Meeting life today

Today is the summer solstice; and marks a return to the image of Flaubert on the path in Maine… one of my favorites.

As I return to the wholeness of this body, 
the undivided nature of sensation 
which has no shape or form
but exactly conforms to the contours of life and being—

As I return to the wholeness of this natural force of being, 
I realize the way in which 
I am a visitor to life 
and an inhabitant of its landscape 
as though it were a foreign and unknown land 
that welcomes me into the arms of its truth. 

I have come to this unknown land 
here and now 
with nothing packed in my bags but my sensation itself, 
which is the passport to entry 
and the only thing I need at the beginning. 

And as I realize this, 
and as my connection to this inward flow of being 
becomes more concentrated, 
more precise, 
I begin to sense the gravity 
that holds me here on this planet, 
in this unknown land

and the magnetism which connects all of it 
to the being of the planet itself. 

And somewhere under the fabric 
of this sensation of being 
and the magnetism of this planet 
and the gravity of its truth, 

I sense faintly in the distance 
that everything here has been created through a great joy 
that begins exclusively in love. 

And yet at this time, 
this is nothing more than an intuition,
the beginning of a beginning of an understanding 
about the way that sensation of my being 
opens the door to entry 
into this great land of truth and joy, 
this great land of love and goodness which lies before me 
and which has been given this name by man:

Life, 
A name that deceives me 
into believing I know something about this place. 

I must proceed with sensitivity and perhaps even caution, 
because I do not know this land or its customs 
And if I rely on myself and my own impulses, 
I will perhaps get something wrong. 

And I wish to live here as a good and peaceful inhabitant, 
one whose inner contours begin to conform 
to the unknown shape of the love 
that rules this land. 

Here and now, 
I sense that it may be possible to begin to do that 

by allowing the glory of all that surrounds me, 
the vibration of its sensation 
to penetrate me more deeply 
so that together we align with one another. 

And every molecule in my body begins 
to establish an obedience to this force called life, 
which I do not yet know, 
but will meet today.