PEACE LOVE YOGA: MoJoe

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)

19.5.08

Yoga is not eating too much, nor is it absolutely not eating, and not the habit of sleeping too much, and not keeping awake either.

~Bhagavad Gita

Was up late talking to the Republican (a.k.a. Da'vid)...somehow, on less sleep, I sprang out of bed with more vigor for morning practice. When I get to bed early it seems a bit more challenging to wake up. What's that all about?

Practice Notes:

Breathed and moved through 2nd Series and part of 3rd. Feeling really good...I flowed with a steady focused pace. The body felt supple...taking a step back, and observing, I took any extra effort out of the equation. Went back to the basics in every posture...conscious breath...bandhas...driste...almost like a mantra. Then it dawned on me...to find ease in the practice allow the breath to breathe into the body...instead off the other way around. Consciously clearing the mind...focusing on the breath, driste and bandhas bring us ONE with the posture...as we sit in the seat (asana), grace descends, and everything showers upon us as the body opens. Its all rather simple really. Hahahaha...riiiiiight. I guess the better words for it would be, simple...but challenging.

After doing some study on Hanuman I feel compelled to read the Ramayana. Ahhh...so many interesting things to read, so little time. My stack of books to read increase with each passing day. There is the stack of texts to study in depth...then the novel/fiction stack...the nonfiction stack...the things I need to read again to gain greater understanding stack...its endless...but, I love it...I love to read.

I realize change is constantly happening, and what may be true one day...may not the other. However, I feel my mojoe coming back...and, I'm thankful for it...I guess it really isn't something to attain. Yes, everyday is different. But often times we ourselves close the valve of life and vitality...getting too caught up in thinking, questioning, doubting. The only reason why I say these things is because I've been there...I am there to some extent. Its through my own mind and nonacceptance for what is that stops the flow...its a huge learning process I'm growing into...sometimes with grace...sometimes not so much...hahaha. Most importantly however, just giving ourselves the opportunity to laugh at the blunders and drama of life we get tangled up in is a blessed practice...I'm learning to let go of the expectations, and instead, see what comes at any given moment while maintaining my center as best I can. Its all very interesting. What really ignites the spark is that I go back to...I'm learning...bit by bit, everyday...there is no place to 'arrive' to...its all right here right now. Pretty darn cool.

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