PEACE LOVE YOGA: Practice for the Children Pendants!!!

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)

3.12.09

"Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great souls. Charity is for the purification of the heart; when given to suitable persons, it leads one to advanced spiritual life."

(Bhagavad-gita)

Okay, everybody! My inspiration. The one who shoots me rays of sunshine over cyberspace. Tracy! An absolutely amazing woman. I so enjoy sitting back and seeing what she will come up with next, and she NEVER disappoints.

Being a passionate supporter of charitable causes in India, her current project is coined "Practice for the Children Pendants." By purchasing the following pendant in honor of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, proceeds go the following charity Operation Shanti.

Operation Shanti Envisions...

A world in which the poor are given the opportunity to reach their full potential in life.

Spreading peace, goodwill, and hope throughout our world by helping the poorest and neediest gain status and their rightful place in their societies is the vision of Operation Shanti. Often, the poor are robbed of their human rights, are discarded, treated inhumanely, or are ignored. The ultimate goal of our work strives to give the poor back their rights as human beings.

Operation Shanti's Mission is...

To directly improve the lives of exploited, at-risk, destitute children and the forgotten, suffering elderly, enabling them to become "beacons of light" and share the same gifts of peace, goodwill, and generosity with others for the rest of their lifetimes.

We help the poorest and neediest children and elderly, and the forgotten destitute, with the basic human needs: food, shelter, medical services and educational assistance. As we believe that every human can and should stand on his/her own, we are there to help the destitute begin to help themselves.

With such commitment, and undying selfless enthusiasm Tracy brings to this current project and to the children of Operation Shanti, I encourage those interested to click on the following link, to her blog, to purchase a pendant in honor of our dear Guruji, that will in turn better the lives of children this great charity touches. For only $34 USD. the pendant can be shipped anywhere in the world. So don't delay!

I say this because it comes from a heart, so big, I continually draw unlimited sources of inspiration from her. Dear Tracy!

A Lotus Girl (click here, look for 'pendant' in the right hand column once you reach the site)

Just got mine the other day, and happy to be supporting such a great cause!

1 Insightful Comments:

Tracy said...: you have made me cry..and it's only 6:45 am~~
Thank You so much for your support and love and for this post my dear friend. I utterly adore you and I hope you know this..
We have now sold 91 pendants as of this morning!! And..we have raised $1420.00 thus far for the children of Operation Shanti~~can you even imagine?! The wonders of this big, beautiful world and all who contribute to "Being that change" never ceases to amaze me...
Love you~ xxxxx; December 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM

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