PEACE LOVE YOGA: Spring

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)

Spring

24.4.09

...the Holy Spirit sees everything in the world as either an expression of love or a call for love.

~ A Course in Miracles

Spring has sprung in Stockholm, and it's beautiful.

I've done a ton of walking since arriving, and one startling difference in comparison to any other place I've been is how pristine the air is. Breathing air this fresh makes taking in an inhale a religious experience. Nice.

It hasn't taken long to feel at home. There's an ease to the city along the hustle and bustle of daily life...a calm steadiness amidst the buzz of activity. Feels good to experience this balance.

I don't feel the need for much outer stimulus during my excursions in and around Stockholm. I find joy with a simple ride on the train as I read a book. The views of the city are enough for me to soak in. The architecture, the quaint walkways, the parks, the museums, the shops and cafes can fill the day in ways I hadn't expected.

I love it.

3 Insightful Comments:

- A - C - said...: how interesting.. I'm reading "a course in miracles" just now...; April 24, 2009 at 9:05 PM
peaceloveyoga said...: Wow. I haven't mentioned it much yet...but I'm starting my journey through the Course. You'll have to fill me in on your quest through it...should be interesting...

:); April 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- A - C - said...: I am trying to follow it quite seriously. This process comes as a natural evolution of other paths I tried in my life, some being still in progress. It was given to me as a gift by a very "casual" encounter. Together with the Patanjali's sutras (commented by I.K. Taimni) and the writings of Pietro Ubaldi it enlists within the most important readings in my experience.
you're welcome to contact me to echange opinions and comments.; April 25, 2009 at 1:46 PM

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