Uradiance

There is absolutely no need to change the world. No need to change anything. The world is changing anyway, every moment dissolving and recreating. The world is the field of ceaseless change. So if I think I need to see more change, then it is my thinking and my seeing that need to change. I get stuck in recurrent thought-loops and inflexible belief patterns. They may be "conservative" or "liberal," but if they are inflexible, then I am still stuck. I can be a stuck liberal just as easily as I can be a stuck conservative. I see the world through this stagnant mind and think the world is stagnant. So the revolution must come in my awareness before I can see it in the world. To experience the revolution, I explode my mind through meditation, and blast the top right off my skull with the breath of Kriya. Then I can soar into the stars, and endless transformation happens. This is what it means to "become the change you want to see i...

"Redistribution of wealth," either upward or downward, is a concept that arises from lack. "Creating abundance" is a concept that arises from fullness. "Redistribution" is entropy. "Creation" is life, and livelihood. There is no lack. At every infinitesimal point of space or time, even in the emptiness of the vacuum, there is only fullness, pressed out and overflowing. This is why creation happens, and there is something rather than nothing. So stop playing the victim of lack. Charge your mind and body with life energy, through the power of meditation and kriya: then start creating abundance. ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते पूर्णश्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥ ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate Puurnnashya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate || Om, that Absolute Unmanifest Spirit is this manifest material creation is full. From fullness only fulln...

The ecstatic can never be sought, or experienced. The ecstatic is the silent explosion of that which is already here before I look for it. The ecstatic is the flowering of emptiness, so fragrant with the absence of "I" that it feels no hunger to be filled. Now the world ecstatically appears in the vacuum, as the radiant afterimage of my non-arising. And this is the graceful celebration of freedom from the search.

"Few are those who shed tears of gratitude. There are so many tears of misery, but those few who shed tears out of love, they are like lighthouses for this planet. They are the purifiers for this planet. They purify their families, their traditions, their towns and villages, they re-purify this earth. "If you sit and meditate, if you sing with your heart, you think that vibration just remains with you? No, it goes all over. You purify the whole atmosphere. Such moments of gratitude are a blessing for this planet. Such moments of deep love make our life worth living." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, commentary on Narada's 'Bhakti Sutras' The early Christian saints of the desert tradition spoke of "the gift of tears," received in the Prayer of the Heart. Such tears are not ordinary tears, but tears of grace. A tear is the sign of release, complete relaxation of all your efforts. In this very moment of surrender, consciousness in...

Love pervades silence just as a blue color stains the clear empty sky... Let stillness move you. The Beloved will suffuse each breath and footstep... You were created for a kiss that is deeper in you than yourself. Let that Otherness be the dark bruise of longing in every heartbeat.

Its always tempting to believe in "another reality" just out of sight, beyond this world. But I can really only ever know one world, one reality: the projection of who I Am. If I vibrate the light of heaven inside, I already dwell in the "higher world." If I attune to judgment, fear, and resentment, if I constantly diminish myself by playing the victim and blaming others for my circumstance, then I perceive only a world that reflects those qualities and attitu des. That is why Jesus said, "The Eye (of Awareness) is the light of your body (material world). If your Eye is single (in the state of Yoga, Unity), then your whole body is full of light. But if your Eye is dark, then how great is that darkness!" (Mat 6:22) Or as my first Teacher, Maharishi, simply put it: "The world is as you are."

The one who is free feels no need to demonstrate freedom. The one who is wild feels no need to demonstrate wildness. The graceful shaman dissolves boundaries only when necessary. The rest of the time, she just dances with them.

"Her lamp does not go out at night."   ~Proverbs 31:18 I simply can't be always doing what I want, or wanting what I have to do. That is a magical childish dream. I actually don't have so much choice in what I 'do' at any given moment. Karma comes to me and I have to handle it, even when it isn't what I want right now. I can't control the present moment, but I can establish my heart in Divine Love through meditation. Divine Love is the Witness to all doing, all kar ma, pleasant and unpleasant. Divine Love is prior to what I do. It is who I Am. To rest awareness in the field of Divine Love, beyond doing and not-doing, is freedom. The only freedom. Then, though I can't always do what I love, I can love in the midst of whatever I do. And Faith is to know that the time will come, through regular sadhana, when all I do on earth will be outshined by the kingdom of heaven within. My heart is like the golden fl...