True Mastery

true mastery
is transparent.

everything just does itself.
being that same self-doing,
there is no remainder
nothing to take credit for
and no one to take it from.

receiving recognition
accumulating accolades
the tighter held,
the harder resisted,
the deeper the chasm.

between the lines of cause and effect
lives integral wholeness
of infinite interconnectivity.
quantity never speaks quality.
what never answers why.
humility is the fragrance of the effortlessly profound.

the open secret:
there has really only ever been
one thing for us all to do.
and that is,
to realize
the one thing.