Wisdom and Love

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.

--Nisargadatta Maharaj

Entering within yourself

You see the temple of

Self Itself.

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Sacred Sound

Can you hear the secret

Voice of angels all around

Lift you up with wings of love

Revere the sacred sound!

We go about each day

Busy in the doings

That we have to do .

And every second is a chance

To listen to the Sea of Quietness,

Just here in the busy market.

Like bubbles we play

Everyday.

See we are embraced

In a sea of clear beauty,

So quiet.

In That,

Angels will hear our quietude

And sing us songs.

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Awake While Asleep

Shun once asked Cheng:

-Can the Dao be possessed?

-You don't even possess your own body.

How could you possess the Dao?

-If my body doesn't belong to me , who does it belong to?

-Your body, your life , your children and grandchildren are all

temporary gifts from nature.How can you say they are yours?

For a person of the Dao , to ignorantly believe that he owns his own body is a kind of confusion . to intentionally try to possess the Dao is also a confusion .

When asleep to the world

The world does not exist.

When asleep to dreaming

Dreams do not exist.

When asleep to sleeping

Sleep does not exist.

When asleep to awakening

The awakend does not exist.

Who is it that never sleeps ,dreams or awakens?

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Laughing Shiva

Only now there is

This moment To meet Shiva.

To offer a flower

Unsmelt

And to have it

Consumed by the Divine cow!

Your laughter drifts

Down the Ganga .

A smile , a joy

Untold .

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Open Sky

Seeing clearly the heart

Full of essence ever

Open sky.

Untouched, unbecome

No way for going,

Go beyond!

Can you see firey stars

Without the night?

Look far away

Beyond all time

Past, present and future

And what remains?

Eternal nature of your Self.

Look close into your

Nature of existing

Until it touches

What cannot become.

Your an open sky!

YES YOU!

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Shankara

"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman --that thou are."

Shankara

River to the Sea

One day you walk along the Ganga

Away from the crowded Mela .

And you walk away

And you walk alone

Nobody ever saw the beauty she had

Nobody ever saw her!

This river is flowing to the sea

Just as we are returning to our home,

Source itself.

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Without A Trace

Like a golden flower of raindrops

This silence ever unfolding

Bird on a wing

Leaving no footprints

In the blue sky

I fly with you

I fly with you

Burn all the bridges behind

The sun never meets the moon

The river runs to the ocean

I'll only be drowned by you .

Just as the wandering mind

Is seeking for peace

In it's futility.

It is revealed to be

Like fish in a sea, so thirsty.

And just as the sun never comes and

Meets the moon,

The mind bows to give way

To the mystery.

The invitation is to

Fly like a bird to the sky,

Where you cannot see any trace of footprints.

They are left behind,

Now you walk without feet and fly without wings,

And the flowers shower.

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To The Gentle

Silent footfalls surround you
In the morning light your beauty
Shines it's light upon golden green.

An unmoving sign of beauty
An unmoving silent beauty
Touches me and you.

Resting Quietly
The space
Around us is touched
By the Untouched.
Gently a song arises ,
A joy, a flower, a jewel
Comes from listening
To the gentle.

The gentle
So gently
Meets
So it dances.

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Open Gaze

How many times did I look
to find that you are everywhere
like the sky!

In the silence of the day
You come my way
in the sunshine
in this silent
open gaze.

Looking over the sea
I see infinity
My vision expands

Like a vast open transparency
That holds the sea itself .
The sea and horizon reaches out
And literally I feel they are in me.
Me becomes a vast ocean of
Unending spacious clarity.
I hold everything that
I can see and in deed not see.

Behind me ,in front of me ,
Above me and below me .
As if a cross is pointed
In all these directions .
My own vision
Is all pervasive.

I see the real meaning in the cross.
The center has a meeting
Which is true recognition .

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13:13-18: I am everywhere in the world, abiding in the hands, feet, eyes, heads, mouths, ears; I am all pervading.Illuminating the qualities of all senses, yet possessing no senses, maintaining everything, yet without being attached to anything, devoid of all material qualities, yet employing the senses,I am within and without all beings, both the unmoving and the moving. Due to My subtle nature, I am unknowable. I am far away yet near.Undivided, yet abiding within all living beings as if divided, the maintainer of all beings, the object of knowledge, devouring all; I am pre eminent.In all luminous objects I am the light; I am beyond darkness. I am said to be knowledge, the object of knowledge and the goal of knowledge; I am established within the hearts of all.Thus I have briefly explained the field, knowledge and the object of knowledge. Knowing this, My devotees are eligible to attain Me.

Bhagavad Gita.

Mystic Heart

Deep within the mystic heart . An ocean open burns in love
a crest of joy rises to hail !

See within yourself there is an spacious ocean!
It spreads it's wings like a sea of angels reaching throughout the horizons of your heart,
it continues without a begining or ending.
is it any different from yourself?
Just as a ring made of gold ,
has the same goldness in all the rings of gold !
So you yourself are gold.

Where do you begin and where do you end ?
"I am the alpha and the omega ". Is this not a complete circle without beginging or end?

Sink beneath the ocean waves of your searching wandering mind and dive into the circle of your Self ,free from the surface of waves dying and returning .

The space behind your eyes are unending .
This is the heart of everything!
Look into your own nature
your eternal nature unborn, undying.
Kabir says 'remove your veil and you will meet your beloved'

Rumi turns within that space !
The unchanging center is eternally here .
No wonder he falls to the ground with intoxication!

Stay here and bliss arises , it is a kiss from Kabir !
'In the temple of the heart a flame is burning .Don't move from this place.'

Your own Self Kissing, Yourself!
Plunge and see !

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