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.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Full capacity
have the courage to be
all that you are –
my eyes are fully
open and
I don’t see darkness
anywhere.
if you do, tell me
about it. Maybe
you have not kissed
it deep enough –
maybe you are
not burning with
your full capacity.
whatever passes
before your eyes -
don’t react but respond
with kindness –
everything and everyone
wants to grab
your attention –
be a neutral witness
and wherever you are
sing your own song
and dance your own
dance –
and follow no body
but the light in
your heart.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
holy fire
You are not here for no reason -
the world slept and dreamed
of a new being -
someone who’s awake -
someone who’s
compassionate and simple -
someone who’s
fearlessly open -
someone who shares
not pain but a holy fire-
Monday, June 26, 2017
hidden gold
You’re a lord
not a beggar -
You are a hidden
gold not a metal.
why do you walk on earth
like a mortal? Like
someone who
is fearful?
you are the source of light -
why do you continue
resisting light?
You are the emblem
of wholeness -
Why do you split
yourself into fragments?
You come out of
silence and return
to silence –
why do you like
hiding inside noise?
through so much
learning
you’ve forgotten
who you are and
you ask me -
how can be free now?
you ask me how
can I be happy?
and my answer is
short –
drop all that
is nonsense.
Friday, June 23, 2017
your essential nature
your essential nature
is bliss itself and
what someone
says to you neither
reduces you nor
improves what you are -
you are delight as well as the
enjoyer of delight.
you are the full moon
as well as the softness
of the moon.
The sky inside your
being comes out
to dance with trees
moving in the breeze.
you are a view from mountains
where nothing is hidden.
You are the face of the
sun turning in every direction.
empty vastness
First
let go of
any trying -
be empty of
any desire
no matter how
beautiful that is -
even a desire to be
enlightened –
be satisfied with
what you are now.
Want nothing.
and nothing –
for what you are
is already a signature
of splendor -
Remain
inside this
empty
vastness.
Saturday, June 10, 2017
tooth fairies
Just like a child
wakes up one morning
and discovers that tooth fairies
are not real,
one day you too,
if you are blessed,
will wake up
from your dreams and
realize that you are not
what you really think
you are.
greatest challenge
greatest
challenge
of being human
is the courage
to allow what
wants to emerge -
and the strength
to release
what wants
to fly away
from your hands -
remain inside the knowing
Sometimes
you happen to be
with a group of humans
whose energy is very low and
who’re great at complaining
and worrying-
out of good intention
you want to be of service
to them so you too start
complaining and blaming someone.
you think that by worrying with
them you are being friendly
and kind.
The most original way
to help this world is
not by participating
in worry or fear. it is
actually by knowing
who you are on the
deepest level and
then to remain inside
the knowing.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
deeply present
as I was growing up
in the farm,
I still remember
some beings who looked
at the clouds floating
in the sky and could
tell if it was going to
rain or not.
there were also
few people who could
understand the language
of animals and birds.
It was not because
they had a special gift,
It was because they were
very intimate with
nature.
It was because they
were very alive and
deeply present.
open your eyes
You don’t have to be
on a long cruise or
a caravan.
You don’t have to
go anywhere –
just open your eyes -
right here, in front of you
or under your feet
a bruised blade of
grass trembles with
the mystery of existence.
Her love is total and
no part of her hides
from the world.
She contains the world
inside her stillness.
She shares the trauma
of the world -
if you want to know
how deeply we are all
connected,
look in the eye
of a tiger or a dog
or in the eye
of another human
being –
you can see yourself
there.
Friday, June 2, 2017
whatever you fight
You might have
noticed how misery
gravitates to misery –
it is not by eliminating
the ego that you can
experience freedom.
It is by transcending it,
by simply noticing
it is there ----
whatever you fight
against, will strengthen
itself and come back.
you are the universe
There is a relationship
that is complete by itself,
like an oak tree,
which is established
in its own consuming
magnificence -
where no one is superior
or inferior,
no one is smaller or greater –
no one is more intelligent –
there is no cause and effect,
there is no victim or victor,
there is no birth or death ----
and this alone is an authentic
relationship.
it is a relationship with
the universe,
a relationship with your
own heart –
you are the universe.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
copper into gold.
to stand
before yourself
without illusion –
to drop whatever
prevents you from soaring
towards your invisible
strength -
to hold the universe
inside the depth of
your tenderness –
this is the courage
that can turn
copper into
gold.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)