THE SPIRITUAL WAY
*SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT *
PRELUDE TO LIGHT
LEVEL ONE
Once I sat in your midst. I knew religion but not redemption. I knew salvation but not restoration. I knew the rule but not the love. So I climbed the wall alone, and now I sit just on the other side. ~ All that matters is your heart and God. Everything else is just an illusion. I wait for the sound of the love song of my Lord. Within, the vast expanse beckons me to ride on the endless wind of His true essence. So my silence is only my waiting lonely heart. ~ This love is my death, the sacrifice of my soul for others. May my demise grant entrance into the eternal kingdom for many! ~ This overcoming is only the lifting of my soul and heart above the stale essence of worldly pride and virtues that count for nothing in the true realm. All praise to the True Lord of all creation. My peace is pressed hard beneath so many chains. Death can only be accomplished when one is truly free. ~ I have flown to the stars and back. By what chains do you suppose to confine me? My skill of flight is found in the silence of the one true God. ~ Today in the wind I filled the entire valley. I brushed by each tree. I heard the song of every bird. Each human thought had with it the walls of its own prison. ~ I am a happy fool. I am no one and really nothing. But my friend, I am also lost in the fullness of the true essence. He and I are one. ~ My peace is always seen in the presence of faith. No fear is more than a saying on a t-shirt. ~ My fall was only counted as failure by those who were appointed to by my judges. ~ A single burning flame is too bright for eyes, yet it is obscured by the darkness of the blinded mind. I have seen this light and it blinded my eyes to the darkened world. ~ I found my beloved Ha, Ha. He is hidden just where you will never look. ~ Don’t be sad. Your chains upon me have been turned to dust. Your desire to confine me was a chain as well. If you will hear me, we will both be free. ~ A funny thing this love; It is neither a chain nor a gate. It carries with it the peace and emptiness of death. Now once again I can fly. ~ Where was my lover hidden? I searched everywhere. The last place I looked was within. There I found a thousand universes and my Lover. ~ All things and between all things is the full yet empty likeness of water. The true Lover is everywhere and everything. I am not ever alone. ~ You thought we were together but I was alone. Then I found Him. Now you think you are alone, but we are truly together. ~ Within is also without. There is no separation. All is one. To say I found Him within is true. To say I found Him without is also true. To say “I am” is true as well. ~ This body was just a place to put me till I found my way. ~ You can own this flesh. It can be ruled. It can be bound with chains. But I am free to come and go as I please. The fetters of the soul are gone. ~ Do not pine away after that which cannot be owned. Do not sorrow after that which cannot be lost. Turn back and find your own soul. Own that. ~ The king looked down from his window and saw the whole world. He laughed and said it is just burning grass. He closed his eyes, bowed his head and laughed again. The true kingdom was in his heart. ~ The king dressed like a peasant and walked among men. He knew the truth. ~ The man who could see well, walked all his life in darkness. The blind man had seen the light from his very birth. ~ Aha, so your secret is out. Good and evil were a sham. Blessing and cursing a myth. The path hidden behind the world of thinking and reason was as always, brightly lit. This path is the gentle humming stream of contentment. ~ At the top of this mountain I am free. I hear no voice. There is no tug on my heart. True and false are not applying. Were I to shed this flesh I would be no freer. It is the wings of my soul that have carried me up here on the wind of your love. ~ Peace was always there. But my adulterous heart had wandered away from you. Peace my peace, my glorious Lord and King, bind me in the dungeon of your palace with chains of love. ~ Sitting in the cold snow; being baked by the hot sun. You are in neither and both. But it is the cool gentle breeze that awakened me and kissed my heart. ~ All too often it is the idle rich that seek the spirit. I must speak words of hope to the poor. ~ Preparing yet a green highway in a dry and thirsty land, I have found the first gate to be the soul’s effort of forgiveness. “Give and it shall be given unto you.” ~ Like the thunder of hell, the sounds of the chains of my imprisoned brothers resounds daily in my ears, yet they will not hear as I cry unto them with the voice of true freedom. ~ The rules and laws of the religious man will be the legacy of his eternal death. Look to the skies my brothers. Look farther, look to the stars and beyond. Look yet farther, look within. There you will find the glorious majesty of your eternal King, and your freedom. ~ Why have I found this highway to be full of jagged stones. For this highway to be clear the heart must be pure. ~ In the Word of His power my soul was spoken forth. That Word is yet speaking and will speak. ~ Awake, awake! Open your eyes. Open your eyes. The whole earth, all of it, is filled with His glory. From the slightest blade of grass, to the greatest mountain peak, and the fullness of the expanse between the two, plus so much more, is the eternal essence of the one true Lover. So awake, open your eyes. That which your eye falls upon, if truly seen, is capable of manifesting the fullness of truth, the Great I AM. ~ O Lord, teach me to cast aside the stale bread of this earthly bond, and I shall be sustained with the sweet sugars of your love. ~ I have found my self the one, at the very center between the lover and the loved, between the giver and the receiver. There are not two anymore but only the one. And the one is all. As I become nothing, I become the one. ~ It is the intense beauty of the one who loves me, that has left me broken, bare, and crushed, without strength or will. There is no hope of recovery and I have found myself begging for more. ~ The scale of justice is the lonely beating heart of your prophet, who waits for the release granted by your love and tender words. I have found freedom inside these walls. The mind and reason are the prison that I so proudly built, but like the flowing waters, you have shown me the free path of the stream of mindless contentment. ~ Stillness, silence, beauty and peace, were always here. Just beyond the killing thought or the proud building blocks of reason, or the deadly knife of envy: stillness, silence, beauty and peace. ~ Who are the masters that will help us peek back into the moment and help us find our way? What is the price or value of such help? Where will I lie my self down for the emerald treasure of such a friend as that? Help me find the way. ~ I have fallen. The happy fool is me. I have seen myself and God. It’s a great mystery. I am the happy fool, the clown, the drowning man and God. Find that. Yes, I say, search and find that. ~ This is the magic of an earthly pen: to write the beauty of love on paper for all to see. Love is the perpetual death with joy, laid down moment by moment for others, as though the life was only leaves falling from trees. ~ I have caressed His face. I am undone. When I thought of myself, I found I was not worthy. So I quit thinking. Casting self aside, I was able to find God and this me and caress the face of the Sun, the beauty of my Lord and King. ~ Chopping, chopping, we strike at one another not knowing any truth. From our pulpits and steeple houses we arm the ignorant to bite and devour one another. Stop brothers. Stop sisters. Gaze into the eternal eyes of God and find that you are all only one. Stop hurting yourself and God. ~ You are the Gift. I am the gift also. God is the giver. You are not my brother or sister, you are me. God is the gift and all are one. Two or three is the great deception. ~ I am not writing a book. It is really more of a map. This life of time is the road. Your heart is the motorcycle. Find your way home, and ride carefully. ~ Say to yourself, “Please stop hurting me.” Then do it. Love is the only truth. To love one or to love all is only to love yourself. To love God is to look beyond the illusion and just be. Say to yourself, “Please stop hurting me.” Then do it. ~ I saw you sitting alone today. You were thinking about me, but God was looking over your shoulder asking why you felt so alone. Please wake up. Please stop and open your eyes. He is here right now. Forget me. I am the illusion too. ~ It is so hard to see when my eyes are filled with this fantasy. Peeking just beyond the world back into the moment I got a glimpse of truth and saw that I was blinded by the gray colors of the great illusion. So I chose to let go, to stop having care and concern. I only live now, somewhere in the heart of the center of the moment. When are you? ~ Like true justice, all water flows to level. He that has two must give to him that has none. Then I know that I shall eat each day. The Lord has been fed, and we shall all sleep well tonight. ~ For a lifetime I dreamed a dream. Then I woke up and found that I could let go, for I was no longer alone. ~ I have shown you only what you could see from your own window. Were you but able to lay down all attachment and climb from your self made prison, you would see so much more; the all, the nothing, the One. ~ Peace, peace, I cry from the quiet places, but you still have preferences and only know the one, as two or more. ~ High upon my hill there is no strife, nothing to own or possess, or protect. If you find everything to be the One, what will you defend? ~ Fear is the lie that binds you to the place where you will never know God. Peace and contentment are trail marks on the path of life. Lay down your backpack, and your clothes, and all you try to drag along, and hike naked and free to the mountaintops, the stars and beyond. ~ Like a yes or a no, somewhere between the world and God lies a simple decision. But the world, like a prison or the arms of a beautiful woman, will hope to never let you go. ~ In the tipping glass, the water always remains level. Now my caste has no bounds. I am the king and the beggar. I laugh, because once you know the Lord, there is never a need to beg. ~ Free of passion and desire, I walk on the wind and dance in the treetops. There is no longer any effort to the climb. ~ Love is this water that has found level between all men. You would better be able to withhold air from your lungs than to stop the flow of His serving love. ~ I found that the eagle has been calling me. He whispers, “Come up here. It is easy on these winds. Best of all, no one will follow you.” ~ When God calls, He calls only my soul. I want to take everyone with me, but he will hide if I do not come alone. He is everything and He is the private secret lover. ~ His call does not cease. It is the drum that beats with the melody of true life; the rhythm of all existence. ~ You keep tying your ropes around me. You keep handing me bricks to build walls. You try to make a rule that will stop the rain from landing on your roof. That which is, is free. Give up. Stop trying. Die if you have to. ~ You asked me for peace. I was surprised that you couldn’t see it. It was right there under your imagination, and fears. ~ Love stopped on your corner today and whispered your name to me. We talked of your thoughts and selfish ways without understanding why? Why don’t you stop blaming and judging and just love? We talked for a bit then love went on its way. ~ You must build a very wide nest for love. Everyone must be able to fit in it with you, and everyone must be welcome. ~ True socialization is only the pouring forth of love from the cup of silent intercourse. ~ A disciple followed me up the mountain. When she saw my brother the bear, she screamed. She was afraid he would eat her, so he did. ~ The first gate is the gate of forgiveness. You must go through this gate to go through this gate. So you must open the gate as well. ~ Standing alone at the garden gate, I cannot seem to obliterate the faltering gray images of this world to find the resplendent colors of the true garden. I am indeed undone. We all truly stand each moment before the gate of paradise. Shall we go in? ~ The time has come to reveal the veil that conceals the everlasting heavens. You are trapped in the illusion of the colorless self. You, the self, are the veil. ~ All that matters is your heart and God. Everything else is just an illusion. ~ Religion is a fortress. Imagination is a walled compound. The mind is a high security prison. Escape quickly you crazy worldly soul. You have the keys to open the gates. It is your surrendered, vulnerable heart that sets you free. Contentment! ~ On the mountains you held my hand. In the yard you made the tree dance. You are always there to reassure my forever doubting heart. ~ Open the eyes of this simple one. One night, as through the window of a passing train, I caught a glimpse of a small lamp. It sat in the middle of a path that led to your golden city. Open the eyes of your simple one. A glimpse is not enough. ~ I have trod to the edge of the world. Behind me lies the life of the deadly empty self. Before me lies only a single step. In this place, fear and unbelief have become my greatest chains. ~ A line has been drawn and I have seen my soul. I have made all the wrong choices. The line shines brightly on my soul. I am all and every evil. Turn away from me for your own sake. I will be the one to disappoint you. The light of this line is so bright, that it burns away the hypocrite, and reveals the truth. ~ Flying just above the treetops there are no limits to this drunken monk. Go where I will, you are there filling my empty cup and winking at me. ~ You are the light on my path that leads me to these strange and unlawful places. The clouded mind of religious laws is fading and I find myself holding the knife that cuts the cancers from my soul. It is these strange and unlawful places that weaken and destroy the self reliant fraud. ~ The day I fell, is the day I lost control. The day I lost control, is the day I surrendered to these rushing torrents. The day I surrendered is the day my weak eyes began to open. Now I bow to my master providence and submit in contentment before my angry judges. ~ There are claw marks on the back of the one who flees from the tiger. Rather turn and face your brother always. ~ The day I found myself flying among the stars, I found them to be just as bright, and just as small. We are only limited or intimidated by our perceptions. ~ Just picture God as holding everything tightly to our planet. We, the trees, the animals, the buildings, and everything else are not falling off because of His loving steady gentle pressure. I laugh because we always think we know which is up and which is down. Our upside is always down. ~ A goose, a deer, a bullet, a pawn, a king, a dollar, a fist, I have seen God in all these and so much more: a kiss, a whisper, a glance, a cloud shaped like the very serpent himself. ~ Is it a woman that stands between man and God, or is it his passions, desires, and appetites? You are the only one standing in your way. The lust for the illusion is your chain today my brothers. ~ Close your eyes. Turn off the illusion. Find your true self. Find God. Two is the lie. There is only the One. Don’t get lost in the millions that are the illusion. Close your eyes. ~ You are me and I am you. To say I am Christ is true as well, for as one of the least of these, I was fed today. There is only the One. ~ Between you the million, and you the One, lies a strange gate. This gate is somewhere between your heart and the edge of your body. Blow the gate up, and we will fly together across the heavens. ~ I saw a spider on a mirror. I saw my own reflection in the same mirror. God is traveling the world looking for His reflection. ~ Always give. Always forgive. Always love. Always comfort. Always help. Always share. I hear your every thought. I see if your hand is extended to take or give. Don’t try to be like me, be me. ~ Show me the coin you have hidden in your pocket. Have you saved it for the needs of the friend or yourself? The money of the giver just falls out of the sky. ~ Why so many gates? Why so many thoughts of self? Is the king content with riches and power? It is the empty cup that can be filled. The empty cup is never seen in this world. It is never restricted. I am always tipping my cup over. ~ Pride keeps sneaking up on me. It is the deadly lion that someone must be feeding. Is it I that fed this killer? Have I scorned humility? Have I traded treasure for the noose of death? This pride is the chain of the many. Against what or whom does the One measure itself? ~ I was sure I had seen myself today. He was sitting in a very high place. So I quickly hid in the lowest place I could find, where this tyrant would never look nor find me. ~ To rise half a step above nothing, is to miss the all completely. ~ This path makes no sense to the structured or religious mind. It is the strange wanderings of the perfect shepherd that have captivated my soul and crushed my perceptions on the path of no self. ~ I am longing for another glimpse of the rainbow flames in your gorgeous eyes. I am longing for another touch from your hand that leaves me as dead and breathless. It seems deadly, but I’ll take the chance. ~ I woke up this morning and told myself that time is almost over. Step in the path now. Yes my friends, only now. ~ When are you? When is God? “I am” is only now. ~ It is only while there is yet breath in the body that you must find Him. There is no progress in the grave. Do not pick up the deadly notion that you will know Him after death, if you did not know Him while yet breathing. There is yet a little time. Waste not another moment. Find detachment. Find your way, now, for there is no later. ~ I know your true poverty. You call it riches. But I see beyond the veil. Empty your pockets and fill your heart. Be not chained to this world, this illusion. Break free. Find detachment. Find peace. Love! ~ Within each of us is the child that remembers its way back. This world lulls that child to sleep so that the way will be eternally lost. Let go of this world little one, and awake to the truth. For only those who are awake will find their way home. ~ With my eye, I see your eye and where it is turned. Turn away from the world and look to Me. Look toward your true home. ~ Today is not a chance, but a gift. In order to receive it, you must give it away. ~ This world will leave its mark on the flesh of those who are able to really turn away. ~ So what I say unto one, I say unto all. Turn away from this world and leave everything behind, down to the smallest binding thought. Live with me and all your days in the flesh will be days of contentment. ~ Detachment from self, and the world, will be your path. The world will hate you. It hates what it cannot control. Cast your gaze into mine and come away with me. ~ I was about to say, I love you, when I saw the inadequacy of the phrase. I reached out to the universe and beyond for the true communicator of my heart, and the final perfect phrase was gifted to me. ~ I AM YOU ~ I am you, is the finishing of all earthly thought and spiritual searching. ~ Whether you are my brother, my sister, my enemy or my lover, I am you. ~ Whether it is I who says it, or God, I am you. ~ You see I am the king and I am the pauper. I am the strong and I am the weak. I am everything and all, I am content. I am you. ~ Whether I am looking to God, man, the eagle, or the little child, I am you. ~ Why would I hurt you or take from you? I am you. ~ Why will my eye lust for that which is yours, when I am you? ~ Why would I start a war to enslave or bind you? I am you. ~ Why would I steal your peace? I am you. ~ I am God. I am man. I am every molecule in the universe. I am you. ~
Look at me. See me. Love me. I am you. END PART 1
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True Humility is living in an abiding state of rest completely empty of personal preference. Unless you become as a little child you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. An infant has no eyes for itself. An infant is almost completely unaware that it exists. An infant is just joyfully aware. Namaste
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Wow that was very well written allowed me to reach deep inside myself, in a very personal way ( just me ) alone, but not by myself. Thanks you brightened my day.
Praise the Lord! I like both of your blogs. I know that they will be a real blessing to those who read them.
God bless you in your ministry.