Category: Adyashanti

ORIGINAL ESSENCE "i was dead" "..a time before..." "...what we Are, before we are." January 24, 2020

1/24/2020

Above Photo from Five Years Ago
January 24, 2015

ONLY THE NOURISHMENT
OF ORIGINAL ESSENCE SUFFICETH
ew
3:01 AM-1/24/20

i was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter
all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal

love said to me
you are not
crazy enough
you don’t
fit this house

i went and
became crazy
crazy enough
to be in chains

love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don’t
fit the group

i went and
got drunk
drunk enough
to overflow
with light-headedness

love said
you are still
too clever
filled with
imagination and skepticism

i went and
became gullible
and in fright
pulled away
from it all

love said
you are a candle
attracting everyone
gathering every one
around you

i am no more
a candle spreading light
i gather no more crowds
and like smoke
i am all scattered now

love said
you are a teacher
you are a head
and for everyone
you are a leader

i am no more
not a teacher
not a leader
just a servant
to your wishes

love said
you already have
your own wings
i will not give you
more feathers

and then my heart
pulled itself apart
and filled to the brim
with a new light
overflowed with fresh life

now even the heavens
are thankful that
because of love
i have become
the giver of light
― Rumi
https://allpoetry.com/I-Was-Dead

AFTERNOON

In the Garden of The Beloved
November 27, 2019 ·

It occurred to me…
There was a time when my Soul Shone, unobscured,
By all that would accrue upon my Naked Innocence,
When the Ecstasy of Being was unalloyed by selfhood,
And I existed as my Essence.

There was a time, before I learned a language,
Before the inner voice began its endless dialog,
Before I came to feel my self as the thinker,
When I was simply Perception.

There was a time before all that is experienced,
Was wrapped in words, concepts, and images,
Overlaying every perception with the already known,
A time when I was simply Immediacy.

There was a time, before the felt sense of my self,
Qualified and conditioned in countless ways,
Came to feel dense, isolated, and alone,
A time when I was simply Experience.

There was a time, before boy-girl; fat-thin, gifted-dim;
Smart-dull; attractive-unattractive; admired-disdained,
A time before qualifications and attributions,
When I simply Was.

And I wondered if, before these Veils enshrouded me,
The Ecstasy of Being I sought so desperately,
Might simply be the Nature of what I Am, Before.

And so I Journeyed within, back, behind, before,
All that had accrued “upon” my naked Innocence,
Until only Perception Remained.

Past the felt sense of myself as a person,
Qualified and judged by myself and others,
Until only Experience Remained.

Past the attributes that had defined the person,
Birthing a relentless concern for stature,
In the eyes of others, and in my own.

Past the words, concepts, and images that cloaked,
And dulled every perception with the already known,
Until only Immediacy Remained.
Within, past all that was not my Essence I Journeyed,
Until I, and all that existed, Vanished utterly,
And somehow, impossibly…

I Remained, not as “I”, but Existence Itself.

And Returning, I saw that it had been as I’d thought,
For the Ecstasy of Being is simply the Nature,
Of what we Are, before we are.
In the Garden of The Beloved
November 27, 2019

www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved

The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into
that has no agenda.
Adyashanti
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/183733-emptiness-dancing
https://zenmoments.org/wp-content/uploads/Adyashanti-Ebook-Emptiness-Dancing-Complete.pdf

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‘DANCING EMPTINESS’ "...Enlightenment is to have no script..." "... those who know secret things..." January 23, 2020

1/23/2020

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THE WAITING
<
‘DANCING EMPTINESS’*
5:59 AM-1/23/20
*https://zenmoments.org/wp-content/uploads/Adyashanti-Ebook-Emptiness-Dancing-Complete.pdf

Silence reveals itself only to itself.
Only when we enter as nothing
and stay as nothing,
will silence open its secret.
― Adyashanti,
Emptiness Dancing
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/183733-emptiness-dancing
https://zenmoments.org/wp-content/uploads/Adyashanti-Ebook-Emptiness-Dancing-Complete.pdf

Should you really
open your eyes and see,
you would behold
your image in all images…

And should you
open your ears and listen,
you would hear your own voice
in all voices…
—Kahlil Gibran
...

The soul has been given its own ears to hear
things the mind does not understand.

—Jalalud’din Rumi
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/save-all-your-energies-and-time-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough
to make every minute holy.
I am too tiny in this world,
and not tiny enough
just to lie before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.

I want my own will,
and I want simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action, and in the silent,
sometimes hardly moving times
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone.

I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
and I never want to be blind,
or to be too old to hold up your old and swaying picture.

I want to unfold.

I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded,
there I am a lie.
And I want my grasp of things true before you.

I want to describe myself like a painting
that I looked at closely for a long time,
like a saying that I finally understood,
like the pitcher I use every day,
like the face of my mother,
like a ship that took me safely
through the wildest storm of all.

—Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Bly version

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/i-give-you-end-of-golden-string-just.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

AFTERNOON

If You Seek Reality - Nisargadatta & Adyashanti

If you seek Reality
you must set yourself free
of all backgrounds, of all cultures,
of all patterns of thinking and feeling.

Even the idea of being a man or a woman,
or even human, should be discarded.

The Ocean of Life contains all,
not only humans.

So first abandon all self-identification,
stop thinking of
yourself as such-and-such, so-and-so,
this or that.

Abandon
all self-concern,
worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual,
abandon every desire, gross or subtle,
stop thinking of achievement of every kind.

You are complete, as you are...

Nisargadatta
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/01/if-you-seek-reality-nisargadatta.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

You have to be willing to ask, "Who am I?"
or "What am I?"
without any script or role,
without the story about
who you are and what you are,
releasing the script of what you think
your life is about.
Every sense of identity has its script - like,
"I'm a spiritual seeker."
We each have a specific role
and our stories about that role.
But our roles and stories are not
what we are...

When you start to realize what the truth is,
you wake up from the story of you.
You recognize that truth is not an abstraction,
it is not something to learn.
You discover that truth is who you
are without a script or role...

There is a state in which mind says,
"I have no idea who I am",
because it can't find the right script.
Awakening is the realization that happens
after the mind says,"I give up.
I just have no idea who I am."
When you start to understand this,
you realize that if you put down your script
and just drop the
roles for a moment,
you are not
what you have taken yourself
to be.

What you are without your role
is often assumed to be hidden.
So when you look past your character called "me"
for the truth of your being,
you may think there's someone to find who is
somewhere hidden.

Looking for the "enlightened Self"
is just another role, another script.
If you drop the script, what are you?
Enlightenment is to have no script...

Give up the script, the role, the identity -
even it is to have no identity..

Adyashanti
from - Emptiness Dancing
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/01/if-you-seek-reality-nisargadatta.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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ORIGINAL ESSENCE "i was dead" "..a time before..." "...what we Are, before we are." January 24, 2020

‘DANCING EMPTINESS’ "...Enlightenment is to have no script..." "... those who know secret things..." January 23, 2020

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