Ariya's Thangkas

<br /><br />Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, <br />not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. <br />Not any religion or cultural system. <br />I am not from the East or the West, <br />not out of the ocean or up from the ground, <br />not natural or ethereal, <br />not composed of elements at all. <br />I do not exist, <br />am not an entity in this world or in the next, <br />did not descend from Adam and Eve <br />or any origin story. <br />My place is placeless, <br />a trace of the traceless. <br />Neither body or soul. <br />I belong to the beloved, <br />have seen the two worlds as one <br />and that one call to and know, <br />first, last, outer, inner, <br />only that breath breathing <br />human being.<br /><br /> (Only Breath - by Rumi)