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Through My Eyes

Through My Eyes

Author: Kasia Yoko
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)