Posts Tagged "opening"
Bird Wings
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’ve been bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small...
Read MoreNeck Deep in Grace
...A friend James Baraz tells of traveling to India to be with the guru H. W. L. Poonja… Poonja was celebrated for his freedom of spirit, for the energy of awakening he transmitted to his disciples, and for his joyful laughter. James had completed twenty years of meditation practice and become a greatly beloved Buddhist teacher. Still wanting to grow, and yearning to touch more deeply the...
Read MoreOn Suffering..
Your suffering needs to be respected. Don’t try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you . – Bryant McGill Photo by Robert Metz on...
Read MoreAre You looking for me?
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. You will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: Not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me you will see me Instantly— You will find me in the tiniest house of...
Read MoreSo Many Gifts
There are so many gifts Still unopened from your birthday, There are so many hand-crafted presents that have been sent to you by God. The Beloved does not mind repeating, “Everything I have is also yours.” Please forgive Hafiz and the Friend If we break into a sweet laughter When your heart complains of being thirsty When ages ago Every cell in your soul Capsized forever Into this...
Read MoreLoving Kindness and Compassion
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it is bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as so much space. Your world seems less solid, more roomy and spacious. The burden lightens. In the beginning it feels like...
Read MoreBEFORE
Before… you cling. You cling to hopes and fears and even people without realizing what you’re doing. The Teacher says: “Pull that straw out of their neck! And out of yours while you’re at it! Stop leaking life force. The Age of Vampires is over! Forget any notion of enemies. Your only jihad, your only struggle, is with yourself. Until you burn the ego once and for...
Read MoreLove after Love
Breathe by Linaji The time will come When, With elation, You will greet yourself arriving At your own door, in your own mirror, And each will smile at the other’s welcome, And say, sit here, Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine, Give bread, Give back your heart To itself, to the stranger who has loved you All your life, whom you ignored for another Who knows you by...
Read MoreA Yogi’s Welcome
Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes. You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back out. They are not required to enter here. Kiss your ego and allow it to be still. As you achieve your comfortable seated posture and consciously take in your next breath, Also take in this assurance… There is no need to achieve anything here… There is no need to...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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