Reading at Bohdi Tree 12/30/09
The true teacher has no students, all is Being and only Silence speaks. The perfect teacher has no teachings because he knows that you are free already. So the true teacher’s non-teaching is that there is no teacher, no student, no teaching, and that nothing has ever existed. This [...]
Archive > December 2009
True Teacher
Which is Worth More?
Reading at Bodhi Tree 12/30/2009
Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands,
or your own genuine solitude?
Freedom, or the power over and entire nation?
A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given to you.
—Jallal al-Din Rumi
What happened…On The Day Before You Came?
One of our most requested readings
is now a gift-book!
ON THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME…
…takes readers of all ages behind the scenes on that incredible day, listening in on a conversation with “Universe” who is patiently prepping us for our journey while sipping a ’spot’ of tea. A perfect gift-book for that special birthday [...]
16 Observations
Koloa practice reading 12/21/2009
•Everything changes.
• We have just enough problems, not too many or too few.
• Even a mistaken approach is not a waste of time.
• Formal education is to explain what is and what it means. Actual education is to let it be, whatever it is, without explanation.
• Wherever you go, you will find [...]
Re-Branding God
Excerpt from Pronoia the antidote for Paranoia by Robert Brezny
“Philosopher Robert Anton Wilson proposed that the single greatest contribution to world peace would come from there being over six billion different religions — a unique spiritual path for each person on the planet.
Some words on ‘Grace’…
Reading at Koloa Hong Wan Ji, Waimea practices- 12/14/15/2009
…A friend James Baraz tells of traveling to India to be with the guru H. W. L. Poonja.
Just When I Doubted…
Reading at Koloa Hog Wan Ji – 12/07/09
Just when I doubted myself,
Just when I ’bout gave up
A light shone thru.
Scathes my lack of intention
Attacks my dullard fears
Presses me on
And pulls the reigns of attention
Back from unconscious years.
Heartbreak
Reading at Anara Spa 12/04/09
Teacher: We want you to learn these teachings so deeply that they lie upon your heart
Student: Why don’t you just put them in our hearts?
Teacher: That’s not our job. We just place them on the surface. Then, when your heart breaks, they fall in.
—Buddhist story, source unknown
Gems # 2
Readings at our various locations on the island
Hiding in this cage of visible matter
Is the invisible
Life Bird
Pay attention to her
She is singing
Your song
—Kabir
Intuition
Reading from Waimea practice 12/01/09
I invited Intuition to stay in my house when my roommates went North. I warned her that I am territorial and I keep the herb jars in alphabetical order. Intuition confessed that she has a “spotty employment record.” She was fired from her last job for daydreaming.
