#5095 -
Monday, November 25, 2013 - Editor: Gloria Lee
How can the divine
Oneness be seen?
In beautiful forms, breathtaking wonders,
awe-inspiring miracles?
The Tao is not obliged to present itself
in this way.
If you are willing to be
lived by it, you will
see it everywhere, even in the most
ordinary things.
Lao Tsu
Ah, not to be cut off
by Rainer Maria Rilke
English version by
Stephen Mitchell
Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.
Alan Larus Photography
CRAZY WISDOM
Later, in a dream, I saw Orgyen Dorje Trolod in an
expanse of flame and light, and
he was chanting a song of Hung:
"Hung hung. Do you understand that the cord that holds
you to samsara is the duality
of subject and object? Do you understand that joy and sorrow,
your environment and
companions, are manifestations of light and dark, devoid of
true existence like a
dream? Although space is free of periphery or center, it
doesn't go beyond the
expanse of awareness. Space is none other than the expanse of
awareness itself.
Supplicating the demon above, you grasp to the buddha;
supplicating the demon
below, you grasp to delusive appearances. These are
both products of the mind
making real what is not real."
"Do you understand that all appearances are natural
projections of thoughts? Do you
understand that samsara and nirvana are nondual displays within
the ground expanse
of the absolute nature?"
"Do you understand that dynamic energy is naturally
released into the all-pervasive
nature without meditation? All grasping is devoid of
substance. Subject and object
are one taste. Myself and emanations of myself
are primordially one with the
mother's womb of the great expanse."
Then Orgyen Dorje Trolod dissolved into me.
"Samsara and nirvana are co-arising, but these are one,
not two. It is very important
to understand that the nature of being is the great perfection
of samsara and
nirvana. Don't be satisfied with just the empty aspect of the
view, but have the
all-embracing dzogchen view. Good and bad are expressions of
your own nature. The
five buddhafields are the creative expression of the expanse of
primordial wisdom.
The compassionate buddha appears spontaneously, without
effort."
~Dudjom Rinpoche, from “Crazy Dharma Of An Idiot Who
Wears Mud And Feathers
For Clothing” (From notes taken by Tara Carreon of a teaching
given by Gyatrul
Rinpoche in July, 1998, translated by Alan Wallace)
via Daily Dharma by
Amrita Nadi
In an instant
I transform all bodies
back into their perfect Light
by the power of giving
thanks.
For the tiniest creature -
blossoming pearl on the tip
of a Christmas cactus,
frost-defying scarlet
camellia bud,
this breath tumbling full
of the whole sky -
thank you, thank you!
See how easy it is
to awaken the heart?
Gratitude
is the deepest meditation.
~Fred LaMotte
THE HIDDEN
The master has broken my heart again,
this time hiding his face in a camellia bud.
I will use my breath to roll away the stone.
Do you understand this?
Have you visited the garden on Easter morning?
I will use my breath to touch the mountain
and put out even the fire which created me.
Do you understand this?
I will send my breath on the Night Journey
from belly to crown, a distance
too great for any haj.
I will use my inhalation to reveal what is hidden,
and to open Mary's womb like a rose.
Do you understand this?
It is my own exhalation that cries,
'Iqra!'
~Fred LaMotte
Incidentally, my book of
poems for meditation is now available on Amazon. It
wouldn't make a bad Holiday gift... Here is the link:
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