healing

trees during the day,

stars by the night.

permanent satisfaction

nothing
in this world
can give you permanent satisfaction,
only accepting this fact
gives you permanent satisfaction.

ideal state

humans keep searching
for an ideal state
in thoughts, structures, patterns, tricks
only to realize
that it is not in any of those,
it's in silence.

looking

only
pain
looks
if pain
is still there,
don't look,
just be.

nature beckons

the natural world ---
the plants, the squirrel, the wind, the birds
are constantly telling you
that life is so much more
than just your puny little thought-world. 

allow

time to
allow,
whatever is happening,
wherever it is happening,
do, do, do to your full content.

from rm

all life
is the result
of the sun,
but would it
make sense
to hold the sun
responsible
for all life?

once you're in self

once you're in
self
there's no question
of nonacceptance
of what is.  

how to know

if you don't
push it
instead
seek stillness
you know
what to do
when to do. 

work and fulfilment

any work
can only bring
fulfilment
when there is
no compulsive need
to gain
to achieve
to become
to show. 

enemy

your ego

will make

enemy

out of anyone,

in fact,

the closer the other

in your vicinity,

the more the chances

of them becoming

enemy,

so it's really not

the other, that is the problem,

it's the ego. 

in the moment

it makes
no difference
what you do, where you are
if you are
not in the moment,
if you are not
in the moment,
suffering will indubitably ensue.

hate

if you
perceive
the other
in the same
light
you perceive
yourself
hate
does not arise. 

love

there's
love
in this
universe,
but there's
nothing emotional about it. 

clingy

there is
something in you
that is
clingy, sticky, pulling, blocking, breath-denying
and
there is
something in you
that is
free-flowing, liberating, joyous, alive.

abide in the free-flowing.

act

act,
act from
whatever level of
consciousness
you inhabit,
but act,
don't get stuck
in thoughts.
don't rev on neutral.

just be

don't force
yourself
to seek out
anything, including beauty.
just be. it's enough

source

wherever perception is
source is.
in the plants in front,
in the sky afar,
in the voice of K behind,
in the wind of the fan above,
in the appearance of the body,
in the appearance of the mother,
wherever perception falls
source is.

attention

there is only
attention.

wood

if you're
log of wood
that wants to
get rid of it's dense weight,
that wants to
burn into ecstasy,
find another
log of wood
that's burning mightily, dazzlingly
and stand next to it.
nothing else is required.  

presence

seek the
company of
presence,
it doesn't matter
whether it comes
from you or me. 

pouring rain

the sound of
pouring rain,
even on this
concrete jungle,
is so peaceful.

let's take a
moment
in silence,
and thank
the rains.

image building

don't look
for yourself
in images.

the image-building
will never stop
and will
drag you to ruins.

ask

if you
ask
when you
really need
you receive immediately. 

death

if you
know
what lies
beyond
then dying
is beautiful.

from K

Q: How to get rid of images?

K: If you say they are dangerous, you'll get rid of them immediately. 

refuse

i
refuse
to
listen
to
thoughts.

tugging at pain

humans
have a
bad habit of
tugging at pain
to see if it's gone
instead of letting it be,
thereby exacerbating the suffering.

good

the
basis
of
who we are
is
good.

that's why
it feels so
wrong
to do
something bad.

human

the most
challenging thing
is to be able to
give pure attention
to another human,
attention
that is non-judgemental
that does not jump to interpretation
that is non-critical
that doesn't derive entertainment from the other
but that is pure, silent, alert listening,
the same way
one would give attention to
a child,
a flower,
a tree,
an animal,
a beautiful lake,
a wondrous mountain.  

flowers

i've never
witnessed
as much
magnanimity
as in the
presence
of
flowers.  

mastery

mastery
means
having
attention
always
at the
source - belly.

something is missing

if you
feel
'something is missing'
don't go out
telling the world
what you have found,
because that
will be half-truth. 

spirit

the word 

'spirit'

is quite beautiful,

devoid of density,

it attacks none, infuses all.

if a bottle of vodka

is left opened,

the spirit inside

escapes

leaving the bottle empty. 

but the bottle too is

spirit,

if thrown in the fire

it too dissolves into

its essence.

ultimately all matter is

spirit. 

relax now

the idea
that one day
after some 'special' event
you shall finally
relax
is highly dysfunctional.

relax
now
wherever
you are.

direct experience

if you are
looking
to experience
the world
through
direct perception
then experience
directly
and wait in that
experience,
but dont look at
thoughts
to ascertain your
experience,
because then
the direct experience
is degenerating into
secondary experience
through thoughts.

speck of dust

a speck of dust
might think
it's moving in the wind
when in fact
it's the wind
that's moving
the speck.

greatness

the hankering search for
greatness
only happens in the
top floor, the mind,
the rest of
your body
has no interest
in all that,
in fact detests it.

wind

if the
wind
comes and pushes you,
do you get upset?

if not
then why the
stern reaction
when a person does that?

be faithful

you can't
do
anything,
just be
faithful
to every
breath
you have been
offered.

searching

searching for
Self or anything
is worthless.

things reveal
themselves
when the time comes.

just live, i guess.

the present moment

don't you get it?
you always have the present moment.
what else do you need?
what else are you waiting for?

giving space

give your
thoughts
space & kindness,
do not tug at them
for that will hurt. 

greedy

don't be greedy
for peace/aliveness/satisfaction,
instead enjoy the peace/aliveness/satisfaction
you already have.

greediness
is the antithesis
of what you're looking for.

pearl

the pearl
of all wisdom:
nothing's personal.

breath

liberation
happens
with
every
breath.

a plea to thoughts

thoughts,
why do you
cover up
the magnificence
of the wondrous rain
and the deeply satisfying energy
of the giant swaying trees
happening in the front?

home

one does not
need to work hard
to find their true home,
one does not
need to feel guilty
if one makes 'mistakes'
because at home
all mistakes are absolved,
what kind of home
would be, if it would
punish you for committing mistakes,
that would be absurd,
home is where all run
to seek solcace,
and it's always, uncompromisingly
available.

the razor's edge

when you lapse into
controlling,
let go, flow freely,
and,
when you lapse into
excitement,
come back, retreat.

live on the
razor's edge. 

unfamiliar

become
comfortable
with
the
unfamiliar,
by
letting
go
of
the
familiar. 

life saver from Kena Upanishad

Not that which the eye can see, but that whereby the eye can see: know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore;

Not that which the ear can hear, but that whereby the ear can hear: know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore;

Not that which speech can illuminate, but that by which speech can be illuminated: know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore;

Not that which the mind can think, but that whereby the mind can think: know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore.

dissolving the ego

if one wishes
to dissolve the ego,
one has to observe it,
within oneself,
as if,
you are water,
and a mound of hard rock salt
is dissolving in you.

sense of aliveness

as i look at a
swarm of sparrows
appearing in front,
appearing within me,
i share their
sense of aliveness,
it's what i am ---
dazzingly alive.

a memory arises ---
we were sitting in a park,
a huge massive ancient tree
near us,
and a swarm of sparrows underneath,
fighting.
we looked at it, alarmed,
but it was you, amongst us,
that got up, ran towards them,
and broke the fight.
there was that sense of aliveness
in you too.

another memory ---
hundreds of us, playing holi,
we, a small bunch, stood playing,
cluttered at one spot,
but it was you, amongst us,
that broke away, ran out
in the hundreds,
with a water gun in your hand,
mesmerizing all,
with your
sense of aliveness,
that you shared with us all.

i step back into my room,
feeling that aliveness,
and look at the flowers,
in front, bright purple.
nothing in this world can be
more alive.
nothing more beautiful
can remind you of your true self.

looking

look at
things
as if
they are
within you.

that helps to
break
the false
sense of separation.

i don't know

i don't know,
the space within is growing,
it's opening up,
i am seeing,
but i don't know anything,
i am open to experiencing,
it feels good,
that's all that matters,
i don't know.

specialness

when you
touch deep down
to your true identity
all feelings of specialness
are lost.

specialness?
what for?

dear crow

dear crow,
standing in the rain,
soaking the pleasures of
the soft sparse drizzle,
in attentive joy of the surroundings,
won't you share
a little bit
of your aliveness
with us
deprived 'lost in thought' beings.

displaying

the ego is
only
interested in
displaying,
showing off
how 'cool' it is,
in putting down
the other ego,
or extracting
emotional subjugation.

in
immersion
with the other,
it has no interest.

i am

i don't know
who or what i am
but i know
i am
and that's good enough.

awareness

there is
awareness
transfused through
your body
and it can become
aware of itself
and
you are that.

it's got
nothing
to do
with the brain.

expedition

the expedition
of my life
is to figure out
ways
to step out of
thought.

thinking
definitely
cannot
be a way.

nothing

i
know
nothing.

gravitate towards peace

in order to
find
yourself
do this
one thing
only:
gravitate towards peace.

kid

the human ego
wants everything
except to
come back
to its very
home
it sprung from.

baloon

a small baloon
takes form,
filled with hot gas,
it pushes upwards,
against gravity,
the gas inside is
mad excited,
baloon tries,
with all its mad might,
to escape gravity.

then,
it begins
to lose steam,
the descent begins,
it's natural,
there's no pushing,
gravity freely pulls,
baloon freely falls,
on the lush green earth,
where it pops,
and merges back,
into the infinity,
it arose from.

wanting

you can't
go
deep within in the background
if you keep
wanting.

wanting
pulls you out
in the chaos of the foreground.

every experience

every experience is
needed,
even if you think
an experience
wasn't needed,
it was,
to inform you
that
that wasn't the path.

ambition?

ambition?
what nonsense.

i want to
live, smell, breathe,
laugh, taste, watch,
enjoy, converse,
do, not do, flow.

space between

art is the
space
between our
tumultuous emotions.

art is the
space
between
incessant thinking.

art is
what
we are.

peace

wisdom means
choosing
peace
over forcefully pushing
oneself to
grab onto
some mind-made stuff.

sparrow

nothing
man-made
can ever match the
beauty
of a tiny sparrow
that appears
in the front.

fighting

if you keep
fighting
with
what is,
you'll have to
keep fighting
with what is.

and that
can get
tiring.

flow

within you,
if the
flow
is blocked,
turn to
areas,
within you,
where the
flow
isn't blocked.

breathe

when you
breathe,
the fresh life
that rushes
upwards from your
belly
is closer to your
true nature,

as it moves
upwards
entering the brain
it differentiates
more and more
further and further
away
from your true reality.

better identify
with the life
in your belly.

shut up

shut up
and
enjoy
the process of life
that is happening
to you.

slices

it's so
beautiful
to capture life
in slices,
a moment of
this cosmic dance.

any
attempt
to solidify life
in a concept or abstraction
trying to be eternal
feels grotesque.

surrender

just
surrender,
that one thing only,
then,
whatever needs to happen
happens,
whatever needs to be felt
is felt,
one does not concern oneself
with anything else.

It

It itself creates
It itself sustains
It itself dissolves.
you better surrender.

layers

the onion,
in it's great mysticality,
points to the fact
that
Life
is in layers,
one layer after another,
peels away
until
nothing is left,
and the mystery,
as it is,
is revealed.

contributions

always remember
your 'contributions'
to the world
might or might not
matter,
but your
identity
will definitely
not matter,
for it is
going to
crumble away
in dust.

so
contribute
not for the
identity
but for the
sake of
contribution.

egoic mode

as long as
you operate
from an
egoic mode
of consciousness,
there will be
resistance,
struggle to become,
forceful reaching out,
suffering.

this will be
true,
no matter
where you are
and
what you do.

demand

please don't
demand
from life.

your
demands
suck up
life's vital
energy,
and block.

instead,
let life flow
and manifest.

why not compassion?

every movement
is a
movement
to know oneself.

so why
cynicism?

why not
compassion?

the right thought

the right thought
will have no
resistance ---
nervous excitement or
gloomy anxiety.

be here

you'll never
reach
anywhere
because you
have to be
here.

equanimity

the human
ego
can't stand
equanimity.

it will
either worship
or deride.

WARNING

whatever you do
never ever ever never
try to understand
your Self
through the imagination.

it's absurd,
Reality is,
It cannot be
reduced
to images.

love

most of the time
we're in love,
except when
we think
we're in love.

desires

it's always
better
for desires to
fall away
instead of them
getting fulfilled
for they fill you up
with even more desires.

movie

the movie
is about to begin.

the curtains are
moving apart.

these curtains are
weird though,
confusing,
pain causing,
sometimes nuerotically exciting,
weird, very weird.
i'd rather just sit back.

i know the movie will begin.
i know it's gonna be beautiful.
the trailer has been seeping through.

so, all is good.

present

just become
present.

everything will
come and go
in it's
right time.

but you
stay
out of time.

imperfection

in this world
every one is
imperfect.

you, me,
the saint, the sinner,
the lawyer, the humanitarian,
the business guy, the scientist,
the dog, the cat, the philosopher,
the ocean, the volcano, the mystic,
the carpenter, the plumber, the wrestler,
the king, the politician, the writer
every damn thing is imperfect,
always was, always will be.

therefore,
the search for perfection
is
meaningless.

a simple living

there's a feeling
that one's thoughts
are always being observed.

try to stay more
in that feeling.

conversation

what you talk about
isn't important.

the opinions that are
exchanged
isn't either.

the viewpoints
also not.

what's important
is that
the conversation is
aligned
to the flow of life.

measuring progress

more joy
more love
more compassion
more forgiveness
more peace
& most importantly
more spaciousness.

on gloryfying the individual

every time
you feel an
exciting neurotic state of awe
for an individual
who you think
has accomplished the world
is the leader of leaders
is to be worshipped
is what one should strive for
is irreplaceable, unreplicable ---
think of the so many millions
who have come before that individual
so called "ruled over the world"
so called "conquered all"
so called "captured the market"
so called "enraptured millions of hearts"
and fallen.

the individual isn't important.
nobody really mattered or will ever.

attempt to exist

if you're reading this
please stop thinking
and attempt to
feel, look, sense,
attempt to Be
attempt to just exist.

the biggest dysfunction

the biggest, most all-pervasive
dysfunction
is that
one day
after such and such event
you will be
enough.

that's such a
pathetic, troublesome, excruciating
lie.

because
you already are
enough.

judgements

your judgements
about people
will always be
limiting
and so
always
much far off
from the reality
of who they are.

spiritual practice

all
work
is
ultimately
spiritual practice.

so treat it that way.

the surface of a pond.

imagine the still surface
of a pond. beautifully still.

a disturbance happens. a wave of low frequency moves forth.

the wave hits a rock. new wavelets of higher frequency propagate further.

they encounter more rocks,  smaller wavelets, many more, frequency increases.

propagation keeps happening. further and further. more differentiation, but all arisen from that one large low frequency wave.

time goes on.

then the disturbances stop.

the surface of the pond is still again. beautiful as ever.

rule of thumb

as a
rule of thumb
don't trust
anything
that doesn't
come
from
deep within.

if you're stressed

read this:
it's all good,
it always was,
always will be.

a prayer

pray
to the
sea of awareness
to
wash away the mind.

experience the understanding

if there's
one valuable lesson
i have learnt,
it's that
life is meant
to be experienced,
life is not meant
to be understood.

even the understanding
is meant to be experienced.

guilt

don't feel
guilt.

don't feel
guilty
for having felt guilt.

dealing with impulse

never act
on an impulse
instead
stay with it,
see if it lasts
for a while,
if it does,
then act.

Me

everything
you
me
i
this
that
sound
plant
light
cinema
music
people
waves
space
planet
galaxy
everything
happens in
Me.

remember

always remember
a thought is
just a thought
in your head
and will always be
a grossly distorted and
cheap substitute
for
what has happened to you
and what will.

stepping out of thought

if you want to
step out of thought,
that is, transcend it,
then
place your
attention
on something
that is not
a product of thinking,
like
a plant
a rock
an animal
the wonderful life inside your body.

on pushing pain

the desire
for pain
to go away
is actually
more pain.

suffering

we're
in it
together,
there's no enemy.

true home

when you
find your
true home
it feels
one has
finally returned
after
several hundred thousand years
of fighting
in a battlefield,

the rest is so deep.

the problem with definition

the moment
one tries to define
reality
it disappears into
the definition.

lesson learnt:
don't define,
Be.

only peace

peace
is in the
background,
always,
just be that,
that's all.

listen to Self

if the
Self
says 'stay silent'
then stay silent i shall.

if the
Self
says otherwise
then otherwise shall i follow.

if there's anything
that should be
indelible
it should be
listening to the
Self.

wound

thought
is a wound
that can be
healed
by accessing
that
which is beyond.

eckhart tolle

if you wish to
understand
the demystification and
true deconstruction
of poetry
then
eckhart is your guy.

on miracles

many people
are swayed and awed
by miracles, trans-like visions, supernatural phenomenon etc. etc.
but isn't what you see in front
already a miracle?

your true state

your true state is
love, compassion, joy, peace
so don't worry if
anger, envy, anxiety, irritation etc.
arise,
for they are not your true state.

just like how
the sky is always there,
the clouds come and go.

greatest talent

the greatest talent
in this world
is to be able to
filter out
what's important
and ignore the rest.

that's what
one means
when one says
"move on".

silly word

not trying to be melodramatic
but the word
'I'
is quite silly,
wonder where it came from.

dealing with pain

many a philosophers,
especially the nihilist ones,
have said:
the condition of the human
is only of pain & suffering.

and they are right,
but if pain & suffering
is all that is to life,
why not enjoy that too?

acceptance

accept
this moment
as if
you chose it.

the experience is beautiful.

attention

attention
goes
wherever
it's needed
the most
and
it, attention,
loves it.

so sit back n relax.

taking credit

when i, my mind,
takes credit
for these poems,
it ironically
feels
quite unpoetic,
as if the very feeling
that inspired the poems
is now being masked.

feather

a falling feather
when observed
through mind
is "just a damn feather
falling through gravity"
but when observed
through stillness
is a miracle,
a piece of art,
of astounding beauty
and wonderment.

watching desire

it's much
more enjoyable
to watch
a desire
rise
and dissolve
than
to perform it.

solving problems

the problems
that are generated
by the mind,
at the level of mind,
cannot be solved by the mind alone.

something else,
beyond,
needs to intercede.

one may call it 'intuition'.

enchanting

life is
pretty enchanting,

whether you
agree with me
or not.

doors of illusions

i'm tired of entering
doors
that transport me
into an illusory world
of excitement and suffering.

it's much more
interesting
these days
to just stand outside
these doors
and see them
disappear.

the life within

life within
has so much depth
i sense
that one need not
look anywhere outside,
that even if one stays
locked up in prison
one can find that
"the kingdom of heaven
lies within"

so happy to be alive

have you ever known
anyone
who's so happy to be alive
that occasionally he drank
cups of coffee at night
to delay falling asleep
so that he could
consciously experience
the sweetness of life
for just a while more.

i have.

it sounds bizarre.

if one is looking
for a role model
no need to go any further.

how to know your conditioning

if you truly wish to
understand your conditioning ---
the thoughts and beliefs
you carry around in your head
assuming them to be an accurate
representation of life,

then

just take a day off
and do nothing,
find a nice spot to sit,
and do nothing.

observe the thoughts that
whizz within you,
one damn thought after another,
demanding things
that should be done!
demanding your immediate, urgent attention,
it's kinda funny, to be honest,
how important they make themselves to be,
when they are nothing but
the conditioning of
your past and the environment
you grew up in.

Life is so much more than just that.

what really matters

your life experience is
only and only
where your attention falls ---
on a sound, on a vision,
on some thoughts, on a taste,
on a person, on some words,
on a sensation, on a memory
so on and so forth.

where your attention is,
that your experience is,
that your life is,
that exists.

there is nothing else apart from that.

connecting with people

why look for
satisfaction and connection
through someone's viewpoints
when you can have so much more
through their
silence, simple plain presence.

anyway
connecting to people
through babbling
is annoying
and doomed to
fail, one way or another.

organic knowledge

the best kind of knowing is when there is no contrived effort to acquire the knowledge. it just happens naturally, organically as one moves through the motions of the environment. it comes if and when it has to come. otherwise one is always in a state of unknowing.

everything just comes and goes in that brilliant field of unknowing.

the problem with thought

you cannot find an absolute guiding principle through thoughts. even if you do, you will have to constantly repeat it to yourself, remind yourself incessantly, and that is kinda weird. for ex, if you think "relationship matters" as your guiding principle, then you keep on bringing up that thought until something contradictory happens and it begins to no longer stand true. then perhaps you seek solace in a new thought, for ex. "work matters" and you go through the same set of repetitions until that begins to disintegrate and falsify itself.
if something is absolutely true, why need to repeat and bring it up constantly. hence thought is problematic.
it's useful only as a pointer to silence, which seems to have more rootedness if one is looking for a guiding principle.

Let it.

There is something in me
I sense
That is eternal
Undying
Lacks fear of death.

And

There is something in me
That bothers
That is transient
And deeply fears death.
But that is dissolving,
So let it.

Waves

Yesterday,
I saw
Waves
Rolling over the ocean.

They'd roll for a while,
And then,
Diminish,
And,
Crash into themselves,
Obliterating their existence.

I feel,
Something similar is happening,
To the identities,
I carry around in my head.

Why forgive?

Because just like
You
Everybody, through their
"Mistakes"
Is trying to find
Themself.

Iteration

The universe
Is an iteration.

We'll keep
Building walls
Against each other.

We'll keep
Suffering.

But we'll keep
Learning.

Until we realize
There are no walls.

And not
A single moment
Goes waste
In this iteration.

Good poetry

Good poetry
Is seeing the
Outside world
And finding
Striking similarities
Within.

I wish I could have that metaphorical sense. I pray.

I have a wish

The idea
That
"I, the person, am special"
Should go.

This too shall pass

Always remember,
Pain,
Like everything else,
Is
Temporary.

Just like the words you're reading,
It too shall pass.

Sufi

When it comes to
Poetry

The Sufis have been
Knocking it outta the park.

Hands down.

Fulfillment

The fulfillment
That you long for
Exists.

But it's different
From the way
It's in imagination.

It's more of a
Full-empty-ment
Than a filled one.

Participation

You might find
The notion of
Being an anarchist,
Living alone,
Free of the fetters
Quite romantic.

But it's false.
Your participation is
Absolutely necessary.

You got no choice.

Puzzle

It's much more
Interesting
When a
Puzzle
Naturally unfolds
As you move along
Rather than
Trying to solve it
Beforehand and
Contriving an outcome
And all that nonsense.

The need to be validated

It seems to me

Out of all the
Dysfunctions

The compulsive need
To be validated by
The other

Is the
Strongest.

But it too will weaken.

Deep sleep

Our lives are so different
Varied
Your experiences so different from
Mine
Different culture
Different outlooks
Different looks
Different conditioning.
Our lives are truly unique,
No 2 lives are same.

So much variation
Everywhere.

Well except when we are in a state of deep sleep. Then all our experiences are exactly the same. Pitch black darkness of bliss.

We're all one,
Atleast sometimes I guess.

Sham

I know not
About the true
Nature of reality
Where we've come from
What we're doing here
And where we go henceforth.

But I know
For sure
That the world outward
Is such a sham.

And therefore
If one has to search
It cannot be outwardly.

Not-doing

You
Do
For a long time
And nothing really happens.

Then you start
Not doing
And something
Begins to happen.

Watching

Watching
Without thought
Is a pleasure
Unknown
To the senses.

Pain

A simple definition:

Thought
When not required
Is pain.

Thought
When required
Is spontaneous
Is creative
Is unburdensome
Lacks sense of self.

Goddammit

Godammit!
It was always there,
The thoughts were occluding it.
Seriously God, dammit.

Survival vs Identity

The need for survival is
Limited,
It comes
You hunt, fight for territory,
Then it goes,
And you chill.
Look at animals.

The need for an identity is
Incessant,
It drives you nuts,
You consume, attack, ingest, desire
In a never ending spree,
And destroy the beautiful world around you.
Look at humans.

The search for an idenity
Needs to stop.
It needs to be transcended.

Don't block

The personhood
That you hold so dear
Is actually blocking
Beautiful.

Let that
Beautiful
Blow away your personhood.

Try this out

When you imagine yourself
To be someone big
You literally become quite small.

Try it out,
Close your eyes,
And just be still.
You are the massive darkness,
That doesn't seem to have any limits.

Now imagine yourself
As a person glorified.
Suddenly you have become small.
Within that massive darkness,
You have been reduced to a tiny entity,
Wanting, and attacking, and being noisy
To the world around you.

Why hold yourself in something
Finite,
When you can dwell in the
Infinite.

I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true yo.

The Dream

Memories of the past
Seem so dreamlike
One can never be sure
If they really happened.

All that's always there
Is the now.
Rest everything pops
In and out of existence
Including the big bang,
And the return to annihilation.

Good news

Hello folks!
Good news,
The "human condition",
As artsy folks say,
The "incessant suffering",
As many great thinkers pointed to,
Is temporary.
Just like "you" and "I". 

The beauty of dead ends

Dead ends are
Beautiful
Because they
Generate
The motivation
To transcend.

If it were not for
Dead ends
Help would not come.

So if
Life is frustrating you
With incessant dead ends
That's good
Because transcend.

She

Neither
You
Nor
I
Only
She.

She controls.

Happy to exist

An year old baby is
Wise
Because it's just
Happy to exist.

An year old baby is
Wise
Wiser than almost all
Adults
Because it needs no
Extra baggage
To exist.

An year old baby is
Wise,
It just doesn't know
That it's wise.
Almost like an animal.

Being an adult,
You get the opportunity
To be wise
And also know
That you are wise.

Liberation

What's the hurry
If y'all gonna gettit
Eventually?

Why the impatience?
Or anticipation
For celebration?

It's just like falling asleep
Some fall at 9
Some 12
But everyone does
And it's sweet, darn sweet
For all.

The anticipation
Can't be for liberation
Only for a sense of self.

Altruistic love

If you think
You feel altruistic love
For someone

Then next time
Pay close attention
To your "altruistic" thoughts

If you see yourself
Alongside the person
Then most probably
You are not loving the person

You are loving
An image of yourself
Enhanced by the person.

But that's all right
Just life
Chill yo :)

The burden of imagination

Things are always better
In imagination.

Because when the imagination
Becomes reality
Another imagination occludes it
Making the reality dull.

Simulation

Seems like a simulation,
Without any free will,
Without any will,
Or just one will,
It's all the same,
But don't seem like
There's anyone simulating,
Seems like you yourself
Is simulating.

Ring a bell?

Sense of self

There shouldn't
Be
A sense of self
In anything in particular.

Either
It's in everything
Or
It's in nothing.

No special moment

Why wait
for that
one special redeeming moment that'll finally define you
when you can
experience the joy
of every moment.

If not excitement...

If not excitement
Then what for Life?

The question is fair.
The answer:
Sacredness,
The depth of infinite
Sacredness.

Say no to excitement

Paradoxically
(god how much i love this word)
So yeah,
Paradoxically,
Your excitement
Is coming
In the way
Of you
And your goal.

Say no to excitement,
And the means,
Becomes the end.

The art of doing

When you do something,
Do it
As if
You are going to do it
For the rest of your life
And there's nothing
You'll get out of it
Because as you know
In the end
You're going to die
And nothing's
Going to matter.

Paradoxically,
Work produced
The aforementioned way
Is of
The highest quality.

Thank You

Thank all those,
Who've taken something from you,
Or are trying to do that,
Because when something is taken from you,
What's left is nothing or the path to it,
And that is much more precious.
Trust me.

Illusion

The best way to know
If something is an illusion :
It will fade away,
Leaving behind no trace whatsoever
Of its existence.

Just like your life. 

What is it all for?

Many a times,
I have asked myself,
What is all this for?
All the BS in the world?
All the BS people have to go through?
All the BS that is done to each other?
Why?
What are we doing here?
What is this for?
(Btw, there's an end to the BS, in case you were wondering)
So anyway, I ask myself these existential questions ---

And in return, all I get is
A big gaping hole like a black hole
Staring right back at me.
I might just get sucked into it

Process

Life is a process,
Not matter how hard you try,
There will not be any shortcuts,
You won't be able to encapsulate this process
Into laws, structure, equations, symbols, policies etc.
You won't be able to hack it, can it,
In fact, to be honest, there's nothing you can do.
Follow the process,
No better
Become the process. Surrender. 

Ego

My ego, your ego, her ego, his ego,
It don't matter.
Ego is ego, it's not anybody's,
And it needs to go. 

YouTube

Don't underestimate the power of
YouTube
It can even get you enlightened
If you're in the right circles that is 
My favorite hangout place these days is the comment section

Devotion

Verily I tell you,
Listening to philosophy (the true one) is great,
Nothing better can happen to you,
If you got access to it,
But verily I tell you,
Nothing melts the BS,
Better than devotion,
If you can open yourself up to it,
Verily, verily, verily. 

The other

Where is "the other"
If not in your thoughts,
Stop thinking for once,
And see,
Is there any other?
NO.
Then,
It just is,
Everyone just is,
One just is.

Life saver from JK

I don't mind
What happens.
(This includes everything, literally)

The importance of experience

The experience of Life
is much more important
than trying to understand it
or trying to achieve something
or trying to become something.

When you stay rooted in
the experience, every single moment,
such that there is only one moment,
and that is the now,
the paradox is,
that you know everything that is needed to know,
achieve whatever that is needed to be achieved,
and become whatever that is needed to become,
but it doesn't matter,
because the experience is
so damn good.

So whatever you're doing
experience it,
even when you're doing nothing.
(especially when you're doing nothing, actually)

Game over

The one who was playing games
Is coming out
Doesn't want to play games
No more

The architect is here
Looking at the video-game he (gender-neutral please) built

The loss of density

The greater the
Intensity
Of your judgement,

The greater the
Density
Of your thoughts,

The greater the
Accumulation
Of your beliefs,

The greater the
Certainty
Of your principles

The greater the
Belief
In the "laws"

The greater the
Righteousness
Of your righteousness

And so on
And so forth
(I'm sure you geddit by now)  

The farther away you are
From the truth.
(But you're getting there, so chill, I guess)


PS: The phrase "Don't be dense ya" bears an uncanny semblance to what i just said.

Swallow

The world appears
In front,
And asks me
To prove myself
To all.

I choose instead
To swallow you all
(It's a blissful swallow)

And so there's
Nothing left to prove. 

Freedom

The person
Doesn't become free.
Instead
You become free
From the person.

How many?

Yes,
I've heard everything,
You gotta say,
About the world, it's laws, and everybody else,
And your objections, and your likings, and what not,
But if I ask you,
Do you know anyone,
Who is truly happy?
Wait,
Pause,
How many do you think there are?

The best job

The best job in the world
Is to watch your thoughts+emotions
Then every moment
You are learning
Something true about yourself.

A simple way

Anything that is pain,
I am not.
Anything that is excitement,
I am not.

Excitement is roundabout pain.

I love you (with some caveats)

You are the ocean,
I know that,
And I love you,
Because I too am the ocean,
And we are in essence the same.

About the tiny waves you have,
In your mind,
About me or someone else,
I care not,
For those are only ripples,
Temporary, Insignificant.

So when I say "I love you"
Know that I mean
What I just said.

Two life-savers from Gautama

There is O'monks,
The unmanifested, the unborn, the uncreated, the unformed, the unknown
For if there weren't
The unmanifested, the unborn, the uncreated, the unformed, the unknown
There would be no escape from
The manifested, the born, the created, the formed, the known

and

If there weren't
Ignorance
There wouldn't be
Enlightenment.



or something like that.

Yes it's non-sense, utterly!

In your externals,

The only thing that makes sense

Is sense ---

Logic, science, rationality.

And therefore,

If anyone believes

Some other mystical lies

In this external,

Then that person

Is deceiving/deluding themselves 

& others. 

But if you can 'perceive'

Something beyond the senses,

Something that doesn't lie in the senses,

Something that doesn't make sense,

Something that is non-sense (pay attention to hyphen) 

Then that's an entirely different matter. 

And in it,

There's no delusion, deception, refuting, arguing, discussing,

Because, you see, it doesn't lie in the senses,

And therefore it won't make any sense,

Because it's non-sense.

Pimple

A pimple is a pimple
Doesn't matter if
You live in a mansion
Or if
You are homeless.

If you have a pimple,
It'll hurt.
No matter where you are. 

So what next?

People often ask me,
So what are you doing next?
And I tell them something,
"I'll be doing this or I'll be doing that,"
And I also tell myself similar stories,
"So maybe I'll do this sometime from now,"
I say to myself,
"Or maybe I'll do that after sometime."

But to be honest,
And I speak truly to you now,
And to myself,
I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE ABOUT ANYTHING ANYTIME.
I just do what feels right,
And then see what happens,
And then I just do what feels right.

Once there is stillness,
There's no need to know anything. 

Koan #1

Lose the idea
That you know everything
And then,
You'll know everything.

Planet or Space?

You look at planets,
Big dense balls of mass,
In awe,
Hoping that someday,
You might become,
As big as them,
Obstructing everything around,
And having others,
Look upon you,
With the same awe,
Meanwhile,
Forgetting the,
Infinite vastness of space,
That has so lovingly,
Contained you,
And allowed you,
To pass through.

Such a shame.

If I were you,
I'd rather be space.  

Music

Ultimately everything is music,
The sounds you hear,
The images you watch,
The sensations you feel,
The tastes you taste,
And so on.

Everything is music,
Some just flow better,
And ease the soul,
While others obstruct,
And create contraction, suffering.

Crumble

The best thing
That can happen
To anyone
Is the
Crumbling of identity. 

Universe

There is space,
In it are objects,
They change.

This is the universe,
Outside, and inside. 

Emotions

Emotions
Personalize our experience
Taking us away
From the brilliance
Of universality. 

PS: They take over your thoughts, btw.

You

You
are
not
what
happens
in
you.

The remainder,
You are.

The truth

How does one talk about it?
It just is......
What can I say about it?
I never thought this would be it.
But it is.
The secret of the universe cannot be spoken in words.
No wonder nobody believes it.
But it is what it is.
And what can you do about it?

Oneness

To be honest,
There are only 2 perspectives,
And eventually,
The other takes over,
And only 1 remains.

Travel

Nothing is wrong or right,
You are either close to the truth,
Or you are a little far from it,
But eventually it's all pointing to the truth.

Yes all your battles, criticisms, failures, shouting matches etc.
All point to the truth.

So stop fighting over the pointers,
Instead travel towards where they point. 

So beautiful

So beautiful,
No more responsibility,
No more burdens,
No more wanting this or that,
Carefree,
If something needs to be done,
It's done,
And that's about it,
Otherwise,
It's all just beauty,
Every single moment.

Mull over it.

There's only
Limited
Of what you can
Ingest, Add, Accrete, Engulf, Enhance, Swallow.

But there's
Infinite
Of what you cannot
Possess.

Mull over it. 

Sun

I can't take it,
It's just too much for me,
For I am just a ray,
And you are the sun,
And I can't bear,
To be one with you.
It's just so much,
Enormous energy,
I am not used to it. 

You chose to open the gate

Well,
Don't complain,
When,
You yourself,
Opened the gate,
In the first place,
And willingly,
Entered,
Knowing very well,
It was the gate,
To all things annoying.

A warning sign

You know,
Just today I discovered
That there is
A warning sign
Outside the human mind.

It says,
"Enter at you own risk,
  Suffering inside."

Sense of awe

What the mind calls
Ugly
or
Beautiful
is in actuality
Just beautiful
And is supposed to be looked at
With a sense of awe.

Human Suffering

I was so wrong
at
Directing anger
towards
People
Who shook my ego.

They were just doing me a favor.

But today I realised,
Not only were they doing me a favor,
But they were also trapped,
In the mess the human condition is.

My heart leaps out to them,
And I wish I could do something to assuage
Their suffering.

But all that comes out is
Silence,
No action.

Maybe Silence will assuage. 

Silliness

The entity that wants
Freedom,
Also wants
Conflict.

Silly entity.

Instead,
Just stop wanting.

Nothing

No thing
Can give you peace.
But,
Nothing can.

Rest already

Miles to go before I rest!
Miles to go before I rest!
Miles to go before I rest!

OK.
You've gone miles.
Now what?

Miles to go befo------

Rest.
Rest.
Rest already.

Feels like eons

Sometimes it feels
I've been here for eons
Playing this game of
Success & Failures
Wanting & Despairing.

I'm tired now.
Too many bad things have happened.
The old way of wanting is no longer working.
Because it has too many scars,
That prevents it from moving further, seeking out.
Like a child, that has grown up in the dark
Will always be afraid to come out.

UNLESS,
Something new emerges
To replace it.

I'm an old soul.
It has to go now.
And make way for
The original,
The new,
The always,
The unmanifested.

And it is already going,
Otherwise I couldn't have written this.

Space

In this universe,
There'll always be,
More Space
than
Stuff.

Don't you find that weird?
Given how much stuff
There is
In your mind. 

Identity

All I want
Is a
Stable identity.

So that
I can finally say
"I am this" or "I am that"
And live happily ever after.

But it seems
From my life experience
That no identity is actually
Stable.

So then what?
Will I not get to live
Happily ever after?

It seems there's
Something else ---
A state of
"No identity"
I can sense it.

I just need to
Get comfortable
With that state of
"No identity"

No more dreams

No more dreaming
Of wanting to achieve
No more forward movements
Of nervous excitement
Now
If something has to happen
It's only going to happen
From the present moment
As if it's already happened. 

Life

It doesn't make sense
For a long time.

After that,
It starts making sense.

After that,
There's no need to make sense anymore.

After that,
There's no after that.

It's as simple as that.

There is fear

It's a big difference
Between saying,
"There is fear"
vs
"I am afraid"

Because
When you say,
"There is fear"
You are no longer afraid.

Centre of Gravity

As long as your
Centre of Gravity
Is in your head
Your tendency would be
To fragment reality.

The moment your
Centre of Gravity
Shifts to your heart
The one in the center of your chest
(Yes, the metaphorical heart, some'd say)
You will see reality
As is
And love it.

If you're not sure

If you're not sure
Then pause,
Become still.

And if you're still not sure
Then don't do it.

Repeat this philosophy in a loop.

Beauty

Enough of
'Analysis'
'Critical-thinking'
'Methods'
'Process'
'Structure'
'Breakdown'
'Dissecting'

It's time for
Beauty
&
Spontaneity
To emerge

Poetry

Life is like poetry
Let it flow
By not coming in the way.