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Chickpea to Cook

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Amelia Mitchell

by Rumi

A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it’s being boiled.

“Why are you doing this to me?”

The cook knocks him down with the ladle.

“Don’t you try to jump out.
You think I’m torturing you.
I’m giving you flavor,
so you can mix with spices and rice
and be the lovely vitality of a human being.

Remember when you drank rain in the garden.
That was for this.”

Grace first.  Sexual pleasure,
then a boiling new life beings,
and the Friend has something good to eat.

Eventually the chickpea
will say to the cook,
“Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimming spoon.
I can’t do this by myself.

I’m like an elephant that dreams of gardens
back in Hindustan and doesn’t pay attention
to his driver.  You’re my cook, my driver,
my way into existence.  I love your cooking.”

The cook says,
“I was once like you, fresh from the ground.  

Then I boiled in time, and boiled in the body, 
two fierce boilings.

My animal soul grew powerful.
I controlled it with practices,
and boiled some more, and boiled
once beyond that,
and became your teacher.”

Thank you spirit for this gift today, and
thank you to my guides and helpers as the process unfolds.
I await and allow the wisdom and the
knowing as it is to arrive to me.
~Amelia

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