Hay-Ku of the Day (The Climber)

The climber asked the way to 

The top and the guide said: "The

One way there is to be there!"

[Rich Note: This 7-7-7 haiku was written in response to a FB image of a lit, exquisitely beautiful candle, with multiple figures, at various heights, climbing to the top of the candle to its flame; which in itself was a perfect visual metaphor of a classic Bill Samuel alliterative poem entitled: "The Melody of Woodcutter and the King"; the following excerpt of which involves a long climb up the "worldly mountain of seeking and finding" (Note: The accompanying painting is Sandy Jones' artist rendition of the story that appears on the "Woodcutters" book cover) :

"...My son," I answered the woodman, "to climb o'er the ground from plateau to plateau, is not the way to go. There is no path on the mountain that leads all the way to the top; nor a single place where a woodman may let go his axe; there is no plateau on any slope where one may stop contending with opposites. For to climb o'er the ground from goal to goal, creates the original two-ness - a climber and a goal." 

"Then how, councilor?" the woodsman asked, "how can I climb the mountain, how may I reach the throne?" 

"Listen softly," I said to the woodman, "listen gently with the Heart. THERE IS NO WAY THERE BUT TO BE THERE! This way soars above the ground, above the landmarks, above the plateaus. Swiftly, silently, immediately on wings of Love, this is how I shall take you there beloved, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, on the wings of the morning. Indeed the way there is to be there!..."]

[For those who interested may be interested in complementary copy of "The Melody of the Wood Cutter and the King," here's a link the William Samuel good friend Sandy Jones, his literary executor maintains:

http://williamsamuel.woodsongjournals.com/books/ ]

PS: Mystically speaking,

"Mountains, Cities, Baskets

Cups, Vessels, Grails or 

other such implied containers" 

often refer, from an esthetic standpoint, to energetic states, 

levels, densities or dimensions 

of Awareness of Being or 

Consciousness as the Primal 

Material ("Prima Materia") or

"All that Is, In and of Itself";

Some have  also christened 

"Mother Mirror" or the "Womb

If the Universe."