I return with wisdom.
WE return with grace.
I return with compassion.
WE return with balance.
I return home.
WE return to our breathe.
I return with love.
WE enlighten love.
Today me inverts to we.
The I is only that of illumination, and all is visibly one.
AWAKEN...the choice is yours.
The practice is life beyond the ego.
Unify yourself.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
spaciousness
Our time has come to depart this land of philosophy.
She, the motherland of so many great thinkers, and the attractor of so many seekers.
India a place that is in fact a powerful Guru.
Where you find inner balance or you loose your mind.
A flow like no other, that takes a swift raft with a light ego.
I will not miss her, but the perspective she imprinted on my consciousness has changed me molecularly.
My transpersonal energies have found harmony in this chaos. My ego has lost its strenght, as my inner presence has gained fuel from heightened awareness...
this light shines brighter now.
This is the real work.
To shed light on the dark corners of your egoic mind and to bring real peace from the inside outside.
Each though of conscious awareness is like light ripples revealing the purity of your essence.
Ripple out-out-out and peace will settles in-in-in
This soon turns into the elixir that can heal any ailment.
The Presence grows, and you slow to the rhythm of the beat...
This is the isness of NOW. And when you accept what is, what ever IT IS...IT IS.
and you cannot argue with that...
well of course you CAN argue but that is like volunteering for a life of suffering.
CReate space for this PRESENCE to grow within you.
spaciousness comes with conscious awareness.
She, the motherland of so many great thinkers, and the attractor of so many seekers.
India a place that is in fact a powerful Guru.
Where you find inner balance or you loose your mind.
A flow like no other, that takes a swift raft with a light ego.
I will not miss her, but the perspective she imprinted on my consciousness has changed me molecularly.
My transpersonal energies have found harmony in this chaos. My ego has lost its strenght, as my inner presence has gained fuel from heightened awareness...
this light shines brighter now.
This is the real work.
To shed light on the dark corners of your egoic mind and to bring real peace from the inside outside.
Each though of conscious awareness is like light ripples revealing the purity of your essence.
Ripple out-out-out and peace will settles in-in-in
This soon turns into the elixir that can heal any ailment.
The Presence grows, and you slow to the rhythm of the beat...
This is the isness of NOW. And when you accept what is, what ever IT IS...IT IS.
and you cannot argue with that...
well of course you CAN argue but that is like volunteering for a life of suffering.
CReate space for this PRESENCE to grow within you.
spaciousness comes with conscious awareness.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
What makes you so free?
Static free
anti-cling
de-grasp the self.
let go
recognizing impermanence
like a cool refreshing breeze
on a hot summer day in New Delhi.
embrace what is, and enjoy the breeze.
this moment will pass also.
this moment
these thoughts, any pain or discomfort.
This body will grow and then decay...like everything.
The self IS impermanent.
IT IS empty of inherent existence...like everything.
Point to the self...where is it really?
Did you find it?
Just like the table it is made of many elements.
Compounded elements that continue to change,
and with the right conditions the compounded self will even evolve.
Just like the cool breeze, this awareness of emptiness is true freedom.
For when we understand this we can live without clinging to life, self, others, and things!
This cling state IS ignorant, watch it lead you again and again to suffering.
Again and again to extreme emotions that seem uncontrollable.
Like a dog chasing its own tail...the harder he trys to bite his tail the more he suffers,
but he continues to do it anyway.
Round and round we go when we stop no one knows.
But there are many ones that make up this whole. And many stop to listen.
Their own silence introduces them to their awareness, which stops them from the ignorant circles.
Be aware.
Be bear aware.
Take time to retreat in silence to cultivate inner awareness. For the winter, for a month, for a week, for a day, for an hour, for 10minutes, with a breathe.
The more you practice wise awareness, the easier it is to flow with life.
Let go of the willows and flow down river!
Stop the clinging, and you will finally enjoy that which you so desperately cling to.
Ah the sweet wisdom of the four seals.
Shakyamuni Buddha sealing truth.
this buddhadharma--the awakened path
the way of truth
eyes wide open from the inside--------outside.
Now now, don't turn your shoulder up at this "religion," for it is far more a science.
It is for the truth seeker that resides in each one of us.
Alas, you do not have to run to some confession hall, temple, or shave your head and take on a life of robes, caves, and long silences...
NO!!! We those they call the lay people need to engage ourselves by being fully aware of the reality as it is.
Just remember...
"Fundamentally it is not the act of leaving behind the material world that
Buddhists cherish BUT the ability to see the habitual clinging to this world
and ourselves and to renounce the clinging.
--Dzsongsar Jamyang Khyentse
from the book, What makes you NOT a Buddhist
so be static free and you will finally be free.
anti-cling
de-grasp the self.
let go
recognizing impermanence
like a cool refreshing breeze
on a hot summer day in New Delhi.
embrace what is, and enjoy the breeze.
this moment will pass also.
this moment
these thoughts, any pain or discomfort.
This body will grow and then decay...like everything.
The self IS impermanent.
IT IS empty of inherent existence...like everything.
Point to the self...where is it really?
Did you find it?
Just like the table it is made of many elements.
Compounded elements that continue to change,
and with the right conditions the compounded self will even evolve.
Just like the cool breeze, this awareness of emptiness is true freedom.
For when we understand this we can live without clinging to life, self, others, and things!
This cling state IS ignorant, watch it lead you again and again to suffering.
Again and again to extreme emotions that seem uncontrollable.
Like a dog chasing its own tail...the harder he trys to bite his tail the more he suffers,
but he continues to do it anyway.
Round and round we go when we stop no one knows.
But there are many ones that make up this whole. And many stop to listen.
Their own silence introduces them to their awareness, which stops them from the ignorant circles.
Be aware.
Be bear aware.
Take time to retreat in silence to cultivate inner awareness. For the winter, for a month, for a week, for a day, for an hour, for 10minutes, with a breathe.
The more you practice wise awareness, the easier it is to flow with life.
Let go of the willows and flow down river!
Stop the clinging, and you will finally enjoy that which you so desperately cling to.
Ah the sweet wisdom of the four seals.
Shakyamuni Buddha sealing truth.
this buddhadharma--the awakened path
the way of truth
eyes wide open from the inside--------outside.
Now now, don't turn your shoulder up at this "religion," for it is far more a science.
It is for the truth seeker that resides in each one of us.
Alas, you do not have to run to some confession hall, temple, or shave your head and take on a life of robes, caves, and long silences...
NO!!! We those they call the lay people need to engage ourselves by being fully aware of the reality as it is.
Just remember...
"Fundamentally it is not the act of leaving behind the material world that
Buddhists cherish BUT the ability to see the habitual clinging to this world
and ourselves and to renounce the clinging.
--Dzsongsar Jamyang Khyentse
from the book, What makes you NOT a Buddhist
so be static free and you will finally be free.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Dalai lama speaks...
H.H. arrives to speak to the tibetan youth.
We post up under a shady tree to absorb his presence, engage his words, and smile with his laughter.
We listen half the time in English and the other in Tibetan.
Even though i can not understand the tibetan, i prefer to listen to his voice directly.
I sit up tall, close my eyes, and practice absorbing the vibration of his words.
And with this I feel the great calm.
As expansive as the Ocean.
For a moment all time ceases.
And I just am, no beginning
no end.
just am apart of it all.
and with this I find release.
before the curious thoughts exhaust my mind again.
Ah, it is these moments that recharge my spirit
in this time of waiting.
We post up under a shady tree to absorb his presence, engage his words, and smile with his laughter.
We listen half the time in English and the other in Tibetan.
Even though i can not understand the tibetan, i prefer to listen to his voice directly.
I sit up tall, close my eyes, and practice absorbing the vibration of his words.
And with this I feel the great calm.
As expansive as the Ocean.
For a moment all time ceases.
And I just am, no beginning
no end.
just am apart of it all.
and with this I find release.
before the curious thoughts exhaust my mind again.
Ah, it is these moments that recharge my spirit
in this time of waiting.
ease and release
Waiting waiting, ambiguous waiting. Will he get the visa or will we be faced with collecting more papers to prove our love? Ah, bureaucracy---US combined with Indian might be our worst night mare. Slow and overly diligent, with a dash of corruption makes this process well one that takes super human power patience.
The tension rises like waves, coming and going, the breathe is my one grounding force.
Yet then with space to reflect i feel this ease and release when I simply let go...
let go of any and all delusional ideas of reality, i.e. that I can change this fucked up process, and just let go of this need for control
this need to plan my life ahead.
just let go and flow with it, accepting the process ...
as it is, in all its fucked upness.
And just see it AS IT IS.
The light is there,
shining through from the end of this narrow
dark tunnel.
It is our choice to aggravate the time by stressing the mind with what ifs and whys and hows
OR to release this tension and just be present with the darkness of this tunnel--
By just being here now.
Standing from the feet up.
grounding down so that the mind may be lifted up.
And realign your emotional balance.
Accept it.
Bureaucracy sucks. But IT IS.
oh magical visa,
we wait patiently.
may all those awaiting the bureaucratic process find peace through
this art of patience.
may all beings be happy.
may peace prevail on earth, and
may bureaucracy embrace logic one day.
The tension rises like waves, coming and going, the breathe is my one grounding force.
Yet then with space to reflect i feel this ease and release when I simply let go...
let go of any and all delusional ideas of reality, i.e. that I can change this fucked up process, and just let go of this need for control
this need to plan my life ahead.
just let go and flow with it, accepting the process ...
as it is, in all its fucked upness.
And just see it AS IT IS.
The light is there,
shining through from the end of this narrow
dark tunnel.
It is our choice to aggravate the time by stressing the mind with what ifs and whys and hows
OR to release this tension and just be present with the darkness of this tunnel--
By just being here now.
Standing from the feet up.
grounding down so that the mind may be lifted up.
And realign your emotional balance.
Accept it.
Bureaucracy sucks. But IT IS.
oh magical visa,
we wait patiently.
may all those awaiting the bureaucratic process find peace through
this art of patience.
may all beings be happy.
may peace prevail on earth, and
may bureaucracy embrace logic one day.
june 16, 2009
My mind is refreshed by these words illuminating what yoga IS. It strikes a chord in my chest as I embark on a new teacher, a new day, a new breathe.
"Yoga itself is based on the interaction of physical, spiritual, and psychic phenomena,
in so far as the effects of breath control (pranayama) and posture (asana) are combined
with mental concentration, creative imagination, spiritual awareness, and
emotional equaanimity."
--Lama Anagarika Govinda,
The Way of the White Clouds
"Yoga itself is based on the interaction of physical, spiritual, and psychic phenomena,
in so far as the effects of breath control (pranayama) and posture (asana) are combined
with mental concentration, creative imagination, spiritual awareness, and
emotional equaanimity."
--Lama Anagarika Govinda,
The Way of the White Clouds
Saturday, May 9, 2009
IN honor of the Buddha...
This year the full moon day, May 9th, brought great peace of mind to this being. As soon as the peace came upon me, I sent it equally out to all other beings. doing my best, with every breathe for the sake of all beings. KNowing that we are all part of ONE. It is my sincere wish that we all awaken to this great potential to care for one another, rather than just the self.
The first full moon day of May, the day to recognize the Buddha, and recall to mind his great birth, path to enlightenment, and profound passing. A day to altruisitcly pray. recognize the power of thought as the power of prayer.
H.H. the Dalai Lama returned to Dharamsala on this great day. Being at the right place at the right time, karmically, I was present at the temple to greet this living Buddha...
with hands folded and smile gleaming he waved to us and us to him.
And so today, the day after I reflect on a great text, one of the most profound...
The way of the bodhisattva, the great text, our blessed gift from Shantideva--the great indian master.
the excellence of bodhiccitta, this profound compassion for all beings, and the wish for all beings to be free from suffering. The way. The path.
words to arise, aspire, and with great practice activate bodhiccitta with in you...
The first full moon day of May, the day to recognize the Buddha, and recall to mind his great birth, path to enlightenment, and profound passing. A day to altruisitcly pray. recognize the power of thought as the power of prayer.
H.H. the Dalai Lama returned to Dharamsala on this great day. Being at the right place at the right time, karmically, I was present at the temple to greet this living Buddha...
with hands folded and smile gleaming he waved to us and us to him.
And so today, the day after I reflect on a great text, one of the most profound...
The way of the bodhisattva, the great text, our blessed gift from Shantideva--the great indian master.
the excellence of bodhiccitta, this profound compassion for all beings, and the wish for all beings to be free from suffering. The way. The path.
words to arise, aspire, and with great practice activate bodhiccitta with in you...
"By contrast ( to those minds filled with malice),
good and virtuous thoughts will yield abundant fruits in greater measure.
Even in adversity, the bodhisattva
never brings forth evil---only an increasing stream of goodness.
IN whom this precious sacred mind is born, to them I bow!
I go for refuge in that source of happiness...
That which brings its very enemies to
Perfect Bliss."
(from the first chapter of the Way of the Bodhisttava)
This potential is latent within us.
each and every sentient being.
AWAKEN!
And recognize that true courage lies in the being
whom feels not anger or hatred for his/her enemy or oppressor,
but only compassion rooted in profound wisdom and understanding
of the reality of existence.
To be truly couragious. Truly compassionate. Truly happy. And to wholeheartedly
want all others to obtain this is the true work here on earth.
good luck, tashi delek
wishing you great courage on this path.
may peace prevail on earth.
may our collective consciousness continue to rise, so that we may all evolve and
finally live harmoniously with this earth.
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