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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

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)

22.9.08

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you...

~ Sheng-yen

In the last two months I've been going through a deconstruction, and a rebuilding of my yoga practice, on many levels. For one, I had to reconsider my intention regarding my practice. I mean, its something valuable to revisit from time to time. Why? Because I say so. Kidding. But really, I've had to re-ask. Why do I do this? What is the purpose? Why do I get up at 3:30am to then move, breathe and sweat for two hours? Is is it blind faith? Then, after the litany of questions, the answer becomes pretty darn simple. Does there need to be a point? Maybe, maybe not. Back down the rabbit hole. Shit. Who cares. Practice and all is coming...right? Two, with me diligently addressing the issue with my back, I had to be conscious of whether my practice was adding to my path of healing, or harboring it. Which, I might add, has nothing to do with the practice itself, but simply how I was maneuvering with in it. Three, well...I've found that our practices aren't static things...naturally, with that being said, in the wee hours of the morning, I've been going back to the basics. And, I've really enjoyed it. Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up...

The Doaist master gave me a pretty tall order moving forward. I cringe, because I haven't started yet. Me and my procrastination. Its been an interesting exchange. Even though he doesn't know a lick of English...and, my friend Amber must translate. I get it. I get him...and I don't know why exactly. And, he never seems to hesitate to tell me that I'm very lucky to have met him. Hahaha.

The other day, he told me he would ask I receive a blessing, after he made his daily hike up the mountain where atop sits a Buddhist temple...the place I first met him.

I was touched. Simply touched.

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