This is not….

This is not high school.
This is not America’s Got Talent
This is not sibling rivalry.
This is not Sunday school.
This is not mud wrestling.
This is not anything you can win or lose.

This is not me.
This is not you.
This is not purgatory.
This is not a new wrinkle.
This is not a cure for cancer.

This is not doable.
This is not durable.
This is not polyester.
This is not Uncle Fester.

This is not Krishnamurti.
This is not Nisargadatta.
This is not Einstein.
So what’s the matta?

This is what it is.
It’s not what it isn’t.
This is what I came for
To accept what is present.

This is not funny.
This is not tragic.
This is not real.
This is not magic.
This is not loving.
This is not hating.
This is not talking
Or even debating.

Sit down for a minute
And feel yourself being.
This is the answer; this is
What’s freeing.

Vicki Woodyard

4 Comments

  1. Your message reminds me of the Sanskrit ‘neti-neti’…..yours truly is such a nice, bright and rich definition. Through this we can find out who we are not – and that we are much more than what the mind is letting us know – is telling us. Thank you so much for this sacred message…..

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  2. so freeing..grace- filled reminder of truths that go forgotten so often. thank you for being a channel for this beauty to be expressed and shared, Vicki.

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