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The ashes are joy and You laugh at silly me who is ignorant. I pray, my love, that You will dissolve me into you as one just ONE.
INTOXICATION silently with intoxication there is nothing that separates me from IT It is laughable so simple it is! Yet I am so sad because no one sees it as it is As there is nothing else to desire IT IS! Oh! if only you could let go of yourself and merge into super-essential GOD You would be amazed IT IS! Nothing beats this love you are it but do not know Do not mock me
for saying this. I am a simple man Yet I know because I am and IT is and I am IT and GOD is IT and so is THE SELF. IT IS!
In these moments I flow Along currents of bliss That lead me beyond The cloud of unknowing Beyond the void of non-knowing There lies the void that even Engulfs me beyond thatness The super-essential sense of I.
Do you understand? Everything You think you are is a dream. Every moment is liquid.
Every moment is a negation. Only the super-essential flow Of I in and as IT makes sense. Oh! these liquid moments, Where I am not Jan Or Jan’s clever mind. In these moments there is only flow.
MADNESS I am mad with bliss I am drunk Give me medicine For what, I say? I cannot say “I” I am sorry but no What a pathetic genius Jan has become.
Tears, not of pain alone But of joys begone I tasted you in meditation Beyond minds contemplation But now, oh glory!
In meditation you encounter first the cloud of forgetting. Holy it is, you forget yourself Then you encounter the cloud of unknowing in which you undo everything you thought you knew. Then you encounter the cloud of non-knowing in which everything known is undone into void. Then you submit to grace and merge into the light beyond the darkness of all the clouds where you enter ecstasy Then you kill yourself and merge into the super-essential ONE
AI Summary
Poems and Ramblings by Jan Esmann presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 9 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 9 are particularly representative.
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