PEACE LOVE YOGA: Today

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)

8.6.08

"Facts are accumulated by effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly."

~Power vs. Force, by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Sure thing, I practiced today...no day off. Felt I needed it, was inspired to, and didn't practice last Sunday, because of all the moving...so this morning was my make up day. It felt great. I felt energized!! Columbus has been going through a mini-heatwave, and I love it. I'm the type of person who would rather be too hot, than too cold. Makes me nostalgic for India. Sigh.

No matter, I will be heading off to another place with plenty of warm temps. Its hard to believe that soon I'll be headed out of the country. Hasn't really hit me yet.

Often times, in the past, I've ended up looking way ahead toward the future, while missing out with what was right in front of me...thinking there was better fulfillment ahead. So, even though what's coming is on my mind...I'm doing my best to be present with what is going on now. May sound silly, but I've already done too much living in the future stuff. Walking into this new teaching job, I don't wanna go in with lofty expectations, or desires. There is definitely an element of the unknown that I will be heading toward, and that is where I would like it to stay. Besides, what I attend to today will leave me better prepared for what's up ahead.

"The pessimistic position of cynical skepticism stems from fear, while the more optimistic manner of accepting information arises from self-confidence."

~Power vs. Force, David R. Hawkins, M.D., P.h.D.

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm rereading one of my favorites...Power vs. Force, so just to be annoying, I'll be quoting some of my favorite passages in future posts. Lol. Love this book!!

So, in the mean time, I'll be putting together curriculum for several workshops planned...and reading, of course. Plain and simple. The last several months, I've had the freedom...thank you...and time to get in touch with myself, and with life...and I feel reinvigorated. There is a season for everything. There is a time to reflect...lay low, and be...and a time to make manifest with what was simmering while immersed in just being. I don't have it down perfect, naturally, but it gives me hope that moving forward...hopefully...maybe, just maybe I'm a bit wiser.

"When the mind grows silent, the thought I am also disappears, and Pure Awareness shines forth to illuminate what one is, was, and always will be, beyond all worlds and all universes--infinite and beyond time."

~Power vs. Force, David R. Hawkins, M.D., P.h.D.

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