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Thursday, September 10, 2015
Rumi ♡ - Power of the Divine One
You are the sky and I am the earth
astonished at what you grow inside my heart.
Dry-lipped and thirsty, only the grace of your rain
can turn the earth into a rose garden.
By you it is pregnant and only you know its burden.
It twists, it turns and sighs until
it gives birth to divine longing.
The Beloved takes care of his lovers
and feeds them generously.
Sometimes he ties them with the cord of reason
and sometimes he sets them free to dance.
Look at the meadow bursting with flowers
unable to contain its joy.
Look at the power of the Divine One
turning senseless dust into a sublime painting!
All we see is a veil of this never setting Sun,
this ancient Sun that will one day silently reveal
everything that has been planted.
astonished at what you grow inside my heart.
Dry-lipped and thirsty, only the grace of your rain
can turn the earth into a rose garden.
By you it is pregnant and only you know its burden.
It twists, it turns and sighs until
it gives birth to divine longing.
The Beloved takes care of his lovers
and feeds them generously.
Sometimes he ties them with the cord of reason
and sometimes he sets them free to dance.
Look at the meadow bursting with flowers
unable to contain its joy.
Look at the power of the Divine One
turning senseless dust into a sublime painting!
All we see is a veil of this never setting Sun,
this ancient Sun that will one day silently reveal
everything that has been planted.
-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Hidden Music
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Meister Eckhart - Empty Being
In that breaking-through,
when I come to be free of my own will
and of God's will and of all His works and of God Himself,
then I am above all created things,
and I am neither God nor creature,
but I am what I was and what I shall remain,
now and eternally.
... When I stood in my first cause,
... When I stood in my first cause,
I 'then had no 'God,' and then I was my own cause.
I wanted nothing, I longed for nothing,
for I was empty Being and the only truth in which I rejoiced
was in the knowledge of my Self.
Then it was my Self I wanted and nothing else.
What I wanted I was, and what I was I wanted
and so I stood empty of God and every thing.
Monday, September 7, 2015
Lama Guendune Rinpoche - Happiness
“Happiness is not to be found with
many efforts or will.
It is here, nearby, in
your relaxing and surrendering.
Don’t worry,
there is nothing to be done.
Everything that comes up to your mind
has no importance because it
has no reality.
Don’t conceive
any attachment for it.
Don’t judge yourself.
Let it be.
Let it come up and down
without changing a thing.
It all vanishes and begins again,
Endlessly.
Nothing but the quest for happiness
prevents us from seeing it.
It is like a rainbow that
one is always chasing without ever
reaching it.
It is because it has no existence.
It has always been here and
goes with you all the time.
Don’t believe in
the reality of experiences,
good or bad.
They are like rainbows.
Because we want to grasp
what is not to be grasped,
we exhaust our strength in vain.
As soon as we relinquish our hold,
space is here, open, welcoming &
comfortable.
So, do enjoy it.
Everything is yours already.
Stop searching.
Don’t go into the jungle to
look for the elephant that
is quietly waiting for
you at home.
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to force.
There is nothing to desire.
And all comes by itself.”
many efforts or will.
It is here, nearby, in
your relaxing and surrendering.
Don’t worry,
there is nothing to be done.
Everything that comes up to your mind
has no importance because it
has no reality.
Don’t conceive
any attachment for it.
Don’t judge yourself.
Let it be.
Let it come up and down
without changing a thing.
It all vanishes and begins again,
Endlessly.
Nothing but the quest for happiness
prevents us from seeing it.
It is like a rainbow that
one is always chasing without ever
reaching it.
It is because it has no existence.
It has always been here and
goes with you all the time.
Don’t believe in
the reality of experiences,
good or bad.
They are like rainbows.
Because we want to grasp
what is not to be grasped,
we exhaust our strength in vain.
As soon as we relinquish our hold,
space is here, open, welcoming &
comfortable.
So, do enjoy it.
Everything is yours already.
Stop searching.
Don’t go into the jungle to
look for the elephant that
is quietly waiting for
you at home.
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to force.
There is nothing to desire.
And all comes by itself.”
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Wu Hsin - Behind the mind (Intro)
Behind the Mind: The Short Discourses of Wu Hsin
The Short Discourses, Part One
The Master entered the Great Hall and began the season’s discourses with these words:
Wu Hsin has not visited the abode of truth. Its address is unknown even to him.
Therefore, the focus here is neither on seeking nor finding the truth. Rather, it is weeding out the lies. The discovery of truth is in the discernment of the false.
Wu Hsin is helpless before you in that he cannot transform you into what you already are. In this sense, Wu Hsin bestows the greatest gift to you by informing you that you are not what you seem to be.
This is nothing new; instead, it is the most ancient, transmitted through the silence. Silence is the most powerful instruction. It is the global solvent in which all doubts and questions dissolve. It is the silence that is
eloquent.
Wu Hsin's speaking is an interruption to the silence. The silence speaks far louder than any of his words
As such, most of our time together is spent in this silence. For those not yet able to discern from the silence, Wu Hsin will offer a few words daily.
However, be forewarned. Words consistently fail to express the ineffable. Every word approaches it and is then repelled back. More words fail further. Words produce concepts; many words produce many concepts.
In that regard, Wu Hsin speaks minimally, making a point and leaving it up to the listener to allow the words to bask in silence and, in so doing, discern the deeper meaning.
Don't attempt to understand. Don't deal with my words with the intellect; do not commit them to memory. Let the words pass through you, piercing through the mind and through the intellect and returning to their true source.
Wu Hsin is not speaking person to person. Personage is not welcome in this hall. There is no transmission, there is no transmitter, and there is no receiver. You came here as an individual. If you leave as an individual, then you have gotten nothing.
There is some thing which truly is no thing from which every thing is its expression.
I am I, formless, yet appearing as me, with form.
The body, its sensing systems, and the mind are all referenced via "I", that is, I act, I see, I think. These are Its agent, Its instrument.
It is That which exists in and of itself, dependent on nothing, requiring nothing.
It manifests as polarity.
It is Noumenon and phenomena, the One and the Many, the eternal, unchanging, unconditioned juxtaposed with the time bound, changeful, conditioned.
This is the framework which we will develop beginning tomorrow.
With that, he rose and left the Hall.
The Short Discourses, Part One
The Master entered the Great Hall and began the season’s discourses with these words:
Wu Hsin has not visited the abode of truth. Its address is unknown even to him.
Therefore, the focus here is neither on seeking nor finding the truth. Rather, it is weeding out the lies. The discovery of truth is in the discernment of the false.
Wu Hsin is helpless before you in that he cannot transform you into what you already are. In this sense, Wu Hsin bestows the greatest gift to you by informing you that you are not what you seem to be.
This is nothing new; instead, it is the most ancient, transmitted through the silence. Silence is the most powerful instruction. It is the global solvent in which all doubts and questions dissolve. It is the silence that is
eloquent.
Wu Hsin's speaking is an interruption to the silence. The silence speaks far louder than any of his words
As such, most of our time together is spent in this silence. For those not yet able to discern from the silence, Wu Hsin will offer a few words daily.
However, be forewarned. Words consistently fail to express the ineffable. Every word approaches it and is then repelled back. More words fail further. Words produce concepts; many words produce many concepts.
In that regard, Wu Hsin speaks minimally, making a point and leaving it up to the listener to allow the words to bask in silence and, in so doing, discern the deeper meaning.
Don't attempt to understand. Don't deal with my words with the intellect; do not commit them to memory. Let the words pass through you, piercing through the mind and through the intellect and returning to their true source.
Wu Hsin is not speaking person to person. Personage is not welcome in this hall. There is no transmission, there is no transmitter, and there is no receiver. You came here as an individual. If you leave as an individual, then you have gotten nothing.
There is some thing which truly is no thing from which every thing is its expression.
I am I, formless, yet appearing as me, with form.
The body, its sensing systems, and the mind are all referenced via "I", that is, I act, I see, I think. These are Its agent, Its instrument.
It is That which exists in and of itself, dependent on nothing, requiring nothing.
It manifests as polarity.
It is Noumenon and phenomena, the One and the Many, the eternal, unchanging, unconditioned juxtaposed with the time bound, changeful, conditioned.
This is the framework which we will develop beginning tomorrow.
With that, he rose and left the Hall.
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Adyashanti - Natural state
If the mind wanders just notice Now.
What is happening Now?
The presence of Now.
What does it feel like to be outside
of thought?
What does it feel like to be the space
in which thought happens?
What does it feel like to be the space
in which the body moves and breathes.
Generally we think we are our bodies,
but in actual experience our bodies
happen within the field of awareness.
What does it feel like to have a body
within the field of awareness?
Happening within openness?
Simply by relinquishing control we can
discover for ourselves what the natural
state is...the state of being which is not
contrived.
We see what happens when we meditate
without the meditator, without the controller.
What happens in your own experience?
What happens when we are no longer
even trying to attain peace or stillness
or any goal or any agenda?
It is very telling that when we let go
of the controller and the manipulator
there is a total naturally occurring state
of stillness, of openness and of awareness.
You start to experience your natural state.
The art of meditation is so extraordinarily
simple. Letting go. Letting go of directing
our experience and the natural state starts
to arise.
EVERYTHING the mind is trying to
attain - the peace, the stillness,
the presence, IS naturally occurring
and obvious if we are not trying
to find it.
It needs no maintenance and it
needs no body to try to make it
happen...
Freedom from your own effort.
What is happening Now?
The presence of Now.
What does it feel like to be outside
of thought?
What does it feel like to be the space
in which thought happens?
What does it feel like to be the space
in which the body moves and breathes.
Generally we think we are our bodies,
but in actual experience our bodies
happen within the field of awareness.
What does it feel like to have a body
within the field of awareness?
Happening within openness?
Simply by relinquishing control we can
discover for ourselves what the natural
state is...the state of being which is not
contrived.
We see what happens when we meditate
without the meditator, without the controller.
What happens in your own experience?
What happens when we are no longer
even trying to attain peace or stillness
or any goal or any agenda?
It is very telling that when we let go
of the controller and the manipulator
there is a total naturally occurring state
of stillness, of openness and of awareness.
You start to experience your natural state.
The art of meditation is so extraordinarily
simple. Letting go. Letting go of directing
our experience and the natural state starts
to arise.
EVERYTHING the mind is trying to
attain - the peace, the stillness,
the presence, IS naturally occurring
and obvious if we are not trying
to find it.
It needs no maintenance and it
needs no body to try to make it
happen...
Freedom from your own effort.
Fred LaMotte - Heart
art Parablev
The heart has two chambers,
a banquet hall and a bridal bower.
We move gracefully from one to the other,
and never grow tired
of our everlasting wedding night.
We're like two empty cups
pouring a red blend back and forth
to bring out its bouquet,
subtle hints of musk and citrus.
Many grapes fermented in our vintage,
yet no one asks if we are one or two.
We just keep spilling and flowing,
and there's always enough
to make the world dance!
Here's my secret advice, lovers:
when you drink wine, you get tipsy,
then sleepy and sad.
But when you Are wine,
you stay sparkling and clear
until dawn.
a banquet hall and a bridal bower.
We move gracefully from one to the other,
and never grow tired
of our everlasting wedding night.
We're like two empty cups
pouring a red blend back and forth
to bring out its bouquet,
subtle hints of musk and citrus.
Many grapes fermented in our vintage,
yet no one asks if we are one or two.
We just keep spilling and flowing,
and there's always enough
to make the world dance!
Here's my secret advice, lovers:
when you drink wine, you get tipsy,
then sleepy and sad.
But when you Are wine,
you stay sparkling and clear
until dawn.
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