I Have No Wings, But Still I Fly In The Sky; I Have No Magical Power, Yet Like Magic I Journey Throughout

Lady Absinth (1901) - Ferdinand Keller

Eastern dance, 1887, Mikhail Vrubel

Medium: watercolor,paper

“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing… with which I am not linked.”

—

Carl Jung

art by Vanessa Lemen

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"Before enlightenment, no one can rely on strength. Enlightenment comes across by itself, and enlightenment can only be helped by a ray of enlightened power." Dogen Zenji

[Dogen Zenji (19 January 1200 - 22 September 1253) was a Japanese monk, writer, poet, philosopher and Zen master, and the founder of the Soto sect in Japan.]

Being lost and being enlightened are like two sides of the same coin, in fact they are one and the same. So you don't have to be in panic to seek enlightenment, but when you are lost, you should just be lost. 

You may try the hardest to “enlightenment, enlightenment” and think, for example, that we must do Zazen sitting meditation, read Buddhist scriptures, and so on.

But it is a force beyond enlightenment. Enlightenment comes to you far beyond enlightenment. In other words, Dogen teaches us that enlightenment has nothing to do with the efforts we make to try our hardest to find a way to become enlightened. Enlightenment comes one day out of the blue. So if you are lost now, then do not hesitate to be lost. Not ‘more lost’, but ‘firmly lost’. 

It's okay to be ‘just lost.’ Just think so and just be lost. 

Water Is LIfe “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” Jacques Yves Cousteau Vessel by Miles Toland

Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Italy c. 1420-1430. Nine Circles of Hell