Poetry Chaikhana Blog

Encounter every instant
entirely as it is,
in pure wonder.

It’s not that we have to find the right place to look.
It’s that we have to find the right way to look.

In two, there is only One.
In “you” and “I,” there are not two, but One.
In delusion, only One; in recollection, only One.
What work remains but to know?

We don’t float to heaven.
Like a tree, we sink roots deep into the rocky soil,
and so, year-by-year, reach higher into the heavens.

The world is pregnant with miracles.
All it takes is for us to approach with quiet and awe,
and the most mundane things open themselves
into infinities.

What we really want
is to discover
the most fulfilling ways
to give ourselves away.

Forget the rest.
What’s important is that you love
and that you act upon that love.

See everything
with a fierce eye
and a gentle heart.

Everything is an exercise
in awareness.

Yield
into fullness.

Your most secret wound

is the doorway.

There is something fierce
in every saint and sage.
How else could they free love
from its cage?

The heart, to be whole,
must break a thousand times
and be ready to break again.

Blessings work
both ways.

It is not a journey of years,
it is a journey of one full moment

Words aren’t inherently meaningful;
they are the ornaments
that accompany the flow of awareness.

We must be open-minded, open-hearted,
curious, courageous, quiet, poised…
and humble enough to not notice
our own sweet melting.