Lalla-Naked-Song
Lalla lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, when many doctrinal streams were merging: Shaivism, sufism, Vedantic non-dualism, and other -isms, but Lalla is beyond religious categories, a living combination that cannot be described in those terms.
Lalla lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, when many doctrinal streams were merging: Shaivism, sufism, Vedantic non-dualism, and other -isms, but Lalla is beyond religious categories, a living combination that cannot be described in those terms.
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Your thoughts are like a child fretting<br />
near its mother's breast, restless<br />
and afraid, who with a little guidance,<br />
can find the path of courage.<br />
Wear just enough clothes to keep warm.<br />
Eat only enough to stop the hunger-pang.<br />
And as for your mind, let it work<br />
to recognize who you are,<br />
and the Absolute, and that<br />
this body will become food<br />
for the forest crows.<br />
* * *<br />
Meditation and self-discipline<br />
are not all that's needed, nor even<br />
a deep longing to go through<br />
the door of freedom.<br />
You may dissolve in contemplation,<br />
as salt does in water,<br />
but there's something more<br />
that must happen.<br />
Enlighten your desires.<br />
Meditate on who you are.<br />
Quit imagining.<br />
What you want is profoundly expensive,<br />
and difficult to find,<br />
yet closeby.<br />
Don't search for it. It is nothing,<br />
and a nothing within nothing.<br />
* * *<br />
Awareness is the ocean of existence.<br />
Let it loose and your words will rage<br />
and cause wounds like fishing spears.<br />
But if you tend it like a fire<br />
to discover the truth,<br />
you'll find how much of that<br />
there is in what you say. None.
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