The Lesson from Noah
"Naming is the origin of all particular things."
-The Tao Te Ching
I.
Let Noah always serve as a reminder
of man's colossal waste of effort
in the material plane.
There he was, trying to
count ALL the animals, two by two,
forging an inventory of datum,
drawn from infinity,
signifying nothing.
The bible, of course, would report his success,
but we know better; for this primitive method speaks nothing
of the droves of microscopic fauna--
the various imperceptibles
beyond the scope
of unadulterated human sensing faculties.
Noah couldn't even imagine the
extent of the animal kingdom,
this particular task of his so great
and so futile from the start.
II.
When you yearn for reality,
the everlasting, unchanging Truth
of consciousness will arise to meet you.
When you move on the inside track,
all the way down, digging deep,
you will reach the indwelling source of wisdom
waiting for you always within,
and you will make certain contact
with the unknowable, unnamable
core of beingness. AMEN!
When you let go of all your resistance,
you will wake up to the Truth of RIGHT NOW,
the only game there is (or ever really was).
When you are perfectly present,
when you are aware and awake,
no-thing troubles you--
not boats, not floods,
and certainly not the name game.
Let the particular truths collapse into THE TRUTH,
the truth that cannot be named.
All words are mere sign posts to the mystery of total being.
Just "let go and let God" as they say.
So, just let the flood take it all away, I say.
Man should not resist the water,
man should learn to be more like the water:
to remain effortlessly content in the lowest places.




