the practice of true reality

yanik chauvin

 
The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection. When you have fathomed this you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions. This empty, wide open mind is subtlety and correctly illuminating. Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts or grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions.

You must be broad-minded, whole without relying on others. Such upright independent spirit can begin not to pursue degrading situations. Here you can rest and become clean, pure, and lucid. Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord, and respond to deal with events.

Everything is unhindered; clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams. The entire place is brightly illumined and spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting responsive interaction like box and lid or arrow points meeting.

Continuing, cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability. If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white bull or wildcat helping to arouse wonder, you can be called a complete person.

So we hear that this is how one of the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship.

 

Hongzhi Zhenjue

 

oneness with tao is freedom from harm

tinyao yang

 

Work toward 

emptiness and openness. 

Cultivate stillness. Breathe harmony. 

Become tranquility. As the ten thousand

things rise and fall, rise and fall, 

just witness their return

to the root.

 

Everything

that flourishes dissolves

again into the source. To dissolve

back into the source is to find peace. 

To find peace is to recover your true nature. 

To recover your true nature is to know

the constancy of tao. To know

the constancy of tao

is insight. 

 

Insight opens

your mind. An open

mind leads to an open heart. 

Open heartedness leads to justice. 

Justice is an expression of

divinity. Divinity is 

oneness with

tao. 

 

Oneness

with tao is freedom

from harm, indescribable

pleasure, eternal

life.

 

The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 16

 

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eventually we have to taste to know

grow a pistachio tree

 

Bahauddin’s notebook,

and Rumi’s poetry, are reminders of experience,

larger and deeper ways we readers and listeners might live.

The words describe a taste of grandeur and love, and as they keep

telling us, you cannot do that: it’s impossible to describe such

wonders. The great winetasters may come as close as one

can get. But try to tell me, really, about a pistachio,

or something you have never tasted. Say what

you want, eventually we have

to taste to know.

 

Coleman Barks

commentary on The Drowned Book

 

I am a sky where spirits live

ocean ramsey

 

If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face

and say,

Like this.

When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,

Like this.

If anyone wants to know what “spirit” is,
or what “God’s fragrance” means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.

Like this.

When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.

Like this.

If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.

Like this. Like this.

When someone asks what it means
to “die for love,” point
here.

If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.

This tall.

The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.

Like this.

When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.

Like this.

I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.

Like this.

When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.

Like this.

How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?

Huuuuu.

How did Jacob’s sight return?

Huuuu.

A little wind cleans the eyes.

Like this.

When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us.

Like this.

 

Jalal al-Din Rumi

 

postsecret

 

And did

you feel it, in your heart,

how it pertained to everything? 

And have you too finally figured out

what beauty is for? And have

you changed your

life?

 

Mary Oliver

September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019

 

they see the divine in all forms

 

Man’s attitude is the secret of life,

for it is upon man’s attitude that success and failure

depend. Both man’s rise and fall depend upon his attitude.

By attitude I mean that impulse which is like

a battery behind the mechanism

of thought.

 

There is hidden in our heart a

wonderful power. It is a divine power,

a sacred power, and it can be developed

and cherished by keeping our

attitude right.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

to know the right attitude from the wrong

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