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Through My Eyes
Through My Eyes
Date: 2023-08-28
the feeling of endless possibilities.It's also a month when we celebrate Women and everything they stand for. Itstime for us to take time to appreciate what being a woman means to each of us.What power does this month harness and what is it remembered for?
Ifthere is anything that the 20,000 women who marched to the Union Buildings onAugust 9 1956, in protest against the extension of the Pass Laws to women,taught us, it is to believe strongly and make positive changes in whatever wedo in life.
Forme, August is when I celebrate my union of matrimony, 30 years of marital'bliss' and counting...
Thisyear there were no lavish celebrations. No parties. No hoorays. I'm donecelebrating milestones like some trophy searching fool. Our anniversary was allabout reflections. Our memories of triumphs and struggles. It's aboutcontemplations, observations and personal appreciations.
30years is a lifetime to be with someone, I guess, we were meant to be together.It was written somewhere in the big book of the living and dying, and so it is.
Howeverit is the next 30 years that excite me the most. Now that I have worked out allof my husband's strengths and weaknesses, the power struggle is over and we canjust explore bliss in all its pure, unfiltered glory.
AsI enter into this new milestone I seek peace. Turning away from the noise. Hereis a verse that I dedicate to all who have seen past the noise and can relateto Rumi's words.
People ask me
how I'm doing
I tell the truth
"I'm doing just fine"
Spinning like a Sufi
I go out of my mind
This awareness
Here in the
emptiness
The world
stops spinning
As I simply sit Zazen
dropping body and mind
No more
me nor you
We abide in
the Oneness,
beyond and
including, all
of humankind
Totally boundless
Simply unconfined
I've once again left
my mind behind
Now One Mind
Perceives Total
Consciousness
It turns out
the emptiness
Is filled with
this Suchness
One with the Tao
it's everywhere
all of the time
I'm Aware that the light
in every single myriad
being and thing is all
this One Essence
that's so sublime
That's why when
people ask me
how I'm doing
When I see the
same light within
us all radiantly shine
I tell the truth
"I'm doing just fine"
It's the truth
Just let it Be
You too will see
When I ask
how you're doing
You can tell me
The truth
about Reality
Of the same light
within us all
that you see
so radiantly shine
As you tell me
"I'm doing just fine"
Rumi (1207-1273)