I stopped trying to save the world
And instead looked into my own true nature
I discovered my true nature
And saw the world is a dream of the imagination
My heart burst open as I saw the suffering
And out of me poured the kind of love
That heals belief in separation
The love was not mine
But seemed to be coming through me
Its origin I know not
All things became one thing
And I understood what service is
I gave myself to that.
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My friend, in all this turbulence
Be still
In the throes of division and accusation
Be still
As the enemy pulls his sword ready for battle
Be still
As the storm looms overhead
And threatens a mighty deluge
Be still
While others rage and scream
And the harbingers of doom
Bemoan the end of the world
Be still
Even as the ocean spews its waves
That crash in thunderous anger
Upon the shore
Be still
Be still
There is a part of us
Beyond all form
When we remember it
We fall into a peace
That heals all division.
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There are times
When such a softness
Arises within me
I begin to see
The divine light
That shines in everything
Not with the mind
But with the heart’s knowing
This humbling vision
Brings such an acceptance
Of the way of things are
That all division dissolves
And everything becomes quiet and still.
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You are an exquisite being of light
Consciousness manifested as form
Squeezed into matter
The eternal AND a five sense feeler
You are the vast and the limited
The unconditional and the conditioned
Don’t sacrifice one for the other
Don’t fight with your own self
Neither turn your back on your humanness
You must find a way
To be in the world
But not of the world
Feet in the soil
Head in the universe
Heart holding it all together.
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Do not let the appearance
Of division in the world
Become your division
This is the time
For great resolve
To stand still in the face
Of the most tenacious illusions
And to decide, even as you fail,
To stay as wholeness
Despite the pull of the current
Despite the screams of the mob
For that wholeness
Is your holiness
And holiness has the power
To heal the illusion of division.
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Once you realize
That the self
That claims ownership
Of everything you do
And everything you are
Does not really exist
You meet the great dilemma
Keep on investing at great cost
Or stop and fall into the unknown
It’s that simple
One choice keeps it all going
And one brings it
Crashing down.
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At some point there is an inner light that goes on
That never switches off
Some may call that awakening
But the word is irrelevant, it just feeds the imagination
When that light switches on
It is inevitable that it shines everywhere
It’s not that you ‘decide’ to share it
‘You’ are not deciding anything
The light just shines by itself
That is all there is to it
It is simple.
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Unleash your buddha nature
And meet all of life’s phenomena
With equanimity and compassion
There is no difference
Between you or I and the buddha
All of us have the same latent capacity
And, in these times of great disturbance,
Each of us is called to fall into our true nature
Everyone is buddha now
We live in profound times
And the old ways of thinking
Must be surrendered.
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This falling and rising
This joy and this despair
All this openness
And then some closure
Around experience
Some contraction
Carried from the past
Or even an ancient primal mechanism
That unwanted trigger
That surges through the body
Clouding the mind
Obscuring our presence
All the waves of being human
The endless stream of thoughts
Sometimes owned
Sometimes disowned
Sometimes wanted
Often unwanted
All the utter discomfort
And the resistance to what happens
The argument with life
And the constant seeking of solutions
And then the laughter, the pleasure
The relaxation, the connectedness
An appreciation of what we have
And a sense of goodness that flows through us
All this, all this and so much more
Seen and known by awareness
Held in consciousness
As the sky holds the clouds, the rain, the lightning
The birds, the butterflies and the mosquito
Yet interferes with none of them
What would we exclude if we had our way?
The discomfort? The contraction?
The sky doesn’t exclude the mosquito
Although it irritates all it touches
We must be cautious about our constant seeking
We may be hoping for a life free of discomfort
But that is a futile search
Best to open and become our sky nature
And hold it all lightly, like a feather
In the palm of our hand.
– Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay
The world of experience
This phenomenal display
We imagine we understand
But get so wrong
Will either drive us mad
Or drive us deep inside ourselves
The same world
Will taunt and tease us into battle
Or invite us into surrender
What makes one person wise
And another ignorant?
What makes one learn from life
And another endlessly fight with it?
No one knows what fate is
No one knows what karma is
All we really have is this, here, now
An opportunity for deepening
Or the perpetuation of our struggle
The most dangerous thing about life
Is thinking we understand it.
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