Slip and Fall

Where lies the truth?
So many times it is asked,
yet we are with it all along.

This awareness that sees and feels,
this being present to whatever is happening,
seems as impotent as it is familiar.

What of God or Enlightenment
could be in being aware of
this act, this thought, or this feeling?

Yet if this awareness is intensified,
if the preoccupation with what we are aware of -
a beautiful person or a scrumptious sweet -
is redirected, a transformation begins.

What really is it in an outward
obsession that binds us to it?
What is in our body, mind, and heart,
when we focus on outer gain?

A gathering wave of awareness
penetrates and breaks down
the worlds apparent harshness.

Like rocks worn away
by the vast winds of nature,
our illusion of troubles
will reveal their secret lie.

The radiant light of awareness
sees the dissolution of our troubles,
our thoughts, feelings, body,
and even the subtle vibrations
that permeate our body.

When this happens that truth is revealed.
Consciousness has almost lost all objects.
Our ego the subject is threatened.

All of a sudden
awareness slips from the bind
of the world as we know it:
almost like being sucked
into the infinite vacuum
of a black hole.

Though the candle has blown out
an infinite presence is.

No thought, no feeling,
no body, no self is here.

Panic sets in and
the thread of the self
scrambles to pull itself
out of the abyss.

It is almost like the dew drop
that slips off the lotus leaf
is denied its full emersion
in the infinite oceanic diamond
by the vacuum of fear and ego.

This awareness that some proclaim
to be a manifestation of the physical,
is surely too ordinary to be what all we seek.
We no not that by standing in our own
seemingly insignificant awareness,
we stand next to God.

What else would be
the way to God the all-seeing,
than the outpouring of the seeing
that we possess.

In short we are scared of the divine;
scared because we as we no ourselves
do not exist.

It is alive,
it is infinite,
it is unmoving,
it is eternally now,
it is existence,
it is the ultimate
Truth.

Self Infliction

You who fight,
fight for your own slavery.
Your soul will wear the scar
of the suffering to others.
Their suffering is not as deep
as yours of your own doing.
You do not realise that in hurting others,
you cut yourself more deeply;
nor shall a short life grant you mercy.
And even if your body be worn away by age,
you shall still bear the burden of your mistakes –
if they be great enough.

Tired

Most wars only end after exhaustion.
Cannot this energy be transformed –
even if a trench be dug
only to be filled in?

Hot Action

If you commit an act of aggression,
and it be in the name of God or God-willing,
and if there is anger in your being,
then let it be said that you are a fool.
If by the will of god you are moved to action,
then their be a powerful force with you,
yet such power will not consume your being
in an inferno of rage.

Faith

Whether the path be
towards God or the Godless,
it be found by the believer.

Love

It be said know thy self.
Yet for some this solitary path not suit.
It be said thy become known
through the other…the path of love;
for in knowing the other,
one sees further and further
into the beyond that is
thy self.

The Fool

How can you conquer your self,
when you are busy conquering somone else?

That which is the highest
you seek through that which is the lowest.

Unfortunate are those who look out
at the world with angry eyes.
Foolish are those who act out this rage.