PEACE LOVE YOGA: Hiking

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)

11.10.08

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours, no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which is to look out
Christ's compassion to the world;
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.

~ St. Teresa of Avila

What a wonderful hike today.

Our usual group went on our usual hike this morning. However, we ventured out to a different location lead by a most generous guide who we met on our hike last Saturday.

Its a funny story how we met this man. When we made it to the summit of our hike last week our group struck up a conversation with him regarding his skin. You see, he had the most luminous skin I have ever seen. And, of course the women in the group wanted to know...what do you do?...do you use cream?...what is your secret?...do you stay out of the sun? Of course he doesn't do any of those things. Hahaha...pretty funny. For a man of 54 years, he had the best looking skin I've ever seen on someone his age or someone half his age. Simply put, he told us that he hikes in the mountains everyday....and also, does this interesting ritual of yelling out...a kind of bellow...into the wild.

Just like the Doasist told me...there is something very powerful to the mountain energy here in Taiwan...and he too...hikes just about everyday and swears by it.

I felt I had enetered paradise. Our guide took us to a place, high up, with an abundance of waterfalls, and lush greenery. Even though some of the climbs took my breath away, I felt a charge of energy magnify my body. (Pictures will come later).

Which was the very opposite to yesterday when my friend Amber desperately wanted to take me to Taichung to their famous department store...and, to give me a taste of the city, since I will be moving there in the next several days.

I can't seem to tolerate crowds or shopping for long anymore. What has happend? I used to love to shop. Just after 20 minutes I felt I wanted to leave as my energy started to drain from my body. But, I pervailed.

Even though I had in my mind a couple things I wanted to buy I only ended up with some face cleanser and a Moleskine Journal. Ahhh. I love my Moleskines!

Pick one up. I gurantee it will inspire you to write something down on paper. :)

1 Insightful Comments:

Tracy said...: laruga~
it just sounds so incredibly magical to be where you are...i never would have known if you had not have gone and posted all of these things.
and your quote...wow. so true...in SO many ways~
were you able to contact g about the place in january? if not..would you like me to for you?
just thinking about you and wondering~
xoxo tracy; October 11, 2008 at 7:42 PM

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