The Great Ignorer

The Great Ignorer                                                                                     

Eruch once advised a lover to become the Great Ignorer

and though the suggestion was specific, it is my goal

of late to become such a man – the Great Ignorer. 

Does not non-attachment require it?

Being not of the world; turning the other cheek;

loving thy neighbor as thyself – do they not

require a great ignoring of everyone’s

(including my own) transgressions and differences?

Perhaps, to ignore our virtues also,

born of karma, a forgetting of self and God’s grace

not individual human strength and effort.

Urgently Maya is tugging at my sleeve

every moment offering fear, pleasure, forgetfulness

while someOne within seems to be urging remembrance: 

to turn my attention solely toward my Beloved

and to all else become the Great Ignorer.

O child of God, nothing is real but God, said Meher.

And nothing matters but love for God.