Eric Baret - "Yoga Dialogues"

 

"When you wait no more, you open up. 

Available, everything you meet has an absolute depth and speaks only to you, 

not as a person: as a resonance. 

There is no such thing as unholy activity. 

Approached without intention, every activity is sacred. 

A goal is always unholy. The goal is tension, agitation; 

it prevents us from deepening what we are doing. 

It is only free from any direction that one can explore an art. "

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Kavi Jezzie Hockaday - Tearing off the mask

 

I would rather burn for the truth than settle for illusion
I have no interest in armchair spirituality
no taste for polished wisdom neatly packaged in soft words. 
Give me the ragged edge
the blood and bone of transformation, where spirit and matter collide.
Where awakening is not a gentle sigh 
but a fire that burns through every illusion.
I am for tearing off the mask, casting off the veil
and standing naked in the light of what remains.
For falling without a net into the abyss of the unknown
letting every fractured piece of me shatter on the ground
until only truth is left breathing.
I am for the beauty that underpins all of existence 
not the fragile fleeting kind
but the beauty that arises from ruin
that holds grief and heartbreak in it's arms and whispers, yes.
For the burning of the false on the pyre of truth
for the holy undoing, for the sacred unravelling.
This polite conversation bores me
it lulls me to sleep with it's empty gestures.
I would rather dance wildly in the storm
let the rain soak through my skin
let the thunder crack open my chest
until only love remains.
I would rather pick up my guitar and sing love songs to whatever mystery brought me here.
To the nameless force that breaks me
heals me, swallows me whole 
I would rather admit I know nothing
that I am no-one
than posture and pretend to be someone.

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How Wu Hsin sees

 

Ma Kung approached the Master and said 'Most Dear Wu Hsin, give me a way to see what you have seen'.
With an endearing look, the Master replied, 'Ma Kung, it is not like making a stew; there is no recipe. However, some who have come before you have succeeded with these:
1. 
Make the Self, this Being Conscious Presence, your religion. Worship It; stop worshiping the world and its contents and allow It to unveil Itself in all Its Majesty.
2.
 Clear seeing happens only when it is given a vacant space in which to happen. 
Space that is occupied with notions of a me-my-mine can never support clear sight.
Set aside your busyness for a while and return to that Pose of Observing, the Natural Pose.
It is from there that you will glean that all busyness is activity of the body/mind/self composite which you are not.
No matter what is arising at this moment, there is Witnessing of it. You are that Witnessing, not an entity witnessing, rather the dynamic function of Witnessing.
3.
 You are the complete expression of your potentiality at this given moment. It couldn't be any other way. Recognize that all your actions are the effect of Self-propulsion. Distinguish between the All-Doer and the instrument of doing.
Then be patient.
4. Trust.
Trust in That which took care of you long before you presumed that you were in charge.
Trust that That which brought you here will take you 'there'.
Trust that Conscious Presence takes Care of Its Vehicle.
Trust.
5. 
You are never without beliefs. You replace one belief with another, perpetuating a belief-exchange process. 
The root belief is 'me' to which all beliefs are then attached via 'mine'.
Either drop all your beliefs or verify them. Otherwise, you are like a blind man who believes in rainbows.
In each instance, the outcome has been the same. The mist lifts, the viewpoint shifts and one sees how Wu Hsin sees, one sees what Wu Hsin sees.

Alain Joly - The Brush of Ecstasy

 

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There is a hidden ecstasy in your being;

Only you have — to access it — to ignore

The clamour of your endless thoughts,

Wildly thinking themselves to death;

To leave them behind, so far behind,

A thing of secondary importance,

Not that first, foolish, imaginary role.

Ecstasy has its own special requirements:

One is postponing all future goals and attainments

And envisaging yourself only in the now

Where peace can be seen to thrive,

Far and away from imagination,

Settled within the hard ground of being

Where is built a temple for yourself.

And stay there, don’t mingle with the body,

Don’t make it an essential — not more

Than necessary — it’s a fake friend;

Then, when you have built a home

Secure from the turmoil of feelings

Free from all that come to lure you into their net;

When you are — as to say —

Outside your usual self,

As the etymology concedes;

When you have recognised the world

As your own inseparable body;

When you have opened wide all windows,

Extricated yourself from the grip of time;

When you have habituated yourself

To the pure light of just being;

Then — and only then —

And only perhaps

Then might a brush of ecstasy

Come upon you — gently but noticeably;

Only beware of too much of it

Lest it will send you back to some

Old, stale beliefs about yourself — stay humble.

Then might a brush of ecstasy

Come upon you — that will make you

Leave your own dated sense of self,

And adopt that quiet remoteness of being

As your new, unmistakable home.

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Wu Hsin - Just relax

 

Appearances in Emptiness can never affect Emptiness.

The space inside the cup is the same as the space outside the cup. 

Only walls, mental or physical, delineate inside from outside.

The silence preceding the words is the same silence after they are spoken. 

These are the offspring of the Unchanging.

Therefore, forget whatever can be forgotten. 

In so doing, what is revealed is that which cannot be forgotten.

One must be empty of the known to understand this. 

To try to incorporate it into the known is bound to fail.

We miss What-Is due to a lack of attention. 

Instead, we create something else using excessive imagination, 

which is like a high fever insofar as it makes you see things which aren't really there.

People have become enslaved to their thoughts. 

They listen and obey. They are so entranced in the world 

that their discrimination has atrophied. 

They cannot even discern the difference between diamonds and rock salt.

You are where your mind is. 

Escape from the thought sphere, therefore, is the imperative.

It is not accomplished by killing the mind, resisting thought or similar acts.

Instead, it happens quite naturally by removing attention from thoughts. 

Without the energy of attention, thought dies.

It is suggested that nothing can change without effort.

Making tremendous efforts teaches the futility of effort. 

It is like trying to escape from a pit by digging downward.

Wu Hsin says no effort is required in the sense that no effort is required to be aware. 

Just relax, don't make an effort to relax. 

In that natural relaxation, what you need to know will present itself.

No one can do it for you just as no one can eat for you to appease your hunger.

Only what is finite can have a center.

What you are is Infinite Being, that which is without dimension.

A body and mind with desires becomes a body and a mind without desires.

If the identification continues, the problem continues.

With the cessation of imagination and desire, the drive to becoming ceases 

and being this or being that merges into pure being.

Thoughts appear as a necessary function in the human organism.

The organism does not decide to create them any more than it decides to breathe.

They are sourced from that which sustains and supports the organism.

To believe that you can stop your thoughts presupposes that you initiate them.

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Jalal al-Din Rumi - What do I know?

 

 

 You ask me: What state are you in?—How do I know?
Which one are you? Where do you come from?—What do I know?

You ask: Which jar poured the wine
that has made you so drunk—How do I know?

You ask: What's he got in his lips
that has sweetened your tongue?—How do I know?

You ask: Why aren't life and youth
enough for you?—How do I know?

In his face I saw a fire
like the Water of Life. What do I know?

If I am you, then who are you?
Is this you, or are you that? How do I know?

Thoughts like these: Who am I?
You are the beloved soul, what do I know?

You tell me: You always stand around on the road,
what are you, a sentry?—How do I know?

Sometimes you turn me into a bow, sometimes an arrow.
Which are you, a bow or an arrow?—How do I know?

Happy the moment when you say: Should I give you life?
I'll say: You know best. How do I know?

When I'm impatient I say: Shams of Tabriz,
you're like this or like that. What do I know?


from: Say nothing
Poems of Jalal al-Din Rumi
Iraj Anvar & Anne Twitty

 

 

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John McIntosh - Do you understand?

 

Do you understand … really understand what it means that there ‘are’ no OTHERS? There ‘is’ nothing else but YOU … do you really get this?

This world you seem to live in … and ‘that’ - within a universe, perhaps – you think, many universes … do you understand that none of it is separate from Who You Really Are? For most who have come this far … these concepts are still just ideas they have heard and read about – not REALLY understand or FELT as True.

To the mind, that false identity most believe is who they are – imbedded within a body that seems separate from this world-universe … everything IS apart from it. But the Truth is … you are swimming in a limitless ocean of YOU-ness. The hero ‘and’ the villain – they are both ‘extensions’ of YOU and YOU get to witness these aspects of YOU playing ‘off’ each other - multiplied infinitely.

Yes, it’s True that what YOU are witnessing is an illusion, a movie scripted from the conditioning that defines the parameters of this Grand Dream. However, for now, YOU ‘are’ IN it and whether you have the Awareness that this ‘is’ a play of images on the screen of Consciousness or still believe there is some kind of reality to it … YOU ‘are’ IN it.

This ‘understanding’ … this Awareness that EVERYTHING you are witnessing ‘and’ experiencing IS an extension of YOU – the full potential that the ONE SELF that is Nothing with infinite potential – IS … is playing in a field of dreams – makes ALL the difference

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