Imitating Rumi: the God of Dogs.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”  - Rumi

Funny enough I was afraid of getting a dog because I knew that (odds are) it would die before I would. I have this thing about being too attached to life. I love life so much  that it hurts to know that someday I will be dead. I know, I know, all you Buddhists are screaming the words "let go" and "detachment" but too much detachment isn't good either. Even Alan Watts admitted that it is a balance of attachment and detachment that is the ultimate way to live. With too much detachment we are basically a piece of stone.  I've been studying meditation, eastern religion, and new age stuff for 20 years and I have had it up-to-here with all the philosophical rigmarole of detachment. Bottom line: none of it really matters in the end and somehow in that nothingness we  find everything. There's my cop-out paradoxical sentence. Now Back to Rumi...

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.” - Rumi