Daily Cycles In Life Essay

Life’s Daily Cycles

Life’s daily cycles:

Mind thinks, feels, dreams.

Intellect reasons;

Heart craves.

The “I” deluded: it thinks it acts;

It endures, suffers, enjoys.

Body’s cycles: waking, dreaming, sleep.

Each in cycle its own, lost in revelry.

In the dim background;

The silent ever wakeful awareness,

To cycles, unending, is witness.

Mind, heart, intellect unsated;

Dreams return, ad nauseam;

Answers not found;

To fresh cravings awakened, turns;

The “I” in endless cycle.

Witness ignored;

The cycles, relentless, churn and turn;

Until one day,

No more dreams, the reasons, the cravings;

And no more ‘I’;

Only the Witness remains.

Glass Bottles

Egos, like glass bottles, always on edge,

Placed on precarious ledge;

Into thousand pieces

What have you given today?

My Guru, asked me;

I shook my head;

Sheepish, I must have looked.

Pity, he said, when we think of giving,

We think only of the immaterial material.

What of the oft forgotten, more enduring, life enhancing;

That daily ought to be given.

The least you can give is gratitude,

For the Life that flows in you.

To the Force that powers your being;

The ever wakeful Consciousness in all experience;

The one behind heart beats, and,

Blood that flows through veins.

Have you silently thought in gratitude of your parents, elders?

Your mother who demonstrated what selfless love truly is,

The father who disciplined, but taught you do what is right,

Their sacrifices paved the way for you,

Opportunities that made what you’re today.

Your teachers?

Remember do you their dedication?

Often not well paid, still straining, inspiring,

Gave you foundations of your learning?

You’re the product of an ageless culture,

Its deep rooted values, its teachings,

Legends and heroes that inspired you,

Moral and spiritual bases of a purposeful life,

Give back to that culture, by example, commitment,

That the best gratitude you can show.

You stand on the shoulders of the many,

You’re products of the past, of many who selflessly