Ruminating with Rumi
A light shines in you that glows from within the darkness of your roots. You are rooted in the ground of goodness, which is consciousness in existence. From the ground, pushing upward through the darkness, you emerge like a tree into world. In existence, you are fed by the light from within. Rumi suggests that we search too much in the branches of the tree for what can only be found in the roots. Your own effort with the light is illusion. You do not know. Rumi says the kettle does not boil of its own effort. Look at the fire below. The waterwheel turns at the flowing of the river. You are neither wheel nor river. You are the flowing. You are the expressing of consciousness that is existence. You are not the fire. You are the burning. You are not the river. You are the flowing. You are the dancing that is the dance. You are consciousness existing. To exist is to experience the illusion that is separation; to be this and not that. Do not put effort into separation. Do nothing. Let the light of your true nature glow on its own.
