Sandy Jones - About the Child.

art Sandy Jones

 Here is another most marvelous thing about the Child.
It’s Joy is endless.
This Child flows easy, it takes nothing personally.
It is right up close to this Living Tao of the universe.
The Tao excludes nothing, but it includes all things.
This wide open heart of childlikeness has an intelligence
that is not subservient to reason and logic.
The Infinite does not conform to humanity's limited views.
The Child of us is our eternal nature.
It lives before time, while understanding the rich beauty and purpose of time.
Somehow, this open hearted way of being in the world allows us
to be fully aware of both the measurable and immeasurable at once.
We know the Ultimate Changeless Light and this limited light are one Light.
And every changing moment is another universe of beauty, each spread one upon the other.
I am only an instant away from another pasture of soft grass interspersed with flowers
- another meadow of fresh, expansive Joy.
There is a grand freedom that happens when we recognize
that the finite and Infinite are two that are one,
while yet knowing the Infinite Changeless is never subservient to change, time or matter.
The heart understands.
This understanding happens like an alchemy within the crucible of the heart,
and it makes all things new and marvelous.
This childlike visionary soul brings a freedom from fear
and an unbound delight in all things, simple things, little things, everything, just the way they are.
When we find the Child we discover the Real Identity that we’ve been all the while.
And oh, how the world glitters and shines again,
filled with the Living Love that is here as my whole world.

  

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Wei Wu Wei - By whom is this being said?

“Objective existence is phenomenal - appearance only,
Non-objective existence is unaware of existing,
And it is phenomenally incognizable.

Objective existence is figuration in mind,
Non-objective existence only `exists' in such mind,
Cognizing everything except what is cognizing.

Objective mind is self-elaboration in space-time,
Non-objective mind, phenomenally void, knows neither.

By whom is this being said?
By mind attempting to see itself - and not succeeding.
Why? As space-time `it' appears as `void',
Intemporally `it' cannot cognize what is cognizing.”

 

Mahmud Shabistari - You have heard much of this world

"You have heard much of this world
yet what you seen of this world?
What is its form and substance?...
You are asleep and your vision is a dream;
all you are seeing is a mirage.
When you awake up on the morn of the last day
you will know all this to be fancy and illusion;
When you have ceased to see double,
Heaven and Earth will become transformed;
when the real sun unveils his face to you,
the moon, the stars,and Venus will disappear;
if a ray shines on the hard rock
like wool of many colors, it drops to pieces."

 

Suzy Kassem - The dance of angels

He spins and spins and spins
To remove all three layers of him
And with devout discipline
He spirals to ignite the light within.
He becomes a part
Of the solar system
And spirals to its cosmic hymn.
His soul transcends through
The mouth of God
To join the source
Of everything.

He turns and turns and turns
To open up windows to the universe
And with each circle of love he twirls
The love in his heart
Radiates and bursts.
His thirst for a meeting with the divine
Has been his only quest since birth,
And while rotating like the hand of time
He sings the 'AH' of an angel's verse.
As he turns and turns and turns
A million emotions and vibrations submerge
A luminous spectacle worth a million candles,
The Sufi dancer is poetry without
Words.

 Suzy Kassem

 

Hafiz - Everywhere!

art Reza Badrossama

 Running
Through the streets
Screaming,

Throwing rocks through windows,
Using my own head to ring
Great bells,

Pulling out my hair,
Tearing off my clothes,

Tying everything I own
To a stick,
And setting it on
Fire.

What else can Hafiz do tonight
To celebreate the madness,
The joy,

Of seeing God
Everywhere!

 

art Reza Badrossama

Mark Nepo - Accepting This

photo Gregory Colbert

Yes, it is true. I confess,
I have thought great thoughts,
and sung great songs—all of it
rehearsal for the majesty
of being held.

The dream is awakened
when thinking I love you
and life begins
when saying I love you
and joy moves like blood
when embracing others with love.

My efforts now turn
from trying to outrun suffering
to accepting love wherever
I can find it.

Stripped of causes and plans
and things to strive for,
I have discovered everything
I could need or ask for
is right here—
in flawed abundance.

We cannot eliminate hunger,
but we can feed each other.
We cannot eliminate loneliness,
but we can hold each other.
We cannot eliminate pain,
but we can live a life
of compassion.

Ultimately,
we are small living things
awakened in the stream,
not gods who carve out rivers.

Like human fish,
we are asked to experience
meaning in the life that moves
through the gill of our heart.

There is nothing to do
and nowhere to go.
Accepting this,
we can do everything
and go anywhere.

 
http://www.marknepo.com/ 

 

On the Road with Thomas Merton

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John Roger Barrie - The Deepest Silence

Alphonse Osbert (1857-1939) Au coucher du soleil, 1894

 The eloquence of the deepest silence echoes from the eternal. Originating there and reverberating through the ripples of time and space, it bursts forth in shimmering waves, forming light and color, shadow, and dimension. But it remains unchanged. Never affected by the slightest permutation of outer phenomenon, silence interweaves the temporal but is forever untouched by it.
.......

Ever elusive yet all pervading, silence is known by those who take the leap. The adventuresome hiker seeks areas untrampled by the masses. The successful inner voyager treks to the precipice, and then, having encountered the Unknowable, brazenly discards map and compass and boldly treads onward. The yearning heart echoes the cry that seized the Psalmist: “Be still and know that I am God.” The knowing mystic, seized with a searing nondual vision, confidently answers back, “Be silent and know that you, too, are God.”

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