That Which You Always Are

Wild geese flying over the mountain lake are reflected in that perfect, deep stillness.

When they fly away, where has the reflection gone?

If you know that your life is a brief reflection in the lake of the Self,

Would you rather be the reflection or the lake?

The Self is infinite, blissful, peace.

Be still.

Find the source.

Dive deep.

This is the only way.

How can one speak of that which no words can say?

There is a wisdom in your soul that is your guiding star.

Listen inwards!

Stillness and silence 

Will lead you to being

That which you always are.

If your house is on fire....

“When you're in a burning building you do not stop to admire the pictures on the wall. You get out of the building as fast as you can.” Robert Adams

The Buddha described enlightenment simply as “the end of suffering.”

This mystery is not something you can figure out with your mind.

Unless you realise you are in prison, you will not try to escape.

Until it hurts enough, you will not wish to awaken.

Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.

That which changes arises from that which is unchanging.

All that you perceive with your senses is time, space and energy dancing in patterns.

It’s all a trick, a movie, light and shadow on a screen.

Escape from the mirage, the dream, the illusion!

If you would know the eternal, the real,

Let everything else go!

I have climbed the mountains of pleasure and plumbed the valleys of pain.

I have sunk in the depths of sorrow and soared high on the winds of joy.

I have danced on the grassy plains of happiness and wept in the dark chasms of numbing grief.

I have known the tormenting pangs of bitter loss and the exhilarating satisfaction of successful gain.

In the end, it was all a dream, a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Tiring of all the suffering, of all the highs and lows and I-told-you-so’s, 

I fell in abject and total surrender at the feet of the One.

In that letting go, I disappeared!

All that remained was THAT.

Perfect, blissful peace.

Om Mani Padme Hum

“Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace.

The ten thousand things rise and fall and then return to the source.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.”

From Tao Te Ching of Lao Tse.

You took this human form to discover your true Self,

To end the suffering of a thousand lifetimes,

To find the jewel in the lotus of your soul.

Be quiet.

Sink deep into yourself.

Let the mind dissolve in stillness in the depths of being.

This is the kingdom of waking sleep.

This is the land beyond thought and feeling, beyond time and space.

This is the unchanging heart of non-duality, the ONE.

Imagine a billion universes contained in a grain of sand.

Utterly empty, but absolutely full, the centre is nowhere and everywhere.

It is the source and the substance of everything: nothing else really exists.

Call it God or Brahman or Tao, it is that shining, eternal perfection beyond all name and form.

Beyond space and time, it is infinite love, impeccable stillness, unshakable peace.

It is the ocean of endless bliss that dissolves everything.

The secret of secrets:  THAT is who you really are.
You cannot know it - you can only BE it.

This perennial treasure is always inside you, at your very core, a pearl beyond all price.

To find it, you must be willing to empty yourself of everything, to die before you die.

You must let go of who you think you are and enter the darkness within the darkness.

You must pass through the gateless gate, drop the known and the unknown and leap into the abyss of the unknowable.

While breath remains in your body, find this treasure!

This is enough.