It’s so ridiculous that we can’t easily speak with other animals.
It’s so ridiculous that we don’t talk daily with the great teachers, Dakinis, and Buddhas—that we sit for decades in meditation, waiting for dreams and visions just to hold a conversation.
It’s so ridiculous that there are other communicating species in the Milky Way, and all we have is science fiction.
It’s so ridiculous that teachers call a human birth “lucky”. And what does that imply about the conditions in other inhabited places?
Since I was a young girl, I’ve known about the vastness of beings and worlds, and I’ve carried the pain and absurdity of our seclusion.
Yes, I am holding us to account.
How we spend our time is ridiculous, holed up in our hot houses of self-concern.
How we spend our money and what we deem important, ridiculous!
How much we have destroyed and how little we have reached toward.
If all the energy we expend trying to dominate, we instead used to find out, what would this world of ours be?
What would we be doing and seeing?
And who would we be speaking with right now?
with infinite love,
Shambhavi
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