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One Day, One Night

I am wind
I am a drifting cloud
I am a river
I flow

I am a quiet ocean
Bushels of falling stars
In the space that I feel
All become one

Where time stops
Space has vanished

I cannot feel my arms, my legs, my body,
my eyes, my ears,
my skin, my brain
The past, present, and future have all disappeared.

Heaven Earth Human
Do not exist

Where light and darkness have disappeared
There I am
Where even the numbers that say I am alone or with another have disappeared
There I am

I am not me
What!
I am something
I am something unknowable
I am something I have never felt before

One Day One Night
Someday, that day will come to each of us

That something
That is neither death nor life

One Night One Day poem

I offer you this poem, which was written very much like a river flows.

Before I wrote the poem, I went to a place of complete serenity and peace in deep meditation. People call that state a state of enlightenment, the pinnacle of Zen Buddhist meditation. From this place, I wrote the poem.

Regardless of who you are, we all dwell within a consciousness that’s awake during the day, and within a consciousness of dreams at night. Humans go back and forth between various levels of consciousness.

Enlightenment is a state of consciousness in which you leave the confines of the body and become completely one with divinity. God is in the brain. Since everyone has a brain, anyone who wants to can experience becoming one with God in their brain.

The fact that we are able to experience this awareness through meditation and prayer, a special privilege enjoyed by humans, is an incredible blessing. I want to share with you the hope that anyone who wants to can reach enlightenment.

In that state, you will come to realize that the world you currently see, hear, feel, and believe, is not everything. And that’s when the infinite potential of life and beautiful inner light will shine. That is the ultimate vitality.

One Day, One Night. Someday, a new future of humanity will be unveiled through an enlightenment that anyone can experience. That is my dream. That’s exactly when life becomes art.

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  • Jordan Diamond
    November 4, 2014 10:43 pm

    This is so heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Thank you for all you create and how many people you help to smile every single day.

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