Uradiance

Lovers of God can't spell. God's name wanders through every sound from Alpha to Omega, from Ah to Hum, containing all vowels and consonants in the music of our mistakes - the sound of frogs rehearsing for dawn, the sound of chrysanthemum buds gurgling rain into their seed bellies, the sound of lovers turning over in the dark, making love before they wake, and this sound - listen! - the blood tumbling down from a mountain of silence through the whispering forest of memory into the sparkling pool of your heart. Good luck spelling that name of God! A sigh, however it comes out, is true. What breath is not a revelation? The frogs pause, then start over again. They'll get it right. The peonies burst open, do you hear their cry? What morning is not the morning of the world? When your longing is sincere, whatever sound it makes is God's sweetest name. Remember what you said when you discovered a newborn fawn gazing out of the long grass with the eyes...

The pain of loss is where we taste Reality. Nothing is more real than this pain. In this very contact, we awaken and become more alive. Grief deepens the heart, but it hurts so much. I cannot say, "Be happy" or "Offer your pain to God." What would that mean? Those words would be an insult to your reality. I can only say, "Be completely true to your pain, awake to how it feels this very moment. Don't try to get rid of it. Go 100% into your pain and see what happens. See how you become alive!"

1. Truth is never in the object, only in the subject. Truth is not an external power that compels us to believe, but an inner light that empowers us to choose the reality we love. 2. Love is the nectar of Unity. The most profound spiritual practice is not relationship, but the dissolving of of two into one. From the one, waves of love spontaneously arise, without an object of desire. Unity is not attained through devotion. Devotion arises from Unity. 3. Yoga is not the science of restraining thought-waves in the mind. Yoga chitta-vritti nirodhah (Patanjali).Yoga is the art of watching thought-waves play, however wildly, in the shoreless ocean of  awareness, until we see that they are only waves of silence.

"Your old life was a frantic running from silence." ( Rumi ) Every religion is a vocabulary that expresses the Silence between the words. There are many words, but only one Silence. Please don't get stuck in the word. Let the word take you back to the Silence.

On the pathless path to being here, there is a transition that is not often discussed. Perhaps it is a secret, but it can be confusing. I speak of the transition from the Guru without to the Guru within. A seeker finds a Guru and takes initiation on the Guru's path. So far, so good. But at some point, if the Guru is a real Guru and not just a robe and a pair of sandals, the Guru without awakens the Guru within. When the inward Guru awakens, seeking falls away. I no longer feel a compulsion to go to the ashram, take more initiations, or follow around the master's physical form. I no longer hunger for the master's glance, for I bathe in the golden glance of the Guru within , who irradiates the world from the sun in my heart. Is the inner Guru me   or Thee ? They are two in freedom, yet one in gratefulness: the beginning and end of a single, constantly pouring stream of gratitude. The inner Guru is infused with the fragrance and emblazoned with the face o...

Dear one, perhaps it is a medical condition, then again perhaps your head is crowned with Presence, your heart is graced with rays of pure Being and you sip the nectar of Amazement. Honor your blessing, find others who honor it too. This world is just a reflection, this world is just you and it sparkles with Friendship.

Why do we go to 'self-improvement' seminars? We can't begin self-improvement until we know the 'self' we wish to improve. Yet when we discover the nature of the self, there is nothing to improve: quite literally. The self is no-thing. The self is pure capacity, empty space totally alive yet boundless, welcoming absolutely everything just as it is. Who is improving? The solution to our problem is not another guru, meditation retreat, or non-duality seminar. The solution to our problem is seeing that there is no problem.

Potting soil is for orchids. Be a weed. Grow anywhere. Root down in stuff that people throw away. Let wind take your seed to the edge of the field where loam is black and generous. Even in a path of stones, find the crack and grow. God loves weeds. God takes care of us.

       Gettysburg Battlefield Whatever the trouble, whatever the battle, it happens in a stillness. You are not the battle. You are the stillness. We get a glimpse of this stillness when, for a little while, the guns stop firing. Have you ever visited the hallowed ground of Normandy or Gettysburg? There is such peace, such sacred stillness where the battle once raged. It's why we come to visit. We feel the stillness and say, "Ah, this is what we must have been fighting for." But is the stillness created by bloodshed and pain? Or is it a stillness that was always there, and can now be briefly sensed in the cessation of struggle? Peace is not won by fighting, but by surrender: surrender to the Presence that is always already here. Our world's survival depends on whether all of us, on both sides of the battle, learn to find the stillness of our true nature, without killing for it. Perhaps we imagine we must leave the field of conflict to find peace, go somewhere q...

President Obama is now the target of at least as much hate from the Left as the Right. This means that he carries twice the negative energy projected by Americans than George Bush did. People say, "nothing has changed." Maybe what hasn't changed is our negativity. "But I am so weary with trying to be positive!" No need to be positive. Just don't be negative. Drop the negative mind and its projections. Find the silent center of your heart, the space where you have nothing to fear and no one to blame. Then see from there. Act from there. All it takes is a quantum threshold of our population to practice this, whether on a peace march or washing the dishes, and America will change gracefully.

The unbroken heart blames. Only the broken heart can forgive. Therefor let us break each others hearts with forgiveness. In this world, we are all to blame. All of us are born with blood on our hands. For us, only one option remains: to forgive, and to forgive, and to keep forgiving in a ceaseless pouring stream .

There is no such thing as thinking outside the box. Thinking is the box. Transcend thinking, drop the mind, leap into boundless thought-free silence, and see ! Then thinking will follow you there to build new boxes.  'I have been outside the box, and it's weird!' - Willy

The world as we know it will end in a few years. How does one prepare? Rest in the heart. The world as we know it will end in a few months. How does one prepare? Rest in the heart. The world as we know it will end in a few days. How does one prepare? Rest in the heart. The world as we know it will end in the next breath. How does one prepare? Rest in the heart.

"Out of Joy all beings are born; in Joy they live and grow; to Joy they return. Who could live or breathe if there were not this Joy in which we dwell?" ( Taittiriya Upanishad ) Joy is the spontaneous liberation of awareness in the present moment, unstained and uncaused by the past. No matter how much we have achieved, our achievement cannot create joy. Joy is uncreated. No matter how much we have suffered, our suffering cannot discredit joy. Joy is unconditioned. Joy has nothing to do with our resume, success or failure. Let us rejoice, for joy cannot be ours! We may call it God's joy, or nature's joy, but not ours. Perfect joy envelopes creation as sunlight bathes a mountain, as mother holds the infant at her breast, as a radiant cloud of energy enfolds the electron. Happiness vibrates in every twig and bud, every sparrow's song. Happiness saturates each cell of the human body. But when we claim this happiness as "my" happiness, it vanishes. Joy ...