PEACE LOVE YOGA: The Coffee Dilemma

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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

"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)

The Coffee Dilemma

23.5.08

I've gone back and forth with the coffee. Intuitively, I know its not good for me. So, I'm quitting it for....let's see...the 3rd or 4th time. Don't know what it is about it...I like the taste...I like the little perk it gives me...but in the long run I'm left depleted. Why drink it for instant gratification...when in the long wrong I will gain no benefit? Its time to give it up for good. Gotta give up the black stuff...I'm moving on. You're not good for me anymore...I'm moving on to bigger and better things.

6 Insightful Comments:

Ursula said...: I'm back to my morning coffee. I get up at 5 and I need something strong. At least I think so.

During the day I do not drink coffee anymore, but in the morning.

I think your efforts not to drink coffee anymore are worth it. Good luck.; May 23, 2008 at 8:11 AM
Rebirth2017 said...: Something about it...right? I liked it too for a long time...very much. The taste, the comfort...then I read the following article at this link and realized, I had to stop. I did and I get my kick now from other sources like fresh juices, spirulina, MSM...

http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/articles/coffee.html

Good luck...it takes some time but in the long run...as Ursula says..it's worth it :); May 23, 2008 at 1:27 PM
peaceloveyoga said...: Thank you for the perspective. I already feel better about the decision. Will just have to find healthier comforts I guess.

:); May 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Anonymous said...: This post has inspired me to give it up too.

I've sworn off coffee many times before, but it has been hard to put my finger on what it is about it that I don't like.

Your post really puts it in perspective.

Also, bhakti yogi, that article is so comprehensive. I've printed it out for inspiration.

In addition to fresh juices for a boost, I also find hot chicory drinks are a nice and relaxing like coffee.; May 23, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Tracy said...: isn't it funny how when i am in india i NEVER drink coffee...don't even miss it for a second..chai is the drink of choice when i am there. then when i get back, i am pulling out the french press again! but, i do have to say that i only have two cups in the morning and then i am good to go. guess i will give it up when i make my move to india!
xxoo; May 23, 2008 at 7:54 PM
peaceloveyoga said...: Yep, I read the article Bhakti yogi posted. Very insightful! Its funny, because something on the inside tells me it not optimal for my body...but reading the article solidifies my decision! Thanks.

Gonna checkout that chicory stuff too! I've heard good things about it.; May 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM

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