Backflip

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Do a backflip 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.

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

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

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)

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

Be Still. I AM.

You ask, Who am I?
Who is asking?

Accept no answer.
Be whatever is left.

Be.

Before even Consciousness, Be.

You are simply That Which Is.

Words, stand easy.
Dismissed.