There are

many partial religions,

and then there is the Integral Way. 

Partial religions are desperate, clever, human

inventions; the Integral Way is a deep expression of the pure,

whole, universal mind. Partial religions rely on the hypnotic manipulation

of undeveloped minds; the Integral Way is founded on the free

transmission of the plain, natural, immutable truth.

It is a total reality, not an

occult practice. 

 

The Integral Way

eschews conceptual fanaticism,

extravagant living, fancy food, violent music.

They spoil the serenity of one’s mind and obstruct one’s

spiritual development. Renouncing what is fashionable and embracing

what is plain, honest, and virtuous, the Integral Way returns you

to the subtle essence of life. Adopt its practices and you

will become like they are: honest,

simple, true, virtuous,

whole. 

 

You see,

in partial pursuits,

one’s transformation is always

partial as well. But in integral self-cultivation,

it is possible to achieve a complete metamorphosis,

to transcend your emotional and biological

limitations and evolve to

a higher state of

being. 

 

By staying

out of the shadows and

following this simple path, you become

extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound

cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space

by realizing the subtle truth

of the universe. 

 

from Hua hu Ching, Chapter 78

 

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To achieve

what the Zen Buddhists

call “beginner’s mind,” you dispense

with all preconceptions and enter

each situation as if seeing it

for the first time.

 

“In the

beginner’s mind there

are many possibilities,” wrote

Shunryu Suzuki in his book Zen Mind,

Beginner’s Mind, “but in the

expert’s there are few.”

 

As much

as I love beginner’s

mind, though, I advocate an

additional discipline: cultivating a

beginner’s heart. That means approaching

every encounter imbued with a freshly

invoked wave of love that is as pure

as if you’re feeling it for

the first time.

 

Rob Brezsny

 

 

I hold

you in my heart.

I rock and sing you to sleep.

You are everywhere in everyone,

the holy baby in all of us that plays there.

The beautiful one, born when

we love, the glowing

child.

 

You

are the meaning

that blooms in

the heart.

Bawa Mauhaiyaddeen

 

The body

is like Mary, and

each of us, each of us,

has a Christ

within.

 

Jalal al-din Rumi

 

Darkness

has been given as

a nightshirt to sleep in.

Remember how human beings

were composed from water and dust

for blood and flesh with oily resins heated

in fire to make a skeleton. Then the soul, the divine

light, was breathed into human shapes. The work now is

to help our bodies become pure light. It may look like

this is not happening. But in a cocoon every bit

of worm-dissolving slime becomes silk.

As we take in light, each part

of us turns to

silk.

 

We

made the night

a darkness, but we bring

shining dawnlight out of that.

In the same way the mound of your

grave will bloom with resurrection. Sufis

and those on the path of the heart use darkness

to go within. During the night vigil the universe

is theirs. With all the kings and sultans and

their learned counselors asleep, everyone

is unemployed, except those wakeful

few and the divine

presence.

 

Bahauddin