Shhh... No More Words

One glimpse and I'm gone

This heart heaves

Silence enters

And I'm only ears again

This precious gift

Listening closely ...

Feeling sweetly ...

This nearness ... Your nearnesss

dumbfounds me into oblivion

The bubble explodes into the crash

of the Infinite Ocean ...

All here ... all now

This isYou ...

Let this be as it is.

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Rumi says: "Don't hide. The sight of your face is a blessing."

We are constantly in flux and play in the manifested world. Yet this life we live, just as it is, is God playing, loving, enjoying through us ... in us ... around us ... as us.

We don't need to go too far to see it as the miraculous interplay between Creator and created. Everywhere we look ... God is in it ... God is it.

"The sight of your face is a blessing," Rumi whispers. God's face is the manifested world and every creature in it. This is it ... this is God in full bloom.

Take one breath ... close your eyes as you do ... open them again. Wherever you land ... God is here. It's this close ... it's this immediate ... it's this true and real.

Even before we look ... the very breath in as it's being breathed is God's sweet embrace. Do it ... feel it ... let its sweetness and directness be felt ... be seen ... be tasted. How delicate, how exquisite, how intensely and profoundly immediate. God is loving you as your very breath. Absolutely miraculous!

Stop for a moment. Examine this miracle closely... no, not with your thinking but with your heart. Examine this breath ... right now ... fall into your heart and simply feel the immediacy.

God is here ... "I am here" is whispering as the very breath as it breathes itself into existence.

William Blake said: "Eternity is in love with the works of time." There's no separation here ... being is becoming and becoming is being. And what are these works of time? Look around you ... look within you. This is it ... the miracle of creation is God's love in expression. You are this. I am this. We are all this ... there's only this ... already, always only this.

"No more words. Hear only the voice within." This is Rumi's invitation to leap into the Silence. And as you do, this Master of Silence whispers in the hushed tones of the lover and beloved ...

"Remember, as you sink into the Silence, remember, as you listen to the voice within, as you take all these initiations that this poem has given you, remember all the initiations of the deepest secrets and scrub them out, because they have taken you to the place where you can now plunge ... remember, remember, the first thing he said was, we are beyond words."

"Shh ... No more words.

Hear only the voice within."

The Way Love Works

Do you ever get that deep feeling of deep pain in the belly, often connected with a situation with another Soul, one that has left this deeply uncomfortable disturbance in your gut? We know that it's connected to the person and the event, possibly even seeing clearly a transgression that's taken place by ourselves. But, if you stay with the sensation rather than try to flee it, there's much to learn and, as importantly, much to resolve.
Staying with the discomfort of the painful sensation can at first trigger thoughts, images and feelings relating to the event. If we stay with the sensation without going into the thinking and emotionalising about it, but simply staying with the sensation, we can allow ourselves to deepen into the subtle layers of it. By simply allowing it to exist, we allow it to slowly but surely dissipate, not only within ourselves but also within the other. And, this also brings with it immediate karmic resolution. This sensation can actually act as a point of transition from one state of consciousness to another, without leaving any karmic residue or overtones that would require revisiting and resolving into balance at a later time.
By simply sitting with the sensation we are plugging into the Universal consciousness that allows for both parties to clarify, realise, deepen and come into peace - without any karma being created.
And, it's also bigger than this. It's not just two people clarifying and resolving and learning but the consciousness itself is doing so. This means that others who would also encounter a similar exchange would be given a greater opportunity to clarify and resolve the energy within themselves.
We are not alone. We are all in it together. One gets hurt, we all do. One awakens, we all do. One finds peace and joy, we all do. This is the way love works.
Love and be loved.

The Soundless Sound is the Sacred Ground

We can allow for the Unstruck Sound ... the Soundless Sound to be the ground of Being. Allowing thought to exist ... allowing images to come forth ... allowing feelings to be felt ... allowing for what is, to simply be as it is.
In allowing for This to simply be - that Silence that sits behind and embraces and supports all and everything - a great love is witnessed. This great love is the Knowing of the Divine that informs and inspires us at every turn.
Honour this ground of perfect, pure, pristine Beingness that is sweet, clear and everpresent ... This is who you are. Let it embrace you as It embraces all of life.

As I sit ... look out/in ... a few moments as I settle ... the birds singing ... the wind blows gently across my face ... it builds and swirls ... a truck rumbles down a road in the distance ... a faint smell of something lovely cooking ... the sun warms me ... the distant hills glisten peacefully as they embrace me ... all the trees so at peace ... all this ... vast, beautiful, perfectly at peace ... life ... in joyful presence.
What I am looking at is what is looking ... all this I am and more ... what a gift. All this loving, peaceful surrenderedness ... all as far as the eyes can see and beyond in infinite concentric circles ... as far as the ears can hear, touch, smell ... and more, and deep deep beyond.
To have this instrument to reflect back into, all this that I am ... and this is only the physical ... the same for each inner region. Infinite, endless and eternal realms of feeling, of thought, of memory, of intuitive arising ... of Light, of Sound ... of God's love.
If all is simply a degree of expression of this Divine Love ... this I am ... this you are ... this is all there really is.
How much of this eternal truth are we ready or willing to embrace?
To the degree that you are prepared to honour and accept your Eternal Vastness ... to this very degree will It express and reveal Itself in your world.
Honour the "forever already/always" that shines within you right now and you are already always free.