Selling Air To the Sky

360 words | 3:30 min. audio — an epic Zen limerick

Selling Air To the Sky: A Zen Limerick

Maja Apolonia Rodé

SELLING AIR TO THE SKY
An Epic Zen Limerick
by Maja Apolonia Rodé

Part I

There once was a fellow named Ron*
whose persistence went on and on.
He sat and he sat,
till he knew he was That,
beyond the beyond the beyond.

Now he has a new name
and the sword of Truth is his game.
If you’re playing the fool
he will use his tool
till your head and the sky are the same!

The price for this teaching is high.
So, let the buyer beware of the buy.
The cost is your life.
What you get is a knife
from a man who sells air to the sky!

But it’s really a bargain, you see.
Pay one price and then everything’s free!
It’s such a great deal
trading dreams for the real.
Just offer your head and you’ll see!

Part II (24 years later)

There once was a person like you
who didn’t quite know what to do.
She sought and she sought
but it was all for naught
for she already knew what she knew.

But now, she knows that she knows,
no matter what others suppose.
If you think she’s below you
because there is no you,
you can’t see what’s under your nose.

The price of delusion is high
when a truth is perceived as a lie.
We all pay the cost
when heart-wisdom is lost
to a man who is blind in one eye.

So, don’t place your heart as the bet
in the game “Have You Gotten It Yet?”
No path is above
the living of love —
and that isn’t something to “get.”

Part III

Don’t trade your truth for the lies,
when you’re already holding the prize.
Take heart and stay true
to what’s true in you.
This is how love becomes wise.

Include yourself in the loving,
but forget the “below and above”-ing.
The world becomes true
when you see it is you,
and without you, there’s actually nothing.

But you don’t have to go it alone
or follow some one who was shown.
Life’s living need
is your unique seed
in the garden of all that is grown.
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*Name and other identifying information has been changed so this can be published without hesitation. Ask me if you want the original version.

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