No one has ever sat in stillness
And not left for the better

Silence leaves a big fat love bruise
In the middle of the minds endless chatter

You find yourself bowing naked
Of belief toward everyone

Playful all day long
Kissing this and that

-Prajna

 

Meetings with Prajna

These heart warming gatherings begin with deep stillness, followed by a dharma talk and dialogues on a variety of themes related to spiritual awakening, and the joys and challenges of actualizing stillness in our post-modern culture. Prajna points to deep simple truths through words and engaged experiments with participants. “Together we look, in a very non-analytical way at how conditioned patterns of thought and belief systems refuel the tendency to create suffering. We uncover personal and collective conditioning from the past. In doing so, the minds fixation on thought and emotion relax or soften, and the body-mind system reharmonizes, true healing takes place. Together, we discover that the pain experienced from separation or feeling cut off from life, is only a sense, it is not actual. Beneath every life circumstance or story of separation is the direct experience of non-separation, oneness.” These meetings are an invitation to discover inner peace directly and to embody your truest essence.

 

 

Forgiveness Is The Cash


Forgiveness
is the cash you need.

All other kinds of silver really buy
Just strange things.

Everything has its music.
Everything has genes of God inside.

But learn from those crazy addicted lovers
Of glands and opium and gold -

Look
They cannot jump high or laugh long
When they are whirling.

And the moon and the stars become sad
When their tender light is used for
Night wars.

Forgiveness is part of the treasure
you need
To craft your falcon wings
And return

To your true realm of
Divine freedom.


Hafiz

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Your mind is steeped in the habits of evaluation and acquisition, and will not admit that the incomparable and unobtainable are waiting timelessly within your own heart for recognition. All you have to do is to abandon all memories and expectations. Just keep yourself ready in utter nakedness and nothingness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj          

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them, there is not “I,” except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

Eckhart Tolle       

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THIS
By SRI H. W. L. Poonja

Whatever comes let it come,
what stays let stay, what goes let go,
always Keep Quiet, and always adore Self.
This is the essence of living skillfully
in the world of appearance.

During all activities of life
always know that you are the Self.
The way to live a happy beautiful life
is to accept whatever comes
and not care about what does not come.

The true Teacher has no students,
all is Being and only Silence speaks.
The perfect Teacher has no teachings
because he knows that you are Free already.
So the true Teacher's non-teaching
is that there is no Teacher, no student, no teaching,
and that Nothing has ever existed.
This Teaching must be without words
and must land in your Heart.
If you try to understand, it will only land in your head.

-SRI H.W.L. Poonja "Papaji"

Expectations are illusions, so don't run after them and
don't get involved in anger, lust or greed either.
Just don't involve yourself with them.
Keeping Quiet and content is the best weapon.

Don't touch anything that appears
because it will soon disappear.
Look Within to where there is no name or form
and you will know who you are:

Freedom.

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Nothing belongs to you! It is all like the breeze.
Leave your mind as free as the breeze
by not clinging to anything.

This is the secret to happiness:
Enjoy the garden,
but do not cling to anything!

Because of the habit of going out to objects, you forget
that what you are involved in is a projection on the
screen. Due to this forgetfulness, identification goes from
being the silent Witness to becoming the projection itself.
You forget that you are the screen on which these projections are arising and passing.

Recently, especially after retreats I often hear what a great teacher I am, with such a clear teaching. Of course, I’m sure other things are said but that is the part I do not hear. What a losey teacher I am. All in all, both are false and as soon as I start feeling like a teacher, my head starts spinning. The spinning seems to come from momentarily believing that I have a teaching to offer. After I simply let that spinning happen and settle directly in to the midst of my own experience I can’t find anything, and I’m right back where I started in the discovery of no thing, nothing to teach, nothing to give, nothing to take away. This comes as a great relieve. In this relieve a very profound and pervasive Silence is the most obvious thing.

One of the greatest obstacles in the search for freedom, is the believe or idea that it is not already here, that it exists somewhere else, and that it is obtained through great merits, good karma.

SRI H.W.L. Poonja "Papaji"

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