Thursday, May 28, 2020

A bodhisattva effect

A bodhisattva effect                                                                                     

It’s selfish to desire liberation (however phrased):
union, bliss, realization; to be free from affliction

when it means abandoning in our attainment
our loved ones (as well as the whole of humanity).

Yet, how might an imperfect,
in-the-flesh sufferer offer any assistance

toward liberating others while hopelessly
entangled in the same snare?

The object of liberation is not our human selves,
but the Godly Self within each of us –

the cleaving of the bonds, the clearing of the veils
that bind the true Self to Illusion;

that prevent Truth from knowing Itself as True.
Surely if we are One, with every individual liberation

there is a bodhisattva effect of some sort
beyond the incarnated self, a universal

further shifting of the tides, one day to sweep
every entrapped soul out to sea; to dissolve

(for however long forever is)
the illusory separation of God from God.

O child of God, use imagination and rationalization
to keep you focused on the eventual Reunion.

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