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We yearn to live an intimate and full life. In light of remembering who we are, and with compassionate attentiveness, there becomes a living potentiality to embody the condition beyond habituated, limited beliefs. There is the capacity to deeply and fearlessly touch and inhabit each moment just as it is. To sincerely meet our fears and conditioned beliefs as they arise. Perceiving and expressing from the deep heart that exists beyond separateness, we divinely bloom as authenticity, creativity and naturalness .
What is beyond the mind’s play of opposites and apparent separation? Beyond peace/war, love/fear, hope/hopelessness, meaning/meaninglessness, birth/death, existence/non-existence, good/bad, right/wrong, worthy/unworthy? What lies beyond personal will? What is the Reality beyond victimhood, competition, compensation and defense? What lies in plain view beyond the conditioned conventions of description, judgement and interpretation? What if we became empty of conceptual knowing for even just one instant? What shines forth? What Fullness is birthed into consciousness, when the moment is left as is, naked of the mind’s narration?
An embodied emptiness, a responsive immediacy KNOWS when something is moving in a disharmonious, limited direction and the recognition that “all things are possible in Source” moves the expression towards —-“I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you”. It is beyond wishing and hoping for another reality or another expression that one then tries to co-create or manifest. The mind remains silent, empty, hollow, other than respons-ability, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.” One directly knows that infinite potential exists here and now AS here and now. One no longer resists evil by trying to replace it with good. One recognizes/remembers that Reality exists only AS an expression of SOURCE, which is Love and Joy without cause. So any other perception is simply a case of mistaken identity. Of conditioned belief and memory over-layed upon the Creative fullness, wholeness, completeness of God.
-Jennifer Tyler, 2024
As long as man has someone or something to which he can cling, he will not find God. Whatever man knows or is able to know with his human mentality—whether a thing or a thought—is not God. No one is going to find God while he has anything on which to stand, anything to which he can hold, or anything about which he can think. Startling and unbelievable as this may seem to be, nevertheless it is true.—-Joel S Goldsmith
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want
Don't go back to sleep
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep
——RUMI.
Mysticism
By Farid ud-Din Attar
(1120? - 1220?). English version by Coleman Barks
The sun can only be seen by the light
of the sun. The more a man or woman knows,
the greater the bewilderment, the closer
to the sun the more dazzled, until a point
is reached where one no longer is.
A mystic knows without knowledge, without
intuition or information, without contemplation
or description or revelation. Mystics
are not themselves. They do not exist
in selves. They move as they are moved,
talk as words come, see with sight
that enters their eyes. I met a woman
once and asked her where love had led her.
"Fool, there's no destination to arrive at.
Loved one and lover and love are infinite.”
Annunciation
Written by Marie Howe
Even if I don’t see it again—nor ever feel it
I know it is—and that if once it hailed me
it ever does—
And so it is myself I want to turn in that direction
not as towards a place, but it was a tilting
within myself,
as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where
it isn’t—I was blinded like that—and swam
in what shone at me
only able to endure it by being no one and so
specifically myself I thought I’d die
from being loved like that.
I Will Give You
(Gospel of Thomas, Logion 17)
Jesus said,
"I will give to you:
Shapes that no eye has seen,
Sounds that no ear has heard
Sensations that no hand has touched
Thoughts and feelings
that have never appeared in the
mind and heart of humanity."
GENESIS 1:1, B'reshith
from ORIGINAL MEDITATION, The Aramaic Jesus and the Spirituality of Creation
by Neil Douglas Klotz
In the Beginningness,
In the time before time begins,
In the rest before movement begins,
In the space where nothing but
Elohim is, was and will be.
It all unfolds and moves
like the wings of a bird taking flight,
like a spark turning to flame,
spreading to fire in all directions.
From this center everything travels
toward its purpose,
somehow moving together and yet
each with its own kernel of destiny
known only to the Holy One.
Sin as such does not exist. You only bring it into manifestation when you act in ways that are adulterous in nature. It is for this very reason that the GOOD has come among you pursuing its own essence within nature in order to reunite everything to its origin.
This is also the reason for sickness and death, because you embrace what deceives you. Consider these matters, then, with your spiritual itellect.
Attachment to matter gives birth to passion without an Image of itself because it is drawn from that which is contrary to its higher nature. The result is that confusion and disturbance resonates throughout one's whole being. It is for this reason that I told you to find contentment at the level of the heart, and if you are discouraged, take heart in the presence of the Image of your true nature.
-The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
“The Universe is composed of gatherings of signs. Every being is a sign or symbol that points to the divine reality upon which it is based and which forms its foundation in the primordial beginning. It is to this beginning that each belongs and returns . I am in Love with myself. And my very separation is my union. I am my beloved and my lover. I am my knight and my maiden. ”
Ibn Arabi, Syrian poet born in 1165
Your True Beauty--Meister Eckhart
I've said this many times and in many ways:
you must die in order to live. You must live
so that your whole life is love, and let go of
all that you are, relinquishing everything,
for only then can you ever hope to discover
your true self
This confuses the fearful, worries the proud,
and offends the powerful, and you'll only
begin to grasp it when you let go of all you
think you are and all you hope to become;
abandon your false self and cast yourself out
into the fathomless depths of the Godhead--
beyond every image and thought you might
have of God, for only there will you find
the beauty within you which reflects
the god-ness of God.
The mind creates the abyss......and the heart crosses it. ---Nidsargadatta
In Medicine Cards, the Frog card symbolizes cleansing, emotional transformation, and renewal, often linked to the element of water. It encourages releasing old patterns, embracing new beginnings, and honoring one's tears as a form of purification. Frog medicine also signifies the ability to navigate transitions between different states, like water and land, representing adaptability and emotional balance.
This little sweetheart kept us company at the solstice session
Inherent in most suffering, especially that of the mind or heart, is feeling, is believing that you can miss something in life, but that’s not true, for on your wedding day with the sun, one of its presents to you will be, if you want it, every experience that has ever been known or can be known. Yes, a divine treasure awaits each soul. It is the infinite, infinite possibilities that you can really borrow from at any moment. Right now. Breathing from the atmosphere of possibility, we play out our lives as part of a greater story. May we live the greater story.
Inherent in most suffering, especially that of the mind or heart, is feeling, is believing that you can miss something in life, but that’s not true, for on your wedding day with the sun, one of its presents to you will be, if you want it, every experience that has ever been known or can be known. Yes, a divine treasure awaits each soul. It is the infinite, infinite possibilities that you can really borrow from at any moment. Right now. Breathing from the atmosphere of possibility, we play out our lives as part of a greater story. May we live the greater story.
——Kabir translated by Daniel Ladinsky
——Kabir translated by Daniel Ladinsky
my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame — Voltaire
my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame — Voltaire
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more that to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river can not go back. Nobody can go back, to go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean......
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more that to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river can not go back. Nobody can go back, to go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean......
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and illusion, a point of pure truth which belongs to GOD, which is never at our disposal, from which GOD disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of GOD in us. It is, so to speak, Divine name written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our dependence, as our son/daughtership. It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven.
-- Thomas Merton
The only way that karma is finally and completely broken is when the entire consciousness of good and evil is destroyed, so that an individual no longer has any awareness of good or evil - of good or of evil - is conscious only of the Presence of God, and Jesus demonstrated that at the ascension and not before, not even after the resurrection, only at the ascension. We have quite a way ahead of us. --Joel Goldsmith
To the utterly at-one with Siva
To the utterly at-one with Siva
By Devara Dasimayya
(10th Century)
By Devara Dasimayya
(10th Century)
English version by A. K. Ramanujan
English version by A. K. Ramanujan
To the utterly at-one with Siva
there's no dawn,
no new moon,
no noonday,
nor equinoxes,
nor sunsets,
nor full moons;
his front yard
is the true Benares,
O Ramanatha.
To the utterly at-one with Siva
there's no dawn,
no new moon,
no noonday,
nor equinoxes,
nor sunsets,
nor full moons;
his front yard
is the true Benares,
O Ramanatha.
A ghost in the mirror is the mind
A ghost in the mirror is the mind
By P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang)
(740? - 808)
By P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang)
(740? - 808)
A ghost in the mirror is the mind:
Not there, yet not unreal.
When the mind is as it is,
the world too simply is.
Grasping neither reality nor emptiness,
you are neither holy nor wise,
just an ordinary man done with his work.
A ghost in the mirror is the mind:
Not there, yet not unreal.
When the mind is as it is,
the world too simply is.
Grasping neither reality nor emptiness,
you are neither holy nor wise,
just an ordinary man done with his work.
A writing from Teijitsu. 18th century nun who was head of a Soto Zen temple. During a time of increasingly strict prohibitions on women in social and political life. And less and less freedom for female monastics. Born with mal formed hip. That was very painful.
A writing from Teijitsu. 18th century nun who was head of a Soto Zen temple. During a time of increasingly strict prohibitions on women in social and political life. And less and less freedom for female monastics. Born with mal formed hip. That was very painful.
No One
No One
Sometimes the quiet of Hakujuan, which was one of its only virtues, was broken by the noise of guests, often they were given to complaint—whining about conditions, gossiping about the temples and their struggles, being angry in a world designed to cure anger.
Sometimes the quiet of Hakujuan, which was one of its only virtues, was broken by the noise of guests, often they were given to complaint—whining about conditions, gossiping about the temples and their struggles, being angry in a world designed to cure anger.
She would listen, but as the years passed she found herself feeling strangely sometimes.
She would listen, but as the years passed she found herself feeling strangely sometimes.
The waves of feeling would roll past and she could feel life rising and falling like the deck of a ship—as though her own body were rolling through the waves of time.
The waves of feeling would roll past and she could feel life rising and falling like the deck of a ship—as though her own body were rolling through the waves of time.
Arising abiding and falling away- this is all the blessed one taught. This is all it is, she thought, this is it. All things arise, abide, and fall away, and we suffer only because we hold on to what we are bound to lose, Pain is a given, but suffering —-that we make.
Arising abiding and falling away- this is all the blessed one taught. This is all it is, she thought, this is it. All things arise, abide, and fall away, and we suffer only because we hold on to what we are bound to lose, Pain is a given, but suffering —-that we make.
This is all he taught she reminded herself, walking through the rooms of the nunnery as though rowing a raft
This is all he taught she reminded herself, walking through the rooms of the nunnery as though rowing a raft
through the tide— up, down, up again.
through the tide— up, down, up again.
And then she saw that arising arose, abided and fell away
And then she saw that arising arose, abided and fell away
And abiding arose abided and fell away
And abiding arose abided and fell away
And that falling away arose abided and fell away.
And that falling away arose abided and fell away.
She saw that knowing this arose, abided and fell away.
She saw that knowing this arose, abided and fell away.
Then she knew there was nothing more than this, no ground, no nothing to lean on stronger than the cane she held.
Then she knew there was nothing more than this, no ground, no nothing to lean on stronger than the cane she held.
Nothing to lean upon at all and no one leaning, and she opened the clenched fist in her mind and
Nothing to lean upon at all and no one leaning, and she opened the clenched fist in her mind and
let go...........
let go...........
And fell..............
And fell..............
into the midst of everything.............
into the midst of everything.............
in Love.
in Love.
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