Category: 2023 spiritual

Conspiracies
Come and go
With spirit
Inspirations
More or less
Intermixed
In illusions
Or believes
Try action
In reality
See what
Crumbles
Facing life
And love
If it drops
Or rises up
Supposed
As a truth
For some
To believe
With spirit
Conspired
Religion
Detach
Be free
In spirit
Miracles
Of all life
And love.

“Fused oriental occident and occidental orient”

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, 13th-century Persian poet

“Learn the alchemy true human beings know.
The moment you accept what troubles
you’ve been given, the door will open.
Welcome difficulty, as a familiar comrade.
Joke with torment brought by the Friend.
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes
and jackets that serve to cover,
and then are taken off.
That undressing,
and the naked body underneath,
is the sweetness that comes after grief.”

“The hurt you embrace becomes joy.
Call it to your arms where it can change.
A silkworm eating leaves makes a cocoon.
Each of us weaves a chamber of leaves and sticks.
Silkworms begin to truly exist as they disappear inside that room.
Without legs, we fly. When I stop speaking,
this poem will close, and open its silent wings. . . .”

— A Year with Rumi, Daily Readings, Coleman Barks, pp. 341 and 333 (also on YouTube 14:43-19:50, read by Coleman Barks with music by the late David Darling)

Sparrow recovering from glass wall conspiracies

Words and values
To communicate
Or simply noise
To get attention
And influence
But it’s true
Individuality
Of one or some
Feeling as many
Wish they were
Any given status
Flushed far out
For freedom
At long last
To simply be
Passing on
Values found
While living
With words
Outspoken
And read
Else lost
On pages
Forever
Here
And
Now

“Blue sound step ahead” — all the same and different

All you fight against, you are — words and values

Lately he recalled a thought from his youth, from when he was a teen. It went something like this: “That all you fight against, you are, that is something which is. So stop fighting, and you are!” Well, it took him over half a century to come back to this and to a point of realizing and living this by being just himself, increasingly free of fighting, accepting nature and life in every way, to let things and beings be, let life be as it is. Indeed, after all, that is something which is!

No words, just an image of untold value

Why hostile
Not friendly
When is clear
Not strongest
But together
We prevail
Here now
And always
No matter
Where when
We light up
A corner
In sounds
Of silence
And love
Harmony
Of all life
And spirit
The divine
And God
All free
Choose
Friendly
Beyond
Hostile
So clear

“Louder Call for Peace” — again

Imagination as obstacle or detriment

One can come “to the conclusion that imagination is a negative […] faculty which he cannot control, and it always carries him away from his more conscious decisions in a direction in which he had no intention of going. Imagination, in this sense, is almost as bad as lying, for he starts to imagine something in order to please himself and, very soon, he begins to believe what he imagines, or at least some of it.”

— The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, p. 305

Once a lake, now a meandering river — nothing hostile

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

I hold my promise
Thanks for inviting
But my freedom is
Outside of temples
Especially of dogma
That’s limiting clearly
While claiming much
Including liberation
But more enslaves
In subtle business
Most in want-to-be
More and yet more
Instead of just be
What we all are
Soul, sparks o’God
As everyone teaches
In the core of heart
Before imperialism
And absolutism
Poisons a well
If leaders let it
Or try to oppose
Under the banner
Of keeping it pure
What one wrote
A long time ago
Whether to help
Oneself or others
That tells it all…

“Back in open time and space” — at long last

Know one thing — I hold my promise

“No problem is given man which is greater than himself. Each being is tested according to his capacity; none are tested beyond it. Each problem which man encounters has a spiritual solution, and each person has his troubles at the point where he is most negative and vulnerable.
“Whosoever knows one thing therefore knows fully all things, for truth in one spiritual thing is inseparable from the truth of all things.”
— The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, p. 209

Coleoptera — option to co-operate with a lion

“Blue glacial melt water” — soundscape

Kesamutti / Kālāma Sutta — Buddha’s “charter of free inquiry”

“Don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought ‘This contemplative is our teacher’.

“When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted and carried out, lead to welfare and to happiness’ — then you should enter and remain in them.”

— Kalama Sutta: To the Kalamas, translated from Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Ruminating peacefully — Schtilli zum Gniesse / Silence to be relished