inspired by a hug… painting in process
Was watching this documentary “doing time doing vipasana“, about how 10 days of silent meditation made a huge difference in the lives of the inmates as well as the officers. At the end of the course they all stood in a line to have a hug from the director (something very unusual due to caste system in India) and it was so moving to see the love flowing between those people divided by their fate and yet connected by it at the same time….
Look At Love
look at love
how it tangles
with the one fallen in love
look at spirit
how it fuses with earth
giving it new life
why are you so busy
with this or that or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend
why talk about all
the known and the unknown
see how the unknown merges into the known
why think separately
of this life and the next
when one is born from the last
look at your heart and tongue
one feels but deaf and dumb
the other speaks in words and signs
look at water and fire
earth and wind
enemies and friends all at once
the wolf and the lamb
the lion and the deer
far away yet together
look at the unity of this
spring and winter
manifested in the equinox
you too must mingle my friends
since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me
be like sugarcane
sweet yet silent
don’t get mixed up with bitter words
my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be
(Rumi/ translation by Nader Khalili)
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it reminded me of the “hugging saint” (Ammachi) that would literally hug thousands of people without break, drink or pee, and while I was watching her it felt to me as if with each person she was hugging she was lovingly embracing all the parts of us that we hadn’t been able to embrace or even look at, and with each reaching out eagerly for the next person it seemed to me we were expanded out into this world, bigger and bigger, embracing with each person another part of this world holding it dear to our heart.