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LOTUS OF THE HEART
All is Welcome Here
Living in Love beyond Beliefs
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A man is traveling abroad and sees what appears to be a monk. He, also, sees what appears to be a monastery being built in the background. He draws near the monk. He says, "Sir, you must be a monk belonging to that monastery." "Yes," replies the monk, "I am the Abbot." The man says, "Well, I am so glad to see another monastery being built." "Oh, the monastery is not being built, sir," replies the Abbot, "the monastery is being torn down." Bewildered, the man asks, "Why?" Says the Abbot, "So we can see the Sunrise?"
We are bound to be surprised, in any deep spiritual process of awakening, how so much of what is good and holy has to be let go of, left behind, in our being led from "God" to "God" - even "God" as an idea, an object, a belief, is left behind by those who are theists. Ultimately, we are left with nothing, for anything would have been between Grace and us. What remains is what has always been alive but hidden to us - Pure Knowing, which is Pure Love. So, if you think you can surrender into the flow back to Grace, by Grace, and keep your religious or spiritual benefits, like sweet goodies, you are wrong. You can keep nothing, and you become nothing, certainly not what others say you are or think you to be - for they live in a "place" you no longer live in and from. In Truth, you live nowhere, so they have no idea of your glorious knowing, in which you have given up claiming to know, or amazing capacity to Love, simply by being you and apart from doing something, not even claiming any capacity to love anyone. You become so ordinary as to be totally unlike the ideas and beliefs of so many that spiritual awakening, or heaven, would be totally other-worldly in appearance. Rather, such is so normal to show awakening spiritually is from a life that is esteemed normal and natural, but is abnormal and unnatural. Heaven is nothing like persons say, then, for they cannot see heaven, so such remains a belief, a hope, or some spiritual ideal so vague as to be practically worthless. The highest efficiency and the most profound doing is Pure Knowing, or Pure Love, and this is before any action occurs, but is the wellspring of all true doing that is both good and beautiful in itself, for everyone, everywhere, together.
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What I see
is more beautiful
than I can see
that You, Beloved,
are and appear
But how, my Love, now that Love
comes from nowhere and goes nowhere, yet,
while not forever, always Is and cannot become other?
I remain, somehow, then,
awash in this Mystery -
My Love, none other than You
And from this Darkness beyond darkness
I speak, though of You
words are awry
and Silence silent
*Mar 6.2016
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