There is a dark side to experience
that only the Truth can survive
It will come like Armageddon
and leave Spring in its wake
In the midst of the storm of torment and hell,
there is a most intimate peace~
Very likely we are not going to bump into our true nature and never again have a moment of suffering or delusion or struggle. Consciousness requires the 'dark night of the soul' in order to transform our illusions by putting a great pressure on us to come into harmony with life itself. If we can begin to see these 'dark nights' as inclusive within our awakening rather than as obstacles a shift begins to happen where we give up our fight with darkness, and darkness can begin to illuminate our experience.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Stop!
Stop!
Don't look inside,
don't look outside.
Stop all your movement for one moment
and be still.
Tell me then, who are you?
And where have all your problems gone?
Don't look inside,
don't look outside.
Stop all your movement for one moment
and be still.
Tell me then, who are you?
And where have all your problems gone?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The Adoration of All
If you are to truly know the fullest extent of what it means to be awake, you must yearn to adore everything. It is only then that we begin to see with our true eyes. The Divine has distaste for nothing, not even the most hideous situations. Now, our adoration doesn't mean that we are passive, complacent smiling faces, if anything our adoration moves us to serve others, to serve life, to get our hands very dirty.
The willingness to adore things just as they are is an indispensable quality of the Real. To adore even what we dislike, even what we may hate, is to see beyond the limitations of our limited two eyes- beyond the limitations of our imperfect perceptions.
True adoration comes from a place deeper than emotion and thought, from a place that's untainted by our biases and opinions. This is self-transcendence, this is realizing the emptiness of phenomena, this is seeing perfection amidst imperfection.
As we deepen in our realization of the All, adoration becomes natural and effortless. When that adoration penetrates to the depths, we are left deeply grateful for it all.
The willingness to adore things just as they are is an indispensable quality of the Real. To adore even what we dislike, even what we may hate, is to see beyond the limitations of our limited two eyes- beyond the limitations of our imperfect perceptions.
True adoration comes from a place deeper than emotion and thought, from a place that's untainted by our biases and opinions. This is self-transcendence, this is realizing the emptiness of phenomena, this is seeing perfection amidst imperfection.
As we deepen in our realization of the All, adoration becomes natural and effortless. When that adoration penetrates to the depths, we are left deeply grateful for it all.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Don't Know!
When you don't know that you don't know
that is ignorance
When you know that you don't know
that is enlightenment
When you know that you know
that is delusion
When you don't know that you know
that is gate gate paragate....
that is ignorance
When you know that you don't know
that is enlightenment
When you know that you know
that is delusion
When you don't know that you know
that is gate gate paragate....
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