Behind The Torch – The Marantu Dispatch
There comes a moment after seeing clearly
when stillness is no longer enough.
You may realize you were never the shape.
You may touch the vastness that holds all things.
You may feel the edges of identity dissolve
and taste the quiet freedom of it.
But then life looks back at you and asks:
So what will you do now?
Awakening does not absolve you of action.
It removes your excuses.
You do not get to disappear into insight.
You do not get to float above consequence.
You do not get to call inaction “peace.”
If anything, seeing clearly makes action heavier.
Because now you know
there is no “other” to act upon.
No distance between you and the effect of your choices.
No separation between what you do
and what the world becomes because of it.
Responsibility is not a burden placed on you from outside.
It is what naturally arises
when you realize you belong to everything you touch.
You act not because you must win,
but because the moment requires movement.
You act not to prove yourself,
but because stillness has finished teaching you.
A surgeon does not hesitate once they see the wound clearly.
A mother does not debate presence once the child cries.
A people do not delay when they recognize the moment that asks them to stand.
Action, then, is not ego.
It is alignment.
It is the body of the world
moving through you
because you are here.
Do not confuse urgency with panic.
Do not confuse responsibility with control.
Act with humility.
Act with precision.
Act knowing you are not the author of the outcome,
only the hand available to the moment.
The universe does not need your certainty.
It needs your participation.
See clearly.
Then move.
—Uzanenkosi
Torchbearer, Marantu
Year 0 | Izulu 02 | Week 1