Everyone’s quest is the same,
To find one’s own perfection.
That is really all that any one of us is seeking.
Each being comes out of nirvana wanting everything;
Seeking to know and experience all possibilities.
Like birds who make their nests out of whatever life
Affords them, each of us makes the mandala of our
Current incarnation out of whatever we are drawn to.
From lifetime to lifetime we are drawn back
To familiar persons, places and things.
The enlightened call this “sameness,”
A feeling of pleasure in internal
And external surroundings
That are familiar to us.
When beings agree upon their illusions,
They feel close to each other.
When they no longer share the same illusions,
They drift apart,
Each seeking a separate reality.
Illusions — the things that we are attracted to, want,
Believe in, or wish to have happen to us — create our
Associations. They join us for a time
In the ocean of life
To others, until
One day we
Are free.