Monday 31 August 2015

Harmonising

The Great Function manifests itself without fixed rules. Meeting each situation on its own terms, it's never too soon, never too late. Thrusting, retracting, advancing, retreating - it all takes place beyond the realm of thought. When you're in harmony with Mind, arms and legs operate on their own.
Bankei

The Great Calamity

When this thing happened to me I realized that all my search was in the wrong
direction and that this is not something religious, not something psychological,
but a purely physiological functioning of the senses at their peak capacities.
You want to know what my state is and make it part of knowledge, i.e. the
tradition, but knowledge must come to an end. Your wanting to know only
adds momentum to your knowledge. It is not possible to know what this is
because knowledge is still there and is gathering momentum. The continuity of
knowledge is all you are interested in.

U G Krishnamurti on his 'Great Calamity'

Sunday 30 August 2015

Backflip


Jump back.

Do a backļ¬‚ip into Who You Are. It’s not there, it’s here. All of it. It’s all internal. There’s no outside. There’s no inside, even. It all just IS, for no reason other than heaven. Who are we and what are we doing? This is it! Simply THIS. We’re worlding. We’re universing. And we’re not “we.” We’re I, awake to the fact of Awakeness, aware, unborn, knowing.

Jump back.

from THE HEAVENLY BACKFLIP
Seeing and Being the Unfigureoutable
by J. C. Amberchele

Saturday 29 August 2015

Not Crazy Enough

I was dead
I came alive
I was tears
I became laughter

All because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal

Love said to me
you are not
crazy enough
you don't
fit this house

I went and
became crazy
crazy enough
to be in chains

Love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don't
fit the group

I went and
got drunk
drunk enough
to overflow
with light-headedness

Love said
you are still
too clever
filled with
imagination and skepticism

I went and
became gullible
and in fright
pulled away
from it all

Love said
you are a candle
attracting everyone
gathering everyone
around you

I am no more
a candle spreading light
I gather no more crowds
and like smoke
I am all scattered now

Love said
you are a teacher
you are a head
and for everyone
you are a leader

I am no more
not a teacher
not a leader
just a servant
to your wishes

Love said
you already have
your own wings
I will not give you
more feathers

And then my heart
pulled itself apart
and filled to the brim
with a new light
overflowed with fresh life

Now even the heavens
are thankful that
because of love
I have become
the giver of light.

Rumi

Wednesday 26 August 2015

One Alone Exists

To some, the Self appears as other;
To me, the Self is I.
Like undivided space, One alone exists.
How, then, could the subject and object of meditation be two?


Avadhuta Gita

Never Mind the Quality

There is no colour or sound to the one Reality;
It has no qualities at all.
How can one even think or speak of That
Which is far beyond both mind and speech?


Avadhuta Gita

You're the One

You, also, are the One! Why don’t you understand?
You’re the unchanging Self, the same within everyone.
You’re truly illimitable; you’re the all-pervading Light.
For you, how can there be any distinction between the day and the night?


Avadhuta Gita (not Olivia Newton-John)

Monday 24 August 2015

Secrets of Friends

Shall I tell you our secret?
We are charming thieves who steal hearts
and never fail because we are
the friends of the One.

The time for old preaching is over.
We aim straight at the heart.
If the mind tries to sneak in and take over
we will string it up without delay.
 

We turn poison into medicine
and our sorrows into blessings.
 

All that was familiar,
our loved ones and ourselves,
we had to leave behind.


Blessed is the poem that comes through me
but not of me, because the sound of my own music
will drown the song of Love.

-Rumi