Lesson 309
2025-03-18John Mortola
DiscoveryAmazement

Lesson 309

Do not fear to look within

The teacher’s voice did sing.

Awakening, my hungry heart took flight,

Plunging toward the darkness

My fearful heart had known

absorbing

The finality of death.

Do not fear to look within today

The soothing whisper came.

Vipassana…look deeply..

The loving voice did coo

Melting my fear, embracing the hunger,

Sating the urge denied for years…

Oh years..

That tore at the traces of ancient fear

That had for years…and years uncounted

Restrained my hunter’s heart...

That now did plunge into that night

To see the poets’ stars

And gentle moons that glowed

With long sought light.



Those gentle jewels that glowed

With the masters’ promise

Of love so long resisted.



Do not fear to look within

The loving voice did urge

And finding there

The courage to open my eyes

And behold the sight of

Arms thrown open

In welcoming embrace,

And entering my opening heart

Did so gently weep

As all those fears and all those years

Did melt away….in love