A candle flame seems consistent,
but every moment it is a new one.
Present moment is the real thing,
past and future are just thoughts.
If consciousness is a candle flame,
the fuel to burn it must be our karma.
If the karma for a life time is burned out,
consciousness will still be there as bright as ever
for it is self luminous as the masters point out.
and I believe those enlightened are not the lying types.
But life is not a picnic, and there is no free lunch,
and the business of 'karma burning' will really kill us!
The body gets weather beaten, the face gets sun burned,
the mind gets tired of stimuli and the eyes lose focus.
The warning on the package starts to show up,
'Living fully is injurious to health,
and nobody leaves this planet alive!'
It is difficult for ordinary mortals like us,
to stay non reactive and dispassionate
through the ups and downs of the day
like a flame that's not flickering.
The smell of great cooking
and the passions of the senses
pull us back in to the clinging mode,
like the proverbial monkey that's trapped
with its tight fist in the jaggery pot.
It's always the flesh vs. the soul,
or the Animal over the Anima.
Then the pain follows the passion always,
like the shadow that follows a night rider.
But we become wiser eventually to feel that
the storm of the season shall also pass
and start looking at the small things closer.
We become skillful to do simple tasks better
and we learn to be with the new moment,
which is here and now already!
photo: 'inner sun'/sebastian©2009
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