ShivAllahSita sutra 25

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Who works to be freewill never be free.Raise two hands to your

eyes.Show yourself your bonds.You see nothing.Pity those bound by a

whisper of wishes.You are freeonly when you forgetyou are free.If you

seek freedom,desire binds you,and you are not free.You are free.

~Han Shan

 

Neither asking questions norgiving answers, the flora and

faunamaintain their silence, unimpressed by the Buddha's Quest.

~b

 

Dying and giving birth go oninside the one consciousness,but most

people misunderstandthe pure play of creative energy,how inside that,

thoseare one event.~Lalla

 

Fragrant with sweet juices,blackberries grow abundantlyalong the

riverbanks.Bursting their skins in the sun's warmth,

deliriouslyspilling their essenceback into the earth,under the gaze

of the Buddhaeverything begins to pour out of its skin, back to the

ground of all being.~b

 

…I pick my notebook up and I start to read aloud the still-wet words I

scribbled on the blotted page:

"Light splashed . . ."I can scarcely wait till tomorrow when a new

life begins for me, as it does each day, as it does each day.~Stanley

Kunitz

 

Chime tones charm the receptive breeze, heralding happy ancestral

beings, parading like a troupe of circus clownswith spirit bowls

balancing on their heads, some spilling a white wine of starshine.

~b

 

We are the spirit of One

though we dwell by turns

in two bodies.

~ Abdu'l-Karim al-Jili

 

Cold Mountain! Ah!Startled again and again by the Tiger Lily,crown on

the highest crags,rebirthing me in breathless aweof all that blooms

anew within me – that fragrant blossom nodding in the breeze, forever

scenting this world with Bliss.

~b

 

I saw my Lord with the Eye of my heart,And I said: Truly there is no

doubt that it is You.It is You that I see in everything;And I do not

see You through anything (but You).You are the One Who owns all

places.And yet no place is You.And if there were a place given by You

for the place,That place would know where You are.And if there were an

imagination for the imagining of You.That imagination would know where

You are.I understand everything, and everything that I seeIn my

annihilation is You.

Love is from the seed of the heart.

The seed of the heart is its pith, and the pith is the place of the subtlety.

The subtlety is the place of Allah,

and the place of Allah is the complete freedom with Him.~Al-Hallaj

 

Like a recalcitrant drunk fallen off the wagon again, I suddenly can't

resist my old tricks – juggling with torches of light and

illusion,whistling a tune from the innocent days, more in love than

anyonecould ever imagine!

~b

 

LoveEternal.

 

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