Ruminating with Rumi
The journey to the sea is not complex. Each moment in your life can be a single note in a simple melody. There is wisdom in simplicity. To be wise is to see through the worldly dust to the truth behind its cloudiness. To see through the dust clouds, you must use eyes that see. To have eyes that see is to remember twia. Twia is the vision that is wisdom. To see with wisdom is to know your course. Words may fail you, but twia knows. By following twia, you gain more by not knowing than by trying to understand with words. Twia knows unfailingly.
To follow twia is simple. Sit in the still silence of the room within. You will find clarity of vision to see your way into the emptiness that is consciousness. Sometimes, even in clarity, darkness may overcome you. Desire may cloud your vision. Then the emptiness fills with expectations. Soon pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow crowd their way in, and you cannot see through their billowing dust. You stumble into the brambles along the path. The thorns prick at you, and you are lost.
When lost, return to twia. Twia knows the way. Do not contend with the dust, brambles, and thorns. To contend is to give them substance. Do not offer reality to illusion. Instead, return to simplicity and clarity. Go within. Herein lies the eternal. The eternal is real. It has no substance. Do not look upon the world as real. The flame of existence is energy in motion. You are the flickering of the candle. You are without substance, yet you light the world.
