Poetry Chaikhana Blog

Accept yourself
so deeply
that you are not afraid to let go
of what is not you.

A year or ten years
or ten thousand years,
what does it matter how long enlightenment takes?
It is the only game worth playing.

The past offers itself up
to feed the soul that seeks fullness
by continuously reclaiming itself

Better to be whole and happy,
than perfect.

Opposites are not opposed,
but joined.

We dance along that seam of connection.

Stop trying
to save humanity
and, instead, learn
to serve humanity.

It is the struggle to attain spiritual awakening
that makes us strong enough to actually receive it.

Even in darkness we see,
and we see we are not alone.

Stumble
and so see the sky.

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

Everything encountered
is encountered in the heart.

You have permission
to be rude
when protecting the vulnerable.

The answer is in front of you.
Find a way to see.

Where bliss begins

everything else ends.

Be unsatisfied
with secondhand ideas about God.

Read these words, but ignore them.
The silence will teach you.

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