Dear friend:- You're here finally and I bow to the one that brought you here. You're here because you chose to be here at this time. You're here to celebrate beauty through words we speak, through deep silence. We might call them poetry or songs or chants. It does not matter what we call them. What matters most is you're here. These words come through us like flowers come through plants, like the rains pour from the sky. May we all become the light we spread, the beauty we speak. Blessings.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
believe no more
Believe no more
that any one is responsible
for your pain and suffering -
Then you will start
living life in her
fullness and totality
and it is not possible
for you again to be
a victim of any situation
any more.
how do you want to be treated?
there is a old saying that goes -
treat others the way you want
to be treated.
the question is
how do you want to be treated?
how do you treat yourself?
have you been kind to yourself?
do you live in a constant fear
and worry?
do you have respect for who you
really are?
have you loved and accepted
who you are?
are you forgiving?
do you hold grudges against others --- ?
the truth is, it is only when you are
willing to be kind to yourself,
someone can be kind to you
because on the higher level
anything you see outside of you
is not different from who you really are.
better days
Only someone
who waits for the future
to come believes that
better days are yet to come.
why wait my friend?
let the perfume
of life, the eternal
now flood you over.
what happens when
you relax and let
your hands open?
everything that
you have been holding
onto will fly way
making a space for
the river to flow
through it.
all your waiting
will fly away.
all your worries
will fly away.
all your doubt
will fly away.
only you will remain.
only love will remain.
only this song will remain,
the song that does not
refer to anything
other than
its own perfection,
the song what
you knew how
to sing it very well
when you were
a child.
open the door
when i see a friend request
on my facebook, it feels like
a guest is standing by the door -
i open the door and let them in.
i don't ask for their names.
i don't ask if we've met before.
i am not interested in their
stories.
i don't ask what city
or country they come from.
i don't ask what their religion
or gender is. i know
them through their heart
and their deepest longing
in their eyes.
i know they have come here
because they are being
drawn to their own light.
any meaningful hunger
is the hunger for the
ultimate self.
hidden music in the heart.
after all, everyone is
trying his/her best
to come home.
go inside of you
you might have spent
a lot of money to attend
a satsang or a spiritual
gathering expecting to
be enlightened.
a good teacher however
does not give a new
information on how to
survive very well.
Actually there is no-thing
she-he can give you.
she-he looks at you
and smiles and says,
dear one, you see,
you are already what
you are searching for.
what i say may not
satisfy you.
go inside of you and
find it yourself.
in the face of chaos
the heart
is like a flower -
once it is crushed open,
it gives off a fragrance
that is so majestic that
we forget our safety
and start dancing
in the face of
a chaos.
whatever is arising
whatever is arising
on the physical plane
does not really matter.
why give so much attention
to your thought?
You are more beautiful
than you can ever imagine.
love does not compete
look into your
inner being and breath.
You know love
does not compete.
When you speak
she listens.
when you listen,
she speaks.
and when not
driven by fear
and worry,
the world can
be a sacred
community.
shifting
There is nothing
wrong with thinking.
it is happening anyway.
shifting from your thinking
into the awareness
of you thinking,
observing when
thought arises,
however, can bring
you back to the
depth of the present
moment, where you
can handle even the
most difficult situations
with elegance and ease.
nature of light
this is the nature of light -
when it feels your presence,
it remembers itself.
it feels oneness with you.
it dances and expands and
by expanding it tickles your heart
and opens every part of you
that has been locked and you smile.
Your smile brings you
to your natural state,
turning doubt into
infinity love.
lotus blooming in your chest
What does it mean
to be a true friend?
you asked.
i responded,
to be a lotus
blooming in your chest.
to be a deep glow
in your sweet eyes -
to be a hidden music in your lips
and with a true friend you
don't pick up a conversation
from where you left the other day.
You always forge a new one
because every day is a first day
of your life and a true friend
is never afraid of being a beginner
every day.
spontaneous flow of nature
you are already
the energy that makes
the earth orbit around
the sun -
you are the eyes through which
the universe sees itself -
whatever you add to yourself
through learning
interferes with the spontaneous
flow of nature and hides
your true essence.
your beauty
i don't measure your
beauty by what you do for a living
or how many diplomas
you've earned
but by how you fall and rise
in the face of
a challenge and never
afraid to fall again
and again.
birthplace of peace
if you're planning
to go somewhere
in search of peace and
happiness,
i say to you,
cancel your flight
and burn your
ticket and look
inside of your heart
and stay there.
that is the birthplace
of peace and happiness.
that is the head-quarter
of truelove.
mechanism for survival
your desire
to be someone
other than you
and to be somewhere
other than where you
are right now,
is simply a mechanism
for survival.
fully alive and awake
sometimes,
life does not want
to leave you to your
own devices. and she shakes you
up and down because she wants to be
sure that you are fully alive and awake.
when you are alive,
you no longer live in fear
and when you've no fear
you can bloom.
biological urges
When you realize
that you are not
here to satisfy
your biological urges
but to glow like a full moon
in the spring, life becomes
a continuation of everyday
miracle.
bitter and sweet
You suffer
mainly because you are busy
avoiding what you assume is bitter
and running after what is sweet.
Sometimes what tastes sweet
can be poisonous and what is bitter
can be transforming.
splashing shallow waters
for how long are you going
to be interested in
strewing dust and splashing
shallow waters?
the one that holds your hands
and gently draws you to your own
infinite depth is here.
surrender to that now.
when you approach reality
when you approach
reality by way of
images, words,
concepts and grammatical rules,
life seems to you
fuzzy, dry and
insensible and instead
of channeling miracle you depend
on luck.
something in common
"we are here
not because we've something
in common but because we
are actually roots and
stems and trunks and branches
for each other - we are one."
any openings possible
don't try to repair everything
that is fractured and torn-
Grace has been waiting for so long
to pour herself into you through
any openings possible.
infinite intelligence
Don’t try to convince
your mind and anybody else’s mind
that you are pure awareness,
that you are the field of infinite
intelligence from which everything
arises and to which all things return.
this is too much for the mind
and it cannot handle
this conversation.
how magnificent you are
because
you’ve forgotten
how magnificent you are,
Because you’ve overlooked
how powerful you are –
you continue to play a victim
role.
the universe laughing
What if you get up
this morning and suddenly
discover that
every single particle in your body
pulsates with a deep, radiant
and delicious light
and every sound you hear
is the universe laughing?
unsatisfied
Something to meditate on for today –
If you feel agitated, unsatisfied,
shaky and fearful ---
it is simply because
you have been good at
arguing with
the music of life.
between you and I
If there is any wall
or distance between
You and I ,
It is only a story
the mind continues
to itself.
Don’t buy it.
long before
the birth of logic
or reason we were
here and
my spirit and
yours have mixed
like mud and water,
like fire and wood
and it cannot be
separated anymore.
true teacher
a true teacher is not
the one who sells
you something.
It is the one who shows
you how not to be afraid
of being authentic
to yourself, how to
shine so brightly
and fiercely.
Friday, March 4, 2016
the only courage
the only courage
you need with all
yourself is to stay
open to whatever
arises–
the lions in the forest
of your being
will roar with joy and
the entire universe
can hear the music
in your heart
for it is everyone's
music that has been
hidden.
light in their eyes
if you want
to connect with
another human being
on the most natural
level,
don’t focus on their
conditioning or behavior.
Focus on their deep longings,
what can tickle their core
and arouse their heart.
Look at the light in their
eyes when they are silent,
not what they say
or think.
to be God
There are moments
when your heart opens and expands fiercely
and becomes swollen with brilliant light and rainbows
and infinite fragrance of gratitude --
completely drunk on the timeless
honey of life, a holy fire of grace
consumes you
and you forget your name and your address
and everything you’ve known
and it becomes easier for you
to be God than to serve god.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
lovemaking
it is not authentic lovemaking
when two people join in sexual intercourse
and still remain separate and lonely -
it is rather when you look at the
full moon in the dark night
and recognize her as
one of the luminous organs
deep inside your body.
deeper self
Whatever you
want to do today,
ask your deeper self
if this aligns with the
music of the cosmos.
energy of life
You are not
a puppet of life.
you are the energy of life.
you are life
and life is abundant and spontaneous.
it is self-caring and self-birthing
and self organizing and she does
not need a care-taker or a boss.
on the deepest level, you
are that too.
look inside
it does not make any
difference
if you are a veracious
reader or a great traveler.
you will not find yourself
in the books or at
the tourist centers.
look inside
yourself and be silent
everyone's music
the only courage
you need with all
yourself is to stay
open to whatever
arises–
the lions in the forest
of your being
will roar with joy and
the entire universe
can hear the music
in your heart
for it is everyone's
music that has been
hidden.
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