Rumi - I am created from the ecstasy of love

 

If you bake bread with the wheat

that grows on my grave

you’ll become drunk with joy and

even the oven will recite ecstatic poems.

If you come to pay your respects

even my gravestone will invite you to dance

so don’t come without your drum.

Don’t be sad.

You have come to Gods feast.

Even death cannot stop my yearning

for the sweet kiss of my love.

Tear my shroud and wear it as a shirt,

the door will open and you’ll hear

the music of your soul fill the air.

I am created from the ecstasy of love and

when I die, my essence will be released

like the scent of crushed rose petals.

My soul wants to leap and join

the towering soul of Beloved (Shams).

~ Rumi

– Ghazal (Ode) 683

Translated by Azima Melita Kolin

and Maryam Mafi

“Rumi: Hidden Music”

Salaam and Greetings of Peace:

On December 17th, 1273 AD, Mevlana Jalal al-din Rumi died at Konya. The 17th of December is thus called Sheb-i Arus, meaning ‘Bride’s Night” or ‘Nuptial Night’ or ‘Wedding Night,’ because of the union of Mevlana with God. As Rumi’s epitaph states:

‘When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.’

 

Sri Aurobindo - Only the Inconceivable is left

 

A stillness absolute, incommunicable,

Meets the sheer self-discovery of the soul;

A wall of stillness shuts it from the world,

A gulf of stillness swallows up the sense

And makes unreal all that mind has known,

All that the labouring senses still would weave

Prolonging an imaged unreality.

Self’s vast spiritual silence occupies Space;

Only the Inconceivable is left,

Only the Nameless without space and time:

Abolished is the burdening need of life:

Thought falls from us, we cease from joy and grief;

The ego is dead; we are freed from being and care,

We have done with birth and death and work and fate.

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Huang Po

 

“This Dharma is Mind, beyond which there is no Dharma;

and this Mind is the Dharma, beyond which there is no mind.”

~ Huang Po 

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“There is only the one reality,

neither to be realized nor attained.

To say ‘I am able to realize something’

or ‘I am able to attain something’

is to place yourself among the arrogant. […]

There is just a mysterious tacit understanding

and no more.”

~ Huang Po

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The Natural State

art Kinuko.Y.Craft

The Natural State
Perfectly stay in the natural flow,
There is no other concentration.
Perfectly realize the natural state,
There is no other wisdom.
~ Patrul Rinpoche 

When shall I come to dwell in forests amongst the deer, the birds, the trees?
~ Shantideva

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are - perfect, complete, lacking nothing. 
~ Dogen Zenji

 
“Mountains and rivers, the great earth itself—these are the true masters, offering teachings without words.”
~ Chan Saying

“In the silence of the forest, where the winds chant their songs, one discovers the dharma more clearly than in a thousand sermons.”
~ Ajahn Chah

“Living among the pines and the cedars, I let the stream and rocks teach me how to practice.”
~ Ryokan

“To see the essence of things, walk in the wilderness; there, the mind and nature are one.”
~ Milarepa

“There are no greater temples than mountains, no more profound scriptures than rivers, no truer teachers than the rustling of leaves.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“On retreat in nature, I see that the sound of the wind in the trees and the cry of the cuckoo are no different than the Buddha’s voice.”
~ Zen Master Bankei

“When the body sits at rest under a tree, the heart can truly take refuge in the forest’s stillness.”
~ Ajahn Sucitto

“A mind that is quiet and at ease, like a mirror reflecting the sky, finds its reflection in the unspoiled beauty of the natural world.”
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“The forests and mountains invite us to abide in a state of simplicity, to rediscover the ground of being.”
~ The Buddha, paraphrased from the Pali Canon

The great 13th century master Longchen Rabjam said that nature provides a perfect support for resting in “the mind of uncontrived naturalness” which lies at the heart of the Buddhist Great Perfection tradition.
One’s own present awareness, left as it is, in natural ease,
Beyond qualities and flaws to be added or removed, accepted or rejected,
Is the unaltered, unchanging wisdom of pure awareness;
And to rest in this experience is to unite view and meditation.
~ Patrul Rinpoche 

May you find your way home today - to your true nature, the natural state.
With Palms Together 

Lama Michael

Thanks to Michael Gregory

 

Swami Abhishiktananda - Return within

 

Return within,

to the place where there is nothing,

and take care that nothing comes in.

Penetrate to the depths of yourself,

to the place where thought no longer exists,

and take care that no thought arises there!

There where nothing exists,

Fullness!

There where nothing is seen,

the Vision of Being!

There where nothing appears any longer,

the sudden appearing of the Self!

Dhyana is this!

Swami Abhishiktananda 

(Henri Le Saux)

Swami Abhishiktananda was a French Benedictine monk and priest who felt called to live in india in order to set up contemplative monasteries there. He ended up staying the rest of his life and discovering more than he had bargained for in the general life of india and particularly in advaita vedanta. He never renounced his vocation as a monk or priest

Joan Tollifson - Undeniable and unavoidable

 

Naming this undivided wholeness (calling it wholeness, unicity, Consciousness, awareness, the Self, the True Self, the One Mind, presence, Buddha Nature, emptiness, or any other name) is always potentially misleading because names create the mirage-like appearance of something in particular (this but not that). And what we’re talking about is not something. It is everything and no-thing. Emptiness is what remains when all our ideas, words and beliefs about life drop away. It is not nothing in a nihilistic sense. It is everything, just as it is. 

This wholeness or emptiness is not some abstract idea or mystical state of consciousness, but simply the undeniable actuality of this moment – the sounds of traffic, the hum of machinery, the song of a bird, the knowingness that this is and that you are here. This bare being, this aware presence, this present experiencing requires no belief and cannot be doubted. It is undeniable and unavoidable. What can be doubted are all the ideas, interpretations, and stories about this. All our confusion and suffering is in this conceptual overlay, never in Reality itself. This book is about seeing through the imaginary problem.

---Joan Tollifson, from her book, “Painting the Sidewalk with Water”

https://www.joantollifson.com/joan.html

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