PEACE LOVE YOGA: Pura Vida Spirit..."Pure Spirit"

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"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

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)

28.5.07

I have been lucky enough to come across a word...or a saying that from now on I would like to embrace. Pura Vida...a Costa Rican saying meaning experiencing the best life...its about friendship, relaxation, flirting, happiness and fun...about having a beautiful experience...free spirit...love for life. This is a way of being...a place we should all easily be able to relax into. My only question is why does it seem so hard at times?? Does it have to? Can we live in this state for most of our lives?? If our natural state is joy and happiness...then shouldn't it be an easy goal to attain. So...what stands in the way? I can't speak for anyone else but for me...but its my freakin' head...that gets in the way! If I just started living more through my heart instead of my head...how great would that be. I am finally realizing that there is no better way to live than there...in that place. Deep in the heart. Because it never lies...its true...its truthful...its genuine. However, I guess I can't fault the part of myself that has been guarded...it has served me at one point...and there is no point in beating oneself over the silly things we do...not to feel...many times we do all we can...not to go there...and to really express that true part of ourselves...even if it is painful. So...I think...I'm ready...ready to jump...!! Live and Let Live...right?! Freedom...that is what I seek...its about the dance...that's it...no more...no less.

So, life in India...I honestly can't complain...about anything...I absolutely love it. I know I sound like a broken record, but its true. The everyday is so simple...life really does not have to be so complicated...and I have been inspired on many levels since landing here. What I do with this inspiration...we'll see what comes of it...

Practice...is coming along. Last few practices I have really been seeing Sharath's eyes on me...I'm telling you...he doesn't miss a beat. He hasn't given me much verbal or physical adjustments...but I am still getting everything I need some how. I feel like my practice has really strengthened even more...on a subtle level that is. And, somehow I am able to just let my practice go when I'm done. I am just enjoying the dance. No accomplishing...no attainment...no grasping...just enjoying my breath...enjoying the movement my body expresses with each asana...no more...no less. Peace.

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