PEACE LOVE YOGA: Bring in the Light

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)

18.4.08

"All the darkness in the world can not extinguish the LIGHT of a single candle."

~Francis of Assisi

The weather here is finally getting warmer...its soooo nice. One thing about living in Columbus is that when nice days come you never take them for granted.

Practice this morning was good. Nothing earth shattering...just showed up, and I'm happy and thankful to.

Yesterday our morning practice group workshoped instead of doing our respective traditional practices. Its was fun. I have to admit the whole mind body connection thing is my passion. I enjoy being a student of the whole process, and studying practitioners as well. Finding the balance of strength, and alignment, with the combination of effort and surrender intrigues me to no end.

Also, I've been asked by a friend to help out by giving feedback regarding a project of his, and I'm kind of becoming a glorified guinea pig, if you will. Right now he's in Bejing, China teaching English. I met this Australian bloke in India, and we've continued to stay in touch periodically. Anyway, he and some friends of his have a really great idea brewing regarding an interactive yoga experience. I don't want to go into too much detail because for one its in development stages, but two...its his idea. Geesh, why didn't I think of it first? Hahaha. Well, if anything I'm happy to help.

One disturbing thing came up though when I was talking to my friend. He told me about all the biased information being pumped out in China regarding the Dali Lama, and the Tibetan people. He also went on to tell me that propaganda is continuously fed to the Chinese on a daily basis. Its really disgusting. Hopefully in time the truth will be revealed. I have faith it ultimately will. Its easy to get caught up in the negativity of a situation. However, the most powerful thing we can do is extend peace to the area, and even extend love and light to the oppressors as well. A tough lesson...and many times a challenging thing to do. But the minute we start to believe that we are separate its all over...

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