meeting with a friend

Ever since the meeting with a friend
so much growth has happened.
so much opening has happened.
so much deepening has happened
and the heart has become the field
of the blooming lilacs.
Ever since  the meeting with a friend
the physical world has sought refuge
inside of me.
The body has sought refuge
inside of me.

simplicity

Simplicity
is the path of the heart.
Only the mind wants to complicate the natural process.
What arises from emptiness
returns to emptiness.
What is already immaculate and sacred
cannot be more sacred through prayers or rituals.
Tell me if you can make your gold bowl
more shiny by washing it with soap and water.
Your job, my friend, is to awaken to this music.
Tides continue to make noises
until they fully become one with the sea.

if a lotus

if a lotus can grow out of dirt and mud,
rise above the water and blossom,
you too, my dear friend
have the gift to turn your sorrow
into a song;
your pain into a rose garden.

Look

Look at this beauty
Look!

when you merge
with the light erupting in your eyes,

You will start blooming
 endlessly.
Look at the beauty!
Look!

when you merge
with the light erupting in your eyes,
You will start blooming.

herbs and spices

a long while ago, one  late afternoon,

I said to existence: -

There are times, dear friend,

when you acted like a stepmother to me:

You pinched me in the ears

 and threw punches on my head

Like a tennis ball

you bounced me back and forth,

up and down.

You know this is not fairness,  

this is not fairness.

Existence looked at me, smiled with her eyes

and whispered: -

Oh my dear! oh beautiful one

Don't you need some  seasonings, 

some herbs and spices, some flavors to be fully edible?

gold mine

How many times
Have you crossed forbidden lands
Looking for gold and diamonds?

Dear one,
You're the gold mine of the
most beautiful stuff for
which I cannot have a name.
You’re warehouse for the most stunning treasure
That has no end or beginning.

May all your search and
Your digging
Lead your way into the heart!

This morning

This morning
a friend's eyes were
pulsing with pure elegance.
Like a massive mirror,
like the sea full of pearls
They reflected my heart back to me
With every single beat
chanting of infinite abundance.

why I am HERE

Beloved:
You're one of the most brilliant stars
shining in the skies of my entire being.
For now
This fully illustrates
why I am HERE.

You and I

You and I have come
this far in this journey,
dear one;
and how I loved your company!
after all this love-making with the divine,
If you have not been deepened
if you have not been sweetened
Then, you have not yet surrendered to
your own elegance.

This apprearance

This
Appearance, dear friend
deceives the eye
and we look different.
Look around, for example
We can see someone
who finds faults easily,
someone who judges
and someone who blames....
But when our true longing is revealed,
All we can see is
Twin flames.

YOU ARE THAT

Love is not something
to be explained or taught.
We can only point
to the heart and say:
YOU ARE THAT!

A donkey

A young donkey asked her great grandma
what Jesus has said to her
when he rode her into jerusalem.

on your hooves,
you carry the load of the world
Human pride and expectation
is so heavy on you
that you may not be able to dance
and have fun whenever you want.
you may fall down and shrink
thousand times
but remember:
your elegance shall rise
beyond the sound of the whips
cracking on your sore back.

into the heart's guesthouse

when you stop grieving about the past,
your  journey into
the heart's guesthouse
is faster than
your eye's trip
from your thumb
to your index finger.

be here

The one
Who can trade an exotic future
For the present moment.
I want to hold your hand.

The one
Who wants to be HERE.
Please BE HERE.

After we are gone

This is life’s highest calling
and deepest purpose and
the most Shining throne:-

To be the beauty, that was here
Before we were born
And the beauty that remains
After we are gone.

Forms come in billions

Forms come in billions and
even in trillions.
The heart is only one:-
when we can rise in the heart every day
when we can laugh every day;

why would we wait for a comedian?
why would we wait for the sun?