Uradiance

The 'highest path' is simply being natural. Every true Master has said, the nature of consciousness is to expand toward bliss, toward peace, in a most effortless way. There is more wisdom in the intuition of a honey bee than in all the concentration, self-control, and effort of the human intellect. Most of the chaos humans cause in the world comes from our need to control, through our own mental effort. This effort backfires and chaos is born from over-control. Religious fund amentalism is just one example of how chaos is born from an over-controlling mind. There will be a lot of chaos in 2016, and this will be a hopeful sign that human effort is backfiring. We will spring out of control, out of the old paradigm, into something wonderful and fresh: a life lived naturally, from the level of intuition, rather than the drudgery of intellectual effort. If you study the religious traditions of the West, you discover than the theologians highly d...

Analemma: The asymmetrical figure-8 made by the sun's position in the sky at a certain time of day measured from one location throughout the year. Nature is bored by symmetry, by straight lines, by right angles and perfect circles. They are imposed by our thoughts, which are extraneous to her dance. Nature loves the curve, the open knot, the graceful tangle of illusion, the mirage of past and future shimmering in empty Presence.

In the darkest place, the light is born. The mind is a busy inn. No room there for the birth of innocence. The weary pilgrim descends into a humbler, quieter place, nearer the fur and the feather. Animals know how to be still. That empty place beneath your breastbone is the womb of the Virgin. Her name is Silence.    Three kings kneel there to offer their gifts to the newborn light, who is your own Christ Consciousness. These kings are your three faculties of intellect, will, and memory. They kneel in the hay, baffled out of all thought. What gifts do they bring to you, Child?    They bring three talismans of power, talismans that every Child needs for the journey to enlightenment. They are not flaming swords or shields of invisibility, sandals for flight or helmets for seeing the future. Such mythic talismans pale in comparison to what you received at your birth as a human being.    You have worn these talismans so near to your body th...

"I will wound you for free." "But I want to pay for it." "This will cost you everything." "I have already given that." "Then give me your silence," Love said. So I renounced the mind and dove into the space between thoughts where I swam all night among moonbeams with creatures who glowed in namelessness. Just before dawn, Love severed off my crown with a scimitar of sweetness, a wave of stillness, mirage of emptiness, sword of the Prophet, forever slicing One in Two, for the sake of devotion. "Take that!" Love said. "Thank you!" cried Bewilderment, breaking the silence, opening the wound again. حوار “سوف أجرحكَ مجانا.” “لكنني أريد أن أدفع ثمن الجرح.” “سيكلفكَ ذلك كلَّ شيء.” “لقد أعطيتُ كل شيء من قبل.” “أعطني إذن صمتك.” قال الحب. فتخليت عن فكري وغصتُ في فضاء ما بين الأفكار حيث سبحت كل ليلة بين أشعة القمر مع مخلوقات تتوهج بلا أسماء. قبيل الفجر، اجتث الحب تاج رأسي بسيف من حلاوة، بم...

Happiness is energy, not thought. Happiness is not a state of mind, but Prana, the primordial bliss-energy of creation. We won't attain happiness by replacing one thought with another, by imagining, or by manipulating mental states. Neither will we attain happiness by performing "good deeds." Many people perform constant work yet remain unhappy and depressed; even though they are outwardly active, their inner energy is low. People with low prana are not healing to be with. Th e energy of happiness, the energy of prana, pours freely hroughout the universe. Wild animals and angels know how to breathe it in. When a creature of the forest is exhausted or sick, it knows how to curl up into a ball of fur, in soft green silence, to recharge with prana. Then it becomes wild and vital again. But humans ruin this natural process of graceful restoration, by trying to "do" it with their minds. If we want to receive healing or give healing, we...

If you truly taste the nectar of this Breath, you will need no other drink,  no other medicine, no other wealth, no other name for the Divine. There are billions of breathers, but only one Breath.   With your first inhalation, the infinite space of Love informed you. With your last exhalation, the infinite space of Love dissolves you. But this does not happen only at the beginning and the end: it happens now. With each Breath you are born, you die. With each Breath Love creates you, and welcomes you home.   Breathe Christ this morning. Breathe Buddha this morning. Drink the milk of the Breath of the Mother of God this morning. Here is the invitation of the Beloved, whatever name you call. Won't you join me in one infinite perfect Breath?