Hi, Here is a short selection of poems and insights, most of them appeared on Twitter this week:There are jewels Of illumination In the darkness To discover them You must journey Into the dark places within When you stumble upon Those jewels Your surroundings Will no longer be dark And your inner eye Will open to the beauty And truth You are searching for. ----------------------------- Many gardens lie barren Deserted and overrun With weeds and garbage Self neglect is an effect Of trauma and bad conditioning Yet there is a way back Know this inner garden Tend to it, love it Plant beautiful flowers And water them daily Watch it grow No garden is dead. ----------------------------- To journey far enough inside That you find equanimity As a place to live from And to bring that equanimity Back to the surface world And offer to the surface dwellers So deceived by the pull to judgment Is a blessing to yourself And to that divided world. ------------------------------- Be above no-one And below no-one Ego lives on comparison Above or below Better or worse Good or bad Be above no-one And below no-one Simply be Stop feeding the hungry ghost. ------------------------------- Offer others your presence And your openness Not your opinion. ------------------------------ Become unshakeable Not just sometimes When things are good But always Rest so deeply In the silence of being That this unshakability Is an entirely natural occurrence. ----------------------------------- The cultural you must die If you are to truly know yourself The cultural you Is the imagined self Built of conditioning And ultimately Is but a shadow Of the light of who And what you are.
Thanks Kavi, inspiring words.