Words

Once a gift is given
to you
what you do with it
is your business

If you learn
from my words
I am
your teacher

If you are served
by my words
I am
your servant

If you are reminded
by my words
I am
your reminder

If you are confused
by my words
I am
your puzzle

If you anger
at my words
I am
your nuisance

If you hate
my words
I am
your enemy

If you are repelled
by my words
I am
your darkness

Whatever your response
I am
honored to be
your idea of me

And what I am
truly
cannot be touched
by you
or me
or anything

What I am
is
what You are
when
everything
drops

What I am
is
what You are
when
nothing
drops

What I am
is You
except
in thinking mind

Meet me, dear one
where the words end
and something else
begins

Meet me, dear one
where nothing separates us
and I am
You

Fearless Freedom Functioning

There is a world of difference
between resting
in the emptiness
as a stance
or strategy
towards an endgame
and resting
in the emptiness
in reality

Be aware
of that within you
which would subvert
even God
to suit a human agenda

Be aware
of that within you
which would use
even emptiness
to fill a gnawing
at the soul

Even the highest
spiritual ideal
is corruptible
in the mind
that prides itself
on its own
power and control

Resting in emptiness
there is no need
to fix anything
not because
nothing is broken
but because
broken is only
a perspective
in the mind

Resting in emptiness
there is no need
to do anything
not because
there is nothing
to be done
but because
there is no one
to do it

From this emptiness
that is nothing
and needs nothing
comes all doing
and from resting
in this emptiness
comes the doing
beyond mind's understanding
pure joy in doing
love manifest
fearless freedom functioning