the spaces between my fingers

when you open your heart
let it be the sun
that you see and not the cloud!
And with this openness
Let the world spin with ecstasy !
Let the world turn around
Like wind turbines touched with love.

I hold my open hand to your eyes
And you say
Where is your wedding ring with the beloved?
And I say to you:-
My friend, are your eyes still open? Look with clarity!
Look not at my fingers but in the spaces
Between my fingers. Then your questions
Become your answers.

Beloved light of my heart

Beloved light
of my heart, of my soul, of my mind, of my body;
Here is a deal between you and I:
Since supreme love knows and sees and touches only one, not two, not three not ten but only one
On my own sweet readiness, not out of defeat or fear,
I will take off, I mean, vanish and fully surrender to you
Not tomorrow, not next week but Now
So that you will take over and radiate so
delightfully that everyone who sees you
merges with you.

lump of sugar watching herself disapear

This is a lump of sugar
watching herself disappear into the sea.
She trusts the sea and won't question
what would happen to her.
Then
Her pain melts.
Her worries melt.
Her fear melts.
Then she is free
and she is no longer sugar now.
She is the sea.
She starts dancing
the dance of freedom.

Life holds a bowl to your eyes

Life holds a bowl to your eyes
Full of sweet fire
If the bowl is all you can see,
then you need some turning around, some burning, some awakening.
If you can taste the sweet essence inside,
If you can feel the light inside,
Then, my friend,
Flowers want to erupt out of the rock’s body
And touch your feet;
And the prophets rush out of their abodes
To be at your service.

someone is playing a violin

Listen!

someone is playing a violin in the woods.

Two wild horses stand head to head, as if kissing each other,

 And pick insects from each other’s necks.

A donkey smells his lover’s urine and brays with all his heart.

Then he lifts his head to the skies and smiles with his beautiful mouth.

A cow who discovers another cow is missing, stops grazing and  moos .

The missing cow gets the message and moos back saying

Don’t worry my friend. I am here, in the village, where  hyenas

Have long renounced violence because they are enlightened.

You keep asking me, who I am.

I say to you, I am the flower blooming in your lips,

I  am the sun awakening in your spinal cords.

Then my friend,

If you are not fully here,

How can you feel the force of this love?

a devotee and the divine

Every day
we talk about a worshiper and the worshiped;
a master and a student;
the ocean and the one who swims in the ocean;
a flower and the sun...

To end this duplicity, my friend,
drop all your efforts
and dissolve into love NOW.

Rising beyond the waves of time

Rising beyond the waves of time means living in the heart of ancient beauty. From this space we don't lament for what has left us or we don't fear for what is coming. In this moment nothing departs or nothing arrives. Nothing is short or nothing is extra. Nothing is right or nothing is wrong. All is as IS.

I saw grace

I looked at the sky.
I saw grace.
I looked down the earth
I saw grace.
I looked around
I saw grace.
I looked inside
I saw grace.
Touched by abundance
I stood wordless.

We meet at the intersection

We meet at the intersection of  great awakening. all the bubbles have  entered the sea to rest. The clouds have packed their luggage and vanished into the sun. This proclaims the end of separation and our walking away from time.. I can tell you, I am now abundantly rich with a thousands acres of goldmine and yet I won't claim any ownership over anything. This life is a cosmic floor for lovers to meet and break into small dazzling lights.  Come, the heart wants to dance. Come.

When you sit with a friend

                                                                                            [Inspired by my beloved friend Sattie]

When you sit with a friend
who mirrors to you the beauty that you are,
The justification to be right and to make someone wrong
will disappear quickly.
You become fully one with your heart
and your question "what is love" dissolves into nothingness
because the heart knows it already.

totally empty

Be brave
to throw away all built-in belief systems
Be totally empty and transparent like glass
so that light can dance through you freely.
You will realize that every single encounter with another being
Is sent to you from a higher dimension.

the wine of this closeness

Whether it is your songs
Or your deep silence
I don’t know which one brought me
closer to your bosom.


Whichever it is,
It makes no difference to me
in so far as the wine of this closeness
Keeps intoxicating this heart.

Let it be from here

Jasmine does not bloom
By plans or appointments.
Whatever you want to do
Let it be from here, my friend.
Let it be from here.

The love surging from your core
Into your branches and roots
Can erase all the regrets from
the bends of the mind.

Whatever you want to do
Let it be from here, my friend
Let it be from here.

from a place of no-mind

Look, my friend,
how beautiful you are this morning!
Look!  Only from a place of no-mind
one can shine like this.
only from a place of pure silence
where time does not enter,

one can shine like this!

the sea merging into the sea

I was walking
in the scorching ...hot sun
that penetrates the skull
until one day I run into a friend
in the form of a large oak tree.
Come rest under my shade. she said.
She handed me a glass of cool water
right from the spring and said,
you are this water as well as
the one who drinks it.
You are the thirst and well as the
quencher of thirst.
You are the shade as well as the shade giver.
I raised my eyes to meet hers.
but all I could see was the sea
merging into the sea
and out of this merging came forth
a love-filled flame that even
a thousand blizzard
cannot extinguish.

Something inside

The caves might not have echoed it yet
and words might not have said it yet
but dear one,
something inside of me constantly gravitates to
something inside of you.
...What calling do I have now
other than
chanting a friend
that has no expiry date.

Watch

Watch for the Ego, my friend.
Watch.
It can erect fancy walls around you
and then brag about its absolute authorities.

When you come home
The ego dissolves
and so do
those mighty walls.
The grandest desire of life
is when the rose kisses the eyes of the moon;
when the self meets and recognizes the self.
From here, anything is possible
Even turning water into wine is possible.

does not matter

What I feel right now does not matter.
What I hear right now does not matter.
What I think right now does not matter.
Life has soared above all sensory experiences
and danced upon meeting with her own sunshine.

dreamer and the awakened

I saw a dream last night
and in my dream state, I was surrounded
by billions of humans. Some were prisoners.
others were laborers and dictators and gurus and craftsmen and poets.
I also saw countless starts in many skies
and innumerable flowering trees and crawling or walking animals too.
Overwhelmed by multiplicity and tired of hallucination
I woke up and saw only one in all and all in one.
I saw the seen and the seer are one.
I saw the dreamer and the awakened are one.

when you make love to the divine

when you make love to the divine
leave no footfalls, dear friend
for they ramble between the past and the future.
Kiss the mouth that is fully alive
and break the cycle of birth and death.
Open your heart, look in between
and see what unfolds.

ribbon of light.

Why do you make poems every day? Any pressure?
A friend ask me ones.
I cannot have an answer to this question
but it is like asking the river
why it flows everyday.
or asking the sun,
why she shines constantly.
all the reasons in the entire world
cannot describe why a flower gives off
her aroma when she meets with the sun.
If you ask a bird as to why she keeps flying instead of crawling
I know she would not say to you
"it is just because I have beautiful wings."
Instead, she would say:
every single feather in my wings

are crocheted with a ribbon of light.

together

When you stop counting the steps
you have taken to get HERE.
Then your jounrney turns into
a sweet basil in your soup.
Together we have come home, my friend,
Together, we have come here
where we can easily melt into the sea of love
where all our questions become
our answers.