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Happiness is the Way

Paul Reynolds — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:45:10 +0000

Reading at Koloa, and Poipu – 07/26/2010

Sari-tree by Linaji

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my ‘life.’ This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”

“So treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time…and remember that time waits for no one. So, stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you’ve had a drink, until you’ve sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.”

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True Teacher

Paul Reynolds — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:45:43 +0000

Reading at Koloa practice 5/20/09
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 teaching must be without words and must land in your heart. If you try to understand, it will only land in your head.

—Poonja-ji

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Joseph and the Mirror

Paul Reynolds — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:25:16 +0000

Rumi

A friend of Joseph’s came to visit him after returning from a long journey.

“What present have you brought me?” Joseph asked

What could I bring you,” the friend replied that you don’t already have??”

But” he added, because you are so beautiful, and nothing exists in all the world more beautiful than you, I have brought you a mirror, so you can know the joy at every moment of seeing your own face.”

Is there anything that God doesn’t have already that you could give Him?

Is there anything that God could need that you could possible provide?

All you are here for, and the entire meaning of the Path of Love, is to bring before God a heart bright as a mirror, so God can see His own face in it.

A Rumi story from the Rumi card book

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The Sun Never Says

Paul Reynolds — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:48:24 +0000

Reading at the end of most all practices:

“Even after all this time
The sun never says
to the Earth
“You owe me.”
Look what happens
with a Love like that

It lights the whole sky

–Hafiz

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Not Meditating

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:11:25 +0000

Reading at Koloa 06/18/09

A Walk With My Soul by Linaji

All attempts to meditate are the abject denial of it…J. Krisnamurti

Sometimes when I sit on the ground
for no reason, bills paid
deadlines met, stomach
neither full nor empty
my quiet spreads and fills me with sky
from brain to big bang
I am the blueprint
a marriage of flesh and sapphire
discovering the open eye

Sometimes, I become the laughter
of sunflowers or tickling bees
I grow louder than sirens
the dogs howling
from their backyard prisons
I forgive the intersections
that haunt me, face
after ink-toiled face
sealed behind glass
unaware that even seatbelts
can’t save them.

Shhh, I say
the snap of breath against spine
the echo of saliva
moistening this heartbeat
calling me back
to right here
to the size of myself
where I don’t have to remember
because my funnel opens
and stars pour cream
into these bones
inviting my arms
to wrap around
all that is everything
and squeeze

—Blake More

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I have learned not to worry about Love…

Paul Reynolds — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:48:19 +0000

In the moment by Linaji

Yoga reading Kalaheo 05/25/2009
I have learned not to worry about love
but to honor its coming with all my heart.
To examine the dark mysteries of the blood with headless
heed and swirl,
to know the rush of feelings swift and flowing as water.
The source appears to be some inexhaustible spring
within our twin and triple selves;
the new face I turn up to you
no one else on earth
has ever seen.

—Alice Walker

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To become concious…

Paul Reynolds — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:32:07 +0000

Limber by Linaji

Yoga reading Koloa 05/25/09

To become conscious of ourselves as a body is to become conscious of mankind as one.
Love is not something to be attained; it is the reality in which we exist. What is necessary is conversion, realization, enlightenment. I can operate from the viewpoint that I am me, you are you, the earth is the earth, and that’s the way it is. I can conceive of myself as the lonely warrior traveling across a hostile land, meeting now and then for a brief moment a fellow traveler.

When the body is out of harmony with the field of the earth, when the parts of the body are out of harmony with each other, and when one body is physiologically walled-off from other bodies, such a viewpoint makes a lot of sense. But the dissolving of the walls reveals another possibility.

Love is not a feeling, an emotion, or an affection. It is the attitude and behavior of a person living by another viewpoint. The viewpoint is the realization that the reference of the words “I,” “you,” and “the earth” are elements within a single unified system of energy. The path into the body is a path into that realization. The more one follows the realization, the more one finds the whole universe.

Protean Body : A Rolfer’s View of Human Flexibility

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What is Truth?

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:10 +0000

“The Truth is like the bear. Is it a gentle beast, a model for the stuffed animal children love? Or is it a vicious carnivore that will rip you to shreds if you turn your back on it? The answer is that it’s both – Robert Morning Sky

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