Run and Run..

I found this poem by Rumi.. about pushing the limits in Love, about the irrational adventure.

 

“A lover doesn’t figure the odds.

 

He figures he came clean from God

as a gift without reason,

so he gives without cause

or calculation or limit.

 

A conventionally religious person

behaves a certain way

to achieve salvation.

 

A lover gambles everything, the self,

the circle around the zero! He or she

cuts and throws it away.

 

This is beyond

any religion.

 

Lovers do not require from God any proof,

or any text, nor do they knock on the door

to make sure this is the right street.

 

They run,

and they run.”

Kiss the ground

 

This is from a friends blog… :)

 

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Rumi

Love

Bruce

Holy Defects

 

This is a Rumi Poem I enjoy.. called "Your Defects"

"An empty mirror and your worst destructive habits,

when they are held up to each other,

thats when the real making begins.

That's what are and crafting are.

A tailor needs a torn garment to practice his expertise.

The trunks of trees must be cut and cut again

so they can be used for fine carpentry.

Your doctor must have a broken leg to doctor.

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested"

 

Another friend send me these words.. for me this means that I trust Presence, which is my True Self and subject, to intelligently heal, transform and bring wisdom, more than I trust my mind and its habitual stories.. and the more I trust Presence, the more it becomes my only foundation and the more I recognize its nature to be Love, which is what I was always seeking..

 

"How quickly the tranformation occurs when i can see what is underneath negation of what is.....
For i am very secure in the truth that love is the foundation of all that is true, sane, and enduring....Now
i needed to see that hatred was the foundation of all that was unreal, insane and illusory....that which never was.... 
I hope this is not too heavy but wanted to share if for the deeper i grasp it the greater the liberation and opening....."

 

Love

Bruce

Silence

 

Two friends sent me two poems this week.. the first is from the Tao Te Ching, the second poem came with the picture above..

The most yielding thing in the world

   will overcome the most rigid

The most empty thing in the world

   will overcome the most full

From this comes a lesson -

   Stillness benefits more than action

   Silence benefits more than words

‘Rare indeed are those who are still

Rare indeed are those who are silent

And so I say,

   Rare indeed are those

   who obtain the bounty of this world’

 

 

Silence II

Silence is not a lack of words.
Silence is not a lack of music.
Silence is not a lack of curses.
Silence is not a lack of screams.
Silence is not a lack of colors
or voices or bodies or whistling wind.
Silence is not a lack of anything.
Silence is resting, nestling
in every leaf of every tree,
in every root and branch.
Silence is the flower sprouting
upon the branch.
Silence is the mother singing
to her newborn babe.
Silence is the mother crying
for her stillborn babe.
Silence is the life of all
these babes, whose breath
is a breath of God.
Silence is seeing and singing praises.
Silence is the roar of ocean waves.
Silence is the sandpiper dancing
on the shore.
Silence is the vastness of a whale.
Silence is a blade of grass.
Silence is sound
And silence is silence.
Silence is love, even
the love that hides in hate.
Silence is the pompous queen
and the harlot and the pimp
hugging his purse on a crowded street.
Silence is the healer dreaming
the plant, the drummer drumming
the dream. It is the lover's
exhausted fall into sleep.
It is the call of morning birds.
Silence is God's beat tapping all hearts.
Silence is the star kissing a flower.
Silence is a word, a hope, a candle
lighting the window of home.
Silence is everything --the renewing sleep
of Earth, the purifying dream of Water,
the purifying rage of Fire, the soaring
and spiraling flight of Air. It is all
things dissolved into no-thing--Silence
is with you always.....the Presence
of I AM

- Elaine Maria Upton

How to move God

 

What are you willing to cry out for? I found this by Amma today.

“Amma gives a lot of importance to praying with our whole being. Here is a quote from Amma: "Children, no other sadhana (spiritual practice) will give you the bliss of divine love as effectively as sincere prayer. You don’t have to undergo any academic training to love God. You don’t have to be a scholar or a philosopher to worship Him or to call out to Him. Just call out, but let the call come from your heart. Just as a child cries out for food or to be fondled or cuddled by his mother, call out to Him with the same intensity and innocence. Cry and pray to Him. He must reveal Himself. He cannot sit silent and unmoved when somebody calls Him like that."

 

Love

Bruce

The peace of Christ

I went through another layer of inner healing this last week, as the Christ in me healed deep beliefs of not being worthy and not being good enough. As the healing approached, I was feeling uncomfortably compelled to take action in the world to change my external situation, trying to avoid facing my inner truth.

I dreamed I was being operated on my spiritual doctors, and literally for 4 days after, felt as though I was recovering from an operation. I was exhausted, slept a lot and felt foggy, as though on medication.

And then after, I began to feel a renewal of Christ’s love in me, and around me, shining through everything. The love is with me tonight as I write. Today at work I was no longer caught in the mental stories of pressurizing myself to start a business, or live my purpose.

In the peace of Christ, I was complete. This is a supreme gift. The Prince of Peace.

It is such a blessing to know that His healing, and his peace and love, awaits, if we could be willing to surrender our stories and our desires to take charge of our lives, and  to stop obsessing about our lives. This is freedom.

 

Love

Bruce

Release

Everyone wants to expand in love, goodness, success and wellbeing. Often what they are looking for is a way  to release an inner tension of dissatisfaction through doing or becoming or having something.

The awakened way is to see that that inner release comes first. When there is an inner release of tension, there is a sense of the self relaxing and expanding, and a natural love and happiness shines out.

This happiness and love has always been the center of your being, just obscured through holding on and inner attachment. This inner holding on creates the illusion that happiness is lost, and needs to be regained, yet happiness and love is never lost.

What is required is to surrender to love as the essence of your being.

Just let go. Its that simple. And if you cant let go, then simply learn to stay present to your mind and your body, and sooner or later letting go will happen.