Be quiet
in your mind,
quiet in your senses,
and also quiet in your body.
Then, when all these are quiet,
don’t do anything. In that
state truth will reveal
itself to you.
if you could learn this lesson
What lies
outside my mind
is of no concern to it.
If you could learn this lesson,
you’d be standing straight.
You can come back
to life.
a darkness as much of the womb as the grave
Anything could happen,
and whether we act or not has everything
to do with it. Though there is no lottery ticket for the lazy
and the detached, for the engaged there is a tremendous gamble
for the highest stakes right now. I say this to you not because I haven’t
noticed that this country has strayed close to destroying itself and everything
it once stood for, in pursuit of empire in the world and the eradication of democracy
at home, that our civilization is close to destroying the very nature on which we
depend—the oceans, the atmosphere, the uncounted species of plant and
insect and bird. I say it because I have noticed: wars will break out,
the planet will heat up, species will die out, but how many,
how hot, and what survives depends on whether
we act. The future is dark, with a
darkness as much of
the womb as the
grave.
Rebecca Solnit
Hua hu Ching ☯️ Chapter 78
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.
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the holy baby in all of us
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.
The body
is like Mary, and
each of us, each of us,
has a Christ
within.
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.