Alain Joly - The Ardent Disciple

 

We are strolling down a lane of a thousand gorgeous temples. Only we need to see it, to give ourself the gift of sightseeing. We need to open our life to this reality. But first, we must release this tension present in believing to be a self, and honour this temple of pure being that we are when all our beliefs and identifications have been met and dismantled. Then open your eyes. You are living in a beautiful, never yet visited land. Every fellow human being met, is a temple of consciousness. Every animal encountered, a temple of presence. Every living being that crosses our eyes, our ears, our touch, a temple of awareness, a reflection of our being. We are touring in a world of our self. Never in a distant, exotic land. Always in the comfort of our home as being. Forever linked to and as our deepest presence. We are visitors of presence, being both the presence that visits — as our self, and the presence that is visited — as apparent others.

Down this lane of presence, you will meet countless other temples. Every tree that stands majestic in your gaze, every flower that attracts you with its net of beauty, every fallen leaf on your path, every drop of rain landing on your skin, all temples of your own, scrumptious being. And every object surrounding you, a temple of isness. The clothes you are wearing are existing things. So is the watch at your wrist. Or the chair you are sitting on, or a pen, or a musical sound — the thousand fellow objects of your life. All sharing this same quality of presence, of isness. All temples that reflect the inner beauty or quality of your self, that can be met at every step. See them. Hear them. Touch them. Feel them as your own. Sense their making as your own. Honour them every time you can. They will tell you the story of your self. They are like sculptures of being in the temple of your life.

Don’t forget that every traveller or companion of life, is an altar of friendship, a temple for love. And every object distant or at hand, a recipient for beauty. And every felt presence, an echo of peace, and an occasion for happiness. All are hymns of the divine. All praises to god. But don’t stop here, for there is more to pray, or meditate on; more invitations to honour; more temples to enter; ever more heart openings to experience. Life is a dynamic thing. Bow to everything that shows up. Do not bypass the fact that behind every glance of most human beings you meet, and of many animals too, is also a temple with a cross of suffering. Be sensitive to it. That’s how you will come to exercise your compassion. And notice that within any word uttered by any conscious self, or behind any cry of a distant animal, is a sermon to learn from, by a priest in being. Listen to it carefully. That’s how you will come to exercise your humbleness, or your understanding. And in many actions or behaviours of many of your living friends battling through existence, you will be offered a lesson in equanimity, in courage. Be aware of it. Take it as the expression of your own living self, and an occasion for you to face your unmet challenges. These are the many temples placed at every step of your everyday life. A lane of temples to rest both your broken soul or your radiant being. Enjoy the sight. Be the ardent disciple of it all.

 

 

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Nancy Neithercut ~ The magic he had been seeking

 

And as long as he could remember he was smitten with sunflowers
he read and studied botany and biochemistry
discovering how they grew

he studied physiology and neurology
to discover how he could see and touch them

longing to capture their beauty
he would drive to large fields of them
and sit with them all day
watching their beautiful faces follow the sun

he grew them and watched as delicate birds would land on them and eat the seeds .............

and after decades of desire
to know them
he realized he could never know what sunflowers were

he could never even know what yellow was

and he realized that it was his longing to capture the magic
that he felt so deeply
created an imaginary barrier between himself and the sun
and painted imaginary lines between the birds and the flowers

realizing he had never been separate from the magic
or life
he wept

the magic was the unfigureoutablity
the uncatchableness

it was never lost
yet it could never be held or captured
as he was the magic he had been seeking

 

 

 

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Eric Baret - Let the Moon Be Free

 

 

 If I manage to be aligned with Consciousness, can I reach Essence?

Try for just a moment not to be aligned with Consciousness…

What else could you be other than Consciousness? You are not a red zebra located outside of Consciousness, to align yourself with her. Consciousness is yourself when you stop looking for something, when you stop pretending that you have the freedom to be aligned or misaligned. In your silence, between two thoughts, two perceptions, in deep sleep and at all times—because time appears in Consciousness—your life is in perfect agreement with Consciousness.

Give up every ideological commentary on your life. Your knowledge about life prevents you from seeing how perfect it is. There is nothing to change. Your life changes, that is life. You don’t have to align yourself with anything. Otherwise you will always feel misaligned.

Wanting to be aligned is fear. Fear of what? The cause of the fear is imaginary. At some point you stop shaking. What is showing up is alignment. When I don’t call it positive or negative anymore, success or failure, what shows up is nothing but myself, my resonance: there lies true alignment. It is not the alignment of a subject toward an object, it is a total alignment, without separation. It is alignment with your body when it hurts or when it works, alignment with life with what it has to offer, with no demand to accomplish, to get anything.

It is extraordinary to listen. That transcends what you are listening to. Listening is deeply aligning with life.

To be without demand, without expectation, for a moment, is the simplest thing in the world. It connects you with every being, every world. There lies symbiosis.

If you try to align with something, whatever it is, what you align with is an ideology: if you’re a Muslim, you align with sharia or your tarika; if you’re a Buddhist, you align with the Sangha or the Dharma; if you are an atheist, you stand behind your concepts… That kind of alignment has very little value.

You need to align with what shows up in the moment. But that you cannot do. It is grace which calls you and which you turn down at every moment because you want to be aligned with the next moment. Observe the mechanism.

The emotion that arises in me, that is what I need to align with. There is nothing else. 

 

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī - In your Love I have lost my mind

 

 

 Come! For in your love I have lost my mind.
Once a city, now I am a ruin.

From your love I moved out of my home,
left my family.
Now my bedmate is the pain of longing.

Never mind how passive I was before I saw you.
Now I’m a real man.

When I saw how sweetly our souls were related8
I became a stranger to my own family.

Day and night I consumed the tales of lovers,
Now consumed by your love, I am the tale.

I swear on the souls of all holy drunkards,
I am drunk on your love!
O Beloved, take my hand.

I swear by all who risk their lives for God, I am life.
I swear on the souls of the freed, I am free!

I trailed after books like Mercy after the sun.
I ranked high among intellectuals.

When I saw what was written on the Wine-bearer’s face
I broke all pens in my drunken frenzy.

You commanded, rip the veil; I ripped it!
You commanded, break the chalice; I broke it!

You commanded I cut ties with my friends.
I left all and bound myself to you.

 

 

Eckhart Tolle on J.Krishnamurti

 

“Jiddu Krishnamurti spoke and traveled almost continuously all over the world for more than fifty years attempting to convey through words - which are content - that which is beyond words, beyond content. At one of his talks in the later part of his life, he surprised his audience by saying, "Do you want to know my secret?" Everyone became very alert. Many people in the audience had been coming to listen to him for twenty or thirty years and still failed to grasp the essence of his teaching. Finally, after all these years, the master would give them the key to understanding. "This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens."
He did not elaborate, and so I suspect most of his audience were even more perplexed than before. The implications of this simple statement, however, are profound.
When I don't mind what happens, what does that imply? It implies that internally I am in alignment with what happens. "What happens," of course, refers to the suchness of this moment, which always already is as it is. It refers to content, the form that this moment - the only moment there ever is - takes. To be in alignment with what is means to be in a relationship of inner nonresistance with what happens. It means not to label it mentally as good or bad, but to let it be. Does this mean you can no longer take action to bring about change in your life? On the contrary. When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of Life itself.” 

 

 

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