Poetry Chaikhana Blog

The individual is really
a magical act of seeing
with no fixed eye.

Consensus reality
is a facade
of words.

Dis-spell it.

What we seek is never what we seek,
but the affect it has on us.

Use everything:
Joy, fear, success, suffering.
A seeker doesn’t have the luxury
to waste their journey in pursuit
of easy, grand experiences.

Love everyone and everything
with the last ounce of your being.
Love all until you are shattered
by love
and only love remains.

Be unsatisfied
with secondhand ideas about God.

Don’t try to control life.
Witness it.

Religion is not a fixed collection
of beliefs and rituals.
Religion, properly understood,
is a living technology
for experiencing God.

Compassion
isn’t so much a virtue
as it is a form of
self-awareness.

Anything that is beyond question
should immediately be questioned.

Real words
are born in silence

Be fully present.
Be totally naked.
Let the energy flow.
Feel everything.
Accept yourself completely.

We need to retrain our eyes to see
the spaces between and the secrets behind.

When we call out to God,
we are actually hearing God calling to us.
All of creation is a part of God,
and its every song, when heard with an open ear,
is really the song of God to God.

A helping hand
is a holy thing.

Unedited memory.
Undistracted mind.
Unbound identity.
Unlimited awareness.

The encounters of this moment
fill the world.