Your heart is the holy book

If once in your life time,
love has moved in, grabbed you
by the wing and stormed you
the way the wind moves
a willow tree -
if you've fully experienced what
sacredness can bring to your full lips
and your fingers -
when you are fully content
with who you are and
what is dancing in your eyes –
then you don’t have to worry
to know what the holy books
have said.
Your heart is the holy
book itself.

an empty bowl

I am an empty bowl
Vast, ordinary and without a rim,
without edge and cover –
without decorations -
I am empty and naked as the sky
and Pure as rain waters -
Oh bee of endless wisdom!
Come, flood me with the
honey of eloquence.

You are a real, real thing

Stop demanding and straining.
Don’t lose yourself in the world
you've created,
Don’t take fantasy for reality.
You are a real, real thing -
Why do you continue to play
with toys?
You ask me what fear is -
I say it is a feeling that
takes over the moment
you forget there is a master
inside you that can
handling anything.

If you can look inside

If you can look inside
for a minute and just listen,
you can feel the simplicity
and abundance of life
all around you and inside you -
and you will no more say
life is unfair. Life is hard.
it is only your thinking
that makes it complicated.

be patient with mystery.

People say I am a poet
I say I am not making poems-
Love is making them.
Love wakes me up from sleep
and hands me a notebook
and a pen –
what happens when a lover
merges with the beloved?
Who is the doer when a rainwater
penetrates a stone?
There is nothing to explain here.
Let’s learn how to be patient
with mystery.

walking in the morning

Walking in the morning
on a crunchy snow -
the sound was deep and sweet -
when you listen with every particle
in your body, it turns into music.
beneath the snow, the earth
is warm and brown throbbing with
continuous giving -
the silence between
my footsteps holds
the unseen and the unheard,
the raw energy of the cosmos.
Don’t ever plan to live -
Simply offer yourself to life.
Nor depend on your thoughts
for they have no wings or light.
When you move closer and closer
to the sun inside your breath
you immerse yourself in the
the aroma of God and
your forgetfulness in your
past life is forgiven and erased.

authenticity

The fragrance of authenticity
erupts inside you like orchard in the spring,
when you find the courage to live
your life the way you want
not the life your parents or
the world around you
expects you to live.