Being Human Is Not Enough

Being human is not enough. One must become a human Being. Impeccable in your practice, polish the heart with your breath until it glistens like a self-luminous pearl, the pearl I AM. 

It is because we have forgotten to practice the art of Being that we have fallen into black vs. white, left  vs. right, Israeli vs. Palestinian, believer vs. non-believer. Your homeland is not in the East Bank or the West Bank. Your homeland is not Russia or Ukraine, North of the border or South. Your homeland is the heart. 

Quite literally, this pulsing organ, in its wilderness of nerves, its vast electrical field that encircles all other hearts on earth, and beyond, here is your Om and your valley and your mountaintop. Here I Am. When you dwell in this homeland, you love your neighbor as your self, because your neighbor Is your self. 

Each of us is the unique diamond hologram of one I Am. We are a temple with eight billion windows. But we all have the same sky, and it is inside us. Please, friends, bathe everything in the light that shines through your heart. This is your work, and your play.

It shines from a pointless bindhu, a dimensionless black hole between breathing out and in. It vibrates from the infinitesimal stillness between falling and rising. This tiny Ayin Soph is the darkness in the ring of fire. And it is a divine darkness. 

From the womb of silence, Mother Nothing, worlds blossoms, stars whirl like sparks, creation is born. Would you like to practice the most radical act, the true revolution? Do you wish to bring peace upon the troubled earth? 

Then humbly follow your exhalation back to its source, which is the source of creation. Let your very next breath be the Spirit of the Almighty, the radiance I Am. Pour light into the world through your hridaya, your heart chakra. The instant you surrender, fall into your seed, and touch your divine center, you bless all your ancestors, and generations to come. Impeccably effortless, gently, softly, polish the jewel with your breath. Connect the Human to the Being. Just for this moment, taste and see! Put no noun after the verb, I AM. This is courage.