PEACE LOVE YOGA: Saturday

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

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)

12.1.08

"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."
~Buddha

Even though I went to bed late last night, I was up early. Got up, changed, and went straight to the mat. This month I'm participating in WoYoPracMo...yeah, breaking a bit of the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga tradition, being that its Saturday...however, its been fun joining a community of practitioners.

When lying in savasana this morning after practice...I had that good tired feeling. Like, I had maxed out every muscle, delivering valuable prana and oxygen to the deep layers of the body. Soooo nice.

Right now I'm reading a great book about intention, and I just read an excerpt stating that one's purpose is not as much about what you do as it is about how you feel...I love that. I'm finally getting it. What an important concept to remember moving forward. Its gotta feel good...its gotta feel right.

More and more, on my constant quest for truth. I've come to realize the importance of continually connecting to the Source beyond the 5 senses. No matter what endeavor I take on, that is what is most important. Sometimes we get caught up in the labels...stating that is who we are...but we are more. Yeah...I practice yoga, and its a big part of my life, but its a tool...and because I do it more days than not, makes me no better than anyone else. It only gives me the grace of connection. Its a beautiful instrument that deepens my awareness and connection to others. Its easy to connect with other yogis, raw foodist, vegetarians, Buddhist, like minded people...whatever, but to be an example to others and find common ground, and compassion with those who may not even be interested in those things...now that's huge. Its all about being That which we are as often as possible. Its just when I make it to my mat or meditation cushion regularly, when that realization becomes all the more easier. And, damn it! I have this silly tendency to forget. But when I feel the grace...when I feel the truth of our infinity...wow...it can be mind blowing...and like I've said before, it makes me feel sooooo big and yet...sooooo small.

Very humbling...

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