Come, Break Me Open: Mystical Poetry

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, May 3, 2014

vanish

don’t be concerned
with what people think
about you -
nor be irritated by the traffic
congesting your mind.
after all you are not
your thoughts. Are you?
Who are you,
who is thinking
and who is watching?
don’t be afraid
to let go of your thought
and the thinker –
Like sugar melts
Into a warm milk,
Melt into the depth
of your inner being
and vanish.

eternity is now

Eternity is now
and in this body,
not sometime
in the future
It does not happen
by planning about it
or striving for it
but by dying into it.
It requires the courage
to step out of time,
the willingness to be
free from the burden
of the past or the fear
of the future -

change

Change
happens in one person.
When it deepens, the person
cannot hold it to himself anymore.
It erupts like a flower and
the fragrance intoxicates
the entire community
and the world at large -
the flame of love
ignites intensely
speeding up the
evolutionary process.
who can ever resist
the power of this
sweetness!

please drink me!

When
everywhere I go
Everything and everyone
returns to a deep state of
sweet wine and says
please drink me!
Please drink me!
Please drink me ----
How is it possible
to stay sober?

personality

personality
is a cultural fiction -
it is a dust of information
you've gathered from the
world, from around you
and it is not real.
only when you abandon it,
only when you leave
it behind,
can you move closer
to what can really tickle
the depth of your heart.

joining of the sun with a flower

when you
are fully present,
whatever you do
is not work anymore.
it is a joining of the
sun with a flower -
a rain making love
to a tree.

inside a goat

Don’t be fooled
by appearance,
dear friend –
A tiger roars
from inside a goat –
the sky moves -
inside a falcon’s feathers
don’t be afraid to break
into dust -
grapes nourish our
souls only when they
are crushed and squeezed –
after all
nothing is in
your control
Only remembering
Can expand you.
not from memory
But from intelligence -
You’ve a center
that is unshakably sweet -
that has infinite energy
to weave turmoil
into wine.