and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh,
and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.
–D. H. Lawrence
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/things-will-happen.html
not to the superficial meaning of words of Truth
but in such a way that the listener in you disappears
along with the speaker,
then the real meaning of the words can sink in deep
and your misunderstanding will disappear by itself.
There is nothing else to be done.
Ramseh. S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
June 12
derives from the fact that thought and its processes
have become excessively developed to the exclusion of intuition,
so much so
that every person confidently thinks of himself
as an individual figure
exclusive even of the very ground of nature!
Ramseh. S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
June 13
at all in man's dilemma of suffering.
It is all within the fictitious "me" of personal identity.
Realization of this fact is the ultimate Understanding.
Ramseh. S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
June 14
Everything IS PERFECTION in every moment -
here and now forever.
Ramseh. S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
June 14
than the presence.
Don't speak of a "you"
apart from That.
A full container cannot be more full.
Be whole, and nothing.
–Hakim Sanai (1044? - 1150?)
Coleman Barks version
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there's no remaining in place.
The foot touches ground,
but not for long.
The way where love tells its secret
stays always in motion,
and there is no you there, and no reason.
The rider urges his horse to gallop,
and so doing, throws himself
under the flying hooves.
In love-unity there's no old or new.
Everything is nothing.
God alone is.
For lovers the phenomena-veil is very transparent,
and the delicate tracings on it cannot
be explained with language.
Clouds burn off as the sun rises,
and the love-world floods with light.
But cloud-water can be obscuring,
as well as useful.
There is an affection that covers the glory,
rather than dissolving into it.
It's a subtle difference,
like the change in Persian
from the word "friendship"
to the word "work."
That happens with just a dot
above or below the third letter.
There is a seeing of the beauty
of union that doesn't actively work
for the inner conversation.
Your hand and feet must move,
as a stream streams, working
as its Self, to get to the ocean.
Then there's no more mention
of the search.
Being famous, or being a disgrace,
who's ahead or behind, these considerations
are rocks and clogged places
that slow you. Be as naked as a wheat grain
out of its husk and sleek as Adam.
Don't ask for anything other
than the presence.
Don't speak of a "you"
apart from That.
A full container cannot be more full.
Be whole, and nothing.
–Hakim Sanai (1044? - 1150?)
Coleman Barks version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/streaming.html