Surfing

Feel what the wave is doing, saying,

Let it go, go with it.

Everything breaks, is rising and breaking

All the time, all over,

To the shore.

Life, savagely gentle,recalls you

To a place you never truly left.

The circles, the circles.

Do we have to believe in limits

To be followers of the Law?

If you fear drowning,

If you fear it,

Do not go out to sea at all.

A body,

All you are is a body,

And yet this body

Is not you at all.

Enter the wave,

Roll with the moment,

With no beginning and no end.

No more eternal, no more fixed.

Sympathy will see you through,

Sympathy for everything.

Live the intuition,

The sensation

Of air and water in motion.

From conduction

To convection

To turbulence,

You fall into the flow,

Always turning into something else.

There is nothing you cannot negotiate

With perfect manoeuvres,

Feeling what is right. what works.



It is all about differences,

Gradations of pressure and temperature,

Nuances of mind.

Desire will lead you

To no desire.