Mine was the gradual path. I had no idea of the destination, I just wanted freedom from my own suffering. That inner freedom came and went. I have never been goal oriented so that was never a preoccupation. But I did notice that when I returned to suffering, triggered by some external event that activated an inner belief or reaction, the suffering was greater. The less of it there was, the more intensely I felt it!
So it was extremely felt, as a radical sensitivity to it arose. By and by I looked at it, became present and ever willing, and realized (yet again) that it was a vestige of the past that no longer served me or love or the world at all, and in that clear seeing, the cliff of self fell into the ocean of Being, once and for all.
Now there is only a fragrance of any of that, like a whisper of a voice that says, ‘Remember me?” And I say, ‘Yes, I hear you and love you, you were a great teacher.’
You may not be able to heal the entire world But you can heal your world And that will be enough. ---------------------------- Eventually all beings stand before the eternal mystery The seeker is simply choosing to do that now. ---------------------------- You try and fix yourself For decades, but it becomes futile There is always something more to fix Eventually you give up all attempts at fixing And surrender happens as if by itself. -------------------------- Release all your tales of woe Like ten thousand trapped doves They will fly into the beyond And become the love you seek. -------------------------- Truth has no words And makes no sound If you want to know The deepest grace Enter that silence With no expectation. -------------------------- EMBODY IT. You will not solve the great riddle Of an embodied liberation With mind alone You must include your body Your subtle energy body Your nervous system Your digestion Your walled in heart Your spinning chakras out of whack The stored up past in the adrenals and liver Yes, the whole living temple. You may not like this attending to the density of form But really you are not attending to form, you are liberating trapped energy so that it may all flow naturally and harmonically Embodiment is holistic, the whole of us must be included Or else awakening is lopsided and detached. --------------------------- Develop an inner knowing That no matter how stormy It may become on the outside There can still be a great equanimity On the inside And that means we are not consumed By that storm… Yet still the storm may rage. ------------------------------- When the questions are exhausted A great silence falls upon us The search is over Only peace remains. --------------------------- Speak of your longing Give it a voice Open your throat Connected to your heart Don’t worry about others They all want the same as you But they have their own way Of dealing with life. ----------------------------- You are a harmony, a union with all that is Nothing you think or believe Can bring you closer to the divine For you are the divine Simply you have forgotten. Yet truly even that doesn’t matter Except to you, And when you remember You will laugh at your foolishness And shed a tear for all the suffering of forgetfulness. ---------------------------
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Kavi, thank you. I too seem to feel the suffering more intensely now, especially the very unnecessary suffering over fairly minor circumstances. I recently had a situation with my home that I didn’t like, I let myself get pulled into the suffering, and man, I felt horrible for a couple of days. Horrible enough to realize that I just can’t go there anymore. Yes, suffering can be a great teacher, as can kind people like you who share their story and experience. 🙏🏻❤️