PEACE LOVE YOGA: 1,000 Posts {Wow!}

Burnt To Ash

"All Inquiry is meant for one purpose; to take you experientially into the unknown as efficiently as possible. Once you get there, simply be still because inquiry has delivered you to its destination. The rest is up to Grace. Do not hold onto any knowledge that comes your way. Even the greatest revelations much not be clung to, or you will end up with a head full of memories and a heart empty of substance. The truth is ever new, existing only in the now. The highest truth is beyond knowledge and experience. It is beyond time and space, and beyond beingness, consciousness, and oneness. Just remember that all direct path techniques are meant simply to undermine, to cut away, the one who is performing them. No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes the itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. The, and only then, is the Ultimate realized. True Enlightenment destroys enlightenment. As long as you can refer back to yourself and say, 'I'm enlightened', you not. Enlightenment is authentic only when there is no one left to be enlightened. Even to say 'I am nobody', is one too many. There's a point when you intuitively realize that to be Free you have to give up your attachment to Freedom. You have to quit asking yourself: Is it still there? Am I okay? You have to decide to never look over your shoulder again to see if you're free or if others know you're free. You just have to let yourself burn there - no matter what. This isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to do it. In the beginning, teachers can help a lot. But the deeper you go, all they can do is point, and clarify, and tell you what you need to do. Only you can take this step. Nobody can push you in to this place."

- Adyashanti

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."

- Louise Erdrich

No Expectations

A spirit that lives in this world

and does not wear the shirt of love,

such an existence is a deep disgrace.

Be foolishly in love,

because love is all there is.

There is no way into presence

except through a love exchange.

If someone asks, But what is love?

answer, Dissolving the will.

True freedom comes to those

who have escaped the questions

of freewill and fate.

Love is an emperor.

The two worlds play across him.

He barely notices their tumbling game.

Love and lover live in eternity.

Other desires are substitutes

for that way of being.

How long do you lay embracing a corpse?

Love rather the soul, which cannot be held.

Anything born in spring dies in the fall,

but love is not seasonal.

With wine pressed from grapes,

expect a hangover.

But this love path has no expectations.

You are uneasy riding the body?

Dismount. Travel lighter.

Wings will be given.

Be clear like a mirror

reflecting nothing.

Be clean of pictures and the worry

that comes with images.

Gaze into what is not ashamed

or afraid of any truth.

Contain all human faces in your own

without any judgement of them.

Be pure emptiness.

What is inside that? you ask.

Silence is all I can say.

Lovers have some secrets

that they keep.

(Rumi)

1,000 Posts {Wow!}

29.4.10

Today is my 1,000th post !!!

Hard to believe. What a journey it has been over the last 3 years since I decided to start blogging. With a bit of trepidation to "put myself out there," I haven't regretted it for one moment. It has connected me to so many wonderful people that I've been pleasantly surprised that the connections made would be the best part, along with having a forum to express myself, and collect my thoughts.

I want to thank anyone and everyone who has ever visited my blog, commented, emailed, or who I've met personally through the blogosphere. Thank you!

I Thank You All !!!

XOXOXOXO

13 Insightful Comments:

Lyon said...: I don't believe I've ever commented here before, but I wanted to say congrats on your 1,000 mark and that I enjoy reading your blog very much. You and your practice are very inspirational to me. Thank you for sharing your beauty with us!; April 29, 2010 at 6:17 PM
jwhite1202 said...: Congrats on hitting the 1000 mark. I have read your blog off and on for about a year now. I especially like the demo videos you do (very nice). You're not exactly hard on the eye's either ;-). Again Congrats.; April 29, 2010 at 6:23 PM
Grimmly said...: Congratulations Laruga, that's a lot of posts, you should choose five or ten of your favourites and re post them.
I agree with Lyon always found your practice inspirational and just love you blog. Here's to the next thousand.; April 29, 2010 at 7:48 PM
Unknown said...: I'm a new follower and I congratulate you on getting out there... hope to learn more from you as I just passed my 1 year mark.; April 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Emma said...: what an accomplishment! congrats!; April 30, 2010 at 12:30 AM
california said...: A pleasure to read you posts.Very informative and beautiful.
Love your writing style, you draw in the reader in such a wonderful easy way.
The foto's and - as well as the practise clips are super.
Keep the posts coming, and many thanks!

Greets

Judith; April 30, 2010 at 12:54 AM
peaceloveyoga said...: Sincerely, I thank you for sharing and visiting my blog from time to time.

I will have do a bit of research and see what my favorite posts are, hmmmmm. Thank you for the suggestion, Grimmly. :)

xoxoxox; April 30, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Tracy said...: and you know I have loved every. single. one.! xxxx; April 30, 2010 at 6:31 PM
StEvE said...: 1,000 posts, Wow!

I'm a latecomer then, as I think I found your blog on about post 998. Nevertheless, I join everyone above in thanking you for the inspiration. You describe the practice and all it's hidden intricacies beautifully and help to make the hardest part (as you yourself said; 'getting on the mat'), a lot, lot easier.

Thank you!; April 30, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Sadie Kaufman said...: Laruga, Your blog is such a gift. I am so grateful to have happened upon it. Thanks for your brave honesty and wisdom. Congratulations and I look forward to reading the next thousand. Un abrazo from Mexico, Sadie; May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Unknown said...: Wow, All of these pics, adventures and lessons are fascinating. Here are more information about traveling, studying lover of Ashtangi yoga. I think if you want to be healthy and fit, you should do regular practice of Yoga. This is one of my favorite post. I love it.; May 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM
Ursula said...: Yes it is wonderful to got to know you via this blogosphere and to read about your thoughts and about your life.
It is so rewarding to write a blog, I couldn't have imagined. Me too, I got to know so many awesome people, bloggers and readers. I even met some of them (bloggers and readers). I feel the same like you.
(I've written more than 4000 posts already hahahahahaha)
Happy writing.....:); May 1, 2010 at 8:42 AM
peaceloveyoga said...: Wow Ursual. 4,000! That's amazing! XO; May 2, 2010 at 12:03 PM

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