illusions

Paintings

2007-07-22T03:47:00.000+08:00

You may feel
You cannot paint well.
You may even be right.

You're just moving
The brush.
Intending with your heart
To express yourself.

It is only the divine
Creating, expressing
Through you.
What paints is more
Than yourself.
Seeing through mind
You cannot conceive it
Or conceive of it.

And boy
Can It paint.

Fear

2007-06-25T17:33:00.000+08:00

Walls usually aren't a problem,
Except for prisoners, because
People know how to walk around them.
Fear is to the mind, what
A wall is to the body.
Except - the only person who can
Wall off your mind - is you.
Do not be imprisoned by fear.

2007-05-23T01:45:00.000+08:00

A man visited a monastery
And asked the monk to show him around
The monk showed him one student, praying
That one asks naught for himself,
The monk said. He is too arrogant.
A second student was seen, also praying.
That one asks naught for himself,
The monk said. He is too humble.
And yet a third student was seen,
Lost in blissful meditation.
Does she one pray for herself?
The man asks. The monk smiled,
That one asks naught for herself,
She knows no lack in herself.
She is enlightened.

Maps

2007-05-19T01:15:00.000+08:00

Mapping your life can be
A wonderful experience.
The places you've been
Places you'll want to go
Highs and lows
Passes and boundaries
Yet never forget to see
The marker that says
"You are here."

2007-03-06T02:00:00.000+08:00

It seems,
One life of illusion
Isn't enough for you.

What might be someday
What could have been
If only...
A million more illusions
You create
While the Is
Stays all around you
Unexperienced.

Stop. Breathe.
Life is more beatuiful
Than you think.
Or than you can think.

The Is is most beautiful
When you stop thinking.

Doors

2007-02-14T00:10:00.000+08:00

Many doors lead to the Is
Infinite paths to infinity

Some open, some closed
And some unapproachable.
Not the doors,
But you.

You may choose,
But not judge
For all are one.
And one is all.

All doors open
All winds blow
All roads lead
To one place.

high and low

2006-08-22T02:26:00.000+08:00

The only
Difference between
A sparkling diamond
And a chunk of coal
Is their atoms'
Orientation.

Each is the other,
Each can become
The other.

And so it is
For a Master
And the lost soul.

doing

2006-08-09T01:47:00.000+08:00

Doing is, quite literally
The undoing of man.
There is nothing
you have to do.
NOTHING.

The Universe was created by
The Is, and if you assume
Something you do or don't
Will somehow change it's perfection...
You're gravely mistaken.

going places

2006-07-22T02:50:00.000+08:00

And you rush
To books, to people
To places without
And places within
Calling yourself
A seeker.

And all you gain
Is the experience
And therfore, belief
That no matter
where you may be,
What you seek
Is elsewhere.

Discover this flaw
And thus, discover
Yourself.

Reflect

2006-07-18T01:43:00.000+08:00

When life without
Seems disconnected
From life within,
You are lost
In illusion.

Look within you
Distress and joy
Love and anger
And behold it without.
Take the external
Luck and chance
Whim and circumstance
And search for it
Within.

When without reflects within
And within, without
Therein lies the Is
In non-sepration.

dislike

2006-02-02T02:08:00.000+08:00

If you dislike
A given situation
Ask yourself
What part of this
Am I creating?

health

2005-12-20T11:04:00.000+08:00

You are here to create experience
The world was built to this end.
If you are ill, then there is
Some worthwhile experience
That you would not have created
In good health

Faith

2005-11-27T18:22:00.000+08:00

If you find yourself
Wondering about
Your life's worth
Stop.

Someone much wiser
Figured it out
A long time ago.

freedom

2005-11-14T14:12:00.000+08:00

the gypsy is less restricted
than the person that is you
and thus can take you places
you never knew of

the only thing that stops you
from going anywhere
is the restrictions you've placed
upon yourself.

some refer to these restrictions
as "knowledge"

(inspired by kundalini's post)

pick your battles

2005-11-14T14:04:00.000+08:00

every day, you go to war
where, like a loyal soldier
you try to conquer
every problem you face
at the same time.

the road to Light
is realization
the only thing to conquer
is Illusion.
same illusion, thousand forms
all sprung from the
One Reality.

realize one illusion
for the Reality
and you will realize
All.

Seek and ye shall find...

2005-11-09T13:42:00.000+08:00

A long time
A seeker may stop seeking
All he needs
Is a heart with pure desire
To seek again
The doors to infinity
Are always open.

pray

2005-04-28T01:53:00.000+08:00

Pray that we don't
Delve into a hundred ways
In search
Of Your essence

Pray that we stop
Seeking endlessly without
Find within
Acceptance

Pray that we attend
Less to noise and illusion
But hear
Inner guidance

Pray that our beings
Move beyond limitation
Realize
Joyous abundance

Pray that we know
Each and every path we choose
Reveals
Your presence

focus

2005-04-05T02:43:00.000+08:00

If you are searching for
Earth's core;
Will digging a million
Shallow holes work?

And, what help will your
Hundred and one thoughts
About your daily vagaries
Be in experiencing the Is?

worthiness

2005-03-04T01:22:00.000+08:00

you cannot truly love
something
when you measure how worthy
of your love
it is.

true love is unbound
without condition
without judgement, indeed
despite judgement.

out of such attention
arises
creation.
growth.
life.

on fabric

2005-01-06T04:03:00.000+08:00

a thin fabric divides
illusion and reality.

reality sends out
illusion through fabric
but where do you stand?

if you react, you stand
in illusion.
if you observe, you stand
in reality.

big picture

2004-11-10T10:30:00.000+08:00

Like any big picture,
Life, with all its hues and symbols
Is best created
One color, one brushstroke
One focus, at a time.

writing

2004-10-24T02:35:00.000+08:00

Feelings within - entangled as ropes
Caught within - too little space.
Creating within - a being
Is that me? All of it?

Take one away - gently unwrapped
Place it away - seeing its texture
Look then away - and question
Was that me? Any of it?

Tough to know - my own self
Easier to know - symbols on paper
When I know - though a reflection
It's no longer me. Not unless I wish it.

do about... love?

2004-10-19T01:57:00.000+08:00

What do you
Do about love?

Well, what do you
Do about life?

observation

2004-10-19T01:50:00.000+08:00

Observation is important.
Not to deduce.
Or make theories.
But to be with
The Observer.

love

2004-10-12T01:30:00.000+08:00

Love is what is left
When all other
Emotions, feelings, entities
Are wiped away.

That is why its
So hard to
Chase it away

It never arrived
It was always there

choose

2004-10-10T22:04:00.000+08:00

You could beg
For joy, peace
And wisdom.
Or choose
To be these.

Yet know that
Choosers cannot
Be beggars.

right

2004-10-07T02:43:00.000+08:00

There are times
When everything
Seems to be
Just right

Use these to remember
That the rightness
Of the universe
At all times
In all aspects
Is unquestionable

why?

2004-10-04T01:15:00.000+08:00

You were not created
To achieve any ends
Nor reach any goals

If God had a goal...
What would He do?
Create You, and hope...
Or just create the goal?

Thus... You, are the goal.
You.. have been achieved.
Joyful is the one
Who realizes this.

fixing

2004-09-30T15:27:00.000+08:00

If God wore a funky T-Shirt
What would it say?
Probably
"No, I will not fix your life.
Not again."

depth

2004-09-29T14:31:00.000+08:00

One of the
Most obvious, and
Least understood
Laws of the universe is:
If you dig an already deep well,
You get a deeper one.

be

2004-09-28T01:08:00.000+08:00

Be a wayfarer, be the open road
Be the open sky, and also
The carriage that you ride
Be the mirage, be reality
Be the journey, and also
The weathered stones aside
Be pirates, be a friendly smile
Be co-sojourners, and also
A follower and a guide
Be a footstep, be a thousand miles
Be one and all, and then
Joy becomes the ride.

presence

2004-09-14T20:39:00.000+08:00

Your presence is a song
Sending forth new vibrations
And yet holding time
So still

Your presence is joy
Making life a simple smile
And merging consciousness
With being

Your presence is soothing
Calming doubts, folding questions
Into the peaceful reality
Of acceptance

Your presence is a call
To lose perspective and limits
And make a headlong leap
Into love

Your presence is light
Illuminating a small world
To a universe that reveals
Infinity

Your presence is a flow
Here and now, there and then
Transmuting space-time
Into unity

division

2004-09-14T01:11:00.000+08:00

There are two views of any situation.
One is division
the other is Oneness.
Each one leads
to Itself.

thoughts

2004-09-10T02:31:00.000+08:00

you feel... Clear.
you feel... Light.
a calm... Knowing
you can always tell
the Higher thoughts
in your Self.

And, by reversal
the not-so-high ones.

balance

2004-09-07T03:38:00.000+08:00

when does one lose balance?
why, when the mind gets
too much exercise
and the body receives
too little.

time

2004-09-02T02:25:00.000+08:00

You cannot
Waste Time.
You can, however,
Employ it to produce
Unanticipated Results.

the moment

2004-08-29T02:57:00.000+08:00

Enjoy your childhood, it will not last
Yet the child feared; grew up all too fast.

Enjoy teenage years, they won't come back
Yet the teen rebelled; all he saw was lack.

Enjoy all your energy, you'll tire in time
Yet the youth worried; fretting stole his prime.

Enjoy family life, till you have the gift
Yet the parent sighed; a burden hard to lift.

Enjoy this moment, it'll never come again
And the elder realized; and ended all his pain.

verse

2004-08-27T03:24:00.000+08:00

prose and verse, giving wisdom
are as two brothers
directing people to their home;

the one says, go down the bridge
southwest from the oak, and walk
for fifty paces, behind the fence.
the other places three arrows
at the correct places.

problems

2004-08-26T15:07:00.000+08:00

Problems are just a creation of your mind.
Watch as your problems enlarge as you feed them
with angry words, self-pity and cries of injustice.
Then observe them diminish as you withdraw these energies;
and put them into anything else, even other problems.

Problems? Excitement? Disappointment? Jubiliation?
They are all the same.

a beginning?

2004-08-25T14:20:00.000+08:00

things do not begin
nor do they end
things are. and things are not.