Thursday, April 22, 2010

No Duality...

"How should there be room for self assertion (wind in the mustache) and personal reputation (water in the face) in the wine in which there is no room for even a single hair of self existence?
Go to the sea of whose fish you are born: how have you fallen, like rubbish,into distraction?
You are not rubbish--far be it from you! You are an object of envy to the pearl; you have the best right to dwell among the waves and the sea.
It is the Sea of Unity: where there is no fellow or consort.
In this Sea there is no partnership or complexity; but what can I say to the one that sees double? Nothing, nothing.
O idolater, that Unity is beyond description and condition: nothing comes into the arena of speech except duality."

Rumi (Vol.6. 2021-2034)

Commentary: Words, no matter how eloquent, will not take us where we want to go. In order to experience the "Sea of Unity" we're going to have to learn to swim and dive.