Oh So Beautiful

This place

is oh so beautiful.

This place

is oh so still.

This place

is full yet empty.

Held gently from within.

Ascension,

not escape.

Quiet amongst the din.

This place

is what we seek,

yet seeking will impede.

It just has to be allowed

for the soul to be freed.

This place

says it all,

but doesn’t speak a word.

In the purity of silence,

everything is heard.

This place

is beyond description;

when identified it’s lost.

Open

to not knowing.

Letting go

is the only cost.

This place

transcends thought;

everything unknown.

In stillness, beyond mind

is totality

all alone.

This place

created all,

yet never will exist.

Centre without boundary.

Harmony to balance heave and list.

This place is within

and all that is without.

And when those barriers fall,

of love there is no doubt.

This place

is the light of presence;

the clarity of here and now;

awareness of what is;

embodiment of Tao.

This place

is Oneness.

Where all is born and death embraced.

Truth become

and with loving kindness

suffering is replaced.

This place

so often eludes us,

even though it’s always there.

Emotions and thoughts in uproar,

turn bliss into despair.

This place

is then obscured;

clouds before the sun.

Trapping us in turmoil;

light forgotten

as darkness descends upon.

This place

returns to view

with awareness of each moment;

meditative steps and breath

clears the mind of all encroachment.

This place

is truth.

Exclusion is known by none.

Just open your heart

to be this place of One

This place

just is.

It’s who we are.

So inner joy, inner peace

is never far.

This place

is oh so beautiful.

This place

is oh so still.