled out,

spoken, seen, distinguished, conveyed or anything like this 

it is not anything that can be known 

love it is not these things 

it is that which is prior to any relative knowledge 

that which is unborn, primal, whole, complete 

perfect ...

it is you minus the covering of mind 

oh friend if you knew of it and lived in it 

you would not want to ever come out again

you would be still and all would be as it should be 

you would be still and all would not be colored by

the lens of ego and false ways 

all would be as it should be 

oh friend if you knew of it and lived in it 

you would not want to ever come out again