I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?
I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question
What is God?
If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,
If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening
Called the mouth,
O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing –
Now!
From I Heard God Laughing, Renderings of Hafiz
This is from another mystic Sufi poet who lived in Persia the 14th century. It was quite loosely translated by Daniel Ladinsky and seems to speak to this moment when it is so difficult to find the Truth in the midst of so much distortion. And yet the Sun is shining her Light on the world and the Ocean contains great Depth and Mystery. Can we just relax into that perfect expression of Truth? Can our minds let go of our stories and come to the still place? Gemini and its ruler Mercury know this place even though on the outside they are often moving fast. The planet Mercury travels around the Sun in just 88 earth days but a day on Mercury lasts for nearly 60 earth days because its rotation is so slow. Today, let’s take a breath and start laughing at the absurdity of the idea that we can figure things out with our Gemini mind. We are not in control. Things are much more vast than we could ever imagine. So let’s laugh and breathe and surrender to the Mystery.
