THE NEW IN WHAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN

life continues its notorious way

of not cooperating with our best intentions


yet we are required to persevere

to ourselves continue to attempt to realize


what has changed again and again

only to become itself


to seek out the new

in what has always been


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oh make no mistake

what will be already is




as the decayed tree delivers

its last seeds to the wind


so in those seeds stirs

new increments of being


a common enough observation for sure

but we ever need to be reminded...


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so an old man's second childhood

for him it's going out

the way he came in

but in him stirs fresh blood reaching toward the stars

even as his body rots away around him

claimed by the earth as his soul is claimed by the heavens


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his vision blurs into a vista of infinite proportion

he sees the things of creation 10 million miles off

and will streak toward them in an instant

he will be nowhere and everywhere at once

and to him it will be only one profound 'place'

(for lack of any word that could express the inexpressible)

and he will be there

and he will be welcome


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long earthly lifetimes of heartbreak and disappointment

will resolve into a single perpetual experience


and in the letting go that is resolution

is the way forward


thus the Buddha proclaimed "strive without ceasing"

there is no ceasing until there is rest


and there is no rest

until there is wonder...


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