Validation versus Certainty

If we crave
  external validation
then we are still
  uncertain

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Mind Vacuum

The mind
  abhors a vacuum
Scoop it out
  and it will
  like sand, refill

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Mu

For me Love is a
  contaminated word
I will use Mu instead

For me Mu is a
  transcenditive verb
beyond subject
  and object

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Awareable

Everything
  Every atom
  Every galaxy
is Awareable

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The Constellation of Time

Once we stop
  connecting the dots
We discover that
  they are but dots

(dimensionless points
aka pointed nothings)

Or stars—
  for are not
the constellations
  our connecting
  stellar dots?

The most amazing
  confounding
some go so far
  as to say vicious
sleight of dots
  is our connecting
  this now with
this very same now
  in stitching
together
this constellation
  we call time

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Barrier

Our biggest barrier
  to climb
is our conviction
  that we cannot

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Telling

A wise man said—

Even if I could
  I would not tell you
  or attempt to describe
Truth

Rather, I will tell
  how to seek
  how to intuit
  how to aware
Truth for yourself

Rather, I will tell you
  how to see
  how to know
Truth for yourself

All other telling is
  superfluously
  worthless

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Wishful Thinking

That is just
  wishful thinking—

Then again
  sometimes
  wishful thinking
  works

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Family

Ego and Mind are
  if not identical twins
then at least siblings

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Dress Rehearsal

Awakening is like
  a dress rehearsal
for death—
  It gives you like
a dry run at it

It’s die before you die
  so you can truly live

—Adyashanti

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The Nature of Ego

Ego is clearly
  not your self
It is just a verb

—Adyashanti

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Waking Up

Life is a dream
  that’s near enough
impossible to
  awaken from

Not impossible
  mind you
just near enough
  while dream gluttony
consume us to death

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A Fatal Balance

There was enough
  truth in what he said
to reach my heart

There were enough
  lies in what he said
to poison it

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Sizes

You are not the size
  of your head
You are the size
  of your notion of your size

You can be the size
  of an atom, just like that
You can be the size
  of the Universe as easily

When you are the Universe
  seventy billion light years
is but the distance between
  thumb and forefinger

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Accident Prone

Enlightenment is
  often accidental
Meditation makes you
  accident prone

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I Want To Write

A poem so fine
  so true, so great
It’s very words
  evaporate

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A Solemn Vow

This is my promise
  to self—
If I have nothing to say
  I will say nothing

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My Upanishad
  The Atman Song

Play me Oh, Brahman
  I am your instrument
Please play me
  true and fair

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Your Silence

There is a language so
beautiful that it is never spoken

There is a deep sort of silence
that may never adequately
  fall into words

That, I tell you, is more valuable
  than any jewel
  or any diamond

—Meister Eckhart

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The Carrot

Of course sex
  is a carrot
not a stick
  or the species
would die out

Or we would
  never engage
in activity
  so ridiculous

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Definition of Ego

Atman keeping
  Brahman at bay
is the definition
  of Ego

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Homo Hubris

The hubris of Man
  as spawned
  by Nature—
We know “better”
  than Nature

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Transparency

I strive to
  dehindrance
  my body
to transparent it
  to fade it

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Direct Experience

Direct Experience
  is simply
the unfiltered
the unaltered

One could even say
  the mindless
without its
  normal
  connotations

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True Stillness

There is no stillness
  quite as still
as just being

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Unknowable—Knowable

In Stillness—
  the Unknowable
Silently
  Gracefully—
Knowable

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In Meditation
  Says the Sage

Be empty and desireless
  cold and thin
  simple and genuine

—Hongzhi

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Outside—Inside

Not only are you outside
  you are the outside

Why then this foolish dream
  that you can only reach
  the outside from inside

Let go the inside and its
  trillion little traps—

You will find yourself
  outsider than you
  ever dreamed of

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Simplify

I shall simplify
  myself away

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Peace

Body at ease
  is called at rest
Mind at ease
  is called at peace

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Recognizing Truth

Said the Buddha—
  He who is concentrated
  through meditation
sees reality as it
  really is

Recognizing truth
Recognizing lies

What could be more
  important in today’s
disinformation climate?

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About Ceasing

One thing you can
  never cease
is your true Self

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Awarenesses

Awareness of form
Awareness of feeling
Awareness of mind
Awareness of phenomena
That is the Buddha’s path

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Russell

“Make tea, not war.”
—Bertrand Russell

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Saving the World

I will save the world
  by being as good
  as ever pure
as can be

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So Fatally Human

Fatally Human—
  Impervious to logic
pervious to greed
  Impervious to love
pervious to hate

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Teamwork

After a lifetime
  of scouring
the world for
  eye to eye
  teachers

I have found two
  who complement
  each other
beautifully and
  truly—
Adya and Wolfe

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Hat Bonanza

Had Harris won
  sales of new
  MAGA hats
would have gone
  70 million overnight
to confuse the MAGA
  faithful about
whom to shoot

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Absorptive Jhana

Another word
  for absorption
  is trance
Another word
  for trance
  is oblivion

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Intention is Karma

Of course
  Karma is Intention—
Intention creates
  Effects lag behind
sometimes nanoseconds
sometimes centuries

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