Inside You
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me: you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go, and look around inside. Kabir, the Kabir...
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What’s Not Here
I start out on this road, call it love or emptiness. I only know what’s not here: resentment seeds, back-scratching greed, worrying about out-come, fear of people. When a bird gets free, it doesn’t go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage! Close by, I’m rain. Far off, a cloud of fire. I seem restless, but I am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. I...
Read MoreThe Sun Never Says
“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...
Read MoreOne Body
All human beings are the members of one body- every person is a glint, shining from a single gem. When the world causes pain for one member, how could the other members ever rest in peace? If you lack grief for another one’s sorrow, why call yourself a human...
Read MoreYour Emptiness
But whoever sees your emptiness sees beyond blue and beyond the blind man. A great soul hides like Mohammed, or Jesus, moving through a crowd in a city where no one knows him. To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. Praise, the ocean. What we say, a little ship. So the sea-journey goes on, and who knows where! Just to be held by...
Read MoreIBN ‘ARABI AND THE CHRIST
I remember the first time I ever heard my master recite the verse of Ibn’Arabi. It was Christmas day. And my master said this poem, in part,describes the consciousness of Mohammad, Jesus, Buddha and anyone who achieves union with the Rose, with God. I knew something of this poem but my master spoke it differently, adding to it as one might to a song they were playfully singing. Later that...
Read MoreInto the Dark Alone?…
We sense there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and the animals and the ants- Perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in you mother’s womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now?? The truth is you turned away yourself, And decided to go into the dark...
Read MoreA couple more words on death….
Don’t depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don’t become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of...
Read MoreLong Live….
Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us. —singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world. —Albert Einstein Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm !— The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marked by curse, The ugly of the universe. The rough,...
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