who's praying to whom?

[Guest guest]

when friends say " let's pray "

it puzzles me

who's praying to whom?

 

we want <this> or <that>

so we pray to god,

oh big daddy in the sky

please big daddy,

i desire this or that

give it to me

 

a child sends a letter to santa claus

who reads the letter?

maybe someone

who hears our prayers?

we do

 

we pray in consciousness

to consciousness

as consciousness

since consciousness cannot pray to itself

you and god appear for the last dance together

so you can whisper to god's ear

" i want you...and what's more important here is the list of things

that i want. "

 

god is like captain kirk

no matter what planet or alien language

god can understand each prayer

this is very essential

since captain kirk made love

to all the green women with two belly buttons

 

you can realize this but

how can anyone let go off their beloved?

and why should capt kirk should let go off the green alien chick?

one day it all disappears

lover and beloved are gone

not even a memory remains

just as no one remembers

the love stories told 70 big bangs ago.

[Guest guest]

" When a man has been granted constant prayer, it will mean that he

has reached the summit of all virtues & has become the abode of the

Holy Spirit; for a man who has not wholly received this grace of the

Comforter cannot keep this prayer in his heart with joy. Therefore it

is said that when the Holy Spirit comes to live in a man, he never

ceases to pray, for then the Holy Spirit constantly prays in him

(Romans 8:26). Then prayer never stops in a man's soul, whether he is

asleep or awake. In eating or drinking, sleeping or doing something,

even in deep sleep his heart sends forth without effort the incense &

sighs of prayer. Then prayer never leaves him, but at every hour,

even if externally quiet, it continues secretly to act within. This

is why someone has called the silence of the pure bearers of Christ ~

prayer; for their thoughts are Divine movements, & the movements of

mind & heart that are pure are meek voices by which they secretly

sing praises to the One who is in secret. "

 

~Saint Isaac the Syrian

 

 

Yes, Beloved Isaac, pure bearer of silence,

is it not so?

 

24/7 is the way it seems to go, Vasana of

the last temptation of Light, this

endlessness of prayer, Heart's Inquiry

into Itself for the sheer joy of Itself

as Silent Prayer --

 

" It's all praise,

It's all good! " *

 

Can you feel it?

 

This kamikazi wind

 

This spirit breath that sucks you in

Blows you out

 

Out into yourself

The very self you have ignored

 

The star-cream beauty

Crown of the galaxies

 

Royalty

 

Hidden in the little nooks

The little places you have

Overlooked in your anatomy

 

Your bliss body

 

This body even now swept up

In random forgetfulness

Remembered suffering

The imprint of unconsciousness

The realization of Dharmakaya

 

All mean nothing

when the lifeforce leaves

 

Random hearts colliding with

The infinite

 

Casually adjusting the buttons

On the blouse your chest wants

To burst through

To explode through

To waterfall out into this

World, all worlds

To pour into it, to

Swim into it, to

Die in it, die in it

All of it

All of it

 

No, no

This impulse will not

Long be denied

 

Don't resist

Don't resist

 

Let Go

 

Let Go

 

Say

Yes

 

Say

Can i get a

Witness?

 

Say

Praise God,

God is great,

There is no God but God

 

Say

What you will

 

What wants to be said

Is said

 

Within infinite

Silence

 

Is

Silence,

 

Praising

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

b

 

 

* Rumi

[Guest guest]

--- hurg <hurg wrote:

> when friends say " let's pray "

> it puzzles me

> who's praying to whom?

>

 

The self you know, prays to the self you don't. The

Known (the finite) pays homage to the unknown ( the

infinite) Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Spin that prayer wheel in Lhassa, or the rulette in

Vegas. Your call! )

 

Pete

 

 

 

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