Poetry Chaikhana Blog

All exploration
is self-discovery.

The awakened heart
is the true church.

Be just selfish enough
to insist on what is
spiritually important to you.

Opening, seeing, and serving,
these are enough.

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.

Take no one for granted.

Every single person
is a universe of being.

The agitations of the mind
are addictive.
Break that addiction
and see what the still mind sees.

It’s not about success.
It’s about character
and presence.

Freedom is not escape,
but deep presence.

There’s that silent Self within,
a stranger to us,
seated in wordless immensity.

The ego itself
is the veil of Maya,
both hiding and, ultimately, revealing
Divine Reality.

The goal is to become a non-believer,
to abandon belief — and dogma and hearsay —
in favor of direct knowing.

Each kind act
and simple insight
is a victory.

When that door opens,
does it really matter
how long you waited?

Meditation is not what you do,
it is what you are.

A book and a building are not enough.
The human spirit needs cathedrals of trees,
towering mountains, and fields
of spring wildflowers as places of prayer.

People become violently obsessed
with rules and traditions and texts
only when they have lost the sense
of what they really point to.