Primal Clarity

Primal Clarity

...through an open heart.

The real work
is digging in the ground.

Who says so?
Rumi does.

And also anyone who's ever
stooped beneath the sun to touch
something which at first may be
too frightening to handle.

For in that mud and soil
are those alien insects,
along with the blood and bones
of forgotten generations.

So on wintry day,
it's easy for me to look
at a patch of muddy ground,
with maybe a cow or two
searching for some grass to eat,
while thinking a bit restlessly,
What is my life about?

Truth be told,
the only way for me
to know anything bigger
than the hellish nightmare
called my imperial ego,
is to writhe in that mud
until I recognize my being
in its primordial state.

---

We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.
~ John Tavener