Cool Fire

The Lord of the Universe lives in a house that is smaller than a mustard seed.

This is a secret cave in the Heart where a cool fire burns eternally.

All Gods are but shadows of this flame, all the worlds but pictures on this screen.

From that absolute emptiness arises absolute fullness-  all that exists.

Infinite bliss blossoms unceasingly from that perfect stillness.

The darkness of suffering vanishes before the radiance of such transcendent peace.

The gifts of immortality and divinity are bestowed here.

Find this: it is your true home.

Gladly offer yourself as food to that fire and dance forever in that joy!

Saranagathi

O compassionate One, shining forever in the Heart, grant me your grace!

I am lost in this wilderness; help me return home.

Teach me the power of humility and surrender, the magic of turning within.

Grant me the bliss of emptiness, the harmony of Om.

I am drowning in this cunning illusion, O Lord,

Tangled up in time and space, struggling to find the way.

Do not leave me begging at your feet:

Swallow me whole like a python devouring its prey!

Destroy the false form of this insane ego-mind,

Let me die before I die!

Burn me up in your merciful fire- leave no traces behind;

May only you remain- no more “I”!

There and Not There.

“ Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub;  It is the center hole that makes it useful.

Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful.

Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful.

Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness comes from what is NOT there.”

Tao te Ching, Lao Tsu, circa 600 BC

Eliminate that which you are NOT; this enables you to be that which you always ARE.
Space is the source and the substance of all creation, allowing all that exists to be.

Silence is the womb and the body of all sound; it contains ,and is interwoven with, thunder and birdsong and music.

Being is the foundation of life : first you must BE, before you can know or do.

The background is more important than the foreground.

Turn your attention away from the contents: focus on the container that is being-space-silence.

It gives birth to everything, contains everything, yet remains pristine, perfect, untouched and unattached to anything.

Stainless and unchanging as the sky, this is the foundation of all , the Tao, the mother of “the ten thousand things”.

Stillness. Emptiness. Silence. Existence.

You cannot  know it, you can only BE it.

Timeless presence.

Infinite and eternal perfection.

Conscious, blissful, peace.