Drenched to the Core

Rumi reminds us:
There's a moon inside every human being
Learn to be companions with it
Give more of your life to this listening.
As brightness is to time
so you are to the One who whispers
to the deep ear in your chest.
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears
When that One steps near and begins to speak.
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears
When that One steps near.

Every line ... no, every word of Rumi's absolutely drips with the liquid gold of Eternal Presence.

Intoxicated with Oneness, no word is wasted ... every word thrills to the resounding call ... even in the absence of the Beloved, especially in the absence, Rumi honours and celebrates the flood of Divine Presence. His celebratory outporings remind us that even our deepest separation is not devoid of Presence.

Rumi knows, that no matter where we roam, how far from God's immediate touch we may appear to be ... God is here. Nothing, absolutely nothing is left out of the equation. All and everything, and nothing itself are pointers and reminders that "He is here".

Feel the absence... He is here. Feel the connection ... He is here. Feel the longing ...He is here. Feel the Unity ... He is here.

This is the gift ... just as it is ... ordinary is extraordinary. Commonplace is unique. Finite is infinite. Emptiness is fullness.

We are all totally overwhelmed ... drenched to the core by/in this Presence. Yet so overwhelmed by It, most don't even notice it. Yet, It's always, already here ... right before our eyes. Our senses all celebrate Its touch ... what we hear, what we see, all that we smell, feel and taste ... Its only ever God delighting in us ... through us ... as us.
And Rumi knows this so acutely.

"I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears," knowing just how exquisite these whisperings are to the "deep ear in the chest".

And yet, it's all God ... how else to say it?

Stop ... Listen ... stop... really stop and listen ...
and God is whispering through all and everything ... outside and in.
Listen with "a thousand ears" and follow the whispering back Home ... You are already here absolutely drenched to the core.

It Never Leaves Us

Have you lost sight of why ...

Just why you are here?

Have you forgotten your life's purpose?

It's so very easy to forget ...

To lose ourselves in our becoming.

But why have we chosen to become?

Why are we here?

This question sits burning in our belly.

It lays dormant at times

and at other times it's fully aflame.

But it never leaves us.

Every step we take is towards the answer

even when we face the opposite direction

The answer to Why?

It can't be said

It can't be spoken.

Yet we can know it

directly know it

by seeing it

by being it.

This is the only purpose of our becoming.

To recognise what lays

at the heart of all things ...

And ... it won't leave you alone

until you face this question squarely ...

completely.

Even then, it will continue to inform you.

To plumb even deeper.

For to Know has no bounds.

Becoming is the joyous expression

of that which always is.

Ah ... such joy ...

To see ...

To know ...

To be ...

When Things get Dark

When things get dark, it's only clouds in the sky obscuring the light and warmth of the sun ... When things get dark it's not any less true or real ... Simply allow "this", whatever it may be to exist. Allowing it releases any fixation, any clinging, any fleeing ... any wanting to change it.
What "sees" and "allows" all this to be is the contemplation here at all times. What sees and allows This, just as it is?
It's simple.
Pull back your attention, just a little ... and everything shifts.
Away from the clouds, up and back to the Open Sky. This Eternal Vastness holds and contains it all ... absolutely all of it ...Simply pull out, back and up ... and see the freedom that always is, in simply allowing for what is, to be.
It may not feel good, it may not be nice but it is what is ... allow it and you'll very naturally "see" from what you really are.
The darkness is a state, as is the light but what embraces both is not - It's never changing, always present, eternal, free, spacious and all knowing. This that allows all things to be is beyond good and bad. This ... beyond the pull of opposing forces is always free, always at peace, always present ... and This is you!

"The Chinese thrush sings in my heart and grey clouds gather in the empty sky of my mind."
Robert Aiken Roshi