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Wayne Liquorman (who writes poetry under the pen name Ram Tzu) is an American teacher in the nondualist tradition and a student of the Indian teacher Ramesh Balsekar. Ram Tzu's poetry has some of the same teasing irony expressed by many Zen and Taoist poets, a playful and startling determination to turn our expectations of what enlightenment is upside down in order to free us into full awareness of the present moment. It expresses the prankster's urge to pull away our crutches so we can finally recognize that we've been able to stand without them all along.
In this poem, why do you suppose Ram Tzu has reversed the traditional image of the spiritual journey, transforming it from a path (or many paths) that go up a mountain into many streams that flow down a mountain... and disappear into sands? What is he saying about effort and non-effort? What does the image of the streams disappearing into the sands say about his nondualist perspective?
A few questions to contemplate...
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