Swarupa

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Learn to live without self-concern. For

this you must know your own true being

(swarupa) as indomitable, fearless, ever

victorious. Once you know with absolute

certainty that nothing can trouble you but

your own imagination, you come to disregard

your desires and fears, concepts and ideas

and live by truth alone.

 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Let Everything End

 

There is a great momentum of suffering and confusion that every

spiritual seeker encounters. It is the momentum of ignorance which

manifests as the experience of conflict and confusion and which

causes suffering. In order to discover the perspective of Liberation,

which alone transcends this entire movement of ignorance and

suffering, one needs to let everything end.

" Letting everything end " means to stand in the moment completely

naked of attachment to any and all ideas, concepts, hopes,

preferences, and experiences. Simply put, it means to stop

strategizing, controlling, manipulating, and running away from

yourself--and to simply be. Finally you must let everything end and

be still. In letting everything end, all seeking and striving stops.

All effort to be someone or to find some extraordinary state of being

ceases. This ceasing is essential. It is true spiritual maturity.

By ceasing to follow the mind's tendency to always

want 'more', 'different', or 'better', one encounters the opportunity

to be still. In being still, a perspective is revealed which is free

from all ignorance and bondage to suffering. From that perspective,

eternal Self is realized. The eternal Self, the Seer, is recognized

to be one's true nature, one's very own Self.

This is an invitation to let all seeking end, all striving end, all

efforting end, all past identity end, all hopes end, and to discover

That which has no beginning or end. This is an invitation to discover

eternal, unborn, undying Truth of Being. The Truth of your Being,

your own Self. Let the entire movement of becoming end, and discover

That which has always been present at the core of your Being.

 

~Adyashanti

 

 

Life sinks down. We leave.

We keep walking day and night,

and come back where we began.

 

There is some mysterious meaning

in this, but what is it?

 

- Lalla

14th Century North Indian mystic

 

O man ensnared by time, I was a hidden

treasure, I wanted this treasure of goodness

and magnificence to be known.

 

I offered you a mirror; its face is the heart, its

back is the world.

 

- Rumi

 

It is God who yawns and sneezes

and coughs, and now laughs.

 

Look, it's God doing ablutions!

God deciding to fast, God going naked

from one New Year's Eve to the next.

 

Will you ever understand

how near God is

to you?

 

- Lalla

14th Century North Indian mystic

 

 

Leave all worries behind and make your

heart totally pure, like the face of a mirror

with no image or design. Once your heart

is cleansed of all images, it will contain

them all.

 

- Rumi

 

 

I do not know myself,

nor you, my Lord.

 

I mistook the body

for my identity.

 

I didn't know

that you are

me, and I you,

 

yet still I keep wondering

who you and I are.

 

- Lalla

 

 

God! We don't have a clue!

Who would believe us, when

we ourselves just stare in

such amazement?

 

Sitting, facing You at our

nightly dinner table, the meal

You prepared spread out before us,

the evening sunlight slanting through

the kitchen window and, suddenly –

 

Your Smile –

 

we are sitting on the ground, the bowls

spread out before us there too, and it is an

ancient place, and we have worked the day

in the way we did, and peace has settled over

our camp, and no words are needed, never a needed

word because, my Love, we Know, and then –

 

Your Smile –

 

the same Smile, and every wisdom ever known is

radiating in That, the same Perfection beyond time,

throughout space, unaccountable Love without condition,

without separation, Surrender beyond any bondage or liberation,

Form of Supreme Formless Self, Bliss before mind, Moksha –

 

 

Oh Beloved, these warm tears stream down my cheeks, then

and now, and we need not say a word, for in this timelessness

the Benediction of the Great One, the Eternal our God, has descended

here upon us, and this Mystery knows Itself in a Smile, and

All Is Well, my Darling, All Is Well.

 

 

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie & b