We imagine we are all alone
Marooned in a hostile reality
When the realization dawns
That this is an erroneous thought
Of an unexamined mind
The ripples of laughter, tears and relief
That resound throughout the universe
Create a wave that others feel in their bones
I call that love.
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Category: Nonduality
Become the Open Sky
In this temporal life
Is it possible
To be so like the sky
And just allow all the clouds
Everything kind of weather
To come, do its thing, and then go
Without grasping at the cloudless days
Or the calm days, or the blissful days
There is a way
Indeed, we must pursue this way,
Or else be swallowed up and dominated
By the weather
But to become the open sky
Means to let go of all attachment
That the clouds bring
I don’t mean to become cold and uncaring
But to become so wide, so free and open,
That everything can just arrive, do its thing, and then go
I don’t say this lightly, and I don’t say it’s easy
I don’t say it’s an absolute space
And I advise caution to believe gurus or teachers
When they proclaim they have fully arrived there
To open like the sky is a new relationship
It requires vigilance and tenderness
Effort and no effort
Insight and resolve
We are breaking the habits and conditioning of a lifetime
It takes courage and forgiveness
And a warriors patience.
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Human Being a Miracle
You wear the universe
As your clothes
Your hair the stars
As they fly across the sky
What miracle are you
That you speak and dance
And feel the beauty and the sorrow
You, yes you, pure consciousness
Walking this world
Clothed in this wondrous universe
Clothed in form
Yet still formless
You seem to be so real
Made of matter, skin and bone
Yet you are water, and space
All energy weaved together
And called a human being
You are being
Not ‘a’ being
But beingness itself
If only you could see
What miracle you are.
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Release the Mind
To sit in the emptiness of it all
Wordless. Silent. Present.
Without trying to understand
No rationalizing or strategizing
No attempt to fix anything
Or make it wrong, or right
All argument with life finished
At least for this brief time
Just listening from openness, as openness
Almost passive yet fully alive
What a gift
What a moment of peaceful union
We are tyrannized by our own thinking
As though the mind were a machine
That, once switched on, will only turn off
At death
The need for mastery of mind
By seeing its incessant nature
Its relentless mechanism
Is a boon to the human experience
We can do this by releasing it
And realizing it is not who we are
We are wordless, silent, present.
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Consciousness Wears a Mask
The ego self is a disguise
Behind it is openness
Consciousness wears a mask
We pretend to be a self
But really we are not a self
We are are an imagined self
It sounds crazy because it is
And when the ego self is exposed
As the imposter it is
And we rest as the openness we are
Truth is seen
Love is embraced
And everything falls into its right place
We are not who we think we are.
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Duality Itself Is Unreal
Today, see duality
With great discernment
But don’t believe it to be truth
Stay resolutely as love
No matter what
It seems almost impossible
Because duality is so convincing
But then, so is virtual reality
We are in strange times
Stay as the wholeness of love
There is insurmountable power
In this one simple decision.
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Keep on Loving
Here is the thing
The bottom line
Just keep on loving
In the best and deepest way you can
Keep on walking the love road
On and on
Sure, sometimes you will fall off,
But that’s the time
To dust yourself down
And get back on the road
Don’t worry what others say, do, or think
Or if the world goes crazy and falls apart
Or if people judge you or misunderstand you
Just stay true to love as you know it
By and by, as you walk that path,
Through perceived failure and even darkness
Great wisdom and compassion will arise
In the core of your being
And you will touch profound joy and grace
And others will see a light shining from your heart
And they may begin to walk the love path
That’s all that really needs to happen,
And all that really can happen.
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