All Fall Away One Day

CLINGS & STEPS

All clingings leave

and fall away one day—

the same way

as they arrived.

It seems like the Light

succumbs to the Night,

only to come back

as the shining morning.

Let the Night

try all its tricks to stay—

the Sun will burn it down.

And the coming Night

will now know

the impermanence

of its darkness.

For the fools,

life ‘just goes on’.

For the awakened ones,

Life is always ‘ON’.

Another day.

Another great day—

though a hell of a long,

sorry day for many fools.

Life is not your possessions.

You are NOT your clings.

You Are THAT

which throbs within

through aeons.

Your destiny is not decided

by the shoes you wear,

but by the steps you take—

the strides you make,

and eventually,

the destination you reach.

For the destination

is YOU—

the beginning

and the end.

From the moment

you happened within your mother,

the journey began.

But DESTINY

is not created by the

SHOES we wear—

it is created

by the STEPS we take.

Not the shoes. The steps.

—Shambho