I get to share more spiritual poetry from my student, Rach, which I’m always excited about. I occasionally share different voices on this blog to help you get a sense of the many ways that wisdom can be expressed. It’s not that you can’t go to other blogs and video sites (which I’m sure many of you do, and I encourage this). But rather, I know some of you build up spiritual teachers in your minds, and it’s my hope that when you read something from one of my students there’s a little less resistance to accepting that the wisdom you read below is also the very same wisdom that you have within.
Enjoy the poem!
The Pristine Unseen
The pristine unseen, it gleams
And glows within my very heart
And when tears and pain arise
The pristine unseen
Is uncompromised
Never departs
It can’t leave, you see
For it’s always been
and always will
For every arising and falling
Have done so in this pristine still
Pristine still is all that is
manifest and unmanifest
all phenomenol existence
and the empty space in which it rests
What beats this heart
what moves this body
The all pervading one
from which Mother nature,
all of life is throbbing
The drummer and the drum
All I’ve just written’s arising
fresh in the now
as is your, my, this awareness
that’s aware of it all somehow
Pristine unseen simply is
and to add anything to that
to say that it’s a mystery a miracle
or any word in fact
takes away from it you see
for the only way to truly know it is not to see or say
but to simply be.