Life IS the Path

There is really no use trying to separate them: spirituality vs everything else.
Life is the path and you bring your life with you all the time, after all, you are living it! Open you heart to all the things that are happening around you. The pouring rain, frustration, sunny days and relaxation. In each and every moment it is possible to relate to the sacredness of the environment around and inside of us.

Level Five

Quiet,
Still,
Open diamond lake,
the quality of mind.
Hush,
Settle,
Open diamond Heart/Mind,
Capacity is the quality of experience.

Smile,
Freedom,
is a myth,
Undefinable is the quality of being.

Cheers! I haven't advertised this blog to anyone yet. But tonight is the night. So if you are the first to check it out, let me know what you think: comments, questions, or just say "hi!"

with love,

Greg

Who knew?

Sitting and exercising my responsibility
to encounter Truth
Truth in words
Truth in sight
Truth in the darkness
Truth in the Light

Wisdom arises without effort
energy latent and pulsing
it's underneath above and moving through
every single thing that you could ever experience

Look at the Truth that arises as you read these lines
look at the truth as the words
form into notions and thought and pass out of mind-sight
and gone

The Truth of ten-thousand things
arising and falling are just
One
and
None

Whats going on - excercising first thought best thought

I am sitting in a hot and stuffy computer lab. My stomach burns with hunger, toooo much coffee as of late and I am dehydrated. Thought of headaches and keyboards fill my mind with the approaching paper deadline. I have left it to the last minute again but i am not panicking. Should I be panicking? what good would it do to pull at my hair and wonder what if? I should have? can I get another extension... I dont need another extension, i have until midnight. and midnight will come and go and i will still be at the computer, buzzing on coffee and wishing that I had a joint to move these blocks of information in to flowing paragraphs of insight... well , somebody else's insight that I have assimilated and turned into words of my own, but of course i give credit. A nice breeze. cool breeze enters the lab, reminding me that it is 10 degrees out side and I would rather be there, in the sun, in the open air, the blue sky and squinting eye smiles. but the essay call, the year end, term paper, that i have been "working on" for the last two weeks. Glancing through tomes of knowledge. ok back to work!

Sitting

By far the greatest aid in my spiritual journey has and continues to be sitting meditation. As sharp as a diamond blade, sitting meditation aids the practitioner in relating to the patterns of your own ego.

I have only been meditating seriously for about a year and a half. Before then I had dabbled in a few techniques, most notably the yoga corpse posture. While all of the methods i had tried helped me to achieve altered states of consciousness, ie. outerbody experiences, I was only ever left with disappointment as the experience faded. The spiritual materialism of, "whoa man, I just left my body..." both valuable and informative, only left me wanting more.

Soon after stumbling across Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's, The Sacred Path of the Warrior, I began practicing shamatha (peaceful/calm abiding) meditation. Still not a serious practice, peaceful abiding brought me face to face with my very loud and busy mind... I mean, VERY LOUD AND BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mind.

But at that time, I just couldn't handle it. I began to see the often disturbingly self-centred unfolding of everything I thought I was, and this was too much. Occasionally I would try to sit and meditate, but it was only for the sake of saying that i was a "spiritual person."

"Rinpoche"

There is power,
On this seat,
In this breathe,
Glance,
Expression,
Suggestion.

There is power,
In her heart,
His sweat,
Tears,
Blood,
Pain.

There is power,
In the sunrise,
Pushing the Clouds in every direction and out of sight,
The rain,
Snow,
Cold,
Heat.

There is power,
In what you hear,
What I write,
Emotion,
Response,
Rest.

Rest for a moment in this power,
Let it caress and burn your skin,
Like blades,
Feathers,
Rest for a,
Moment,
In this power,
Don’t hang on or grasp,
There is no need.

trying to figure this out... mmm..