your own pride and fear

What is really hurting you, my friend,

 is your own pride and  fear.

Once you are willing to declare

That they are just faking to be real

once you are aware they are not you

They will  start  to fall away,

fall away and  shatter.

the way I love you

The way

I love you is like this -

I will keep singing and singing for you

Until my throat aches –

Until my voice fades -

until you wake up and see with your own eyes

everything and everyone is incomprehensibly

divine.

the daily race

It is not the daily race

To prove each other right or wrong

Nor the stories  making the news headlines

That heal the deep wounds of human suffering.

It is when all the puddles choose to surrender

The last droplet of their identity

to the cosmic sea.

a garden

A garden

Never identifies herself with her sweet herbs and

Fragrant flowers and lush grass….

She watches them while they come and go.

When they come, she is not overjoyed

And when they leave she does not grieve.

That is why can move through

All the seasons with so much elegance

temporary enchantment

Dear friend -
why do you go so far away
chasing a temporary enchantment?
In front of you,
the source is dancing inside
the speckle of dust.

a place of resting

I know.

You will find this searching

Tiresome at the end of the day.

That is when you consider with all your being

Coming to a place of resting….

Where love, the lover and

The beloved are one.

poetry of the inner harmony

Go anywhere, do anything.

Life is not challenge-free

Until you  accept the challenge

as your dear companion with whom you

Want to snuggle and  laugh and share

poetry of the inner harmony.

Without resisting

Without resisting,
when you are ready
to vibrate and pulsate
with the frequency of life ----
That is the most divine dance.

My name is love

A friend tapped on the door
and woke me up a little after three in the morning.
My name is love. Can you sit with me
just for seconds? she said.
I sat with her for hours and  hours  and we spoke
without words. We did not only sit together.
we joined in one heart and made wild love
and totally disappeared.

scent of a thousand sunrises

when the scent of a thousand sunrises

overflows your heart,
what else is there to do
other than kissing the beloved so hard
or bursting into a sublime poetry.

If the world ends today

If the world ends today

does that worry you?

if the ego melts today,

does that frighten you?

If your job is only to care deeply for what

really is,

on your entry into your  very heart,

you will touch the field from which

all things emerge.

when you see the moon

when you see the moon

wandering in the night sky.

Be kind, stop and ask her where she is going

and what her plans are.

She probably is looking for a room

iin your heart.

a gift and a giver

When

You choose to be here,

You’re being.

You’re fully offering yourself

To existence. You’re existence.

You’re

A sacred gift and a giver

As well.

without waiting for something

without waiting for something

sit with silence.

sit in silence.

You can hear 

the bird of innocence  singing.

absolute tyranny

The obsessive need

To be right all the time

Is an  indication of a very strong egoic mind pattern.

Unless it is observed very closely and consciously,

 it can turn itself into an absolute tyranny.

dance of grace

Your beauty

Is bottomless and fathomless

When you are willing to embrace

Whatever wants to arise

Because you synchronize

With the language of love

and the dance of grace.

Commotion

Despite the commotion and deep darkness
the world is moving through each day,
everyone we see around us is the reminder of light
and this clear seeing is the return to the
original seed.

Deep truth

Don't tell me this, dear one.
Deep truth cannot be told. It only can be felt
and experienced. 
A thousand dawns and sunrises keep
gravitating to your eyes. 
I know what that means.
A single sip from your joy
can intoxicate the entire
world hungry for love.

love moves in

       Love moves in and the snow thaws
Frogs sing in the pond no matter how cold it is.
Break the horse’s reins. Calm the mind and listen.
move beyond senses. Everything flows. everywhere is light.
And the beauty you see is your own heart's awakening.

moment by moment

moment by moment,
If you know this much,
Not too much but this much....
You are love who knows itself as love.
That is your song, your sweet responsibility....

everyone likes to advise you

everyone likes

to advice you ---

to follow your heart.

I tell you, dear friend,

 be your heart.

Just  be your heart.

free from memories

When you struggle

When you really struggle

You cannot be here with me

At this moment

Because you probably
 take yourself Seriously.

Or you just forgot who you are.

If you  stop and look  for a moment

If you look with clear eyes free

From memories, free from stories,

You can see the sun

Wanting to turn herself

Into you.

white laughter

in minnesota

the sky heard a sweet poetry yesterday

and opened its heart and started pouring

a divine secret  called snow.

If you look around, a white laughter

and fragrant  songs hang down

From tree branches and old

Electric wires wanting to kneel

 And hug the ground.

storage in your compound

If you’ve a storage

 In your compound

Fill it with nothing

but sweet light.

Then you can hear

Innocence laughing.

gaze into your eye

Don't go far. gaze into your eyes.
There is sunrise and a budding rose
and a sweet breeze
and there is a fire in the heart
rising to dance with the wind.
Don't go far. gaze into your eyes.
There is the ocean wanting to swim
inside your kindness.

the ocean roars in the desert

Sometimes
the ocean roars in the Desert.
sometimes the moon rises in the day
and the sun at night.
This is because the roaring
and the rising is from inside.

in the world

In the world
that is always looking, looking, looking
and cannot see,
where shouting is venerated than  listening;
The world that has long forgotten how to smile..
I feel immensely grateful because
I am still moved beyond description
by the beauty that wants to burst
and makes itself fully available.

when we gather for a dance

when we gather for a dance
in the guest house of life
we're no longer guests and
 no introduction is needed
because life knows herself
with sharp precision.

The mind

The mind

that is addicted to fault-finding and labeling

will not find peace until it is willing

to break open to light.

awaken the light

Each day before you do anything,

Before you brush your teeth or have coffee,
Remember to awaken the light within you
So that your entire day will be filled
with sweet songs.

the heart does not mark calendars

The heart

does not mark calendars.

It does not make announcements

 in advance.

It just blossoms spontaneously awakening

the entire winter skies.

where poetry can grow

Just like singing or kissing,

laughter has the ability to diminish conflict,

reduce pain and create a  lush space

inside us where poetry can grow and flourish.

the real wild one

I came to your door

dear friend, to wake you up

from the memory of your past love-making

Because when you wake up

you will make love to the  real wild one.

illuminated one

The illuminated one has always been

madly in love with you!

He sees with the very eyes you see.

 He goes everywhere you go.

He laughs at the jokes you tell.

He is the air your breath in

And out.

He never blames or judges you

Even when you  throw him in the

Garbage can or pretend he never

Existed  because true love

 is nonjudgmental.

Stay close to your smile

Stay close to your smile.

Because the ocean felt your beauty so deeply,

She wanted to rise and kiss tender eyes of the full moon.

Stay close to your smile.

meeting obligations

Forget meeting obligations.

You are here to focus on

who you are right now.

Keep knocking on the door of love

Until it wakes up and engulfs

all of your being, until you become fluid

like fresh rain, flowing into all things and

all beings.

boundaries crash

when you sit with yourself, without any demands,
Just sitting and listening to your heart's music,
the boundaries around you crash tumbling down
because the mind pattern that has fabricated
those boundaries loses control and melts away

your daily interactions

Let   your daily interactions and companionship
with life be direct, simple, honest and open
because that is your home, your heart where
you can be totally yourself, free and fearless.

Parting and meeting

We've heard songs and read poems 
on  parting and meeting,  
on death and birth, grief and joy
My dear friend -
I want you to speak to me
from a place where there is no
parting and meeting,
a place where death cannot touch
I want you to sing to me
from the place
 that can hold the oceans.

The urge

or to be owned, 
the ambition to make someone happy,
the desire to fit somewhere
or to cause more suffering 
evaporates when you know
who you really are.

Your miraculous strength

Your miraculous strength
is this: -
Your courage to recognize bliss
as yourself; -

Your willingness not to judge
 and your ability  to dissolve
into what is.

When you look in the mirror

When you look in the mirror

Don’t focus  so much on your image or form.

Penetrate inside of you

and feel the one that keep singing

sweetly.

open your door

The one

Who awakens the skies,

The one

Who  moves the winds,

The one

Who lights up our face
Is here.

Please open your door.

when you believe in something

when you believe in something

you start to defend your point of view.

Then you wage war,

That is how the world wars  began.

they have claimed millions of lives already

 and they are  still claiming.

what is not real

Celebrate
the death of the ego!
The crumbling down of the
conditioned mind,
the falling away of
what is not real.

beyond belief

The reason
you are beautiful and alive beyond belief

 is because this immaculate force of life
keeps expanding and ripening and
expressing itself through you.

pure space

Love
is the recognition of pure space
into which one can dissolve
totally.

the flute in your hand

The flute
in your hand, my friend
plays with such a grace
and passion.
Because you've given it
your whole self.
You've given it your heart
and your music

original beauty

Your starvation and thirst becomes grandiose
when you believe you're separate from life,
when you believe you are not good enough.
If you move higher than thought
the smallest gaps between your breath
can hold half the sky along with countless galaxies.
When you stop worrying 
and soak yourself in love
your own heart contains the entire
universe throbbing with the original beauty.

Once

Once

You are deeply ripen

In the sun, opened

And bloomed,

It does not matter how

Doors and windows are tightly shut,

Your fragrance has the power

To penetrate anywhere and anything.

bubbles and waves

 at the end of the day
All the bubbles and waves
will be gone.
The one
that is forever here,
The one
that is unborn and undying
is the tender wholeness
the ever sparkling
emerald ore is inside of you.

old messages

If you are feeling void and hollow,

Don’t be scared.

And don’t run to the store to fill the gap.

the beautiful one

Inside of you loves
cleaning your old messages.

return to grace

       when your stock market collapses,
when your bank account is empty,
when you are laid off from your work
and lose your house to the bank,
When you go through a divorce,
It is not the end of life.
It is the beginning.
It is a divine call to wake up and
return to grace.

Come to the party

In the field

 beyond the limits of thought,

Moons, galaxies and the entire family members

 are gathering for a dance tonight

Come to the party.

Please come home

If you can no longer

Afford being torn from beauty,

Come home my friend.

Please come home where

All things are wide awake

and alive,

Where everything blooms

 within Everything.

lovinggoodness

Even if this is what I want,
I cannot stay away from you,
because your beauty continues

 to occupy my whole being,
Your deep sweetness keeps calling me.
Let the only song we want to sing today
be a lovinggoodness.

The beloved is here

the sky

wiped tensions from his eyes

and stood so close to me

so that I can touch his heart

 and feel him deeply

Everyday we see something

we have not noticed before.

Your responsibility for now

is to remain open, my dear friend

  and unagitated.

The beloved is here to pour

itself into you.

what is inside

Your beauty is like this: -

When I carefully opened

And gazed what is inside you,

I moved into a deep silence

 and uttered no word

 ever since

root of attachment

Splendor

shatters her prison cell

and sings sweetly, facing the sun

When you drop the root of your attachment

and refuse  to pick up

another one again.

chains of time

True beauty is the one that

Dismantles the chains of time,

heals deep sores of separation

and erodes generational fears.

The sky feels its reflection on his face

 and starts frolicking like a child.

wild honey

You are a wild honey
carefully extracted from pure nectars
and the secret smiles of the full moon;
divinely caramelized
with a dense sunlight
Why do you, then,
crave for artificial sweeteners?

fallen leaves

This afternoon
I was walking on a bed of fallen leaves.
everywhere I stepped they make a sound.
very same sound as if coming from one heart
It was not a sound of being a victim of an event.
it is the voice of deep love, the voice of surrender.

You arer not what happens

You
are not what happens.
you are the ground where
all things happen.
You are not a thinker or a dreamer.
you are a playground where
 a thinker and a dreamer play.

what life wants you

Loving
is not thinking or doubting.
It is listening and
doing what life wants you
to do.

Death seems real

Death seems to many of us
Something very real and the word itself scares us to death.
because there is so much attachment
and obsession with the physical body.
Once we’re aware that we are not the body,
Once we are willing to recognize it and
understand it. Once we find the courage to experience it right,
when we're willing die before we die,
then death will dissolve in no time.

Like a great Persian rug

Like a great Persian rug
Everything is woven into everything else
My heart is intimately interlaced with yours,
And nothing is separate from anything.
If anything wants stands more brilliant,
more intelligent than others, it is
only the thought in the mind because
all are designed by the same kind hand
and flow from the ocean.

towards your heart

No matter
how far you ride on the highway of thought;
this cannot bring you any closer to yourself.
It only takes you far away into more traffic jam.
This is why, at the end of the day
you want ot choose to take the exit leading
towards your heart.

The scent

The scent of this moment

is more fragrant than  hope.

Smell it and feel yourself.

It is closer to you than

your chest.

It is infact more powerful

than your thoughts.

Most of all, it is more healing

and nourishing

than any prescription you've ever

been given.

how the sun pours light

As a child

My parents, just like any other parents,

wanted to teach me the concept of ownership

and gave me a goat.  One day, when we were alone,

in the forest, I told the goat that I wanted to be her

friend instead. She did not believe her ears. She started to give me herself unconditionally

in the form of  endless supply of milk.  Now when I see how the sun pours light,

how the sky rains milk and sometimes fresh snow,  how we meet and  then

dissolve into  poetry…..

like the wind, this love awakens and moves through me.

Be still and listen

Sometimes the universe surprises you

With a great  joy or sorrow or even

 responsibility  because she knows

You can handle it.

Move inside and feel your core.

Breath.  Be still and listen

 with all your being.

everyone you meet is yourself

striving to make someone happy

 is a vanity.

The world has tried it for a million years

And it did not work

Because you are trying it from the place

Of otherness, from the field of fear

and separation.

Know yourself first and

Know happiness as yourself.

Then you will realize that everyone

You meet is yourself wearing

different clothes.