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Take the great bow of the sacred scriptures, place on it the arrow of devotion; then draw the bowstring of meditation, and aim at the target, the Lord of Love. Om is the bow, the soul is the arrow, and Brahman is called its target. Now draw the bowstring of meditation and hitting the target, be One with It.
-- Mundaka Upanishad (II: 3-4)
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Gush it or quit!
I'm here to rock your soul out!
Out from under the debris of living and paining
Bring, bring your wilderness to the threshold
I'll coax it from there if you meet me naked
Halfway
Just that much in
Will you flex your ankle just that much
And step out
OUT of your belief prison
Your cultural stranglehold
The garbage heap your mind has become
And feel the cool new grass under such dainty toes
Will you? Huh? Will you?
I'm askin' coz, ya know someone has to!
I'm here to rock your soul out of its tent
Its veil its layers its garb its darn complacency!
So then you can surrender sensuality strawberries
Sun drenched lemonade drip dip drip
Don't let your life drip
Gush it or quit!
© Pamir Kiciman 2010
Most people think that consciousness emerged over eons as a byproduct of random mutations and the inherent complexity of natural selection, but I look at it the other way around. I think a fundamental field of protoconscious experience has been embedded all along—since the big bang—in the [quantum realm], and that biology evolved and adapted in order to access it and to maximize the qualities and potentials implicit within it. . . (My italics.)
I think that when you meditate and attain nothingness . . . it isn’t quite nothingness. You move more deeply into the basic fabric of the universe and actually become more consciously a part of it.
-- Stuart Hameroff, MD
Acting with compassion is not doing good because we think we ought to.
It is being drawn to action by heart-felt passion. It is giving
ourselves into what we are doing, being present in the moment - no
matter how difficult, sad or even boring it feels, no matter how much it
demands. It is acting from our deepest understanding of what life is,
listening intently for the skillful means in each situation, and not
compromising the truth. It is working with others in a selfless way, in
a spirit of mutual respect.
- Ram Dass
May the Great Light bring everything Haiti needs to heal & rebuild!
This goes without saying. However, it doesn't address the next earthquake or tsunami. We are facing climate change, species extinction, multiple wars, several human rights issues, poverty...actually the list is long.
Consider the following. Healing intentions for single events is no longer getting at the root. We need both. The solution is at a causal place and that's what we need to address:
The sudden cataclysms that occur in nature, creating havoc and mass injury, are not 'acts of God.' Such disasters result from the thoughts and actions of man. Wherever the world's vibratory balance of good and evil is disturbed by an accumulation of harmful vibrations, the result of man's wrong thinking and wrong doing, you will see devastation....
Wars are brought about not by fateful divine action but by widespread material selfishness....When materiality predominates in man's consciousness, there is an emission of subtle negative rays; their cumulative power disturbs the electrical balance of nature, and that is when earthquakes, floods, and other disasters happen.
--Paramahansa Yogananda
Some Fill With Each Good Rain
There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that.
In one well
You have just a few precious cups of water,
That "love" is literally something of yourself,
It can grow as slow as a diamond
If it is lost.
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.
There are different wells within us.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far, far too deep
For that.
--Hafiz
The Pali word for lovingkindness is metta. Sometimes, metta is translated simply as "love." In our culture, the notion of love has assumed a complexity that obscures its true nature. Typically the word love conjures up thoughts of passion or sentimentality. Metta is neither of these, and this distinction is crucial.
The practice of lovingkindness is, at a certain level, the fruition of all we work toward in our meditation. It relies on our ability to open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, not cutting off the painful parts, and not trying to pretend things are other than they are. Just as spiritual growth grinds to a halt when we indulge our tendency to grasp and cling, metta can't thrive in an environment that is bound to desire or to getting our expectations met.
In lovingkindness, our minds are open and expansive-spacious enough to contain all the pleasures and pains of a life fully lived. Pain, in this context, does't feel like betrayal or an overwhelming force. It is part of the reality of human experience, and an opportunity for us to practice maintaining our authentic presence.
- Sharon Salzberg
You know they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and liveable acreage. Occassionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering.
Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is like that: remembering where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place.
--Toni Morrison
The Sanskrit word for faith is wonderfully expressive. It is visvas. The common literal rendering, "to breathe easy; have trust; be free from fear," does not convey the full meaning. Sanskrit svas refers to the motions of breath, implying thereby life and feeling. Vi conveys the meaning of "opposite; without."
That is, he whose breath, life, and feeling are calm, he can have faith born of intuition; it cannot be possessed by persons who are emotionally restless.
The cultivation of intuitive calmness requires unflodment of the inner life. When developed sufficiently, intuition brings immediate comrehension of truth. You can have this marvelous realization. Meditation is the way.
--Paramahansa Yogananda
With a large fruit orchard and twenty-five fertile acres at our disposal, the students, teachers, and myself enjoyed many happy hours of outdoor labor in these ideal surroundings. We had many pets, including a young deer who was fairly idolized by the children. I too loved the fawn so much that I allowed it to sleep in my room. At the light of dawn, the little creature would toddle over to my bed for a morning caress.
One day I fed the pet earlier than usual, as I had to attend to some business in the town of Ranchi. Although I cautioned the boys not to feed the fawn until my return, one of them was disobedient, and gave the baby deer a large quantity of milk. When I came back in the evening, sad news greeted me: “The little fawn is nearly dead, through over feeding.”
In tears, I placed the apparently lifeless pet on my lap. I prayed piteously to God to spare its life. Hours later, the small creature opened its eyes, stood up, and walked feebly. The whole school shouted for joy.
But a deep lesson came to me that night, one I can never forget. I stayed up with the fawn until two o’clock, when I fell asleep. The deer appeared in a dream, and spoke to me:
“You are holding me back. Please let me go; let me go!”
“All right,” I answered in the dream.
I awoke immediately, and cried out, “Boys, the deer is dying!” The children rushed to my side.
I ran to the corner of the room where I had placed the pet. It made a last effort to rise, stumbled toward me, then dropped at my feet, dead.
According to the mass karma which guides and regulates the destinies of animals, the deer’s life was over, and it was ready to progress to a higher form. But by my deep attachment, which I later realized was selfish, and by my fervent prayers, I had been able to hold it in the limitations of the animal form from which the soul was struggling for release. The soul of the deer made its plea in a dream because, without my loving permission, it either would not or could not go. As soon as I agreed, it departed.
All sorrow left me; I realized anew that God wants His children to love everything as a part of Him, and not to feel delusively that death ends all. The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him.
--Paramahansa Yogananda in his Autobiography of a Yogi
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