Those
who do not feel this
love pulling them like a river,
those who do not drink dawn like a cup
of springwater or take in sunset
like supper, those who do not
want to change, let
them sleep.
This love
is beyond the study
of theology, that old trickery
and hypocrisy. If you want
to improve your mind
that way, sleep
on.
I have
given up on my brain.
I have torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away. If you are not
completely naked, wrap your
beautiful robe of words
around you, and
sleep.
It is foolish
to think about attaining
realization by any technique.
Make habits of courage, virtue,
and absolute emptiness, and
simply realize what is
already always
present.
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I am grateful
for the way my soul is
sometimes drawn to move with
other souls and then separated from them.
I observe here a law of soulmaking
with exciting possibilities for
understanding.
Scenes of how
it operates appear: people
in arctic cold, others in the tropics.
Oceans, high desert canyons, wooded valleys,
all in harmony with “the One who has no partner”.
There is a group that sings and moves in pure joy; another
is quiet in the midst of tremendous grief and carnage.
A tree bristling with thorns: jealousy, meanspirited
revenge. Then the white jasmine flowers
bud, open, and drop the gift
of themselves.
Why are
we shown this?
So we can appreciate
the whole as given. When I am
grieved and without hope, I accept that
as grace, as well as the removal of pain.
A deep knowing comes as we
are shown, receive, and
grow to love
both.
If in our daily life we
can smile, if we can be peaceful and
happy, not only we, but everyone will profit
from it. This is the most basic kind
of peace work.
The way
to enlightenment
is through emptiness.
Quiet the senses,
forget the body, abandon
concepts and control and contention.
Transform the mind into a pile of cool
ashes, and then do non-doing until
stillness permeates inside
and out.
In this
way you can be
illuminated by the clarity
and silence of the
Oneness.
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