Category: Spiritualibus

We come and we go
Go away to come back
Come back to go away
One requires the other
Alone we go much faster
But together go farther
As each moment forms
Past as frozen in amber
Futures in a crystal ball
Another thing to let go
Go away to come back
Come back to go away
Be here now matters
As it’s all that really is
And what was imagined
Became cause and effect
To help balance the scales
Of many human excesses
Suffocating themselves
Into the healing silence
Memories and visions
The present moment
To do what we can
And be who we are
Go beyond just being
An exploding population
Of competitive omnivores
And an invasive neophyte
In the history of the Earth.

“नट सरस Nat Saras” — moon dance by a pond

Come and go with heart

Spiritual traditions hold divergent perspectives on transforming and liberating our consciousness. Some aim “to discover a ‘transcendent’ vision of life, to open beyond our body and mind and realize the divine taste of liberation… to go to the mountaintop, to have a cosmic vision, to transcend the small self, to experience an enlightenment…
“[Others] set out instead to bring the spirit of the mountaintop alive here and now in each moment of life… Instead of seeking to transcend, the perspective of the ‘immanent’ [observes how] reality, enlightenment, or the divine … shine through every moment…
“Immanent and transcendent paths are both … expressions of practice that can lead to a profound letting go and true liberation. [Many] who pursue spiritual practice in a devoted way will at some time experience both perspectives. Each way has its value, and each has its dangers.
“The value of transcendent states is the great inspiration and compelling vision that they can bring to our lives… [and] be profoundly healing and transforming. But their dangers and misuses are equally great. We can feel ourselves special for having had [such experiences]; we can can easily get attached to having them… and attachment to these experiences can easily lead to complacency, hubris, and self-deception.
“The value of the practice of immanence is its powerfully integrated approach. It brings the spirit alive here and now and infuses our whole life with a sense of the sacred. The dangers include delusion and complacency. We can easily believe we are ‘living in the present’ and still be half asleep, following our old comfortable habits.”

— A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield, pp. 120-121

From the source to the sea — going with the flow

First it rains a lot
Before the big heat
While the sun burns
Down on this planet
For humans actually
Destroy their shade
Baking themselves
In dire consequence
Of their own actions
They can try to stop
Yet hardly believe it
They’re responsible
Mostly themselves
Each and everyone
Not some or others
But we, and mostly I
I am — I can — I wish
With my entire being
Not past — nor future
Simply here and now
Starting and ending
Call it soul, and God
Or nothing but being
Sweet light and sound
Realize we can be free
Look way back ahead
Eye to eye at long last
The doors are open
Dare step out now

“Ubuntu” — I am because we are

Life is real only when ‘I am’!

“Only such a man, when he consciously says ‘I am’ — he really is; ‘I can’ — he really can; ‘I wish’ — he really wishes.
When ‘I wish’ — I feel with my whole being that I wish, and can wish. This does not mean that I want, that I need, that I like or, lastly, that I desire. No. ‘I wish.’ I never like, never want, I do not desire anything and I do not need anything — all this is slavery; if ‘I wish’ something, I must like it, even if I do not like it. I can wish to like it, because ‘I can.’
I wish — I feel with my whole body that I wish.
I wish — because I can wish.”

“As the correctness of the functioning proceeding in us of any relatively independent organ depends on the correctness of the tempo of the general functioning of the whole organism, so also the correctness of our life depends on the correctness of the automatic life of all the other external forms of life arising and existing together with us on our planet.
As the general tempo of life on the Earth engendered by the cosmic laws consists of the totality of all the tempos both of our human life and also of all the other external forms of life, therefore, the abnormalities of the tempo of any one form of life, or even only the disharmony, must inevitably evoke abnormality and disharmony in another form of life.”

“If ‘I am’, only then ‘I can’; if ‘I can’, only then do I deserve and have the objective right to wish.
Without the ability to ‘can’ there is no possibility of having anything; no, nor the right to it.”

— Life is real only when ‘I am’, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, pp. 111, 128, 136

Snails love it a lot when it rains

Initial breakthroughs
When all steps are huge
And when going from one
To two or four to eight
Is actually doubling
One hundred percent
Or one to three to nine
In reality is then tripling
Such sweet beginnings
First steps of growing
Tens to over hundred
Triggered so clearly
By conscious push
Or pull — whatever
Grasping patterns
And insights applied
Found by experience
Beyond any thresholds
To become more visible
Offered with given tools
From an overabundance
Definitely way too much
For most human scopes
But with any proper tool
All this can be handled
And brought forward
Into a global village
Spread out farther
By its potential.

“Cherry blossom dragon” — spring awakening

Father Giovanni about initial breakthroughs

“Faith cannot be given to man. Faith arises in a man and increases in its action in him not as the result of automatic learning, that is, not from any automatic ascertainment of height, breadth, thickness, form and weight, or from the perception of anything by sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste, but from understanding.
“Understanding is the essence obtained from information intentionally learned and from all kinds of experiences personally experienced.
“For example, if my own beloved brother were to come to me here at this moment and urgently entreat me to give him merely a tenth part of my understanding, and if I myself wished with my whole being to do so, yet I could not, in spite of my most ardent desire, give him even the thousandth part of this understanding as he has neither the knowledge nor the experience which I have quite accidentally acquired and lived through in my life.
“No…, it is a hundred times easier, as it is said in the Gospels, ‘for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle’ than for anyone to give to another the understanding formed in him about anything whatsoever.”

— Meetings With Remarkable Men, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, p. 240

Initial breakthroughs of spring fully awakened

Main emotion joy
When meditating
With birds singing
Welcoming the day
And relishing nature
Life, love, and soul
Not as expected
Main emotion joy
Very consistent
When just open
For what one is
Allowing all to be
Especially oneself
By granting others
All their space to be
Ever a helping hand
Together in harmony
Create sweet balance
The miracle of nature
That turns everything
No matter what ever is
Around to pure being
And with that to joy
Coming all by itself
While not expected
When given its time
And the open space
To grow and blossom
With the sun and rain
The main emotion’s joy

“իմաստուն Imastun survivors” — calling for silence

An expression of pragmatic Abram Yelov

“It’s all the same. Our thoughts work day and night. Instead of allowing them to think about caps of invisibility or the the riches of Aladdin, rather let them be occupied with something useful. In giving direction to thought, of course a certain amount of energy is spent, but no more is needed for this purpose in a whole day than for the digestion of one meal. I therefore decided to study languages — not only to prevent my thoughts from idling but also not to allow them to hinder my other functions with their … childish phantasies. Besides, the knowledge of languages can in itself sometimes be useful.”

— Meetings With Remarkable Men, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, p. 117

Main emotion joy of a toad basking in early spring sun rays