PEACE LOVE YOGA: R.O.C.

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)

1.7.08

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasure.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.

Thus the wise man residing in the Tao
sets an example for all beings.
Because he doesn't display himself,
people can see his light.
Because he has nothing to prove,
people can trust his words.
Because he doesn't know who he is,
people recognize themselves in him.
Because he has no goal in mind,
everything he does succeeds.

~from the Tao Te Ching

I woke up today feeling a twinge of loneliness...however, as the day progressed the feeling quickly vanished. With little to no distractions, It has given me the opportunity to get real with myself. No T.V....not even a western magazine. This is gonna be an interesting way to exist in the world....I'm excited about it.

Slept in today...thank God for moon days...hehehe.

Again my interactions with the Taiwanese people...and the yoga community has been nothing but a blessing and a beautiful experience. There is such a sincere, and genuine reverence extended forward to you as a teacher...one would think it could easily go to your head, but it humbles me, and I feel gratitude to be able to share the little bit that I know, or have experienced through the practice...

One of the students at the studio gave me a tour around Chiayi. Asia's a trip...but I love it.

I was warned that being vegetarian maybe a challenge in Taiwan...but I've experienced exactly the opposite. There are various vegetarian...even organic, vegetarian places. Let me just say I'm loving the food. Its soooo healthy, and afterwards I feel like it's additive to my energy vs. depleting. Wow!...and the fruit...need I say more...I could probably eat a different variety of something or other while here and still not get a taste of it all...

Well...gotta get to bed...bedtime is around 7:30pm...ok, don't laugh, but I gotta early wake up call, and I need to make it to my mat. :)

2 Insightful Comments:

Tracy said...: it sounds so beauiful and peaceful and soul full-filling~
enjoy this precious time~oh, a nd the early bedtime thing...i was in bed no later than 8 when i was i india! :0); July 2, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Nicky said...: I'm with you in spirit. I can taste the fruit just from your description.
Hugs!; July 3, 2008 at 8:50 AM

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