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About Adyashanti

Timeline (1962 - )

Adyashanti, Adyashanti poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry

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Original Language
English

A Tendency to Shine

Themes

Fire

Light

Perfume

Recommended Books

	My Secret is Silence: Poetry and Sayings of Adyashanti, by Adyashanti

If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
your mind's clothing
with more sooty knowledge.

No, I have something else in mind.
Today I hold a flame in my left hand
and a sword in my right.
There will be no damage control today.

For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.

So don't just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.

Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.

-- from My Secret is Silence: Poetry and Sayings of Adyashanti, by Adyashanti

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