PEACE LOVE YOGA: Yogini's Quest meets Peaceloveyoga

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

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."

- Louise Erdrich

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)

Yogini's Quest meets Peaceloveyoga

9.3.09

If there's a perfect design to everything then it's become perfectly clear as to why I became friends and roommates with Yogini's Quest, my partner in crime, Tiffany. We met through blogging...kept in contact, and viola...we hung out in Mysore, India together. Two Ashtanga yogini's simply trying to keep it real.

Seriously, I gotta give my girl props. I love her openness and generosity...a free spirit with so much love to give. Tiff, you truly are one of a kind. And, you have the bendiest back I've ever seen...hahaha...(Can we get f*cking real?).

I'm so happy I met you!! Sad to see you go, but I know our paths will cross again...and for sure, we'll be in touch.

All the best!!

4 Insightful Comments:

Tracy said...: I would like to add that it was amazing meeting Both of you beautiful souls~ So cool to connect with others on the other side of the world too...
I wish you both only the best in whatever you decide to persue in your lives. The sky really IS the limit you know...
xxoo; March 9, 2009 at 7:59 PM
peaceloveyoga said...: Thanks Tracy! You always have such touching words to say. I feel the same about you, and Ray as well, like I said before, both of you emanate such bright light. It's amazing.

xoxox; March 9, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Tiffany said...: Omigosh Laruga, you are so sweet. Thank you so much. I love you and will talk to you when I wake up..; March 11, 2009 at 1:31 AM
peaceloveyoga said...: Tiff, glad to hear you made it back home in one piece...best of luck getting organized for your next journey...; March 11, 2009 at 7:13 AM

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