silence shared in words
A Courageous Jump into the Ocean of Life
Can you say who you are?
I am an invitation
for all those who are seeking,
searching,
and have a deep longing in their hearts
to find their home.
I am an answer
to the question
that everybody is,
but cannot formulate
a question that is
more a quest
than a question,
more a thirst
than a verbal,
mental
inquiry;
a thirst
that one feels
in every cell and fiber of his being,
but has no way
to bring
to words
and ask.
I am an answer for that question which you cannot ask
and you cannot expect
that it could be answered.
When I say I am
the answer,
I don't mean that I can give you the answer...
yes, if you are ready, you can take it.
I am just like a well,
ready for you
to throw your bucket
and draw the water for yourself.
I have it but
I cannot reach to you
without your efforts.
Only you can reach to me.
It is a strange invitation.
It will take you on a long pilgrimage
and it will end only
where you already are.
You will have to move many steps
and on many paths
just to come to come to yourself,
because you have gone far away from yourself.
You have completely forgotten the way back.
I am a reminder,
a remembrance,
of the lost home.
As a person I do not exist.
As a person I only appear.
I exist as a presence.
Since the day I came to know myself,
the person disappeared. There is only a presence,
a very living presence
that can quench your thirst,
that can fulfill your
longing
Hence, in one word I can say
I am an invitation,
of course just for those
who have a deep longing in their hearts
that they are missing themselves
a deep urge,
that unless they find themselves, everything else is meaningless.
Unless it is your a priori
concern,
your ultimate concern,
such that if it is needed you are even ready to lose everything for it,
but you cannot drop it....
There are thousands of desires,
but as far as longing is concerned there is only one:
to come back home,
to find your
reality.
And in that very finding,
you have found
all that is of any value
blissfulness,
truth,
ecstasy.
Jesus used to say,
"If you have eyes to see,
see
If you have ears to hear,
hear."
Of course, he was not talking to the blind and to the deaf.
He was talking to people just like you.
Perhaps
he was talking just to you,
because you are not new.
You are as ancient as the whole existence.
You have always been here.
You may have come across
many masters;
you may have come
close to many buddhas,
but you were too much engaged in trivia.
You were not aware of your longing.
I am
an effort to provoke
the dormant in you,
to wake up the asleep.
The fire is there,
but is burning very low
because you have never taken any care of it.
My invitation is to make you aflame,
and unless you know
a life
which is
luminous
and aflame
all your knowledge
is just a deception.
You are gathering it
to help you forget
that the real knowledge is missing.
But however
great is your accumulation of the
other,
the objective,
the world,
it is not going to become a substitute for your self-knowing.
With self-knowing
suddenly all darkness disappears,
and all separation from existence.
I am an invitation
to take
a courageous jump
into the ocean of life.
Lose yourself,
because that is the only way to find yourself.
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