Category: Awakening

BECOME NO THING AND FIND LOVE

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, Love, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, Spirituality1 Comment

My friend, if you want to touch reality
If you want to know the truth
And live as love’s open hand
First you will have to remove the dust
From your eyes
Take off the blinkers that narrow your vision
Open your heart to life
Drop to your knees in surrender
Release your righteousness
And fall into the deepest unknown
You will have to stop being someone
And become no thing
Belong to no one

You must fly into the sun
So the light burns off
Lifetimes of guilt and shame
If you really want what is true
You must stand naked and unashamed
Innocent and tender
Before the world
Only this humility will open the door
To love’s deepest truths.

– Image by kreuzfeld from Pixabay

The Dark Place

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Dark night, Death, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

I, like you, have been to the dark place
I have crawled in the pit of despair
Met the existential black hole
And surrendered myself to it
I have railed at God
Thrown myself away
Fallen, got up, fallen, got up
Fallen and stayed there

As I finally stopped looking for hope
Or hanging on to anything the mind offered
I gave myself to the dark place
And there, in that overwhelm,
I swear there was the tiniest chick of light
That seemed to beckon me towards it

I had no idea whether it was death itself
Or the light of life
As I drew closer to it I saw
It was beyond both, neither death nor life,
But the light of an unconditional love
Out of which everything arises
And into which everything falls

Yes I have been to the dark place.

ON HUMILITY

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Freedom, Love, metaphor, Nature, Nonduality, peace, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

Only the humble man or woman
Can know the deepest peace

The righteous ego, built on its pridefulness,
Has no capacity to know humility

For true humility is the sacrifice
Of the righteous ego itself

And the righteous ego
Will do everything in its power
To maintain its own existence

Ironically, while the ego tells the world
That humility is the greatest weakness there is,
The truth is the opposite
And humility opens the door
To the miraculous natural power of the universe

While the ego is busy trying to acquisition
All the power for itself.

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5)
Blessed = Happy and peaceful
Meek = Gentle of spirit, humble and true
Inherit the earth = Become natural

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The Life Long Journey of Surrender

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Love, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, Spirituality1 Comment

The only freedom is within
It cannot be found
In some future destination
Or some well devised method of attainment
Freedom has nothing to do with attainment

The most powerful human being
Is one who is free
Of the constraints of the world
Not by wielding force
Or through money or fame
Not through any egoic value at all

But one who is capable of unconditional love

To develop the capacity of surrender of the willful self
Is a life long journey
Whose destination is always here and now
Never there and then

The true warrior fails their way to love
For that very failure brings the humility necessary.

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THE WAVES OF PHENOMENA

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, metaphor, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, Sea, SpiritualityLeave a comment

We are all thrown around
And buffeted by the same waves
It never stops, this movement,
Until we depart these shores

Sometimes it seems
We have tamed the waves
Or learned to surf them
With dexterity and grace
And then we turn our backs
Or slip into arrogance

And a mighty thunderous
Wall of water engulfs us
Half drowns us
And turns us upside down
We cough, splutter and cry
Rail against the water
Rage against the ocean itself

Then we dry ourselves off
And begin again

In many ways
That’s all there is.

Image by Jonathan Reichel from Pixabay

All Our Ancestors

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Death, Evolution, Freedom, Inspiration, Love, metaphor, Non Duality, Nonduality, peace, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

To a certain extent
Ancestral heritage
Is the passing on
Of unresolved wounds
Hardship and pain
Survivalism and suffering

That which our ancestors
Could not meet and transform
Is passed on like a hot coal
To the next generation
On and on it goes
Even on the cellular level

We are vibrationally and energetically
The carriers of our ancestors
Some of our deepest unknowable movements
May have the fragrance
Of countless generations in them

And now you and I are here
With the opportunity
To end the ancestral passing on
Of unmet wounds

You and I
Are where the buck stops
And the resolution, forgiveness and love
We can find in ourselves
Will be passed on, not just to future generations,
But even on some mysterious level
To those ancestors who played some part
In bringing us here

That’s how important our transformation is.

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BITTER SWEET

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, Love, Non Duality, Nonduality, peace, poetry, Spirituality3 Comments

Oh! the bitter sweet taste of this life
The endless searching for the sweet
And the turning away from the bitter
Yet this bitter taste
Is unavoidable
And, tough as it may be,
We must somehow find a way
To reconcile these seeming opposites

There is a place within us
That knows the bitter and the sweet
To be the same
May our true search be for that resting place.

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