how sweet is thy fruit

how sweet is the fruit on the vine of knowledge
it tastes of created and uncreated in one
it tastes of stillness and presence
it tastes of life as it truly is
beautiful
full
mysterious
how it tastes of sweet joy
and love everlasting
put your lips to it dear seeker
taste it's fine flavor
it will not leave a residue of suffering
it will bring to your heart true life
which is undying

how you have not understood this treasure
of yours that is there to be tasted
but have turned it away again and again
how you have not felt it's sweet ripe beauty
in your veins and on your breath
if you take it in with quietude
then it sits and lives as truth
and will open up the one to the mind
how it sits ready to be savored
and is not to be as an object to be owned
it is your very soul dear
how can you take that which you already have?
just let the mind sink into it
and do not come back to taste of the world
but sink in
sink in

who is your teacher?

namaste,

this is an older poem..
a good day to be grateful and breathe in the blessings that abound..
may all be well and have a great thanksgiving day..

shanti om

who is your teacher?
and from where does your teacher come?
who is your master?
has he a home in your heart?
does he call you out of yourself to sit in the sun
and be a light unto yourself?
does he wait for you when you have
gone back to the shade to play and be alone in
your private world?
does he continue to be a light for you
even when you have gone away in your mind?
does he make your world lighter and more filled with heart?
does he live the truth and breathe fresh air into your lungs
and breathe fire in your heart?
does he say come, be free and out of this suffering way?
does he show the way out of your locked cell of thought?
does he say, live life! and be a great soul that is to be out of
the world!
does he speak clear words that come from a stilled mind?
does he betray you ever?
does he sting you when you are in pain to say "wake up"
shake off this dull way and come and be yourself for once!
be out of this mind shell! --
come and breathe truth and life and joy and sing of freedom
come and be pure and abiding in grace..
does he raise your spirit out of the dust?
does he give graceful energy to make your day more in harmony
with light and more deepened in the earth of the soul?
does he say, walk upright soul -- be sturdy and in yourself
do not betray your true nature ...
be of open heart within and not hemmed in by thought and judgement..
be still -- be patient -- be as a fearless one ...
does he love you unconditional as a child of the spirit
and a soul that will fly to the mountain where shiva dwells
with his crescent moon on his head
and his spacious being that has nothing in mind ever
untouched by form or pride or confusion?
does he say to not sorrow, but live here now
as this time will not be ever again...
so live it fully as a one that is to make this life a perfect joy
and not come back again to suffer and relearn lessons?
does he tremble at challenge, your teacher?
does he bemoan circumstances, your teacher?
does he shut himself out from life, your teacher?
who is your teacher my heart friend?
is it your world that you play in?
is it your dream that you dance in?
is it your family?
is it your friends?
is it the ache inside?
what is to make you hear and feel what is real and well
in your being?
what is to bring you to the waters of heart and purity and wonder?
who and what?
the world?
or grace?
who is your teacher friend?

always as brahman

when the sadhu comes into the path of knowledge 

he burns to know the lord that is his very own heart 

he burns to know the Christ consciousness that is forever full

and free 

he burns as a light unto himself that is to be his own counsel

which means he does not look to another to bring freedom

but walks forward facing himself 

facing his fears and false perceptions and haunting desires 

that are like a river running always 

so he comes open, the sadhu, to being purified in grace 

as he has found by experience that no road in the world 

has brought his soul rest not even for a moment 

what an auspicious calling to be in the way of seeking this joy

he knows in him that it is grace only that has brought his mind 

to turn towards the light and seek God 

he knows that he is not perfect in himself as a body and mind 

but only God can make him perfect in consciousness and bring 

about stillness to his soul

so he moves forward as a man that does not know anything but this moment 

and forgets his world of sorrow and attachments 

he forgets all that he took to be real before which is like a dream 

when he is initiated by his Guru into sannyas 

then he is to begin to go thru consciousness and his dream states 

and question them and bring the light of wisdom (Guru's grace) with him

but Guru is not a persona that is to be attached to, but the light of the SELF

Guru embodies the light of wisdom that is one and in all hearts 

not as a body and mind as ego understands it 

but much deeper and broader and within the spiritual plane

the sadhu makes his life as a path to knowledge which is tantric in nature 

which means all is seen as the path and as a means to bring the mind to stillness

all is seen as God made manifest and not different than the source 

he makes his life as a path to perfection by looking always inside his own soul

to see what is true and what is false in nature 

he does not bend to ego's whims that judge and burn of relative knowledge 

this is what the man of the world is ingrained in and this is completely opposed 

to God or the source 

it is to be as a shadow and not the light that brings freedom

it is to be like an eclipse over the full and glorious moon

it is to be like a ray in relation to the sun and not what is true 

the sadhu is the man of seeking 

whether he takes initiation or not if he is sincere 

he is a true sincere seeker and is to go forward in beauty and light 

his imperfections which are vasanas ( or tendencies) will wash out in grace 

if he continues and does not turn back

and entertain that which is transient in his soul

he will remain always as brahman

the full and undying source

the peace that passes all understanding 

have you pondered this?

how can thoughts be more important
than from where they spring?
how can writing in books be
of more interest than the emptiness
(which is full) in which they arise?
how can the wave be more important
than the ocean from which it
is made manifest?
oh soul, have you pondered this?
because this is of great concern and
interest to a man that is in pursuit of the self
because he is not to be running after the
waves any longer and making understandings
from the dust of experience
how very not in the way of bringing liberation
is this
as the building of anything will find it's ruin
eventually
and will sink back into the source of all
it will not have any permanent existence
so ponder this dear souls
and forget the movement that brings rise
to differences
forget your little self that has so many competing
desires and transient understandings
and be like the best of all
which is God
unclothed of ego (attachment to body and mind)
unclothed of suffering (attachment to body and mind)
unclothed of anything that is different than the one
open up to life
and be true
be forever unbound
like the ocean full
like the source that is
always one

how he is free

there was a seeker

that knew where he was going 

he was going to the light 

and he walked onward towards his 

destination

he walked onward on feet that were steady

he knew where he was going 

he was going to freedom

when he entered there 

into the pure waters that took away his knowing 

then he began to be still

he did not know anything anymore 

like a new babe 

that found his home in the heart 

like a newborn soul

that now only knows this moment

but is not in anyway lost 

but found 

as now the mind is quiet 

and unburdened by *knowing* 

and attempting to figure out 

that which cannot be understood by mind 

this seeker lost everything to gain all

which is peace 

he is not devoid of intelligence 

but filled with soul fire 

that is the source 

which is complete and in charge of every 

action 

every breath

every moment that is 

how he knows nothing and knows all

the one that is liberated 

how he is complete when quiet 

how he is free 

jai ma

seated in stillness
the man of purity is like
a shadowless moon
on a dark night
he puts light where there was
once suffering
he puts om where there was once
thoughts of this and that
he puts ocean consciousness
where the river of me and mine
once streamed
he puts calm where the turbulence
moved so easily
he puts night against the light
and makes this dream melt
as the sun melts behind the mountains
he is the awakening of the heart of all
how he is not of this world
or anything that is known
how he breathes stilled beauty
and serenity and light so full
how he burns of truth
how he burns of knowledge
how he burns of strength unwavering
in him the many are burned to ash
the seasons are washed away
the various appearances are dissolved
the various understandings are cut
the various shades of mind are lost forever
and the one rises victorious
as jai ma
as jai ma
as jai ma

where the sage dwells

a sage does not sit in the dark

he sits where all is bright in beauty 

he sits serene in quietude 

he sits serene in fullness

he sits as a lamp that never goes out 

he sits still and does not wander 

away from truth

if you can come to where he dwells 

then you will be stripped of your unrest 

you will be stripped of your thoughts 

that drive you to believe there is something other 

if you can come where the sage lives 

you will be what he is 

seated in the Self

is it not a most auspicious moment now 

to come? 

as the door is open to you

your birth is in these waters of clarity

where the soul will be rinsed clean

and you will be free

then you have no death that lays heavy

upon your soul any longer 

as it is simply a creation of mind 

and nothing else 

it is a moving energy that speaks of ending 

and beginning 

beginning is the moment you step away from

your fears and doubts 

and enter into the waters where all is of truth

then you are as a lord of yourself

not pushed about by thought any longer 

not pushed about by your driving desires 

how they sting, do they not?

how they call you to be of another nature 

that is not true and right 

oh soul,

come to these precious waters of all

and be like your self 

made of such wonder and mysterious life 

that is not bound 

step in and be 

there will not be a hand that reaches out to you 

and gently takes you in 

and gently washes your tears away

as your tears are only made of dreams that are not 

to stay 

the only way is to move forward 

even within your fear and doubt

breathe and rest in the steady light 

it is the only way

there will be a shake up of your world for sure 

but do not be afraid of this 

for it is a good thing to be shaken clean of your 

attachment to body and mind 

it is such a good thing 

to be shaken clean of your wrong knowledge 

you do not know anything about life truly 

until you die to this beauty 

you know nothing now and nothing at the end 

this is true 

and this unknowing is true knowledge 

which is God 

which is true peace 

come forward now 

and come and come 

until no more mind remains to mask

your true nature 

come forward