Beyond Nirvana: Finding Love in the Cosmic Web

Hein Min’s poem explores universal energy, questions nothingness, and encourages acceptance of existence’s interconnectedness. It uses metaphors like water and sea, exclusively for Different Truths.

The cosmic energy that combines us all
          in a harmonious mixture
 
Why would you seek the being of nothingness
                                       beyond eons,
      in the refuge of nirvana,
while your multi-layered form remains
      unconsciously relating
to the karmic elements of the mystic universe?
 
      Such integral twins
in a compatible divine relationship
 
Are you sure you can renounce clinging
          threads and hard strings
that generate the crescendo of our beingness
   and unify the meaning of what we are for?
 
      O Man, why leave home
while you exist in a constituting drop of water
fused into seamless oneness
                     of the mighty sea?

Sometimes the element thinned
            into breath renewed
as a droplet of rain once again
             in the cosmic cycle of change,
to be part of the togetherness
        of the eternal flow
imbued
       with ever-fresh life.

Picture design by Anumita Roy