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.

. . .

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.

Love and Be Loved

This mooring ... yes, the word typed itself as I tried to type the word "morning", secretly slipping in the extra "o" in place of the "n". But even a typo has something to offer when we are open to this infinite expanse of divine meaning and mysterious purpose we co-exist in. The dictionary describes the word "mooring" as: "a tract of open, rolling wasteland, usually covered with heather and often marshy' ... hmmmm ... A second definition is: "to secure a ship to a pier or buoy." Or "a place where a ship is moored." This is what it feels like when Eternal Vastness begins to make Itself felt ... somewhat like mooring a boat to shore after a sojourn in the cosmic ocean.
And even in our mistakes we can uncover a hidden truth.
So let's try again:
This morning as I sat outside and breathed in, I felt the gentle tug to soften, open up and listen ... this is what I heard:

I am new to the path.

I don't know.

I really don't know a thing.

I invite You to open me up

to what is true

right now.

Where I am right now ...

this step here ...

is true and real ... just so.

You brought me this far...

You brought me to This.

My heart is grateful

My mind is empty

And ... I don't know.

What if this is it?

Just as it is.

Not the next step

But this one.

What if I dared to stop ...

look ... listen ...

Open up to This ...

To You.

Just here?

If I dare to pull back enough

and not follow my mind's

impulse to know,

I can simply breathe and be happy.

Not in knowing anything

in particular.

But in simply knowing

that here, in This

I am always already happy.

If this breath is

all I have ...

this one breath, this breath

being breathed right now ...

If this is true

If this is so

then this is the

only place I can ever find you.

So, what could possibly

be better, purer, clearer,

more available and

more real

than this ... this moment

now?

Why would I even look

to the next

breath?

That next breath is not ...

This breath is.

Do I dare

to meet You here?

This can be done,

this must be done.

But do I dare

do it now?

Don't go past it.

Don't ignore it.

Don't even seek it.

It's much closer than all of that.

You'll never find it ...

not until

this point,

this breath, this moment,

is embraced by

your "not knowing a thing about it".

This is how willing ...

how open you have to be.

The embrace is a

stripping back ...

an emptying of anything and everything ...

what remains is This.

A single breath

A single look

A single transparent

unified touch ...

A you/me moment

that is simply this:

No you, no me

Only This.

So, I am new to the path

I don't know a thing.

Yet I thrill to your embrace ... this embrace of Not Knowing.

My heart quivers

in response to the

gift of Your touch.

As I feel it

I simply allow ...

open up further and allow.

Let Heaven swallow

me up whole.

What is left?

The sun rises ...

the sun shines ...

the crow caws ...

the traffic whistles and hums ...

the bamboo sways in rhythm with the breeze ...

a dove coos ...

a jet rumbles

sweetly overhead.

The world is alive

and it sings to this

moment ...

as this moment.

Do I dare to "step in step"

and meet It ...

be met by It ...

Be swept up in Its embrace?

The sun's rays fully appear

as I ask this question ...

In response,

it bathes my face in its warmth.

My heart simply feels ...

feels what?

Yes, it's true:

God's love.

And I can say it

because my heart whispers it to me.

In not knowing a thing

I know only this:

God loves.

It's the gift that each

moment brings ...

Stop ... feel ... look ...

listen.

This is God's love.

Embrace It and be embraced ...

My pen stops ... waiting in silence and stillness ...

listening for the next word to drop in ...

The pen simply meets the page trusting the next word will arrive as it does ...

In not knowing, I can trust ... relax ...

listen ...

watch for ...

allow for

the sweet embrace

to be appreciated completely

in this moment.

Love and be loved.

After I write these words I seamlessly move into my day. I open a package that's just arrived. It's a book for review for our newspaper Innerself from one of our columnists. I tear open the envelope, open the book and the very first words that greet me are from Kabir:

"Behold but One in all things;

it is the second that leads you astray."

Is This Not Obvious?

If you cannot find truth where you are ...
Where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen

Realization requires a knowing that sits above and before our mind. Often, it's our very own cleverness that keeps us out of the profundity of This, this just-as-it-isness. We are in fact already seeing from truth, as truth ... because it's what we really are ... but we've allowed and continue to allow clever thinking to obscure what is always already here. Our thinking about not yet arrived, not yet ready, not yet good enough ... awake enough ... aware enough, this thinking is the very barrier that keeps us from the direct perception of what already is. It is a matter of simplifying things ... making room in our heads to allow for what is present to be "seen" beyond our heads.

Someone once said that "Success is a refined study of the obvious."
This could also be said about realization, because the obvious is so immediate, so already-always-here and exactly why it's so easily missed or overlooked. Our minds are always seeking one step away from this direct knowing ... pre-thought ... pre-feeling.

We mustn't get too clever as we can too easily box ourselves in.

This moment is clear, here and immediate.

The mind can't grasp it, but that doesn't make it any less clear or immediate. This is it ... not our mind's perception of the moment as that's already a construct and already in the past, but the direct knowing of the One who sees and knows, already aware of what is, with or without the mind's participation. All that the mind is doing is translating what is already seen and known. "Seen the moment you look, free the moment it's seen," said Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.

I love Ken Wilber's description of this direct perception ... this One Taste. He writes:
"It's not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness", that's a little too heady, too cognitive. It's more like a Feeling of Being: it is the simple, present feeling of existence.

"But it's quite different from all other feelings or experiences, because this simple Feeling of Being does not come and go. It is not in time at all, though time flows through it, as one of the many textures of its own sensation. The simple Feeling of Being is not an experience - it is a vast Openess in which all experiences come and go, an infinite spaciousness in which all perceptions move, a great Spirit in which the forms of its own play arise, remain a bit, and pass ... The simple Feeling of Being, which is the simple feeling of existence, is the simple feeling of One Taste.

"Is this not obvious?" Wilber challengingly asks. "Aren't you already aware of existing? Don't you already feel the simple Feeling of Being? Don't you already possess this immediate gateway to ultimate Spirit, which is nothing other than the simple Feeling of Being? You have this simple feeling now, don't you? And you have it now, don't you? And now, yes?

"And don't you already realize that this Feeling is Spirit itself? Godhead Itself? Emptiness itself? Spirit does not pop into existence: it is the only thing that is constant in your experience - and that is the simple Feeling of Being itself, a subtle, constant, background awareness that, if you look very closely, very carefully, you will realize you have had since the Big Bang and before - not because you existed way back when, but because you truly exist prior to time, in this timeless moment, whose feeling is the simple Feeling of Being: now, and now, and always and forever now.

"You feel the simple Feeling of Being? Who is not already enlightened?"

Wilber uses intelligence to express what is beyond mind intelligence ... beyond language ... yet here it is ... so blaringly obvious ... this simple Feeling of Being.

Taste this. It's clear, pure, direct and obvious ... let the words open a doorway into Eternal Vastness. Words can do this because even words are part of the One Taste ... taste it, savour it, enjoy it ... It is This.

Peace It Together

"Peace it together..." reads the bumper sticker. Why does the mind so enjoy these little devices of insight? Just like a Kong-an or its better known Japanese counterpart, the Koan, it gives us an opportunity to explore, expand, embrace and enlighten... this is insight.

A joke can do the same. Humour is often an awakening call, a Zen hit on the shoulders. Words can and do often hold us captive in their invisible conceptual cages but they can also set us free. In words we can lose ourselves but in words we can also find ourselves. In an instant we are transported from where we are to the other side of the universe and back again... "You are the Eternal Vastness" ... how much of This can your mind hold?

"Peace it together"... In an instant I see John Lennon crusading in the sixties singing "Give Peace a Chance" coupled with the Beatles singing "Come Together" and am shown the profound truth that only in unity, in true unity beyond the opposing conflicts of dualistic thinking can we ever hope to find real and lasting peace. And, doing so individually, we hook in collectively, as in the Buddhist declaration:

May all beings be happy
May all beings become enlightened
May all beings find peace

For the good of all..."Peace it together." There is nothing that isn't unified anyway... even our ignorance and conflicted notion of separation is a wave in the ocean of unity. There's no escaping this blatant, blaringly obvious truth. Take a few deep breaths, go within, stop, look, listen... who is there? No, not the "Me" that's always so evident... go a little past that... soften, open, expand and go deeper... who is there? Keep going... don't look for a "me" in there. Just allow for "what-is" to surface, to become available ... to be seen. In this you will discover not a sign of the me that you believe yourself to be. Keep going... deeper... Keep looking... but don't look back, you won't get lost. Don't worry, the little me will return... just keep going deeper... What do you see?

Ah... thought settles. Calm is what's here... yes, peace... that's a good word for it! And, are you alone in this peace?... You're not separate but there is still this uniqueness .. this Presence... this "I AMness"...

But are you alone?

Well, there's no other... there's only one yet, all others are included in this... how to say it... Oh... "Peace it together" that's it.
And all is just as it is, exactly as it should be... nothing to add, nothing to remove, nothing to change.

The great sages shared their insight and knowing in words, hinting & pointing out This that each and every one of us already is. This that we're so desparately seeking, we already are. This... this ordinary life, just as it is. Nothing new ever discovered, no matter how far back we go, every sage only ever discovers or realises This... the same This that we are all swimming in together.

Dogen said:
If you cannot find truth where you already are... where else do you expect to find it?
Any time is this time. Every moment is this moment. There's only ever This... vast, radiant, eternal... This is it... and, oh so ordinary... extraordinarily ordinary.

Zen Master Buson said:
Nobly, the great priest deposits his daily stool in the bleak winter fields.
Could it be more ordinary than this? Buson could see... really see that no matter what it is, if it is, it's surely This.

Another insight shared in words:
If you understand - things are as they are.
If you don't understand - things are as they are.

Once again, only words, yet more than words... words not only pointing to, but away from. It's all about dropping out of where the words land and looking into the words' source. Where do words come from? We are so immersed in words, our heads are usually very full of them, even in our silence our thoughts ramble on and on and on...

Go beyond words into This that always is. The purpose of words is to mirror back their essential emptiness, the wordless... the unspoken, just like life itself.

And here we are...
You... Me and This...
Can we dare to "Peace it together"?

The Five Instructions

Elevate your experience and remain wide open like the sky...

Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth...

Steady your attention and remain unshakeable like a mountain...

Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame...

Clear your thought-free wakefulness and remain lucid like a diamond...

These words from 16th century Tibetan lama, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal point directly to our own divine nature. To sit in This ... from This ... as This ... The View is revealed. This view is the pure, clear, natural state of all beings. When we come back in to This ... life is perfect, just as it is.

The first instruction: "Elevate your experience and remain wide open like the sky ..." is to be elevated into the Eternal Vastness. From here, all and everything is witnessed in complete clarity and surrender. We know nothing yet we Know all things.
To Know without knowing. We look out from this elevated view and nothing but Presence in Pure Being is witnessed. This is the vast and eternal clarity of who and what we really are, always have been and always will be. This is the Truth of Now.

"Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth ..." To be pervasive like the earth is to awaken to the beyondness yet natural hereness of our infinite nature.
As This, we are nothing, yet we are everything and as both nothing and everything we are eternally present in all places and beyond place. This that we are gives birth to place.
This is the abode of the Eternal Vastness, the "Hereness" of our eternal presence.
"I Am Here" ... where else can we possibly be? Always, forever, already here. And, wherever we place our attention - there/here we are.

"Steady your attention and remain unshakeable like a mountain ..." For This that we are, to become our constant felt reality we are to allow for the simple instruction to be "unshakeable attention ... like a mountain ..." This allows for the Eternal Vastness to become a constant in our lives, moment by moment.
By moving into this unshakeableness "like a mountain", nothing will ever throw us, as all will be embraced and welcomed as part of its own kingdom. This mode of being can be reached in an instant. It's closer than our heartbeat and never more than a breath away. With clear intent, one breath will realize this position, it's as simple as breathing in and knowing that in this moment we are absolutely free ... and able to be all that we truly are, making ourselves available to the Eternal Vastness completely. And if it can be done in one moment, it is done! If we can realize ourselves even in one breath ... we have realized ourselves! As Thich Nhat Hanh said, if we touch enlightenment even for a single moment we are enlightened in that moment and, we know beyond a shadow of doubt who and what we are as the Eternal Vastness ... "unshakeable like a mountain ..."

"Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame." To know once and forget however is not enough, for we are to Know, really know in each and every moment. This requires a willingness to live in our depths ... to live in the full clarity of our own effulgence. We are to light our own way, to carry or become our own lamps, as the Buddha said.
In moving into This that eternally shines through us, to move back into the One that breathes life into all life, we are to bring in the "Bright" that is our own true nature. And by giving loving care and attention to the Light that awakens all, without and within, we allow for its brightness to expand into the deep fire of love that's always burning as the Eternal Flame.
"Shine like a flame..." raises us to our source and also brings the freshness of daylight ... the clarity of sunshine, into all the dark hidden places that we neglect to acknowledge. As we shine bright like a flame, nothing escapes us ... all that's been created is seen and released, allowing for life to live and breathe unhindered, unobstucted, unobscured. Be the Eternal Flame that you already really are.

"Clear your thought-free wakefulness and become lucid like a diamond ..." Beyond all thought and even in thought ... or, as thought, our "thought-free wakefulness" always, forever is. This is who and what we truly are. The instruction here is not to remove thought but to clarify what is really going on within our own consciousness .... what is right here before us now. We don't need to transcend thought or elliminate thought but to discover, to realize that who and what we truly are is this "Thought-free wakefulness" that allows for everything, including thought, to be.
So many struggle with their own minds, trying desperately to clear their heads of all the thoughts, believing this will lead to the liberation they are seeking.
What's really being asked of us here is to clarify our awareness by realizing how truly free we already are and have always been. Thought is not the enemy ... come back to the deep clarity of your own "thought-free wakefulness" and you are already, always eternally free ... with thought or without it.
This is the last thought ... the final thought that leads to liberation: No longer believe in any thought and you are free ... "Become lucid like a diamond."

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.

Mysterious Interplay

It's a mysterious interplay between Eternal Vastness and the Little One we call "me". In truth, there is no separation between the two ... waves and ocean are one.

This life is a process of unfoldment in This ... this mysterious interplay, and both will always be while we live in this body form.

As we discover the truth of our divinity as Eternal Vastness ... as This that always is ... we can fall into denial of that which represents it in this body ... the "me" we believe ourselves to be ... the Little One we know as ourselves.

There's no point in denying this aspect of ourselves for it is a reflection of That/This ... the Eternal Vastness that embraces all and everything.

This Little One is not the whole truth, it's a very limited version of the Truth but, it is a vital part of the whole. To realise this brings a gentleness into being ... we no longer blame it for all our woes ... we simply acknowledge it as part of the divine play and respect it for the role it has to play in our continued deepening and awakening.

Without the Little One, the Eternal Vastness could not be in this form. We can certainly let go of our identification with the small reflection but it's a mistake to deny it. We are to co-work with life ... bringing our heart's desire into the world. This is what we're here for.

Rumi reminds us ...
Observe the qualities of expansion and contraction
in the fingers of your hand:
surely after closing the fist comes the opening.
If the fingers were always closed or always open,
the owner would be crippled.
Your movement is governed by these two qualities:
they are as necessary to you as two wings are to a bird.

Living as Truth

Living the Truth is equal to living as the Truth ... to live moment to moment as This that always is requires a natural falling back into Eternal Vastness.

Nothing to do ... nothing to fix ... nothing to change. All that we are, already is. It is this immediate. The trap in the human condition is simply a mistaken identity. We haven't been guided to "see" from This ... This totally unified, unidentified vast and eternal beingness ... This that always is, simply looking through our eyes ... these eyes.

It doesn't require any real effort ... not physical or mental effort anyway ... just the willingness to pull back and fall back into This ... the Eternal Vastness that we really are.

So, are you ready? Are you willing? Are you open enough to come back to This completely? Are you filled enough by the falseness that continues to fill your days? Have you had your fill yet?

It's only this that will free us, simply because only when we've truly had enough of the pretense ... the false existense in the limited confines of the mind ... only when we've done this version of life enough, when the divine discontent surfaces acutely enough, are we given the opportunity to take that last step to liberation.

The "feel good" moments won't do it ... it's this final seeing through of the illusory aspects of attached living that creates the impetus for a natural swinging back inwardly to take place.

This that we truly are looks through the body/mind ... thinks through our thoughts ... feels through our feelings ... but is no longer identified with all of the phenomena.

Love swims here in the full embrace of This that always is ... This that always knows. Love is the fabric of This that's looking through these eyes ... thinking through these thoughts ... feeling through these feelings ... Love is awareness in action. It's the primal, unconditioned, natural, authentic and original beingness that animates and sustains us. Love is life itself. Yet this love is beyond feelings of good and bad. Love is the unconditioned, totally complete, unboundedness that is all of life. It's a mystery that can't be spoken ... whispered maybe, but only to those who are open, who've caught a glimpse and tasted of their eternal, divine nature also. Love is This ... This that pulsates as moment to moment living truth. This you already are. Recognise it ... realise it by simply falling back into This ... You already are This ... Always, already free.

Love Enfolds ... Love Unfolds

Love enfolds ... Love unfolds. Within and without, not human love but Divine Love, holds the universes together. This that we seek ... This that calls us Home ... This that inspires, awakens and breathes life into us each and every moment ... call it what you will, in truth is Love.
The creative impulse to become is none other than this Love calling ... The inner pull drawing us back into the unmanifest ... to simply be, is none other than this Love calling.
Love loves. This is Love's nature. And in loving, God is revealed. Not in some distant heaven or long waited for tomorrow but today ... right here, right now ... Love always already is.
To know this Love is simply a matter of releasing the reins of fear and hope. Fear is obviously in the way of Love's fuller expression but hope ... why not hope? To hope is to flee Love's presence in the opposite direction to fear. In hoping, we push ourselves away from Love's constancy, in fear we pull ourselves in retreat of its constancy. Belief in the lesser truths, the relative realities of fear and hope keeps us chained to the unrealised. Living in belief of any truth is in fact living a non-truth, for the realisation of Love's constancy requires a letting go of all belief as beliefs are always still one step away from reality ... one step away from Truth itself.
Love flows through all life, in all worlds and, transcends them at the same time.
Love gifts Its presence as a perpetual Lovingness to each and every one of us, each and every moment of each and every day. This ... This ... just as it is, is Love's presence and Love's expression.
Realise that the Love you so desperately seek is already given ... it's the living truth that is before you now ... nothing is missing from your life ... it's all right here. Simply fall back into the Eternal Vastness that always is ... that you already always truly are. This is Love.

Listen ... God is Whispering

Listen ...

God is whispering.

Don't turn away. Stop!

Face the Eternal

let It see...

No longer separating

this from that

Let It whisper ...

Before the next word comes,

It is ... already present.

Each word is simply another net.

Another hopeless attempt to capture

what has already passed.

Another finger pointing ...

So see what came before

the word was given.

Hear what came before

the voice was heard.

This heart has an eye.

It's your eye ...

It's God's eye.

Close the gap between

what sees and what's seen ...

And you will already always know ...

Listen ...

God is whispering.

Here's the Secret

Every time you feel a negative reaction from someone, always check back to yourself as it's really a gift from the Eternal Vastness. Always check back to yourself ... and ask yourself:
How was my communication? Was I clear and honest or was I out of integrity?
Was I annoyed about something the person did as I spoke to them?
Did what I say have a negative charge in some way, even if the words themselves didn't?
We are all incredibly sensitive beings and there's immense learning available in every encounter and exchange with each other.
If a negative charge is perceived, turn it around ... Turn it around and take 100% responsibilty for it ... for your portion of the exchange.
You ultimately are 100% responsible anyway, even if you were not annoyed and the other person simply misunderstood or misinterpreted you ... how you react or respond though, is 100% your responsibility. It's the difference between acting out of awareness and (re)acting out of unconsciousness ... It's the difference between acting out of love and acting out of fear.
Here lies the Ultimate Secret:
You are 100% responsible for your own world and every one else is 100% responsible for their own world.
And the Secret is in fact a Gift.
Honour it ... Treasure it ... Practice it.
It's infectious and very contageous ... Share it and watch awareness and love grow in you and the world around you.
You are 100% responsible!

No Hope ... No Fear

No hope ... No fear

Just This ...

No hope ... No fear

Just This ...

No attachment ...

No aversion ...

Just This ...

Just This .... as it is

Pure ... clear ... real ...

true ... lasting ...

Just This ... Just This ...

As it is.

Sitting in This all can be accomplished with ease, as the Unity, beyond duality, beyond hope and fear ... This as it is, does it.
This too is not quite so. From This, it's already done ... it's this simple.
Pure effort is no effort at all. Without the two unconscious flows, the pull and the push ... the hope and the fear ... it always already is!
This is the miracle of manifestation: To be able to sit in this place of pre-thought ... pre-feeling, in this Empty Cognizance and simply be awake and aware of all and everything ... the next step will take care of itself ... naturally ... without any need of hope or fear.
This will allow for the process of pure manifestation to take place.
If we simply sit in the Eternal Vastness we quickly come to see that any manifesting from hope or fear always leads to suffering. Always ... Why?
To hope is to wish it to be something other than what is, so we reconstuct what already is into something else ... one step removed from Truth, from what is real, thus creating karma, thus creating effects that need to be dealt with in some future moment.
And to fear is to wish it to be something other than what is, but in the opposite direction ... pushing ourselves away from what we imagine the manifested outcome to be, yet is not. Thus, also creating karma to be dealt with in some future moment.
To sit in Eternal Vastness, as Eternal Vastness ... only what's True, Real and Lasting is and always will be ... even through our manifestations, as we have not allowed the pull and push of our hopes and fears to take charge. It is this simple.
With each breath, we choose the life we live. From Eternal Vastness, as Eternal Vastness the shadows of hope and fear don't exist. Yet, the miracle is that we still can and do function in the world as before ... better than before simply because Empty Cognizance becomes ... not hope or fear.

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 ...