Manifestation is the expression of your Being, not of what you do. There is no separated individual, so there is no individual able to do or to choose anything. When the illusion to be person is present Life it will seem like the happening of something that is relatable to a someone. As this recognition to be the dreamer of the dream of life occours you will start to notice the similarities between what is experienced innerly and what appears outernly.
But when you search for this someone you will disocver than nothing is present but the action of the mind as thoughts or feelings that belong to the moment and that changes in any istant.
The Dream of the world is the expression of the Dreamer not as act of volition, but as expression of its nature.
From having a dream to BEING the Dream is the passage from hell to paradise.
Deva Mata Shakti
17/12/07
Escaping from the illusion
Manifestation is the expression of your Being, not of what you do. There is no separated individual, so there is no individual able to do or to choose anything. When the illusion to be person is present Life it will seem like the happening of something that is relatable to a someone. As this recognition to be the dreamer of the dream of life occours you will start to notice the similarities between what is experienced innerly and what appears outernly.
But when you search for this someone you will disocver than nothing is present but the action of the mind as thoughts or feelings that belong to the moment and that changes in any istant.
The Dream of the world is the expression of the Dreamer not as act of volition, but as expression of its nature.
From having a dream to BEING the Dream is the passage from hell to paradise.
Deva Mata Shakti
But when you search for this someone you will disocver than nothing is present but the action of the mind as thoughts or feelings that belong to the moment and that changes in any istant.
The Dream of the world is the expression of the Dreamer not as act of volition, but as expression of its nature.
From having a dream to BEING the Dream is the passage from hell to paradise.
Deva Mata Shakti
Free will, by Avasa
Whatever choice is made is freely made in that it is a result of the circumstances that the body/mind finds itself in, which are one thing. The chooser, the choice made and the thing chosen are One action. Consciousness and its object are always One.
The form cannot act outside of the given circumstances of the moment that it finds itself in.
The idea that another choice could have been made is an error, this error too is at the same time an impersonal action arising in consciousness. The choice that is made is the only one that was made because it was the only one that COULD have been made because of the circumstances of that particular moment. It was made by no one! just an action unfolding within the Whole.
There is a train of thought that gives the impression that things can be other than they actually are but as things are as they are and not as they are not it is not provable. It is therefore just another of the many theories based upon the idea that things can be other than they are when clearly they can only be as they actually are.
These theories, which are all based upon the holding to of the concept that there is someone within the form, tend to fall away once it is seen that there is no one and that all is action only being witnessed by an inactive Awareness.
If it is seen that there is no one within the form in actuality then it is clear that there is no one who has free will for there is no one TO have it, yet thought arises and out of the many thoughts that appear certain ones are the ones that are put forward as choices or decisions and others are simply not put forward in this way.
This is the mystery which will never be solved.
That the One consciousness that lives as and through all forms naming itself “I” or “me” creates is a fact but how this does so will never be known. There is no plan prior to the appearance of the thought as it appears out of an empty Awareness.
Although it appears that it is the thoughts and feelings themselves that are the actual stuff of creating this is not so for they themselves are made out of the non-stuff which witnesses there appearance. This witnessing Awareness which is not locatable within time and space, is the One that gives rise to them and it is this that is the actual creator.
Thoughts are a manifest part of the process of manifestation.
SO….. as long as the concept that one is something or someone within the form is believed and persists so does the concept of free will. Once this belief falls away so does the question of free will when it is seen that there is no one to have such a thing.
The One Awareness which alone is responsible for all of creation creates freely without choices or decisions, such things are part of what is already created.
Bodhi Avasa
www.avasa.net
The form cannot act outside of the given circumstances of the moment that it finds itself in.
The idea that another choice could have been made is an error, this error too is at the same time an impersonal action arising in consciousness. The choice that is made is the only one that was made because it was the only one that COULD have been made because of the circumstances of that particular moment. It was made by no one! just an action unfolding within the Whole.
There is a train of thought that gives the impression that things can be other than they actually are but as things are as they are and not as they are not it is not provable. It is therefore just another of the many theories based upon the idea that things can be other than they are when clearly they can only be as they actually are.
These theories, which are all based upon the holding to of the concept that there is someone within the form, tend to fall away once it is seen that there is no one and that all is action only being witnessed by an inactive Awareness.
If it is seen that there is no one within the form in actuality then it is clear that there is no one who has free will for there is no one TO have it, yet thought arises and out of the many thoughts that appear certain ones are the ones that are put forward as choices or decisions and others are simply not put forward in this way.
This is the mystery which will never be solved.
That the One consciousness that lives as and through all forms naming itself “I” or “me” creates is a fact but how this does so will never be known. There is no plan prior to the appearance of the thought as it appears out of an empty Awareness.
Although it appears that it is the thoughts and feelings themselves that are the actual stuff of creating this is not so for they themselves are made out of the non-stuff which witnesses there appearance. This witnessing Awareness which is not locatable within time and space, is the One that gives rise to them and it is this that is the actual creator.
Thoughts are a manifest part of the process of manifestation.
SO….. as long as the concept that one is something or someone within the form is believed and persists so does the concept of free will. Once this belief falls away so does the question of free will when it is seen that there is no one to have such a thing.
The One Awareness which alone is responsible for all of creation creates freely without choices or decisions, such things are part of what is already created.
Bodhi Avasa
www.avasa.net
Avasa' sharing
25/11/07
Behind every eye receiving the images received by the eye is the one that lives as and through all form.
What is generally believed is that there is an individual somebody or something behind the senses of what appear to be many separate forms, it is this belief that creates the sense of separation which is the cause of suffering in the human experience.
This belief, which is no more than an assumption, is brought about and has its continuation because the assumed separate one is not looked for. When the word ME or I is used it is assumed that the word is relating to the body or something within it and as this is not actually the case the illusion of many separate me-s is created.
The one that assumes that the word me or I is referring to an inner subjective object within the form is itself actually formless. By accepting itself as an objective figure it ceases to be able to recognise itself as no-thing, non-objective, in the misconception that it is some-thing. It is this identification with oneself as being something when the truth of oneself is that one is no-thing that causes the confusion that gives rise to suffering. This is the illusion which the Indian tradition has named Maya.
The Source of what appears to be many separate objects is this no-thingness. It is this One that is experiencing it's own no-thingness as the experience of the universe.
As long as this identification with the form that appears, which is no other than it's own action manifesting, continues then so does the illusion that one is a separate being amongst other separate beings and it is this sense of otherness that creates fear which then does not allow the seeing of Oneness, that all is One, that all is essentially Love and that one is equal to this.
The only One that experiences Life as and in the human form, or any other form for that matter, is the Source itself. You and I are this source, we are the same One. Not recognising this fact this one as an apparent you and I lives the illusion of separation. What is experiencing itself in your form is the one that is also experiencing itself in all other forms, no where in all that appears is there actually separation except as a an idea that leads to the belief that it is so.
When one recognises ones self to be nothing at all then this realisation of Oneness spontaneously appears. This nothingness, being prior to the somethingness that creates the sense of time and space, is immediately recognised to be the ever-present eternal One itself and the only One that actually is.
This one that we all are, and that all is, is in itself still, unmoving and silent yet paradoxically it creates all action that appears as the objective experience of the world and the universe. From this place of stillness, which is not locatable in time and space, this one is witness to its own show. A one-man band as it were. Literally speaking all that you are presently experiencing as yourself and your world is a manifestation of your own Being for you are the Source. As the no-thingness you give rise to the some-thingness that appears as manifest existence which is an activity of the stillness of your Being.
Bodhi Avasa (Avasa.net)
Behind every eye receiving the images received by the eye is the one that lives as and through all form.
What is generally believed is that there is an individual somebody or something behind the senses of what appear to be many separate forms, it is this belief that creates the sense of separation which is the cause of suffering in the human experience.
This belief, which is no more than an assumption, is brought about and has its continuation because the assumed separate one is not looked for. When the word ME or I is used it is assumed that the word is relating to the body or something within it and as this is not actually the case the illusion of many separate me-s is created.
The one that assumes that the word me or I is referring to an inner subjective object within the form is itself actually formless. By accepting itself as an objective figure it ceases to be able to recognise itself as no-thing, non-objective, in the misconception that it is some-thing. It is this identification with oneself as being something when the truth of oneself is that one is no-thing that causes the confusion that gives rise to suffering. This is the illusion which the Indian tradition has named Maya.
The Source of what appears to be many separate objects is this no-thingness. It is this One that is experiencing it's own no-thingness as the experience of the universe.
As long as this identification with the form that appears, which is no other than it's own action manifesting, continues then so does the illusion that one is a separate being amongst other separate beings and it is this sense of otherness that creates fear which then does not allow the seeing of Oneness, that all is One, that all is essentially Love and that one is equal to this.
The only One that experiences Life as and in the human form, or any other form for that matter, is the Source itself. You and I are this source, we are the same One. Not recognising this fact this one as an apparent you and I lives the illusion of separation. What is experiencing itself in your form is the one that is also experiencing itself in all other forms, no where in all that appears is there actually separation except as a an idea that leads to the belief that it is so.
When one recognises ones self to be nothing at all then this realisation of Oneness spontaneously appears. This nothingness, being prior to the somethingness that creates the sense of time and space, is immediately recognised to be the ever-present eternal One itself and the only One that actually is.
This one that we all are, and that all is, is in itself still, unmoving and silent yet paradoxically it creates all action that appears as the objective experience of the world and the universe. From this place of stillness, which is not locatable in time and space, this one is witness to its own show. A one-man band as it were. Literally speaking all that you are presently experiencing as yourself and your world is a manifestation of your own Being for you are the Source. As the no-thingness you give rise to the some-thingness that appears as manifest existence which is an activity of the stillness of your Being.
Bodhi Avasa (Avasa.net)
26/11/07
To Avasa for his birthday
Always be yourself
this is what you taught me my friend
the world will not honour who does not understand
that its root is here right where you are
just a reflection with which to have fun
Dancing freely without any safe place
to run to, to escape and so fear to mantain
you have risked everything all the time
with a smile, knowing that your gambling
was just the only way to live Life
Now many are seeing the gift that you shared
in never accomplishing what you could not to bear
to follow the mass, its illusion and bluff
entertaining what you could not see there
a separated me, the duality game
Your Freedom is such that is now Total Love
in this Free Awareness all the world is hugged
the light of your wisdom that is craziness too
has put in flame this Heart untill it was mad too
and so many other now want to say thanks
to this lover of Truth, a master of innocence
that takes each moment as a gift nevertheless
each instant so precious your eye really see
and let it be a treasure for who now you meet
Thank you mySelf, my Love, my Lord
from darkness to light, you guru, many have brought
and now just Light is and fear is no more
your joy all mine, your fun my delight
the same gratefulness now we share all the time.
Shakti Caterina Maggi
this is what you taught me my friend
the world will not honour who does not understand
that its root is here right where you are
just a reflection with which to have fun
Dancing freely without any safe place
to run to, to escape and so fear to mantain
you have risked everything all the time
with a smile, knowing that your gambling
was just the only way to live Life
Now many are seeing the gift that you shared
in never accomplishing what you could not to bear
to follow the mass, its illusion and bluff
entertaining what you could not see there
a separated me, the duality game
Your Freedom is such that is now Total Love
in this Free Awareness all the world is hugged
the light of your wisdom that is craziness too
has put in flame this Heart untill it was mad too
and so many other now want to say thanks
to this lover of Truth, a master of innocence
that takes each moment as a gift nevertheless
each instant so precious your eye really see
and let it be a treasure for who now you meet
Thank you mySelf, my Love, my Lord
from darkness to light, you guru, many have brought
and now just Light is and fear is no more
your joy all mine, your fun my delight
the same gratefulness now we share all the time.
Shakti Caterina Maggi
21/11/07
about war
hi dear
if you stop your fighting the war and world injustices for a moment you would notice how your fighting is not so much differnt from what you dislike.
muslims think to be right, catholics think to be right, hindu think to be right, left party think to be right, right party think to be right...what is right and what is wrong then?
thinking to be the only one right is very arrogant and for sure source of conflict.
did you ever saw birds flying and having a meeting for who has to be
the one on front? did you ever see the branches of a tree fighting to grow in a direction instead than another? If an ivy kills a tree is the ivy evil? If a mommy cat eats her kitties should be put in prison?
what you dont like of the war and abuse and conflict is that those things create a bad feeling in yourself. Observe it, stay with it, let it be present without pushing it away. Dont be in conflict with your conflit. Love is the answer, always. If you love yourself fully as you are you cannot do anything else but love the others. If you love your conflict it will dissolve, if you allow it to be present without pushing it away. In this dissolving what it will remain it will be what is, and what is will be reflecting what is happening in you. They are not two separate things. Take an angry person, that insults and swears at you. You dont react because what you see is someone just suffering. Nobody reacts and agrees and just sees a suffering person over there, someone that does not love himself or herself someone that is not in peace. If nobody reacts his anger will dissolve and it will turn into tears.
Now imagine that the anger of this person resonates with the anger of someone else. The second person will agree and starts to fight togheter...on the other hand there will be someone else that will think "this is disgusting, we have to do something, we have to stop all this, it is necessary to develop solidariety". Another party will be formed, it will be made of good people fighting the conflict.
War will start, more conflict, hate will be shared. This is how things have been so far. War keeps on existing in humanity because there is agreement on conflict, we share and agree our emotional poison. If everybody would be able to dissolve the conflict in themselve war would not probably exist as humanity is right now. We would be natural, like a tree or a bird. Animal kill each other but not out of hate. It is a matter of survival. Love is present in the eys of the gazelle as wel as in the eyes of teh lion. Love moves them. Thereis no neurosis about it.
Humankind has reached enough richness to allow every form to be well and safe. But there is conflict, greediness and this will perpetuate untill conflict will be stopped. And it is stopped only where you are, right now. Observe your conflict, observe how much you hate certain people or situation. You are killing yourself through another form when you hate someone, even if you are fighting for peace. Revolution is where you are. Revolution is not about fighting, it is about turning the world and see it for what it is, your creation. You see what you wanna see in the world and you will see conflict when there is conflict in you. Conflict will stop existing for you when you will be in peace.
In my world there is people awakening. I hope you will be in my dream, so I will be in your as Bob Dylan said.
love
deva mata shakti
if you stop your fighting the war and world injustices for a moment you would notice how your fighting is not so much differnt from what you dislike.
muslims think to be right, catholics think to be right, hindu think to be right, left party think to be right, right party think to be right...what is right and what is wrong then?
thinking to be the only one right is very arrogant and for sure source of conflict.
did you ever saw birds flying and having a meeting for who has to be
the one on front? did you ever see the branches of a tree fighting to grow in a direction instead than another? If an ivy kills a tree is the ivy evil? If a mommy cat eats her kitties should be put in prison?
what you dont like of the war and abuse and conflict is that those things create a bad feeling in yourself. Observe it, stay with it, let it be present without pushing it away. Dont be in conflict with your conflit. Love is the answer, always. If you love yourself fully as you are you cannot do anything else but love the others. If you love your conflict it will dissolve, if you allow it to be present without pushing it away. In this dissolving what it will remain it will be what is, and what is will be reflecting what is happening in you. They are not two separate things. Take an angry person, that insults and swears at you. You dont react because what you see is someone just suffering. Nobody reacts and agrees and just sees a suffering person over there, someone that does not love himself or herself someone that is not in peace. If nobody reacts his anger will dissolve and it will turn into tears.
Now imagine that the anger of this person resonates with the anger of someone else. The second person will agree and starts to fight togheter...on the other hand there will be someone else that will think "this is disgusting, we have to do something, we have to stop all this, it is necessary to develop solidariety". Another party will be formed, it will be made of good people fighting the conflict.
War will start, more conflict, hate will be shared. This is how things have been so far. War keeps on existing in humanity because there is agreement on conflict, we share and agree our emotional poison. If everybody would be able to dissolve the conflict in themselve war would not probably exist as humanity is right now. We would be natural, like a tree or a bird. Animal kill each other but not out of hate. It is a matter of survival. Love is present in the eys of the gazelle as wel as in the eyes of teh lion. Love moves them. Thereis no neurosis about it.
Humankind has reached enough richness to allow every form to be well and safe. But there is conflict, greediness and this will perpetuate untill conflict will be stopped. And it is stopped only where you are, right now. Observe your conflict, observe how much you hate certain people or situation. You are killing yourself through another form when you hate someone, even if you are fighting for peace. Revolution is where you are. Revolution is not about fighting, it is about turning the world and see it for what it is, your creation. You see what you wanna see in the world and you will see conflict when there is conflict in you. Conflict will stop existing for you when you will be in peace.
In my world there is people awakening. I hope you will be in my dream, so I will be in your as Bob Dylan said.
love
deva mata shakti
27/10/07
All is Awareness
What is experiencing Life through your form is Awareness. Look well, you are aware that there is a body, probably a room, a computer, and that there are probably thoughts and feelings that are what we call mind.
What knows of the presence of those things is you, you know that they are there because you are aware of them.
But if you try to define this you, unless you choose to pick on memories or on objects of which you are aware of (like saying, I am so and so, I have this body that is American, or British, etc etc) you cannot describe this you. In other words, what we call "me" is always a description of something that we are aware of, not of this Awareness in itself.
So the message is, you are Awareness, an Awareness that is aware of itself (or not aware of itself) through the form called so and so. When Awareness is not aware of itSelf believes to be the objects that itself is observing, like the body called Fred or Laura. When instead is aware of itself knows to be just what is witnessing those objects.
What are those objects? They appear IN this Awareness, and unless this Awareness is aware of them, they dont exist. This form called Shakti did not exist before it appeared for you, Awareness. This is what we mean when we say that you created me and all the rest. Because before I appear in your Awareness I simply dont exist. It is only AFTER I appeared that you can say, "yes of course Shakti comes from Italy, she has this past and so and so". So this means that all the objects, the apparent external ones like the body and the room and the inner ones, like thoughts and feelings, appear IN you Awareness, and they have been created by YOU Awareness. When you dont think a certain thought where is it that thought? It does not exists for you.
And this is valid also for all the rest, people, cars, objects, feelings, memories. So EVERYTHING is appearing in you and disappearing in you all the time. Also the "story" of the "me" is appearing and disappearing, the story of Fred, Laura, etc. What is ACTUALLY happening in the moment is that those thoughts, the story of the me, is appearing as all the other objects.
So all objectivity is nothing but a movement in Awareness, an action, something that appears and disappears. You dont have a body when you are in deep sleep, for you in that moment the body does not exist. The body appears in the moment in which Awareness becomes again aware of itself in the morning. This is the very opposite of what we believe. We believe to be a something in the body, or something IN the body called soul that is someway connected to something bigger like a higher Self or God.
The truth is that we are God. We are this Higher Self. But this Higher Swelf is trapped in the illusion to be in a form. When you look well, when you check where is this Awareness that is Aware of everything you canot find it. Everything is, but where are you respoect all those things? Check for yourself, I dont want you to believe what I am saying. There is no need to believe, I dont believe what I am writing I can see it, right now, as well as you can if you stop holding on to the idea to be a separated individual.
So all manifestation, being a movement of Awareness that is created by Awareness and disappers in Awareness, is nothing else than Awareness itself. This means that the body, the room, the thoughts, the feelings are nothing more than Awareness, Awareness experiencing Awareness. All is One.
If there is no individual, where is the free of the individual? There is what is, that is arising spontansouly and freely. The apparent decisions and choices of the body are witnessed by you
Awareness, included the ideas that there is a separated me performing them.
The choices are done, not as act of volition of the individual, but as an act of creation of God. So in a sense YOU, Awareness, are choosing everything. Not just what your body-mind does, but also the weather of the day, and the blowing of thw wind on the trees outside of the window. You dont choose that the wind is blowing before that the wind is blowing. It appears. You, Awareness, have created. But you have been creating it IN THE MOMENT, the Eternal moment, not before. There is no before. There is only now. And this Now is changing all the time, and it is observed by the same Now.
Love
Shakti
What knows of the presence of those things is you, you know that they are there because you are aware of them.
But if you try to define this you, unless you choose to pick on memories or on objects of which you are aware of (like saying, I am so and so, I have this body that is American, or British, etc etc) you cannot describe this you. In other words, what we call "me" is always a description of something that we are aware of, not of this Awareness in itself.
So the message is, you are Awareness, an Awareness that is aware of itself (or not aware of itself) through the form called so and so. When Awareness is not aware of itSelf believes to be the objects that itself is observing, like the body called Fred or Laura. When instead is aware of itself knows to be just what is witnessing those objects.
What are those objects? They appear IN this Awareness, and unless this Awareness is aware of them, they dont exist. This form called Shakti did not exist before it appeared for you, Awareness. This is what we mean when we say that you created me and all the rest. Because before I appear in your Awareness I simply dont exist. It is only AFTER I appeared that you can say, "yes of course Shakti comes from Italy, she has this past and so and so". So this means that all the objects, the apparent external ones like the body and the room and the inner ones, like thoughts and feelings, appear IN you Awareness, and they have been created by YOU Awareness. When you dont think a certain thought where is it that thought? It does not exists for you.
And this is valid also for all the rest, people, cars, objects, feelings, memories. So EVERYTHING is appearing in you and disappearing in you all the time. Also the "story" of the "me" is appearing and disappearing, the story of Fred, Laura, etc. What is ACTUALLY happening in the moment is that those thoughts, the story of the me, is appearing as all the other objects.
So all objectivity is nothing but a movement in Awareness, an action, something that appears and disappears. You dont have a body when you are in deep sleep, for you in that moment the body does not exist. The body appears in the moment in which Awareness becomes again aware of itself in the morning. This is the very opposite of what we believe. We believe to be a something in the body, or something IN the body called soul that is someway connected to something bigger like a higher Self or God.
The truth is that we are God. We are this Higher Self. But this Higher Swelf is trapped in the illusion to be in a form. When you look well, when you check where is this Awareness that is Aware of everything you canot find it. Everything is, but where are you respoect all those things? Check for yourself, I dont want you to believe what I am saying. There is no need to believe, I dont believe what I am writing I can see it, right now, as well as you can if you stop holding on to the idea to be a separated individual.
So all manifestation, being a movement of Awareness that is created by Awareness and disappers in Awareness, is nothing else than Awareness itself. This means that the body, the room, the thoughts, the feelings are nothing more than Awareness, Awareness experiencing Awareness. All is One.
If there is no individual, where is the free of the individual? There is what is, that is arising spontansouly and freely. The apparent decisions and choices of the body are witnessed by you
Awareness, included the ideas that there is a separated me performing them.
The choices are done, not as act of volition of the individual, but as an act of creation of God. So in a sense YOU, Awareness, are choosing everything. Not just what your body-mind does, but also the weather of the day, and the blowing of thw wind on the trees outside of the window. You dont choose that the wind is blowing before that the wind is blowing. It appears. You, Awareness, have created. But you have been creating it IN THE MOMENT, the Eternal moment, not before. There is no before. There is only now. And this Now is changing all the time, and it is observed by the same Now.
Love
Shakti
18/10/07
Being natural
It is only from the concept to be a separated entity that you can ask about being natural or artificial. You are always natural, spontanous even when there is the idea to be a confined in a body mind. Any action is infact performed ANYWAY by the Divine, even when the ignorance is present.
You cannot beocme natural, spontanous. Simply see that as an expression of the Divine even your neurosis are coming up spontanously. In fact for sure if you could decide about not having
them you would cancel them from your Life. They appear on their own until ignorance is present, and there is nothing that an imaginary you can do to destroy them.
Understanding this is of tremedous relief for a seeking mind and at the same time is totally scary for the concept to be a person. You are not in control, not even of your becoming more aware of what you are.
The seeking goes on by itself, as well as the egoic concept and all the erratic and neurotic movements of a body mind through which ignorance is still present.
What I mean is that EVERYTHING is Divine, even pollution, even falsehood. It is just our idea of God that doesnt allow one to see as everything as already totally perfect.
Concerning this thing of anger, I find it a bit strange. Is an emotional need action called "love" less natural than anger? No, even if it can be more sincere. One can live in reaction or ina so called double reaction, hiding anger behind a smile. But EVEN THAT will be
Divine. And perfect.
Love,
shakti
You cannot beocme natural, spontanous. Simply see that as an expression of the Divine even your neurosis are coming up spontanously. In fact for sure if you could decide about not having
them you would cancel them from your Life. They appear on their own until ignorance is present, and there is nothing that an imaginary you can do to destroy them.
Understanding this is of tremedous relief for a seeking mind and at the same time is totally scary for the concept to be a person. You are not in control, not even of your becoming more aware of what you are.
The seeking goes on by itself, as well as the egoic concept and all the erratic and neurotic movements of a body mind through which ignorance is still present.
What I mean is that EVERYTHING is Divine, even pollution, even falsehood. It is just our idea of God that doesnt allow one to see as everything as already totally perfect.
Concerning this thing of anger, I find it a bit strange. Is an emotional need action called "love" less natural than anger? No, even if it can be more sincere. One can live in reaction or ina so called double reaction, hiding anger behind a smile. But EVEN THAT will be
Divine. And perfect.
Love,
shakti
01/10/07
Seeking the Graal
You asked me what is really pure
In a world of masks the illusion endures
the do and the don’t, the good and the bad
immoral and moral until you will understand
that Truth is not in the objectivity realm
but in the eyes of who is observing the glare
of this play of Light that appears as Life
in that empty I the Graal you will find.
We are all like Percival seeking to quench
this unavoidable thirst for what has no end
something that lasts more than an eyelash beat
such is the length of life of the human being
after a while it is clear that is not
in money, in sex, in the right kind of work
not even in what religions declare
the paradise comes always after your death
not an easy place if you need a good rest
when you are tired to try to come to terms
with the world and yourself a never-ending quest
there is no solution that will manifest
but right here, right now where you stand
that purity watches the sinners and saints
uninvolved by both
this empty Awareness
it will witness it all.
shakti
In a world of masks the illusion endures
the do and the don’t, the good and the bad
immoral and moral until you will understand
that Truth is not in the objectivity realm
but in the eyes of who is observing the glare
of this play of Light that appears as Life
in that empty I the Graal you will find.
We are all like Percival seeking to quench
this unavoidable thirst for what has no end
something that lasts more than an eyelash beat
such is the length of life of the human being
after a while it is clear that is not
in money, in sex, in the right kind of work
not even in what religions declare
the paradise comes always after your death
not an easy place if you need a good rest
when you are tired to try to come to terms
with the world and yourself a never-ending quest
there is no solution that will manifest
but right here, right now where you stand
that purity watches the sinners and saints
uninvolved by both
this empty Awareness
it will witness it all.
shakti
30/09/07
Great rap
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shakti
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The Invitation
I have been read this poem in a retreat not so long ago by a friend. It touched me deeply. Yesterday again another friend have read it to me, and I feel it is appropriate to put it here.
Love
Shakti
-----------------------
the Invitation
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
by
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Love
Shakti
-----------------------
the Invitation
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
by
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
04/09/07
the kingfisher
IT was the Rainbow gave thee birth,
And left thee all her lovely hues;
And, as her mother's name was Tears,
So runs it in my blood to choose
For haunts the lonely pools, and keep
In company with trees that weep.
Go you and, with such glorious hues,
Live with proud peacocks in green parks;
On lawns as smooth as shining glass,
Let every feather show its marks;
Get thee on boughs and clap thy wings
Before the windows of proud kings.
Nay, lovely Bird, thou art not vain;
Thou hast no proud, ambitious mind;
I also love a quiet place
That's green, away from all mankind;
A lonely pool, and let a tree
Sigh with her bosom over me.
W.H. Davies
And left thee all her lovely hues;
And, as her mother's name was Tears,
So runs it in my blood to choose
For haunts the lonely pools, and keep
In company with trees that weep.
Go you and, with such glorious hues,
Live with proud peacocks in green parks;
On lawns as smooth as shining glass,
Let every feather show its marks;
Get thee on boughs and clap thy wings
Before the windows of proud kings.
Nay, lovely Bird, thou art not vain;
Thou hast no proud, ambitious mind;
I also love a quiet place
That's green, away from all mankind;
A lonely pool, and let a tree
Sigh with her bosom over me.
W.H. Davies
24/08/07
questioning
Any action performed is totally divine, impersonal and necessary as it is actually performed by God itself in the unfolding of the understanding of itself.
"Who am I?" is the natural question that arises from Awareness itself through each form. When the answer to this question is seen to be the questioner itself what remains is the simple happening of what is, and the questioning dies in the fire of the understanding.
this fire cannot be pushed away or prevented or either be encouraged through any tecquiques or methods, as it is ALREADY unfolding in the most perfect way through the circustamces of Life.
shakti
"Who am I?" is the natural question that arises from Awareness itself through each form. When the answer to this question is seen to be the questioner itself what remains is the simple happening of what is, and the questioning dies in the fire of the understanding.
this fire cannot be pushed away or prevented or either be encouraged through any tecquiques or methods, as it is ALREADY unfolding in the most perfect way through the circustamces of Life.
shakti
taking personally
Whenever an action that appears to be coming from or through an apparent other hurts us or causes us offence it is because there is not the seeing of One consciousness in that moment.
ALL action is of the One and what one experiences indicates where one stands in relationship to this realisation of Oneness.
If one were to be able to never take anything personally then the concept of being an individual person would fall away, all action then would be seen to be from One source, impersonal and just what IS.
Whatever one's experience is it is the one that consciousness is having in that moment through that form and as such it is perfect for it is the ONLY one that can be happening in that moment.
Once the personality concept has dissolved all is seen to be the One unfolding , all then is unfolding in the only way that it can. All is seen in its utter perfect by that same perfection.
Much Love to all who read this Avasa
ALL action is of the One and what one experiences indicates where one stands in relationship to this realisation of Oneness.
If one were to be able to never take anything personally then the concept of being an individual person would fall away, all action then would be seen to be from One source, impersonal and just what IS.
Whatever one's experience is it is the one that consciousness is having in that moment through that form and as such it is perfect for it is the ONLY one that can be happening in that moment.
Once the personality concept has dissolved all is seen to be the One unfolding , all then is unfolding in the only way that it can. All is seen in its utter perfect by that same perfection.
Much Love to all who read this Avasa
14/08/07
True Presence
I love your absence
more than your presence
in this what you are is revelaed more fully
here I really meet you
no more distance to cover
just here where I am
is where you are
this absence is my real Presence
is your real nature
so vainly the mind was avoiding this sense of lack
filling it with strategies to push away the pain
of an Heart that has to be broken fully
to see that this Love doesn't know any need
here I see your face,
that is all mine
faceless Awareness
bright Light
void of any image and concept,
pure...
Love did all this
Love was calling and I could not resist
It had your voice that was mine as well
It has been always calling
and I am its answer.
love
shakti
more than your presence
in this what you are is revelaed more fully
here I really meet you
no more distance to cover
just here where I am
is where you are
this absence is my real Presence
is your real nature
so vainly the mind was avoiding this sense of lack
filling it with strategies to push away the pain
of an Heart that has to be broken fully
to see that this Love doesn't know any need
here I see your face,
that is all mine
faceless Awareness
bright Light
void of any image and concept,
pure...
Love did all this
Love was calling and I could not resist
It had your voice that was mine as well
It has been always calling
and I am its answer.
love
shakti
When Love dies...
Hi guys
i would like to share what has been happening for me in the few last days. I think it is something we all have come across in our life and so I feel is good to share it here as well.
When a relantionship ends what hurts is that the Love is present but the object of Love has gone. The absense of the other is actually revealing that Love even more clearly. The mind can then take over again and imagine that this Love is coming still from the object and try in some way to come back with the other person. In alternative this Love is denied and even more suffering will be present.
In a sense more there is letting go of the other and more the Love will be strong.
If one can remain open in this Love what will be revealed is that what was imagined to be the object of our Love is only the reflection of it. The Love is even more present now in our life because is no more linked to an object.
Like the sun is shining all over without avoiding anything so this Love will encompass everything, including the person with which our previous lover might be with now. The situation is seen to be all led by Love itSelf that has been orchestrating the perfect situation to be able to reveal itself to itself.
What one discovers infact oneself to be is that this Love is actually one's own Being that creates the play of the twoness, the male and the female, to enjoy itself. When Love comes back to itself in a sense it dies, and only Presence remains. It is seen that there is no object AND no subject of this Love, but just Lov-ING.
This Loving is what creates all the manifestation for the pure delight of making experience of itself.
Love,
Shakti
i would like to share what has been happening for me in the few last days. I think it is something we all have come across in our life and so I feel is good to share it here as well.
When a relantionship ends what hurts is that the Love is present but the object of Love has gone. The absense of the other is actually revealing that Love even more clearly. The mind can then take over again and imagine that this Love is coming still from the object and try in some way to come back with the other person. In alternative this Love is denied and even more suffering will be present.
In a sense more there is letting go of the other and more the Love will be strong.
If one can remain open in this Love what will be revealed is that what was imagined to be the object of our Love is only the reflection of it. The Love is even more present now in our life because is no more linked to an object.
Like the sun is shining all over without avoiding anything so this Love will encompass everything, including the person with which our previous lover might be with now. The situation is seen to be all led by Love itSelf that has been orchestrating the perfect situation to be able to reveal itself to itself.
What one discovers infact oneself to be is that this Love is actually one's own Being that creates the play of the twoness, the male and the female, to enjoy itself. When Love comes back to itself in a sense it dies, and only Presence remains. It is seen that there is no object AND no subject of this Love, but just Lov-ING.
This Loving is what creates all the manifestation for the pure delight of making experience of itself.
Love,
Shakti
07/08/07
Homing in
Homing in
home sweet home
the beloved is back
the lover is dead
heart stroke they say
too much bliss
got melted in peace
homing in
so sweet
a place never left
just imagined to be elsewhere
in a man
in a path
in a goal
so false
what a bluff
it was always here
already
all the time
so blutlanty obvious
no in
no out
just here, now
this Bright Presence
in which all shines in
the Inner Light
the Outern One
they meet
in an inner kiss
in a total embrace
Light overshines Light
Love waves overlapping Love waves
the Zero is felt
approaching
I am trembling
in joy
Home, Sweet Home.
shakti
home sweet home
the beloved is back
the lover is dead
heart stroke they say
too much bliss
got melted in peace
homing in
so sweet
a place never left
just imagined to be elsewhere
in a man
in a path
in a goal
so false
what a bluff
it was always here
already
all the time
so blutlanty obvious
no in
no out
just here, now
this Bright Presence
in which all shines in
the Inner Light
the Outern One
they meet
in an inner kiss
in a total embrace
Light overshines Light
Love waves overlapping Love waves
the Zero is felt
approaching
I am trembling
in joy
Home, Sweet Home.
shakti
05/08/07
Gurupurmina Moon
I danced with the Moon this nite my friend
she showed me all things I could not understand
she whispered in my ears a sweet lullaby
enlightening gently mind's shadow passing by
she embraced me softly with her silver hands
weaving me in spirals to be once again
aware of this Emptiness Eternally Alive
that nothing is but my real still I.
No lover is there to be loved anymore
only Love really is and take many forms
as much as the mind can ever imagine
in a moment all is seen and then dissolved again.
shakti
she showed me all things I could not understand
she whispered in my ears a sweet lullaby
enlightening gently mind's shadow passing by
she embraced me softly with her silver hands
weaving me in spirals to be once again
aware of this Emptiness Eternally Alive
that nothing is but my real still I.
No lover is there to be loved anymore
only Love really is and take many forms
as much as the mind can ever imagine
in a moment all is seen and then dissolved again.
shakti
04/08/07
What Love is
If you can remain open to Love also when your Heart is broken, if you can look at lovers kissing and feel their joy as your own, if you can dance at the rhythm of Life even when there is pain and everything is senseless then, and only then you can truly know what Love really is, beyond your fear and your desire, the lust and the romance, all is meditation, all is revealed to be the Beloved, not a man or a woman, but your own Being, radiating infinitly beyond time and space, fate and change. The other disappears togheter with expectation, need, blame, guilt, shame. When you meet the Beloved within then your climax is total, you are in Love with Life itSelf, and you disappear in this Total Orgasm, boundless, free, fully and completly satisfied.
All is then celebration of this Love and wha was once fear is seen to be the joy out of which your dream is weaved.
You are not worthy of this and you will never be.
You will never be able to achieve this and you cannot lose it, just imagining that this can be.
Wake up, this is your call.
Love is calling, it has been always calling. The answer is always in front of you, all the time. Any manifestation, any situation in which you find yourself apparently involved is nothing but your Consciousness unfolding and mirroring the fact that all is One, all is You.
This is your own prayer manifesting and you are the one that is praying AND the one that is listening.
May you always be in this listening.
love
shakti
All is then celebration of this Love and wha was once fear is seen to be the joy out of which your dream is weaved.
You are not worthy of this and you will never be.
You will never be able to achieve this and you cannot lose it, just imagining that this can be.
Wake up, this is your call.
Love is calling, it has been always calling. The answer is always in front of you, all the time. Any manifestation, any situation in which you find yourself apparently involved is nothing but your Consciousness unfolding and mirroring the fact that all is One, all is You.
This is your own prayer manifesting and you are the one that is praying AND the one that is listening.
May you always be in this listening.
love
shakti
Love obeys
Dance, dance sweet lover of Truth
the rhythm of Life is asking you to
drop any fear any illusion of the two
melting in Love, the "me" barriers breaking through
The path is not easy, unless you are willing
to let any idea of what is fulfilling
to reveal all its lack, its senseless pay-off,
and resting in the Void that you did not want
The mind creates shadows of what you believe
to be the solution for resting in peace
so vane these attempts, at the end you will see
that everything IS already as you wish
because all is obeying to this Love that you are
creating the scene so perfectly set up
that you will catch in a moment that the illusory outside
is not really apart from what you imagine is inside.
the rhythm of Life is asking you to
drop any fear any illusion of the two
melting in Love, the "me" barriers breaking through
The path is not easy, unless you are willing
to let any idea of what is fulfilling
to reveal all its lack, its senseless pay-off,
and resting in the Void that you did not want
The mind creates shadows of what you believe
to be the solution for resting in peace
so vane these attempts, at the end you will see
that everything IS already as you wish
because all is obeying to this Love that you are
creating the scene so perfectly set up
that you will catch in a moment that the illusory outside
is not really apart from what you imagine is inside.
27/07/07
One Love
I am the arrow
that you throw in the sky
that casts out the ignorance
from those who hide
from this Perfect Love
that asks each man
to drop any fear and
live from Emptiness
I am your mirror
on which you dance,
the rytmn of Life
you hold in your hands
you are Lord Shiva
the Divine danceur
I am the Dance
that will never end
United forever
because One cannot be
without the other
as they will always exist
as just One Thing
Shining as two
to create the world
of the me and the you
No woman can
sustain this pain
only God can endure
this sacred aim
to dissolve the fear
and the sense of two
the Shakti ItSelf
I am This for You.
In every womb
you have left your seed
I am the space
in which you melted in peace
that faces all mine
now I see
because wherever
you go
all is Me.
Exausted in strife
this Heart has broken
no woman's desire
is left to say
a will or a need
in order to mantain
the illusion of a me
farhead from her mate.
I am the Light
that reflects itSelf
in the Empty Void
I manifest
as trees
as storm
as lovers
as wind
whispering forever
this Love
of you and me.
Love,
Shakti
that you throw in the sky
that casts out the ignorance
from those who hide
from this Perfect Love
that asks each man
to drop any fear and
live from Emptiness
I am your mirror
on which you dance,
the rytmn of Life
you hold in your hands
you are Lord Shiva
the Divine danceur
I am the Dance
that will never end
United forever
because One cannot be
without the other
as they will always exist
as just One Thing
Shining as two
to create the world
of the me and the you
No woman can
sustain this pain
only God can endure
this sacred aim
to dissolve the fear
and the sense of two
the Shakti ItSelf
I am This for You.
In every womb
you have left your seed
I am the space
in which you melted in peace
that faces all mine
now I see
because wherever
you go
all is Me.
Exausted in strife
this Heart has broken
no woman's desire
is left to say
a will or a need
in order to mantain
the illusion of a me
farhead from her mate.
I am the Light
that reflects itSelf
in the Empty Void
I manifest
as trees
as storm
as lovers
as wind
whispering forever
this Love
of you and me.
Love,
Shakti
25/07/07
Romance and love
Romanticism is the only way in which the psycological mind imagines what is unconditional love.
BUT romanticims keeps in the place the cult of the pairs, the me and the you, the separation. It has in itself the the seed of fear, the seed of fear of losing the beloved.
Unconditional love is totally beyond the mind's congecture, it is the seeing that the state of fact of things IS the only thing that can happen AND it is therefore PERFECT. All happening is simply the action of One Being that one recognizes itSelf to be.
Love is where there is no other to love, but Love itSelf.
love
shakti
BUT romanticims keeps in the place the cult of the pairs, the me and the you, the separation. It has in itself the the seed of fear, the seed of fear of losing the beloved.
Unconditional love is totally beyond the mind's congecture, it is the seeing that the state of fact of things IS the only thing that can happen AND it is therefore PERFECT. All happening is simply the action of One Being that one recognizes itSelf to be.
Love is where there is no other to love, but Love itSelf.
love
shakti
17/07/07
Be grateful
If you wanna leave the world a better place, then be first of all gratefuil for what is. the wanting it better comes infact from not liking what is present. It is a certain signal of unacceptance for what is around you. What good can you do in the world if you move from not acceptance not openess?
so, first of all be grateful.
Be grateful that you exist as a form. Be grateful for the breathing that goes on its own keeps alive the body, the beating of your heart that keep on pumping blood...
Nothing is for granted, be grateful.
This gratefulness will expand in your Life, you will see how perfectly everythng already unfolds.
In this gratefulness the world that at first appeared in conflict will trasmute itself in an Eden Garden. Because it is not separated from you. It is you.
With much Love
Shakti
so, first of all be grateful.
Be grateful that you exist as a form. Be grateful for the breathing that goes on its own keeps alive the body, the beating of your heart that keep on pumping blood...
Nothing is for granted, be grateful.
This gratefulness will expand in your Life, you will see how perfectly everythng already unfolds.
In this gratefulness the world that at first appeared in conflict will trasmute itself in an Eden Garden. Because it is not separated from you. It is you.
With much Love
Shakti
Dancing free
No more desire
to bend what is
the mind fell exausted
from doing his jigs
so vane attempt
to change what comes
not seeing the illusion
of the imagined results.
whatever is
it's the Self desire
of breaking free
from all the ties
that bound the Divine
to the size of a form
to go beyond the "me" barriers
and suffer no more.
What then remains
it is no more a will
a want, a preference,
a must or a need
just Life's loving currents
bring the body to act
completly abandoned
to what manifests
just delight to see
that what appears
comes from the Radiance
of what once was one's fear
that Joy is the root
of the Dream itself
and everything unfolds
at the rythm of your Dance.
shakti
to bend what is
the mind fell exausted
from doing his jigs
so vane attempt
to change what comes
not seeing the illusion
of the imagined results.
whatever is
it's the Self desire
of breaking free
from all the ties
that bound the Divine
to the size of a form
to go beyond the "me" barriers
and suffer no more.
What then remains
it is no more a will
a want, a preference,
a must or a need
just Life's loving currents
bring the body to act
completly abandoned
to what manifests
just delight to see
that what appears
comes from the Radiance
of what once was one's fear
that Joy is the root
of the Dream itself
and everything unfolds
at the rythm of your Dance.
shakti
12/07/07
summer serenade
Everything is the same and yet all is new
the street, the traffic noise, the windows view
the day unfolds and we unfold with it
just actions, events, in this witnessing
there is nothing special in this simple seeing
that all JUST IS, and nobody is living
these empty forms, these hollow puppets
just strokes created by Love's brushes
so fool the man that still believes that
wisdom will come one day to him
it is not a business that you can achieve
there is no a guru that will bring you to IT
as Truth just is, so plain, so clear
like a summer day, in a slow and sweet gear
in which nothing happens apparently
but all is revealed to be a God's jolly wink.
the street, the traffic noise, the windows view
the day unfolds and we unfold with it
just actions, events, in this witnessing
there is nothing special in this simple seeing
that all JUST IS, and nobody is living
these empty forms, these hollow puppets
just strokes created by Love's brushes
so fool the man that still believes that
wisdom will come one day to him
it is not a business that you can achieve
there is no a guru that will bring you to IT
as Truth just is, so plain, so clear
like a summer day, in a slow and sweet gear
in which nothing happens apparently
but all is revealed to be a God's jolly wink.
11/07/07
letting go never ends
Nothing is mine,
not this body
not this mind,
as nothing I have
not even this I.
From having to being
the lesson is strict
not a figment of me
can resist
to the abyss
because my own flame
of the Love that I am
claimed back
to have everything
that I wanted to protect
the most precious gifts
are now given to God
not knowing if anything
will be back or not
a surrender has happened
that no one has done
just a letting go started
of which the "I" is a part
because nothing is mine
and yet THIS I AM
the Nothing that is All
in a letting go that never ends.
not this body
not this mind,
as nothing I have
not even this I.
From having to being
the lesson is strict
not a figment of me
can resist
to the abyss
because my own flame
of the Love that I am
claimed back
to have everything
that I wanted to protect
the most precious gifts
are now given to God
not knowing if anything
will be back or not
a surrender has happened
that no one has done
just a letting go started
of which the "I" is a part
because nothing is mine
and yet THIS I AM
the Nothing that is All
in a letting go that never ends.
08/07/07
Again in Love
Again in Love
this time so big
another reflection
to fall in with
It is just a mirror
of the thirst within
that brings the One
to seek for peace.
It will never come
until you search
that Source is Here
where you can fulfill
that inner call
for Beauty and Truth
that moves the hearts
to follow through
this illusory path
from a me to a you.
Bewitched by what
we believe outside
that beloved is but
a reflection of I
the same of all
with one thousand faces
towards which I bow
with true gratefullness.
May this One
always see
that there is no need
to move away
from this place so still
where you really meet
that Love that you
can only BE.
this time so big
another reflection
to fall in with
It is just a mirror
of the thirst within
that brings the One
to seek for peace.
It will never come
until you search
that Source is Here
where you can fulfill
that inner call
for Beauty and Truth
that moves the hearts
to follow through
this illusory path
from a me to a you.
Bewitched by what
we believe outside
that beloved is but
a reflection of I
the same of all
with one thousand faces
towards which I bow
with true gratefullness.
May this One
always see
that there is no need
to move away
from this place so still
where you really meet
that Love that you
can only BE.
Rain
How much Love is asked to overcome yourself?
Your pride, your blame, your guilt, your shame
To become whole, being able to say again
that all is One and you cant complain
that your day is hard, that you did not want,
that you are sorry, that yet you did much more.
There will be a shadow untill Light will come
to shine all through where the mind still marrs
with all its questions, its whys and whens
that seek security in the manifest.
With a storm at times that Light will arrive
to wash down all the efforts and all the strifes
A blessed rain will then come down
destroying what the mind seek always how
to control and preserve in all its fear
to lose something that is already Here
At times more gentle this rain will drip
on open hands that dont want to grip
over an illusion that it is clearly seen
to have its foundation on this empty screen.
This polished, fresh, evernew silent Void
that through each eye can shine with joy
when it stops holding on what is unreal
and you fall in Love where Love is, Here.
Your pride, your blame, your guilt, your shame
To become whole, being able to say again
that all is One and you cant complain
that your day is hard, that you did not want,
that you are sorry, that yet you did much more.
There will be a shadow untill Light will come
to shine all through where the mind still marrs
with all its questions, its whys and whens
that seek security in the manifest.
With a storm at times that Light will arrive
to wash down all the efforts and all the strifes
A blessed rain will then come down
destroying what the mind seek always how
to control and preserve in all its fear
to lose something that is already Here
At times more gentle this rain will drip
on open hands that dont want to grip
over an illusion that it is clearly seen
to have its foundation on this empty screen.
This polished, fresh, evernew silent Void
that through each eye can shine with joy
when it stops holding on what is unreal
and you fall in Love where Love is, Here.
15/06/07
No level of seeing
There are no level of Enlightenment.
Or it is seen that one is not the body-mind, or it is not seen.
And this seeing happens, or it does not, without any possible help or hindurance by the imaginary individual.
love
shakti
Or it is seen that one is not the body-mind, or it is not seen.
And this seeing happens, or it does not, without any possible help or hindurance by the imaginary individual.
love
shakti
A Crisis
When your mind is confused do not try to sort out things. Simple observe how that confusion is coming up from something very clear that is observing that confusion.
What our mind calls confusion is often the destroying of old patterns and concepts that for some reason go into crisis. We try to live our life based on ideas that society, family, teachers give us.
Life has instead usually totally different turns, because it does not happen based on pre-conceived ideas, but it unfolds spontanously in each istant.
So all the time that Life challenges our concepts about it, a crisis comes up.
This crisis is actually very healthy if we let it unfold fully, letting the fire provoked by the crisis burn totally. What we do instead is usually try to build up a strategy for not feeling that crisis. Escaping creates just more conflict, because is based on the idea that we are separated individuals, able to behave indipendently by all the rest of the Universe.
Tha fact is that the crisis is not involving us directly, but jus our ideas about ourselve. What we are all the time is infact that clarity that is observing the confusion.
In the dying of these concepts about ourselves, we are finally able to enjoy Life as it comes, without fighting it all the times.
In this letting go we discover that actually Life IS going as we want, but not as we THOUGHT that it should have been. It is already unfolding in the best way possible but we could not see it because the holding on to a concept.
Enjoy your day, as it comes.
love
shakti
What our mind calls confusion is often the destroying of old patterns and concepts that for some reason go into crisis. We try to live our life based on ideas that society, family, teachers give us.
Life has instead usually totally different turns, because it does not happen based on pre-conceived ideas, but it unfolds spontanously in each istant.
So all the time that Life challenges our concepts about it, a crisis comes up.
This crisis is actually very healthy if we let it unfold fully, letting the fire provoked by the crisis burn totally. What we do instead is usually try to build up a strategy for not feeling that crisis. Escaping creates just more conflict, because is based on the idea that we are separated individuals, able to behave indipendently by all the rest of the Universe.
Tha fact is that the crisis is not involving us directly, but jus our ideas about ourselve. What we are all the time is infact that clarity that is observing the confusion.
In the dying of these concepts about ourselves, we are finally able to enjoy Life as it comes, without fighting it all the times.
In this letting go we discover that actually Life IS going as we want, but not as we THOUGHT that it should have been. It is already unfolding in the best way possible but we could not see it because the holding on to a concept.
Enjoy your day, as it comes.
love
shakti
09/06/07
Flowering to Unconditional Love
When you rest in Love there is no possibility to close your Heart again even if a person that we are in love with is abandoning us.
If the Heart is not fully open there will be suffering about this, and the suffering will come from the burning of our egoic resistances. Love will be there anyway, but not in the conditions that our mind is telling us. The flowering of Unconditional Love is going infact to shutter the barrier that our mind is putting on to survive to itself.
Love is not a feeling you are going to feel, but the recognition that all forms are happening in your Being, that there is not in truth any separation.
Infact until this recognition will not happen you dont know what Love really is. Your relantionships until that moment will be based on need of affection and fear to be alone. Until need and fear are not fully burnt in this flame of Love, suffering will be present and no relantionship will be fully satisfying.
love
shakti
If the Heart is not fully open there will be suffering about this, and the suffering will come from the burning of our egoic resistances. Love will be there anyway, but not in the conditions that our mind is telling us. The flowering of Unconditional Love is going infact to shutter the barrier that our mind is putting on to survive to itself.
Love is not a feeling you are going to feel, but the recognition that all forms are happening in your Being, that there is not in truth any separation.
Infact until this recognition will not happen you dont know what Love really is. Your relantionships until that moment will be based on need of affection and fear to be alone. Until need and fear are not fully burnt in this flame of Love, suffering will be present and no relantionship will be fully satisfying.
love
shakti
05/06/07
Judgment on feelings
Just feel what you feel, without any judgement or repression.
We are not responsible for what we feel. A feeling like attraction for another body just arises out of Emptiness and only then the mind says "this is MY feeling" adding a little ego-flag on the top.
Immediatly the feeling will be less intense and "pure" because part of its energy will be robbed by the ego concept.
Sometimes we not only claim the property of the feeling but also the thought "i should not feel this" arrives. Even THAT thought does not belong to us...usually when the feeling arises we cannot just observe it but we try to analyse it, finding a reason why we feel what we feel. There is no reason for anything. Feeling, thoughts, actions just arise and Awareness registers them.
If the ego concept is present these feelings, thoughts and actions will be experienced as if they do belong to a particular body mind. The fact that we can feel a feeling just means that the body is able to perceive that vibration that arises out of Emptiness. Actually as we recognize that we are this empty space around and in everything and no more an imaginary person in a body, we can perceive for the first time feelings and emotions in a pure way. we will experience the feelings 100%, but we will not be attached to them so they will go away as they arrived. What we will experience will be a constant gentle joy without reason in which everything appears.
We are not responsible for what we feel. A feeling like attraction for another body just arises out of Emptiness and only then the mind says "this is MY feeling" adding a little ego-flag on the top.
Immediatly the feeling will be less intense and "pure" because part of its energy will be robbed by the ego concept.
Sometimes we not only claim the property of the feeling but also the thought "i should not feel this" arrives. Even THAT thought does not belong to us...usually when the feeling arises we cannot just observe it but we try to analyse it, finding a reason why we feel what we feel. There is no reason for anything. Feeling, thoughts, actions just arise and Awareness registers them.
If the ego concept is present these feelings, thoughts and actions will be experienced as if they do belong to a particular body mind. The fact that we can feel a feeling just means that the body is able to perceive that vibration that arises out of Emptiness. Actually as we recognize that we are this empty space around and in everything and no more an imaginary person in a body, we can perceive for the first time feelings and emotions in a pure way. we will experience the feelings 100%, but we will not be attached to them so they will go away as they arrived. What we will experience will be a constant gentle joy without reason in which everything appears.
Acceptance
Whatever appears on the screen of Life seems to be so real. Sometimes we are attracted by some characters of the movie, sometimes we hate them and we are in conflict with them.
We suffer because we would like to have a different situation for us, we try to change the story from the movie itself. This is just an useless effort.
Only acceptance, real acceptance, can change your life. When you accept everything without no desire of changing, when you truly see that whatever happens on the screen is just
your own Consciousness, Life changes, because your Consciouness is changing.
In you there is no more conflict, so the conflict will not be express on the apparent outern reality. If in you there is acceptance and joy, your Life will express this. From there, you can Love without any preference, because you are Love itself.
Observe the emotions and thoughts that come through the body. Only who sees clearly that Life is just a dance of shadows in the Light of Awareness can truly Love someone. Love is not an emotion, is our true essence. Until you can see clearly that everything is just Love
you will be trapped in the game of desires and emotions, taking the part of one character or an other.
Be detached, let Life lives you, observe all the feelings, thoughts and emotions, good or bad, without holding to none of them. They are all expressions of the Love that you are.
Accept Life. It is your gift to yourself, also when it appears to be full of problems. You need them because they carry you a message of acceptance. Accept yourself as you are.
Love
Shakti
We suffer because we would like to have a different situation for us, we try to change the story from the movie itself. This is just an useless effort.
Only acceptance, real acceptance, can change your life. When you accept everything without no desire of changing, when you truly see that whatever happens on the screen is just
your own Consciousness, Life changes, because your Consciouness is changing.
In you there is no more conflict, so the conflict will not be express on the apparent outern reality. If in you there is acceptance and joy, your Life will express this. From there, you can Love without any preference, because you are Love itself.
Observe the emotions and thoughts that come through the body. Only who sees clearly that Life is just a dance of shadows in the Light of Awareness can truly Love someone. Love is not an emotion, is our true essence. Until you can see clearly that everything is just Love
you will be trapped in the game of desires and emotions, taking the part of one character or an other.
Be detached, let Life lives you, observe all the feelings, thoughts and emotions, good or bad, without holding to none of them. They are all expressions of the Love that you are.
Accept Life. It is your gift to yourself, also when it appears to be full of problems. You need them because they carry you a message of acceptance. Accept yourself as you are.
Love
Shakti
31/05/07
Feeling Alone
The feeling of being alone is right. You are alone, you are ONE, because there is just One Being.
The thing is that there is still in you the idea to be a someone that is alone, and you feel lonely.
Stay with that feeling and observe it. Observe how this feeling is known by something that is not a feeling, an Awareness that is aware of everything that appears in your apparent inner and outern reality.
You are what is aware of the feeling, just Pure Awareness. That Pure Awareness is the same One that is living through any form.
There, you are never separated by anybody.
This is Love.
shakti
The thing is that there is still in you the idea to be a someone that is alone, and you feel lonely.
Stay with that feeling and observe it. Observe how this feeling is known by something that is not a feeling, an Awareness that is aware of everything that appears in your apparent inner and outern reality.
You are what is aware of the feeling, just Pure Awareness. That Pure Awareness is the same One that is living through any form.
There, you are never separated by anybody.
This is Love.
shakti
30/05/07
Fears
All your fears are based on the idea that you are separated from what is appearing in your life.
The fear is that you can do something as separated individual that might affect positivly or negativly what is happening.
This is not actually the case because
whatever your body mind is going to do or intend to do is anyway the only thing that can happen, and there is no a separated you that can perfom it outside of what is appearing in the whole Universe.
Your thoughts and feelings as well as your actions are infact just actions happening through your form, but you do not choose them before their appearing, therefore you are not in control of them.
Let's say you feel insecure about something, did you choose to feel like that or simply is happening? This is absolutly true about anything that happens through your form. As soon as you realize this you will stop to think that you can do errors and mistakes or that thingz can be different from what they actually are.
Everything is in perfect harmony in the Universe all the times, so do not try to control what is appearing in your life or through your form.
Love cannot be recognized in your Life as something already present 100% until there is fear. And fear will disappear when you will stop trying to be in control of something that you are not in control of. You are not in control of Life or of yourself despite what appears to be, because the whole thing is happening anyway, included your desires and fears.
The beautiful thing is that you do not need to be in control. All the Universe is not separated from you, is YOU. It is the desire and the fear (that are the same thing) to have things different that create conflict in your life and suffering.
So step back, see that there is no need of worry. You are perfectly ok as you are, and more you see this and more harmoniously your reality is presented to you.
Much love,
shakti
The fear is that you can do something as separated individual that might affect positivly or negativly what is happening.
This is not actually the case because
whatever your body mind is going to do or intend to do is anyway the only thing that can happen, and there is no a separated you that can perfom it outside of what is appearing in the whole Universe.
Your thoughts and feelings as well as your actions are infact just actions happening through your form, but you do not choose them before their appearing, therefore you are not in control of them.
Let's say you feel insecure about something, did you choose to feel like that or simply is happening? This is absolutly true about anything that happens through your form. As soon as you realize this you will stop to think that you can do errors and mistakes or that thingz can be different from what they actually are.
Everything is in perfect harmony in the Universe all the times, so do not try to control what is appearing in your life or through your form.
Love cannot be recognized in your Life as something already present 100% until there is fear. And fear will disappear when you will stop trying to be in control of something that you are not in control of. You are not in control of Life or of yourself despite what appears to be, because the whole thing is happening anyway, included your desires and fears.
The beautiful thing is that you do not need to be in control. All the Universe is not separated from you, is YOU. It is the desire and the fear (that are the same thing) to have things different that create conflict in your life and suffering.
So step back, see that there is no need of worry. You are perfectly ok as you are, and more you see this and more harmoniously your reality is presented to you.
Much love,
shakti
Freedom
Freedom is to see that what you really are does not need to get free, because it is already free 100%.
Fear is just an illusion we get caged in, it is just a bad habit.
Your true nature is freedom. And yet we seek it and seek it, and just ecause of this, we miss it.
shakti
Fear is just an illusion we get caged in, it is just a bad habit.
Your true nature is freedom. And yet we seek it and seek it, and just ecause of this, we miss it.
shakti
Illusion of a cage
So beautiful to see that the cage you think to be in is just your mind projecting impossibilities in your reality... chains are there just because we are scared of seeing that we are already free!
love
shakti
love
shakti
29/05/07
The Empty Mirror
In every meeting you have, you meet always yourSelf. In every meeting what you really seek is yourSelf.
At times you meet yourSelf through a form in which the cast of ignorance has been destroyed and you manage to give yourself informations clear cut about what you are.
you recognize this kind of meeting because the apparent other that is talking to you through a book, a video or even an email seems to know you better than what you do.
This happens because the apparent other is really You, but a You in which it has been seen the illusion of a separated me in the body mind.
The relationship with this one is the deepest friendship you can find because is not not based on fear or need. With this one you share the recognition to be the same Being, that is true Love.
This recognition that is clear and steady from the side of the apparent other is going to be fully seen also from your side when the reflection is completly brought home, to the Source that you are.
At the beginning infact you imagine that there is someone else in front of you speaking until you see that there is no a someone, but simply yourself all the time. Nobody could infact know you so well but you yourSelf.
When this revelation happens the apparent other and your image of yourself both melt in the recognition to be the same Love.
love
shakti
At times you meet yourSelf through a form in which the cast of ignorance has been destroyed and you manage to give yourself informations clear cut about what you are.
you recognize this kind of meeting because the apparent other that is talking to you through a book, a video or even an email seems to know you better than what you do.
This happens because the apparent other is really You, but a You in which it has been seen the illusion of a separated me in the body mind.
The relationship with this one is the deepest friendship you can find because is not not based on fear or need. With this one you share the recognition to be the same Being, that is true Love.
This recognition that is clear and steady from the side of the apparent other is going to be fully seen also from your side when the reflection is completly brought home, to the Source that you are.
At the beginning infact you imagine that there is someone else in front of you speaking until you see that there is no a someone, but simply yourself all the time. Nobody could infact know you so well but you yourSelf.
When this revelation happens the apparent other and your image of yourself both melt in the recognition to be the same Love.
love
shakti
28/05/07
Prayer
Someone told me this morning about praying.
There are two types of prayers, prayers for obtaining something, based on the fear of not having what we want- based on seeking in an impermanent world and therefore cause of suffering- and prayers based on gratefulness.
The first ones are those kind of mental strategies in which often spiritual life consists of, "I will be good and accepting to obtain Heaven, Enlightenment, Nirvana" ect...they are the tecniques with which we try to escape from our personal hell.
These last ones are not really prayers, they are more a big thank you to the creator for what appears in our lives. they are the mantras of Love, the halleluyas we sing at times to Existance. That is why when these things comes from the right place have such a an effect on us, they open the Heart, it is a thanking that we give and receive at the same time.
The fact is that praying arise until you think that God is separated from you. it is natural for God itself seeking itself through each forms included the ones that we call human beings.
When it is seen (by God itself) that nothing is separated from you, to who would you pray and for what? there will be no need for asking, just enjoying what is already appearing.
Until that moment the best prayer is "I wish for everything to be as it is", it is "amen"...this is the trust that whatever is creating our world is doing it for the best, even when it is not wat we want. it is often although what we need.
Murders, violence, negativity that we see in the world are nothing but the reflection of the conflicts that we entertain in ourselves. a conflict that we cannot overcome unless there is acceptance and aknowledgement of its presence.
Fighting wars mantain wars, see them for what they are, the places in which Love has not yet recognized itself.
Gratefulness will keep arising, even if no more in the form of praying. It will be like the song of the bird, joyful to be alive, for no reason, in Grace.
love,
shakti
There are two types of prayers, prayers for obtaining something, based on the fear of not having what we want- based on seeking in an impermanent world and therefore cause of suffering- and prayers based on gratefulness.
The first ones are those kind of mental strategies in which often spiritual life consists of, "I will be good and accepting to obtain Heaven, Enlightenment, Nirvana" ect...they are the tecniques with which we try to escape from our personal hell.
These last ones are not really prayers, they are more a big thank you to the creator for what appears in our lives. they are the mantras of Love, the halleluyas we sing at times to Existance. That is why when these things comes from the right place have such a an effect on us, they open the Heart, it is a thanking that we give and receive at the same time.
The fact is that praying arise until you think that God is separated from you. it is natural for God itself seeking itself through each forms included the ones that we call human beings.
When it is seen (by God itself) that nothing is separated from you, to who would you pray and for what? there will be no need for asking, just enjoying what is already appearing.
Until that moment the best prayer is "I wish for everything to be as it is", it is "amen"...this is the trust that whatever is creating our world is doing it for the best, even when it is not wat we want. it is often although what we need.
Murders, violence, negativity that we see in the world are nothing but the reflection of the conflicts that we entertain in ourselves. a conflict that we cannot overcome unless there is acceptance and aknowledgement of its presence.
Fighting wars mantain wars, see them for what they are, the places in which Love has not yet recognized itself.
Gratefulness will keep arising, even if no more in the form of praying. It will be like the song of the bird, joyful to be alive, for no reason, in Grace.
love,
shakti
29/04/07
Awakening
When real understanding happens, you are that understanding.
the sharing of it will be a sharing of Being, the same of all these forms.
the resonance will vibrates from within, shaking all the structures of
identification. if those structure's falling are welcome radiance and
Love will be experienced, a gratitude that is not directed towards
someone, but towards existence itself, towards the Self itSelf.
at times that resonance will encouter something in which there is
still an holding on to as real. Reaction will happen, as the shaking
off is talking place despite the resisting.
When all the peels of the ego have been chipped away nothing remains,
the same nothing that was pushing from the apparent outside as
masters, books, Life etc and the apparent within....the Light is
pushing destroying the illusion and only Light remains.
As empty shells blown by the divine Breath we will then dance in Life...our joy
just the living of it.
Enjoy my new blog!
Shakti
the sharing of it will be a sharing of Being, the same of all these forms.
the resonance will vibrates from within, shaking all the structures of
identification. if those structure's falling are welcome radiance and
Love will be experienced, a gratitude that is not directed towards
someone, but towards existence itself, towards the Self itSelf.
at times that resonance will encouter something in which there is
still an holding on to as real. Reaction will happen, as the shaking
off is talking place despite the resisting.
When all the peels of the ego have been chipped away nothing remains,
the same nothing that was pushing from the apparent outside as
masters, books, Life etc and the apparent within....the Light is
pushing destroying the illusion and only Light remains.
As empty shells blown by the divine Breath we will then dance in Life...our joy
just the living of it.
Enjoy my new blog!
Shakti
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