NON-REACTIVITY

“The only spiritual life you need is not to react."
- Ramana Maharshi.

It’s easy to complicate the spiritual path. The mind loves complexity, and the more difficult it is, the better.

But what if it is really as simple as becoming completely non reactive in the face of experience, whatever that experience is?

I know for myself that as my journey has deepened I have become less and less reactive and thus able to meet my experience from a place of presence, openness and a greater maturity. I was very reactive in my old days.

It has changed the quality of my life completely and as a consequence profoundly impacted all aspects of all my relationships. My nervous system has become quiet and relaxed as the default and that has allowed holistic well being to go to a deeper level.

That’s why I talk about this non reactivity all the time. It’s a key to freedom as far as I can see.

Here are some poems for you.

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Listen from the openness of your being
You will hear the divine
Singing the song of existence
You do not own your life
You were graced it
By some unknown intelligence
That creates and destroys all form
Live as the silence of your true nature
There is no other way to know union.

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Peace is the greatest gift
You can give to the world
But first you must know it.

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Don’t worry about other people’s judgment
Just do your thing and love it
Be creative for no reason
Sing songs to God
Dance, paint, scribble crazy lines
Of sorrow or joy
Whatever it is inside you
Set it free
Don’t worry what the other’s think
Everyone wants to be free
Give yourself permission
To not have a clue what or why 
Just honor the freedom of doing.

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In presence there is no past to tyrannize us
And no future to beguile us 
Just this exquisite moment

How powerful it is to bathe in the river of now.

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True power is unleashed
Not by making more trouble
With the outside world
But by making peace
With our inner world
And taking that peace with us
Wherever we go.

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If you can reach to the heavens, to the divine
And manage to pull down the stars
Just for a moment
And let them shine here on Earth
That is enough.

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Inner freedom
Does not depend 
On outer circumstances.

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Know this empty aliveness,
The awake universe
Vibrating its presence
Through form
As you.

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You are infinite intelligence
Pretending to forget itself
Playing the game
Of being lost in form

Friend, maybe it’s time
To move on from that game
And live in the remembering.

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Life’s experience
Always offers us
The opportunity
To remember
Our equanimity.