Learning from water

Edenpics-com_005-093-Sacred-Water-lily-also-called-Blue-Lotus-Indian-Lotus-or-Bean-of-India.75200328I want the way

the water sees without eyes,
hears without ears,
shivers without will or fear
at the gentlest touch.
 
I want the way it
accepts the cold moonlight
and lets it pass,
the way it lets
all of it pass
without judgment or comment.
 
There is a lake,
Lalla Ded sang, no larger
than one seed of mustard,
that all things return to.
O heart, if you
will not, cannot, give me the lake,
then give me the song.

from Jane Hirshfield, Lake and Maple

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