Uradiance

Ancient scriptures were meant to be HEARD as healing sound, NOT INTERPRETED as meaning. Energizing the nervous system as pure vibration, the sound of Vedic Sanskrit, Biblical Hebrew, and Qu'ranic Arabic is an objective power. But the "meaning" of the words is subjective, always reflecting the relative conditions and karmas of individual minds. You and I can hear exactly the same word, yet give it two completely different interpretations. However, if we simply listen t o the vibration of the word in its ancient language, our bodies are healed, our intellects stunned into silent beauty. This is the power of the mantras, the sound impulses of ancient scripture. When we lose that original language, and our fickle intellect translates or interprets the sounds into mental images, doctrines, beliefs, they can be very dangerous. The so-called laws and commandments derived from scripture are really superimposed by the interpreter's mind, and may be used to ...

I fell in love with Layla, the king's daughter, but she was betrothed to the Prince of Light. I did not yet know that she was my soul, cast up out of sea-foam, already lying unveiled in the shell of my heart. So I became a wanderer, and went mad in the forest. Every bursting bud was her mouth. Every bee, stinging the wildflower, drank from my kiss. I spun seasons with my yearning, turned Winter to Spring with my desire , bled under a pine, praying to meet her in death. Now listen, friend, when you thirst enough for the Gift of her face, you will comprehend a way of inebriation that imbibes nothing but the nectar of moonlight: a way to make love with the eternal Virgin. I call this way "bewilderment," because it takes place in the wild , through the pathless discipline of the forest . But you may call it a gushing wound. Yes, this practice of hopeless longing opens my chest, where a fountain of darkness effus es the great final sigh, signifying that I...

Jesus said, "Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, there Am I." He didn't say, "two or three million." Spirituality is not measured in numbers, but in depth of Presence. The 'movement' begins as a Family of the Heart, intimate, local, circular, rooted in the earth. Innocently, its vibration of love attracts others. Then the movement grows into a corporate hierarchy. Technocrats take over, with glossy websites and busy words, advertising everything BUT the s ilent Presence. They measure their success in numbers, and the depth is lost. I have seen this happen in more than a few spiritual movements and it makes me sad. If you want to get back to Presence, stop counting. You don't need to repeat the mantra a million times, just once or twice, for it to dissolve in the silence of infinite Being. In the same way, you don't need a million people, just a hug.

"Ano-raniyan Mahato-mahiyan." ~Upanishads ("The smallest of the small is greater than the greatest.") God is awareness itself, resting as mirror-like effulgence. We don't need words to pray because God is already present as the space in whom prayer arises. Awareness requires no thought to know itself, and is the answer to its own prayer. Pure meditation is not suppression of thoughts, but effortless repose in the space where thoughts are not yet born. She who sinks deeper than thought receives a new language whose words are waves of boundless silence. Listen to that song with your whole body - this is the real meditation. The deepest prayer does not ask for anything, but celebrates the prior condition of non-arising. At first, the space of awareness free from thought seems like deep sleep; but its self-luminosity awakens in proximity to the Witness who is already awake. This is the role of the Guru. The Master enters your life for...

Listening engenders silence, and silence is the mother of creation. The problem is, we only pretend to listen. While others are speaking, we're already talking back inside our heads. The art of listening begins with a mourning dove at dawn, or a peeper in evening mist, and the depth of sacred emptiness between their songs. Listening makes the whole planet fresh and green. Your very very quietness gives birth to a new creation.

Be awakened space. Use thought when a specific problem needs solving, then settle back into dynamic silence, the wonder and emptiness of a vast blue sky. People who are always thinking, but not aware, search for peace. People who are aware, but not always thinking, are peace. Meditation is not thinking. Meditation is the choice to quit the search and repose in the primordial clarity of awakened space. Realizing that 'I' am no-thing but awareness, the clouds of the past dissolve, the clouds of the future don't arise, and the clarity of Presence outshines every form. No matter how many stories the world tries to impose, they are like a mirage in awakened space. They find no little "me" to cling to. I am not a victim, and I am not to blame. Free to be born with this inhalation, free to die with this exhalation, I am available right now. I can respond. There is no other response-ability. When space awakens, simply To Be overflows wit...