The Gift

Awakening is not to seek 

For it is seeking you 

It always has been. 

Your whole life. 

Right there, 

hungry, 

ready for the kill.

Stop. 

Can you sense it? 

What you call “seeking” 

is just increasing the speed 

at which you run from it.

You hide from it 

in a world of imagined objects. 

You hide from it 

in distractions of mind. 

You hide from it 

in thoughts about 

a future version of yourself 

that will never come.

Stop running, stop hiding.

Drop to your knees, 

surrender, go limp.

It will catch up with you, 

slowly rip you apart. 

A ravenous beast

slow motion - tearing

 meat from bones, 

savouring it all 

With excruciating intensity. 

It will catch up with you.

It is inevitable. 

How long 

will you try and outrun it? 

If you let it, 

truth will devour everything.

Even the bones, 

dissolving in the acid stomach 

of salvation. 

This is life’s greatest gift. 

Awake awareness. 

The gift 

of liberated life 

on this earth. 

Are you willing 

to drop the resistance?

Are you willing 

to be torn apart?