Poetry Chaikhana Blog

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.

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.