Ineffable Bliss

2007-07-14T07:26:00.000-06:00

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"I knocked on the door
of the One who embraces Love.
He opened it, saw me there and began to laugh.
He pulled me in....
I melted like sugar cubes...
in the arms of the Lover,
that wizard of the world... "

~Rumi
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Loving... Merging... Moving....!

off to Santa Fe.... to be with my Beloved...

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2007-05-08T08:06:00.001-06:00

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Endless Benediction

This flame of living Truth...

Movement without division,
Action free of doubt,
Thought without thinking,
Wisdom born of the unknown ...

This endless benediction,
Birthing itself from the origin of all,
Never leaving or forsaking itself...
Timelessly present always
Shamelessly displaying itself as This,
right here...

Never leaving any trace behind.

~Adyashanti

2007-04-30T07:33:00.000-06:00

The Day Sky

Let us be like
Two falling stars in the day sky.

Let no one know of our sublime beauty
As we hold hands with God
And burn...

Into a sacred existence that defies,

That surpasses...

Every description of ecstasy,

And Love....

~Hafiz

(For Danny...)

2007-04-05T07:58:00.000-06:00

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You are neither free nor bound, but ever present...

~Adyashanti

2007-03-31T07:00:00.000-06:00

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Peach trees are blooming,
In a quiet little mountain town...

The sweet fresh fragrance, transforms the Hearts of all who are near...

With each breath, secret universes are born.

Lovers dance their formless dance... amongst the lovely trees,

Celebrating the Spring...

I Love Peaches....

(See you there Beloved...)

2007-03-28T08:29:00.000-06:00

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Enlightenment is the restoration of Cosmic humor.

~Adyashanti

(and the limitless expression of LOVE...)

2007-03-25T09:50:00.000-06:00

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Look within,

Approach all with Devotion,

Stay as Heart...

~Papaji

2007-03-22T09:30:00.000-06:00

( Photos Compliments of Dan... )

Love is undefinable... and knows no boundaries...

(Happy Hug Day... Beloved... :)

2007-03-20T09:40:00.000-06:00

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You're song,

a wished-for song...

Go through the ear to the center

where sky is, where wind,

where silent knowing...

Put seeds and cover them;
Blades will sprout

where you do your work...

~Rumi

2007-03-18T10:56:00.000-06:00

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Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days worth of rice in my bag;

a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.

Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,

I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

~Ryokan (1758-1831)

2007-03-09T06:22:00.000-07:00

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The Transparent Tree...

I've traded my soul for the Universe.
Don't speak.
The jeweler who thought he was buying gold
to work with now owns the mine!
But commerce metaphors are wrong.

What has happened in me is more profound.
Like a fish underwater beginning to say words!

A transparent tree grows in the night-sky
orchard where I have found a little corner to be in,
as when two planets intersect.
I have met Shams.

~Rumi

(as when two planets intersect... my Beloved and I...

ahhhhhhhh! :)

2007-03-08T07:12:00.000-07:00

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Come, come, whoever you are...
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving,

It doesn't matter..
Ours is not a cavarn of despair...

Come, come, even if you have broken
Your vows a thousand times.
Come, come yet again, come...

~Rumi

(less than 24 hours Beloved...!)

2007-03-06T07:52:00.000-07:00

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And above all, infinite affection,
Love...
dark and quiet,
radiating in all directions...
embracing all,
making all interesting and beautiful,
significant and auspicious.

~ Nisargadatta

2007-03-03T08:48:00.000-07:00

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You ask me why I make my home in the mountain forest,

and I smile, and am silent,

and even my soul remains quiet:

it lives in the other world

which no one owns.

The peach trees blossom,

the water flows.

Li Po (701-762)

2007-02-26T07:22:00.000-07:00

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Do not look for God,

look for the one looking for God...

But why look at all?
God is not lost,

God is right here...

closer than your own breath.

~Rumi

2007-02-23T07:32:00.000-07:00

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This was taped on my door when I returned home,
after my Valentines vacation with my Beloved;
my sister had left it there for me....

In the spirit of this Lovely Love day being everyday -
here's one more Valentine...
hope you can read it!

WUV!!!!!!!!

(ps... click on the cartoon, it shows a larger, easier to read version...)

2007-02-22T08:59:00.000-07:00

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When the mind eventually sinks in the Heart,

undistrubed Bliss is overwhelmingly felt.

There is then a feeling that is not divorced from pure Awareness,

head and Heart become one in the same...

~Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi

2007-02-12T06:54:00.000-07:00

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HAPPPY VALENTINES DAY TO ALL....

LOVE!

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(Less than 5 hours... my Beloved!!!! :)

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Always remember deep in your heart that all is well,

and everything is unfolding as it should.

There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time.

What appears to be wrong is simply your
own false imagination.. That's all.

We live in a Universe of Brahman, of Absolute Reality,

Self contained Consciousness,

where there's perfection, perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being.

That perfection knows nothing about wrong and right,
good and bad, happy and sad.
It knows only itself a Perfection,
and You are That.

~Robert Adams

2007-02-11T08:37:00.000-07:00

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In all ten directions of the universe,

there is only one Truth.
When we can see clearly, the great teachings are the same.

What can ever be lost? What can be attained?
If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time.
If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.

Look: this ball in my pocket...

can you see how priceless it is?

~Ryokan (1758-1811)

2007-02-08T07:53:00.000-07:00

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"You simply cannot deny that you are Consciousness.
You dwell in the Lotus of the Heart as Joy in Bliss.
Keep Quiet and you will reveal your Self to your Self."

Papaji (H. L. Poonja)

2007-02-07T07:18:00.000-07:00

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Reason has no way to say its Love.

Only Love opens that secret.

If you want to be more alive,
Love
is the Truest health.

~Rumi

2007-02-06T07:45:00.000-07:00

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The great sea has set me in motion,

set me adrift...

moving me like a weed in a river.

The sky and the strong wind

have moved the spirit inside me
till I am carried away

trembling with Joy...

Uvanuk
(mid-19th Early 20th Century)

2007-02-04T09:04:00.000-07:00

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Ten thousand flowers in spring,
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.

If your mind is not clouded by unecessary things...
this is the best season of your life.

Wu-men (1183-1260)

2007-02-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

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When emptiness is still...

that is eternity.

When it moves...
that is Love.

~Adyashanti

2007-02-01T06:21:00.000-07:00

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God is a pure no-thing,
concealed in now and here...

the less you reach for him,
the more he will appear.

Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)

2007-01-26T06:09:00.000-07:00

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When you feel your lips becoming infinite and sweet,
like a moon in a sky...

When you feel that spaciousness inside...

Shams of Tabriz will be there too.

~Rumi

2007-01-25T06:49:00.000-07:00

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Laughing Buddha

When I broke open

Buddha broke open.
And neither of us has
been the same since.

In an instant we

fell into each other laughing

and neither one of us survived.

But still the sun shines in the morning

and sets in the evening.

I am like a friendly old dog now
wearing my master's night slippers.
Yet somehow

they fit perfectly.

~Adyashanti

(for You... who always makes me laugh... and disappear...)

2007-01-23T07:40:00.000-07:00

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Needing A Mirror

Your
Eye
is so wise,

It keeps turning, turning
Needing to touch
Beauty.

It keeps turning,
Needing to find a mirror

That
Will caress you

As I.

~Hafiz

2007-01-21T09:14:00.000-07:00

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I have posted this poem before... but today...
it speaks to me again...
as I think of my Beloved Danny...
and the amazing blessing the Universe has bestowed on me
with our Love...

*****

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was...

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere...
They're in each other all along...

~Rumi

2007-01-20T07:32:00.000-07:00

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"Your true nature is that of infinite spirit...

the feeling of limitation is the work of the mind... "

~ Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi

Bowing.... to Beloved Ramana,
to the Heart centered Awe of the Infinite
and the play of the seeming limited ...!

2007-01-18T07:29:00.000-07:00

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"The Love of God, unutterable and perfect,
flows into a pure soul the way that light rushes into a transparent object.

The more Love that it finds, the more it gives itself;

so that, as we grow clear and open,

the more complete the joy of heaven is.

And the more souls who resonate together,

the greater the intensitiy of their Love,
and mirror-like, each soul reflects the other."

~Dante

Dedicated to the pure soul of all beings...
for the purity of beingness is not a choice...
it is simply the Truth....

2007-01-17T07:27:00.000-07:00

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I hear nothing in my ear but your voice,

Heart has plundered mind of its eloquence.

Love writes a transparent calligraphy,

so on the empty page my soul can

read and recollect...

~Rumi

(for you... my Love...)

2007-01-15T08:57:00.000-07:00

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I see my beauty in you.

I become a mirror that cannot
close its eyes to your longing.

My eyes wet with yours in early light.
My mind every moment giving birth, always
conceiving, always in the ninth month,

always the come-point.

How do I stand this?

We become these words we say,
a wailing sound moving out into the air.
These thousands of worlds that rise from nowhere,
how does your face contain them?

I'm a fly in your honey,
then closer a moth caught in
flame's allure, then

empty sky stretched out in homage...

~Rumi

2007-01-12T07:23:00.000-07:00

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"The Woman I Love"
by Hafiz

Because the Woman I love lives inside of you,

As I lean as close to your body with my words
As I can...

And I think of you all the time, dear pilgrim.

Because the One I Love goes with you
Wherever you go,
Hafiz will always be near.

If you sat before me, wayfarer,
With your aura bright from your many Charms,

My lips could resist rushing to you and needing to
befriend your blushed cheek,

But my eyes can no longer hide
The wondrous fact of who
You Really are.

The Beautiful One whom I adore
Has pitched His royal tent inside of you...

So I will always lean my Heart
As close to your soul
As I can....

(to the "Man" I Love... my Vajrasattva)

2007-01-11T07:53:00.000-07:00

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Watching the moon at dawn,
solitary, mid-sky...

I knew myself completely;

no part left out....

Izumi Shikibu (974-1034)

2007-01-10T07:20:00.000-07:00

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"A hand moves, and the fire's whirling takes different shapes:
all things change when we do.

The first word, "Ah," blossoms into all others,
Each of them is true... "

~Kukai (774-835)

2007-01-08T07:14:00.000-07:00

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(Vajrasattva & Ghantapani)

Know the true nature of your Beloved...

In His loving eyes your every thought,
Word and movement is always...

Always Beautiful.

~Hafiz

(to my Vajrasattva...)

2007-01-06T08:57:00.000-07:00

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In Love that Long...

I am here, this moment, inside the beauty,

the gift God has given,

our Love:

this gold and circular sign

means we are free of any duty:

out of eternity, I turn my face to you,
and into eternity:

we have been in Love that long.

~Rumi

2007-01-03T07:16:00.000-07:00

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I was away and meant to post something before I left,

but left early in a bit of a hurry, to avoid a huge snowstorm...

and instead of being snowed in here...
was happily snowed in with my beloved Danny
through his snowstorm, and the turning of the New Year.....

December 30th was beloved Ramana's Birthday,
this is the post that I meant to put up in his honor....

"Place your burden at the feet
of the Lord of the Universe
who accomplishes everything.

Remain all the time steadfast in the Heart,

in the Transcendental Absolute.
God knows the past, the present, and the future.
He will determine the future for you
and accomplish the work.

What is to be done will be done
at the proper time. Don't worry.

Abide in the Heart...
and surrender your acts to the divine."

~Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi

I wish all beings a wondrous New Year, and would like to thank all of
my blog friends for the joy that you bring to me
with your visits, your wisdom and humor and your Love...

Om Shanti... Shanti... Shanti...

2006-12-26T07:36:00.000-07:00

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I love Christmas movies... especially the oldies...
White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Affair,
Christmas in Conneticut... but my very favorite I finally saw last night...
A Christmas Carol... with Alastair Sim (1951)

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After awakening from his tour of Christmas past, present, and future...
he is exclaiming the Joy of life, singing and dancing about his room...

"...I don't know anything... I never did know anything...
but now I know that I don't know anything....! "

(I Love that movie... I always cry!)

I hope everyone has been having a lovely Holiday...

2006-12-23T15:30:00.000-07:00

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Psalm 131

Lord, my mind is not noisy with desires,

and my heart has satisfied its longing.

I do not care about religion...
or anything that is not you.

I have soothed and quieted my soul,
like a child at its mother's breast.

My soul is as peaceful as a child
sleeping in its mother's arms.

Wishing everyone ...
infinite
Peace and Joy
this
Holiday Season....

(Danny... notice all of the "its" ! :)

2006-12-22T07:22:00.000-07:00

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One instant is eternity;

eternity is the now.

When you see through this one instant,

you see through the one who sees.

~Wu-men (1183-1260)

2006-12-20T06:59:00.000-07:00

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There never was a time when you were not the Self, Pure Awareness, Consciousness.
This is your destiny, to awaken into Consciousness.

Yet you can do it now, or you can do it in a thousand lives from now.

It all depends on you. It is the way you are reacting as yourself to the world
which determines the directions you are going in.

There are no mistakes. Nothing is wrong. Everything is right just the way it is.

Do not try to understand this or figure it out.
Leave it alone.

It will happen by itself, by keeping yourself quiet and still.
You quiet the mind because of realization.

Let it be calm, In all situations be calm.
Let it be still and quiet.

~Robert Adams

2006-12-19T07:06:00.000-07:00

The Pleiades

In absence, aloe wood burns fragrant.
The love we feel is smoke from that.

Existence gets painted with non-existence,

its source, the fire behind a screen.

Smoke born of this fire hides the fire!
Pass through the smoke.

Soul, a moving river; body, the riverbed.
Soul can break the circle of fate and habit.

Take hold the hand of absence and let it
draw you through the Pleiades,
giving up wet and dry, hot and cold.

You become a confidante of Shams Tabriz.

You see clearly the glory of nothing...

and stand, inexplicably there.

~Rumi
(translated by Coleman Barks)

2006-12-14T06:20:00.000-07:00

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The great sea has set me in motion
set me adrift,
moving me like a weed in a river...

The sky and the strong wind
have moved the spirit inside me
till I am carried away
trembling with joy...

~Ovavnuk
(mid 19th to early 20th century)

(Danny count down... 6 hrs, 38 minute... and a few seconds... :)

2006-12-12T07:21:00.000-07:00

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"We think that there is something hiding Reality

and that it must be destroyed before the Truth is gained.

That is clearly ridiculous.

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts.

What you realize on the day you laugh...
is also here now. "

~Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi

2006-12-09T08:01:00.000-07:00

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"First you awaken out of life... then you awaken as Life itself... "

"Don't just listen to what I say, feel what I say within yourself.

To feel what I say is most important.

Through the feeling of it, you will be taken beyond..."

~Adyashanti

2006-12-08T06:54:00.000-07:00

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Between the conscious and the unconscious,

the mind has put up a swing:

all earth creatures, even the supernovas,
sway between these two trees,

and it never winds down.

Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million,

also the wheeling sun and moon;

ages go by, and it goes on.

Everything is swinging; heaven, earth, water, fire,

and the secret one slowly growing a body.

Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant for life.

~Kabir

(translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass)

2006-12-07T07:13:00.000-07:00

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Drink the wine of this Love

and your life will change.

Instead of being a gatherer of the Divine Light,
you will be it's shine.

It will be the end of you

and the beginning.

~Adyashanti

2006-12-06T07:24:00.000-07:00

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(tree being photo, compliments of Danny)

Love is not condescension, never that,

nor books, nor any making on paper,

nor what people say of each other.

Love is a tree with branches

reaching into eternity and it's roots

set deep in eternity,

and no trunk!

Have you seen it?

The mind cannot. Your desiring cannot.

The longing you feel for this love comes from inside you.

When you become the Friend, your

longing will be as a man in the ocean

who holds to a piece of wood.

Eventually, wood, man and ocean become

one swaying being, Shams Tabriz, the secret of God.

~Rumi

2006-12-05T07:26:00.000-07:00

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Ah, not to be cut off,

not through the slightest partition

shut out from the law of the stars.

The inner -- what is it?

if not intensified sky,

hurled through with birds and

deep with the winds of homecoming.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

2006-12-03T08:14:00.000-07:00

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Swan, tell me your old story.

What country have you come from, swan,
what shores are you flying to?

Where do you rest at night, and what are you looking for?

It's dawn swan, wake up, soar to the air, follow me!

There is a land not governed by sadness and doubt,
where the fear of death is unknown.

Spring forests bloom there and the wind is sweet
with the flower He-Is-Myself...

The bee of the Heart dives into it and wants no other joy.

~Kabir

2006-12-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

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"Awareness is ever here,
It need not be realized.

Open the shutter of the mind,
and it will be flooded with light. "

~Nisargadata Maharaj

2006-11-30T07:58:00.000-07:00

Know the true nature of your Beloved,
In His loving eyes your every thought,
Word and movement is always...

Always Beautiful.

~Hafiz

2006-11-29T06:37:00.000-07:00

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You are not a mistake or a problem to be solved.

Simply see your Self in its true light...

~Adyashanti

2006-11-28T07:41:00.000-07:00

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You are the light of awareness....

the source and expression of all that is...

~Adyashanti

2006-11-27T07:06:00.000-07:00

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Oh my friends....

Oh my friends,
What can you tell me of Love,
Whose pathways are filled with strangeness?

When you offer the Great One your love,
At the first step your body is crushed.

Next be ready to offer your head as his seat.

Be ready to orbit his lamp like a moth giving in to the light,
to live in the deer as she runs toward the hunter's call,

In the partridge that swallows hot coals for love of the moon,
In the fish that, kept from the sea happily dies.

Like a bee trapped for life in the closing of the sweet flower,
Mira has offered herself to her Lord.

She says, the single Lotus will swallow you whole.

~Mirabai

2006-11-26T08:39:00.000-07:00

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Candlelight becomes Moth

Inside a lover's heart there's another world,

and yet another...

Inside the Friend of this community of lovers,

an ear that interprets mystery,

a vein of silver in the ground, another in the sky!

Intellect and compassion are ladders we climb,

and there are other ladders as we walk the night
hearing a voice that talks of forgiveness...

Inside Sham's universe candlelight itself
becomes a moth to die in his candle...

~Rumi

2006-11-25T07:44:00.000-07:00

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Surrender is giving oneself up to
the origin of one's Being...

In due course, we will know that
our true glory lies where
we cease to exist.

~Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi

2006-11-23T08:36:00.000-07:00

(photo compliments of Danji...)

"Begin"

This is now. Now is.
Don't postpone till then.
Spend the spark of iron on stone.

Sit at the head of the table.
Dip your spoon in the bowl. Seat yourself

next to your Joy and have your awakened soul

pour wine...

Branches in the spring wind,

easy dance of Jasmine and Cypress...

Cloth for green robes has been cut from pure

absence. You're the tailor, settled among his shop goods,

quietly sewing...

~Rumi

On this day of Thanksgiving...
Thank you to everyone for your Beauty and Presence...

Om Shanti...

2006-11-22T07:23:00.000-07:00

(HUGS...!)

"What is the Heart... it is not human,
it is not imaginary...

I call it You...

~Hafiz...
(from "What is the Heart"...)

2006-11-21T07:55:00.000-07:00

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.

You will not find me in stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:
not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around
your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables.

When you really look for me, you will see me instantly...

You will find me in the tiniest house of time.

Kabir says: Student, tell me what is God?

He is the breath inside the breath.

~Kabir

2006-11-18T08:13:00.000-07:00

When it's cold and raining

you are more beautiful.

And the snow brings me
even closer to Your lips.

The Inner Secret, that which was never born,
You are That Freshness, and I am with You now.

I can't explain the goings,
or the comings. You enter suddenly,

and I am nowhere again.

Inside the Majesty.

~Rumi

2006-11-17T06:12:00.000-07:00

When the mind is at peace,

the world too is at peace.

Nothing real, nothing absent.

Not holding on to reality,

not getting stuck in the void,

you are neither holy nor wise,

just an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.

~Layman P'ang (C. 740 - 808)

2006-11-16T07:14:00.000-07:00

No beliefs and no concepts are true,

throw them all out...
and let the flame of Silence
burn you awake...

~Adyashanti

2006-11-14T05:28:00.000-07:00

" Only the light of the Heart really exists;
in creative activity, it is the agent.

That activity resting in itself is Self-consciousness
and its movement unfolds the universe. "

Mahârthamanjarî by Maheshvarananda Kashmir, XIIth century

2006-11-13T06:48:00.000-07:00

Looking inside yourself
and not finding yourself

is the finding!

~Adyashanti

2006-11-11T09:58:00.000-07:00

an excerpt from Danji's post today at Anonymous Dharma:

"...Can you just rest, here and now, and let that be your practice?..."

~Dan

2006-11-10T08:32:00.000-07:00

The birds have vanished into the sky,

and now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,

until only the moutain remains.

~Li Po

2006-11-09T08:07:00.000-07:00

(Arunachala...)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well
and everything is unfolding as it should...

There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time.

What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination.
That's all.

But we live in a universe of Brahman, of Absolute Reality,

self contained Consciousness, where there's perfection,

perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being.

That perfection knows nothing about wrong and right,

good and bad, happy and sad.

It knows only itself as Perfection. And you are That.

You are the Self, that perfect unmutable Self.
Nothing else exists.
Nothing else ever existed.
Nothing else will ever exist.

There is only the one Self and you are That.

Rejoice!

~Robert Adams

(Robert Adams was a direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi
during the last few years of Ramana's life)

2006-11-08T07:42:00.000-07:00

Out beyond the ideas of wrong doing and right doing,

there is a field, I'll meet you there...

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other...

doesn't make any sense...

~Rumi

2006-11-07T07:42:00.000-07:00

Love is a flame that burns everything
other than itself.

It is the destruction of all that is false,
and the fulfullment of all that is True...

~Adyashanti

2006-11-06T07:08:00.000-07:00

Grace is always present...

You imagine it is something somewhere
high in the sky, far away, and has to descend.

It is really inside of you, in your Heart...

and the moment you effect subsidence or merger
of the mind into it's Source...

Grace rushes forth... sprouting as from a spring
within you....

~Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi

2006-11-04T08:31:00.000-07:00

******

I Heard the Bird One Day

Wind moves through
this hollow reed body
touches the five senses

and becomes a song.

Who is the Master
of this orchestra...
and how does Emptiness
become love or a tea cup?

I heard a bird one day

and became the bird hearing.

Then waking from this spiritual dream
of Oneness...
The world resolved itself
and nothing at all happened.

Yet the Ancient One continues to
wink and smile.

~Adyashanti

2006-11-03T07:10:00.000-07:00

*******

Mom....

on planet earth from 1930-1996

We miss you!!!

******

Wingless freedom of flight,
for that which was never bound.

A transformation of the Heart
as it returns to it's Source.

Becoming once again, the everything it always has been...

LOVE

2006-11-02T07:14:00.000-07:00

*******

(In honor of the November 2nd Tradition of Honoring
those that we Love that have passed...
I dedicate this to my Mom... Nancy, who loved to Love...)

My whole life has been happiness.
Through all my misfortunes, I did not plan anything.
Life was there for me, and I accepted it.

And life, whatever came out,
has been beautiful to me,
and I Love everybody.

~Louis Armstrong

(photo and quote compliments of Danji...)

2006-11-01T07:45:00.000-07:00

(photo to follow... uploading not happening...)

Océanos

Yo sentío que el barco mio
hay encontrada, allá en el fondo
con algo grande.

Y nada sucede!
Nada . . .
Silencio . . . Olas . . .

Nada sucede?
O es que ha sucedido todo,
y estamos ya, tranquilos, en lo nuevo...

~Juan Ramón Jiménez

English Translation:

I have a feeling
that my boat has struck,
down there in the depths,
against a great thing.

And nothing happens!
Nothing...
Silence... Waves...

--Nothing happens?

Or is it that everything has happened,
and we are already, calm, in the newness...

2006-10-31T07:19:00.000-07:00

The devotee, the true Devotee,

is the Heart of the Divine...

~Papaji

2006-10-30T07:24:00.000-07:00

To be truly present, Here, Now...
with out expectation or definition

This is true Love...

It fills me and I am no longer just
this small being that smiles at everything...

I am the smile in everything...

(for BBDTHHM)

2006-10-25T06:09:00.000-06:00

True relationship is not what happens between two or more entities.
True relationship is the Oneness dancing with itself....

~Adyashanti

2006-10-24T08:31:00.000-06:00

I enter the small, semi-lit room
and approach the old wooden gate,
kneeling down ever so quietly....

the sweet smell of the ever burning incense
enters, like breath itself, into my Heart...

I can hear the priests in the hall next door,
chanting softly the sacred words of devotion
to the Beloved...

The smooth coolness of the tile floor touches
my forehead as I bow...

I linger, who knows for how long...

Immersed in this eternal blessed
moment of devotion...

Jai Bhagavan... Jai Bhagavan...
floats softly through the air...

it is he.... who brought me Home...

(for Danji...)

2006-10-23T07:20:00.000-06:00

The Day Sky

Let us be like
two falling stars in the day sky

Let no one know of our sublime beauty
as we hold hands with God
and burn

Into a sacred existence that defies.....
that surpasses

Every description of ecstasy
and Love.

~Hafiz

2006-10-21T07:49:00.000-06:00

The Heart seems forgiving, because it has no memory…

The Heart… can only be Present…

It watches as the play of lives float by…

The seeming good, the seeming bad… are all the same to this Heart…

It holds everything as it rises… and disappears again…

in the vastness of LOVE…

It is always, forever Present….

This Heart is our True Nature…

It is Who we Are…

2006-10-20T07:05:00.000-06:00

"A flower exists... in complete Stillness... "

~Eckhart Tolle

( and so do we.... )

2006-10-19T07:30:00.000-06:00

Wooden Walking Stick

Friend, you are Moses. I the wooden

walking stick. Sometimes that simple use.

Other times, a dragon earth-energy.

You decide. There's no time or place in the air

you inhabit. The days you give me
I give back to you.

I have seen your unseeable beauty

and taken report without words to my heart,

which became all eyes with the news.

"Long life to eyes" says my heart now over

and over. Hundreds of candles
search the turning sky.

No bread in the basket, no money;

home, family, work, in shambles,
with your light shining on the ruin.

Crushed in grief's mortar,

let me be the medicine
for other eyes.

What is the soul? Half a leaf.

What is the Heart? A flower opening.

I am not the one speaking here. Even so,
I'll stop. Anything anyone else says is your voice.

~Rumi

2006-10-18T07:23:00.000-06:00

" The door to God is
the insecurity of not knowing anything.

Bear the grace of that insecurity,

and all wisdom will be yours. "

~Adyashanti

2006-10-17T06:21:00.000-06:00

(Arunachala... Arunachala....)

Your true nature is that of infinite Spirit.

The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi...

2006-10-15T07:37:00.000-06:00

Jars of Springwater...

Jars of springwater are not enough anymore.
Take us down to the river!

The face of peace, the sun itself.
No more the slippery cloudlike moon.

Give us one clear morning after another
and the one whose work remains unfinished,
who is our work as we diminish...

idle, though occupied,
empty, and open.

~Rumi

2006-10-14T08:16:00.000-06:00

The Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra

Perceiving that all five skandhas are empty saves all beings from suffering.
Form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
No appearing, no disappearing.
No taint, no purity.
No increase, no decrease.
All dharmas are marked with emptiness.
No cognition—no attainment.
Nirvana.
Unexcelled perfect enlightenment—anuttara samyak sambodhi.

Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha!

—From the Heart Sutra

2006-10-13T06:37:00.000-06:00

"The realized person weeps with the weeping,

laughs with the laughing,
plays with the playful,

sings with those who sing,

keeping time with the song...

What does he lose?"

Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi....

2006-10-12T08:45:00.000-06:00

“ Within the body plays the Unfathomable Formless One
Why then does no one seek Him there?

He is neither less here nor more there,
he fills each pot to the brim...

do not look for the beloved else
where for He is within. "

~Kabir

2006-10-11T07:33:00.000-06:00

Silkworms...

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

Call it to your arms where it can change.

A silkworm eating leaves makes a cacoon.
Each of us weaves a chamber of leaves and sticks.

Silkworms begin to truly exist
as they disappear inside that room.

Without legs, we fly.

When I stop speaking, this poem will close,

and open it's silent wings...

Rumi

2006-10-10T08:06:00.000-06:00

( photo from Dan's collection)

My time away...

was lovely... intense... back breaking... renewing... and amazing...
We meditated for at least 10 hrs each day... up at 4am... in bed by 9:30pm...
everything in between was meditation,
with a little food and quick naps in between...

Hard to go into in words... the meditation style itself can be both grueling and amazing...

from extreme pain...to bliss and ecstacy...

At the end of the 10 days... after not speaking or even eye contact with anyone... we began to speak and share a little... it felt like coming out of the womb... everything is so new... raw and vulnerable... and you can feel... everything... everything... no separation... the energy in the air, in the trees, the sky...

in the person in front of you... all one energy... vibrating at an incredible speed...

with dancing light patterns somehow creating images...

There is a sadness that it is rising today as I speak of this... what blessings to go inside
and to be cared for in that way... and a bit of a resistance to returning...
(the mind is so funny... resistance to go... resistance to return...)

What I can say about what is happening now... as I was telling Dan... it's the subtleness...

the more quiet i become... the more subtle It becomes...
It is in the subtleness where everything is truly met... nothing is pushed away...
nothing grabbed for... just met...
And there is an interesting sense of relief as the "memory" seems to recall
the grabbing and the pushing... and how lovely it is instead...
just to meet what is... as it is...

The mind weaves it patterns and flavors with rainbow colors... and what is seen is so captivating... such a display... and intent to entertain... and yet the subtleness... this is the flavor that lasts... and will always... continue to become more and more subtle...
beyond the beyond of the beyond...
and beyond that...
Gate, Gate... Para Gate... Para Sum Gate... Bodhi Svaha...

What a blessed life to be offered such gifts... we are all so blessed...

Om Shanti... and lots and lots of LOVE!

2006-10-08T09:12:00.000-06:00

Emptiness Dancing...

When I rest in my origin
I am the unmoving cause of all movement.
With no will nor intention of my own
all things move forth from my own being and
express my unspeakable and unknowable self.

Although I never move away
from my unmovable nature
all movement is my own.

Although I am the unmanifest and inexpressible
all manifestation in all the worlds are
expressions of my infinite creative potential.

I am always at rest
and wildly dreaming this moment
into and out of existence.

~Adyashanti

2006-09-19T19:57:00.000-06:00

(Ahhhh... the St.Lawrence... )

To All of my Dear Freinds...
I am off in the morning to a 10 day Meditation Retreat,
diving in... exploring the inner realms... (yikes...! :)

I leave you with Danji's post from Monday...
I just love this one.. Thanks Dan...
from: AnonymousDharma

"no matter how strange yer mind is actin',
ye can find a home in this empty space,
this silence behind yer thoughts.
It's always there.
It's who ye are.
Waitin' to be rediscovered."

Shivas Irons

9/18/06 posted by Dan @ 8:27 AM

2006-09-18T06:52:00.000-06:00

...an excerpt from the post by Meredith and Akilesh, at Graceful Presence,

Exposure, going deeper ... 9/17

"With the leap into the here-now, into choiceless awareness,
we realize we already are love and radiating love,
we already are wakefulness and radiating wakefulness,
we already are harmonized spirit and matter,
and we radiate it, we already are being,
already are saturated in bliss,
already are this naked consciousness.

This! Only just this... this wakefulness radiating,
and it is this naked wakefulness that is transformative.
Being this radiance-that-is-awake,
that asks for nothing and doesn't want to change anything,
is the most transformative energy in the universe.
When we realize it, when we step out of the way
and let it express through us as it will,
we radiate - love, grace, freedom, authenticity, godliness;
we radiate the harmony of spirit and matter.
Exposure to this radiance may spark its emergence in another,
may inspire another to open her eyes and see the light shining there within her."

~Akilesh

2006-09-17T08:42:00.000-06:00

Always remember:

The thieves of Peace

are thieves in an empty house

because only imagination suffers.

You are Peace,

That which remains Untouched.

~Papaji (H. W. L. Poonja)

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Also... See Dan's post for today....! :)

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2006-09-14T07:53:00.000-06:00

Total stillness of being comes when
all resistance to movement is absent.

When all resistance is absent,

there is complete stillness, an alive stillness,

a vital stillness which is pure movement

without resistance.

~Adyashanti

2006-09-13T07:32:00.000-06:00

An Invisible Bee

Look how desire has changed in you,
how light and colorless it is,

with the world growing new marvals
because of your changing.

Your soul has become an invisible bee.
We don't see it working, but there's
the full honeycomb!

Your body's height,

six feet or so, but your soul rises
through nine levels of sky.

A barrel corked with earth and a raw wooden
spile keeps the oldest vineyard's wine
inside.

When I see you, it is not so
much your physical form, but the company
of two riders, your pure-fire devotion

....and your love of one who teaches you:

then the sun and moon on foot behind those...

~
Rumi

2006-09-10T09:51:00.000-06:00

Can you feel it…?

Are you smiling with out reason...

Does everything appear to be
like clouds in the air...

Does your skin tingle with the
sensation of the moment…

Can you taste the sweetness of
Gods breath in your Heart…?

It’s the Universe kissing us… from the inside out…