Disappearing in the Light

Blu Ridge Mountain notes
Oh the mountains are still there
And so is this pure air

Just want to be content
Putting aside worry-mind
Tho justified of course

Identify what the worries are
Then set aside worry mind
Lo and behold
Everywhere blue skies above

And now from the east
The song of the spring wind

Nadav and Avihu
Disappearing in the light

Once upon a time
Four brothers and sisters became ordained
To minister to the people,
Intermediaries it might have seemed
But really, just candles
In the light-sharers sorority/fraternity

The Abbot was known as Yudah-Dahya,
(In the time of this story he doesn’t know he’s the Abbot)
Yes, the same Yudah-Daya you know from Hawaii (H W Y H)
“How ah ya?” Yudah-Daya would often say
Making a bad pun on the name of the place

Hawaii
There’s a beautiful little fish in the Hawaiian waters
Known by the people as the
Humahuma-nukanuka-appah-wahoo

Say it aloud a few times and you'll see
It makes you smile
Humahuma-nukanuka-appah-wahoo
(This is surely a charming mantra, don’t you agree)

Scripture reports that the two elder siblings
Offered a strange or alien fire at the altar
(Thus it is usually translated in English --Leviticus 10)
And were consumed by the fire
Only their tunics and sandals remained

There are tales also of a certain Yoga sage from South India
Who completed his time in this world, entered a room near his devotees
Who some days later opened the door
And saw no trace of his body whatsoever.

Yudah-Daya and Whatsoever liked to swim in the Hawaiian waters
And watch the Humahuma-nukanuka-appah-wahoos go swimming by
And in the late afternoon feel the east wind
Blowin’ in a spring breeze

Aaron looks and sees the priest and priestess
Disappearing in the light, so does Moses
No one speaks

When he was young, Moses saw a man beating another man to death
In his fury he killed the overseer with his bare hands
Then he fled the land
Something comes along and gets us goin’ on our journeys
Something we never even imagined
And off we go

Yudah-Dayah was a hippy who liked to leave the city
And hitchhike to the ocean and run beside the waves

Notes and quotes were in his coats
And scattered by wind
One note that landed today reads:

Moses tells his brother Aaron
Stay centered, Kohane, hold your peace. God is talking

Thru them who are near unto me
I’m sanctified and before all the people I’m glorified

And yes, the effulgence is sparkling in our faces
And we can see it shining off each other
No time for the priest to grieve right now
(Nadav and Avihu, those are Aaron’s kids)

Disappeared in the light and now they're shining off our faces
That is, whenever we’re uplifted into a sparkling presence
We call this consciousness: Nadav and Avihu

Yudah-Dayah says, finish this study with the smiling mantra
Humahuma-nukanuka-appah-wahoo

May these inquiries we are pursuing together
Be of benefit to everyone everywhere

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