Our task is not to worry about what will fill the bowl when it is empty, but to simply empty the bowl. That is enough. Life is intelligent and natural wisdom knows what it is doing. Our strategic self wants to look up ahead so it can control things. That’s not how freedom works. We just empty the bowl with a sincerity of devotion and a persistent surrender. That’s it.
Here are a few poems. I wish you well.
Our true power And our inner beauty Are not defined By what has happened to us But by how we live With what happened to us. --------------------------- It is not our success or power that defines us But our ability to carry our own and others suffering. ---------------------------- With one foot in the world And one in eternity He knew himself To be all things And none of them. -------------------------- Accept it You will always be you Even if grace bestows A great enlightenment Upon you You will still be you With all those characteristics And quirks You will just stop Being a problem To yourself. -------------------------- Friend, you must find what is trustworthy, By abandoning all that is not By clearing the garden of its debris By resolving the past By cleansing the eyes and removing the blinkers By learning to listen By resting in silence By surrendering the righteous And the fighter And the resistor By meeting the darkness And the unknown And becoming naked And empty And there you will discover For yourself What to trust And it will be beautiful. ----------------------- Humility, surrender And unconditional love Are what the ego really fears For it senses its own death And must have an opposite to thrive. ----------------------- Let my prayer be this: An illumination of the mind That falls into the heart And purifies all division Resolves all resistance And brings a loving embrace Of all existence. ------------------------- To model love Even when it was not received Or was received with destructive conditions Is the journey of a true warrior. ------------------------ there is a thread called love that runs through your whole life from your arrival here to your departure, and everything you have ever done and thought and dreamed of hangs on this thread your life is a mystery sewn together by an unseen hand. -------------------------- DARKNESS OR LIGHT? Some souls seem consumed by darkness No one knows why Maybe they were like that when they arrived Maybe they have become like that No one knows Often the darkness draws darkness to itself As though to strengthen its power As though that darkness itself is an addiction At times each of has been called to the darkness Even in some small way Just a transgression here A small violation there But we have drawn back from total immersion Our time here in the earth realm Is all about that choice, The choice of darkness and light To honor love or to disregard it as irrelevant We are in the intensity Where this choice is no longer a luxury But will define us for the foreseeable future Spirituality has been pointing us to this True religion has been pointing us to this The wise elders of great traditions have been pointing us to this We are not facing a political crisis We are facing a spiritual, existential, crisis that will not go away until it is either embraced or pushed further inside by that very darkness And yet, and yet, there is a light that shines.
Thank you for reading. Be blessed.
It reminds of the Chinese martial arts similar aphorism of 'emptying one's cup' as one gets a move wrong and is pushed over for the thousandth time. The journey is all, the destination incidental, aspiration beyond expectation.
Beautiful 🙏❤️