To Be a Slave of Intensity – Kabir
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The sufi Kabir was from India and although born a muslim had as his mentor a Hindu master, he often took things to extemes breaking the boundaries of accepted wisdom and his poetry is often a powerful expression of this…..
“If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?”
this is a brilliant example of it in action…
To Be A Slave Of Intensity by Kabir
Friend, hope for the guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think…and think…while you are alive.
What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death.
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten -
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now, you will simply end up
with an apartment
in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life,
you will have the face of satisfied desire.
So plunge into the truth,
find out who the Teacher is,
Believe in the Great Sound!
Kabir says this:
When the Guest is being searched for,
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest
that does all of the work.
Look at me,
and you will see
a slave of that intensity.
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