Do you know who you are? You are my daughter. Look at the crown of light on my head; it is your crown, too. You are my daughter!
I swim in the Ocean of Bliss. It is the ocean you are invited to at all times. Just remember – you are my daughter!
Watch over the mind that wants to get stuck in old ways and old habits. Once you are unmoored, set loose, it creates even greater suffering to go back to what was.
For the boat, once sailing on the ocean, cannot return to its same port, with its same cargo. It must sail to its destination, and leave its cargo there.
Sail, my daughter, to the port of Amma! Leave all your burdens and your treasures, too. She is great enough to hold all you are and will become.
Once you leave all of yourself in this way, you will be so light, the course you are to follow will illuminate itself, on its own accord.
For love is a beacon, in a lighthouse. Amma sends out the light through your heart, and when you follow its glow, you know exactly which course to take.
Release ideas of what you “should” do and open to the realm of Amma’s Divine Bliss.
The beacon is not there simply to warm your heart. It is there to shine the way so that you do not get stuck on the rocks of this world’s illusions.
It is there to reveal your course with a pathway of light.
You have seen synchronicities, and dreams become manifest. What are these, but illuminations, showing you the shore where Amma resides?
You feel that you must spin the wheel of fortune of your own boat. But this is mistaken.
Only Amma can ever turn the wheel. The Divine Beloved is always at the helm.
The personal will is only in service to the Divine will. If it is not in service to the divine, it is in service of the lower self, and only creates trouble.
Let your boat be guided by the greater Hand. Surrender is the only way.
This isn’t to say don’t take action. But in every action, ask for illumination. And in illumination, ask for correct action.
You are my daughter. Your way is guided. You simply need to open your eyes, in every moment, and find the beacon of my Heart.
Om Namah Sivaya
Friday, September 18, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Gentleness: A Writing of Words Given During Meditation
Gentle beings brought to Earth by Divine hands cannot force their work in this world. Their work is gentleness, and gentleness, like a spring flower, will bloom in its time.
Those whose work it is to become -- and bloom, and bring fragrance and delicate illumined petals of being -- will have teachers. Your teachers are tenders of your soil, and they are also the soil that you are planted in. So have no worries about the teaching. Pay attention to all that arises in your life as the teaching.
I am here and will always be. Your work, my child, is to listen. Listen to me, and listen to all that you have been given; listen to the richness of your life.
And then ask, where is there no Teacher? Where is there no pure love, shining through the darkness? I am your brother, speaking to you from a place that is not so different. But bright – beyond illusion.
Watch your doubt, bow to doubt as that part of you that seeks only the purest light. But do not indulge in doubt. Turn your doubt into seeking, and in that way you will not stay in the dark house of doubt for very long.
Pray for others, for in so doing, you do not hoard love but become a vessel for love. Remember who I am. I have always been I am. Look at the letters that I have written on your heart. Not words, my child, but a language. As it is written in heaven, so it is written on the heart.
This is why to listen is the work you must do. Form must return to formlessness, if only for a moment, so that it can transform. And formlessness must enter form, for that is the Way.
Dissolve in Me, so that I can give you rest. Let me crack you open, so that you can understand my Ways.
Those whose work it is to become -- and bloom, and bring fragrance and delicate illumined petals of being -- will have teachers. Your teachers are tenders of your soil, and they are also the soil that you are planted in. So have no worries about the teaching. Pay attention to all that arises in your life as the teaching.
I am here and will always be. Your work, my child, is to listen. Listen to me, and listen to all that you have been given; listen to the richness of your life.
And then ask, where is there no Teacher? Where is there no pure love, shining through the darkness? I am your brother, speaking to you from a place that is not so different. But bright – beyond illusion.
Watch your doubt, bow to doubt as that part of you that seeks only the purest light. But do not indulge in doubt. Turn your doubt into seeking, and in that way you will not stay in the dark house of doubt for very long.
Pray for others, for in so doing, you do not hoard love but become a vessel for love. Remember who I am. I have always been I am. Look at the letters that I have written on your heart. Not words, my child, but a language. As it is written in heaven, so it is written on the heart.
This is why to listen is the work you must do. Form must return to formlessness, if only for a moment, so that it can transform. And formlessness must enter form, for that is the Way.
Dissolve in Me, so that I can give you rest. Let me crack you open, so that you can understand my Ways.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The Wheel of Life: Practicing Loving Kindness
When we tune into the rhythms of our lives, and just notice "what is" rather than "what should be," it can give us great perspective. There is humility in acceptance. So much of out mental capacity is wasted on creating scenarios of "what should be"! Imagine if we simply dropped those constructed stories and sank our awareness into the beauty of what is.
In accepting what is, a kind of magic widow opens in the heart. We are wired for gratitude, for kindness, and gentleness. I've been reading the "Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama, and he suggests that the deepest happiness is rooted in loving kindness. When I first started my meditation practices, I thought "loving kindness" was a trait I needed to develop toward others. But further on in my study, I realized that the biggest missing piece was loving kindness toward myself and my own life.
When we turn our awareness to accept "what is" in our lives, we are kind to ourselves and how our lives are unfolding. We stop beating ourselves up for why we have not achieved certain things or developed in certain ways, or whatever the form takes. And the beautiful thing is, that once we stop beating ourselves up with "should," we innately stop beating up others with this lack of acceptance. The whole system relaxes.
In fact, a lot of relationship disjuncture can be cleaned up in a moment. Just taking time to be with -- to really stop and notice and accept what is right before you -- can make all of the difference. We can also take this perspective of the world around us. While we see many things that are not right, it takes a lot of pressure off of the system to accept, simply, things as they are.
On 9/11, a friend invited me to pray and meditate with her and another friend, to direct our attention to helping "hungry ghosts" -- souls who have not accepted their own death and are stuck in an "in between" state -- and send them to the Light of God. We were particularly focused on those annihilated by white people on our soil -- Native Americans, Black Slaves....Only when we had finished, my friend realized the connection to 9/11 and the annihilation of that day.
After our gathering, I revisited an image of a sacred wheel that came to me in meditation, and I wrote down these words. The sacred wheel is the wheel of life itself; the rhythm of our lives in the context of the rhythm of life itself.
The sacred wheel turns itself;
The wheel that spins light in
All directions is the wheel of the
Sacred Heart. There is nothing to do
But listen. When you listen to
The turning of the wheel, you see
That all is as it should be, and all
Is as it will be. The sacred wheel
Is held by the Deity and is turned
By the gentle motion of form
Entering into formlessness, and
Formlessness entering into form.
When willing beings gather
For the sake of listening and being
Used for sacred service, their
Forms are transmuted into light
And are used in ways that are
Incomprehensible to the mind.
The sacred wheel has no beginning
Nor does it have an end. There is
No one inside the circle of the wheel,
Or outside. The wheel itself is a concept
Given for understanding.
The only thing you need to know
Is to surrender to that which is
Always greater. In that surrender,
The miraculous is not
A concept but a lived thing.
...
Accepting what is, we surrender to what is, knowing that the design of our lives is not created by us but by much larger Hands. Opening the heart to this acceptance can be confronting, because it brings up all of our stories that we hold onto so very tightly. "But...I don't like this about myself...." "But...I don't like this about him...."
Loving kindness is a place to start. All it takes is a small act of service to open that window. A prayer, a flower given, a flower planted, a poem written and shared, a hand held, a gaze shared for just moments longer than is habitual. A bath taken, a breath slowed down, a cricket thanked...Serve gently and with awareness, and then watch what happens inside at that moment.
In accepting what is, a kind of magic widow opens in the heart. We are wired for gratitude, for kindness, and gentleness. I've been reading the "Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama, and he suggests that the deepest happiness is rooted in loving kindness. When I first started my meditation practices, I thought "loving kindness" was a trait I needed to develop toward others. But further on in my study, I realized that the biggest missing piece was loving kindness toward myself and my own life.
When we turn our awareness to accept "what is" in our lives, we are kind to ourselves and how our lives are unfolding. We stop beating ourselves up for why we have not achieved certain things or developed in certain ways, or whatever the form takes. And the beautiful thing is, that once we stop beating ourselves up with "should," we innately stop beating up others with this lack of acceptance. The whole system relaxes.
In fact, a lot of relationship disjuncture can be cleaned up in a moment. Just taking time to be with -- to really stop and notice and accept what is right before you -- can make all of the difference. We can also take this perspective of the world around us. While we see many things that are not right, it takes a lot of pressure off of the system to accept, simply, things as they are.
On 9/11, a friend invited me to pray and meditate with her and another friend, to direct our attention to helping "hungry ghosts" -- souls who have not accepted their own death and are stuck in an "in between" state -- and send them to the Light of God. We were particularly focused on those annihilated by white people on our soil -- Native Americans, Black Slaves....Only when we had finished, my friend realized the connection to 9/11 and the annihilation of that day.
After our gathering, I revisited an image of a sacred wheel that came to me in meditation, and I wrote down these words. The sacred wheel is the wheel of life itself; the rhythm of our lives in the context of the rhythm of life itself.
The sacred wheel turns itself;
The wheel that spins light in
All directions is the wheel of the
Sacred Heart. There is nothing to do
But listen. When you listen to
The turning of the wheel, you see
That all is as it should be, and all
Is as it will be. The sacred wheel
Is held by the Deity and is turned
By the gentle motion of form
Entering into formlessness, and
Formlessness entering into form.
When willing beings gather
For the sake of listening and being
Used for sacred service, their
Forms are transmuted into light
And are used in ways that are
Incomprehensible to the mind.
The sacred wheel has no beginning
Nor does it have an end. There is
No one inside the circle of the wheel,
Or outside. The wheel itself is a concept
Given for understanding.
The only thing you need to know
Is to surrender to that which is
Always greater. In that surrender,
The miraculous is not
A concept but a lived thing.
...
Accepting what is, we surrender to what is, knowing that the design of our lives is not created by us but by much larger Hands. Opening the heart to this acceptance can be confronting, because it brings up all of our stories that we hold onto so very tightly. "But...I don't like this about myself...." "But...I don't like this about him...."
Loving kindness is a place to start. All it takes is a small act of service to open that window. A prayer, a flower given, a flower planted, a poem written and shared, a hand held, a gaze shared for just moments longer than is habitual. A bath taken, a breath slowed down, a cricket thanked...Serve gently and with awareness, and then watch what happens inside at that moment.
Friday, September 04, 2009
Listening for David's Spirit Wisdom
This writing came after asking for guidance, remembering my teacher and his vast reservoir of wisdom, knowing that this wisdom and guidance has not passed into ash, as his body has. It remains with his spirit, which is not limited by time or space.
How can I expand?
The eagle has flown
The dance has begun
The great kachinas are on the mountain, holding the medicine for the world.
Do not look for ways to serve yourself.
Tend your body as a temple,
But then open its doors
Wide, and invite the world in.
The light you have seen
when you were with me is
not my light. It is the light
that penetrates all darkness.
To see it, you must close your
Eyes, and bury your old self and old ways.
Then, practice seeing the world
As a playground for the Spirit.
When you play in the Light of
Consciousness, it reveals its
Subtle nature to you.
So play with art, with water,
With pencils and pens,
Play with children and
Sand and clowns.
When you need me, I am here
Not as you knew me,
Think of me as the man
Who has joined with the
Eagle Spirit. His crown
Is bejeweled with the joy
Of ten thousand light beings.
Om Namah Sivaya
How can I expand?
The eagle has flown
The dance has begun
The great kachinas are on the mountain, holding the medicine for the world.
Do not look for ways to serve yourself.
Tend your body as a temple,
But then open its doors
Wide, and invite the world in.
The light you have seen
when you were with me is
not my light. It is the light
that penetrates all darkness.
To see it, you must close your
Eyes, and bury your old self and old ways.
Then, practice seeing the world
As a playground for the Spirit.
When you play in the Light of
Consciousness, it reveals its
Subtle nature to you.
So play with art, with water,
With pencils and pens,
Play with children and
Sand and clowns.
When you need me, I am here
Not as you knew me,
Think of me as the man
Who has joined with the
Eagle Spirit. His crown
Is bejeweled with the joy
Of ten thousand light beings.
Om Namah Sivaya
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