Open your heart widely to the vastness of life
And you will see reality greater than your best understanding
Be suffused into the burning lessons of being
Til you understand that life and death dance freely as nothing and becoming.
Just as the flowers dance freely in the wind til they wilt and die
As a candle burns and spreads its light until it is nothing
Just as the seeds fall down and die at the moment of its birthing
Reality teaches us the life and death are really one beginning.
The mighty river of life flows directly to the sea til it is nothing
Its true destiny belongs to the vastness of the ocean’s belonging
The sun sets on the horizon til darkness envelops everything
If only to rise again in the freshness of the morning
Embrace life in the depths of your silent longing
til you realize that those who live life fully are intimate with death’s inevitable calling.
