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?