tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35739864726050206172024-03-13T08:00:50.567-07:00RoshiThis blogg is about Non-duality. Roshi is an alias. Nobody is invited and everybody is welcome.Roshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-24668591160518873102012-09-03T00:33:00.004-07:002012-09-03T00:36:57.254-07:00Think of everything you know and take as reality to be a balloon you look from the inside, and suddenly you realize that you are outside looking at the same balloon. IT is the SAME balloon seen from another perspektive. Seen from the inside the world seems to bee big big big , the experiencer looking at the balloon. After the shift, the experiencing looking at the small balloon from the outside. <br />
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All ideas, all that ever can be known belongs to the balloon and the stories never, never touched the seer or the looker. From the inside ( the identified character, the "me") everything is a problem. From the other perspective it is seen who the problemmaker is( it has always been empty, hollow. He was never there). The balloon is empty from inside and it is empty outside. There is a Reality ( balloon ) but for no-one special. <br />
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"We" are "nothing" looking and experiencing everything.<br />
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Namaste <br />
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RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-85637748418960495152012-03-10T04:57:00.001-08:002012-03-10T04:59:25.092-08:00You cannot miss yourself!The Self knows how to find itself better than any teacher or anything else. There is no way to avoid it. You cannot miss yourself!<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-4889860685635412122012-02-17T02:14:00.002-08:002012-02-17T02:44:14.970-08:00Benjamin SmytheBenjamin is inspiring to listening to. A beautiful talk....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqcRB8MqOQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqcRB8MqOQ</a><br /><br />His homesite:<br /><br /><a href="http://benjamintsmythe.com">http://benjamintsmythe.com</a><br /><br />/<img class="aligncenter wp-image-973" title="" alt="" src="http://benjamintsmythe.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/243123_188928674492044_100001247390757_529618_5239009_o.jpg?w=319&h=546" width="319" height="546" /><br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-5237070736870948672012-02-14T02:17:00.002-08:002012-02-14T02:46:18.781-08:00Shunyata, a Danish mysticI love the story of Baba Sorensen....<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sorensen">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sorensen</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nonduality.com/shun.htm">http://www.nonduality.com/shun.htm</a><br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-58578470093190435412012-02-14T02:03:00.003-08:002012-02-14T02:18:24.008-08:00European MastersThere is a interesting site for those who are looking for european teachers. I like the clips, the site is running by Premananda (<a href="http://www.premananda.de/">http://www.premananda.de/</a>). Good questions, I would say:<br /><br /><a href="http://conscious-websites.com/blueprints_european/low/index_en.html">http://conscious-websites.com/blueprints_european/low/index_en.html</a><br /><br />Quote of the day:<br /><br />Our own self loves you more than you.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-54641804124622001342012-02-02T06:12:00.000-08:002012-02-02T06:13:59.696-08:00!Rest in the observation and recognize what sees.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-52306922860083119472012-02-01T01:09:00.000-08:002012-02-01T01:10:54.458-08:00The moment-If you let go, stop holding, you will bee free and here. If you make the moment your priority. <br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-64043032570163952642012-01-30T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-30T04:06:24.511-08:00The magicEven when I do not get anything out of this situation, the question is; "<strong>W H A T </strong>can I give?"...that's the magic. Then all is given.<br /><br />Keep looking around, what to put back.The hidden harmony, what needs to be done.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-4386067047495825482012-01-24T03:37:00.000-08:002012-01-24T03:47:20.358-08:00non-dualfroudeThe ultimate froude is the non-dualfroude (!). Because now you think you got "it". This non-dual stuff cannot be wrong. Non-duality has the intellectual answers to everything. But the heart knows....still something is missing....what? That we can only answer for ourselfs.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-34791854048516166622011-12-20T02:04:00.000-08:002011-12-20T02:21:34.177-08:00A tip !On the net there is a number of interesting sites wich provide videos on the subject. Here is some of them:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.here-now-tv.com/">http://www.here-now-tv.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.conscious.tv/">http://www.conscious.tv/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/">http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nevernothere.com/">http://www.nevernothere.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://batgap.com/">http://batgap.com/</a><br /><br />Quote of the day:<br /><br />Thats why you call the search the self- knowledge this "who am I?" or the hint "that the I that can percieve can't be YOU This is the "not-finding" who you are. There is an absolute "not finding". You look in all places, in all situations...you look in the "real" world, the formless world, the mind, the awareness...and you do not find yourself...and in a glimpse of a second you realize, possibly that...."ALL WHAT YOU CAN RECOGNIZE CANT BE WHAT YOU ARE and THIS IS - THEN"----nothing has happened.<br /><br />That this story of that buddhist who tries to tame his mind/know himself...you start in the world,- you see, the world is not real, you then move into the formless, nothingness, and realize, thats not real neither. You examine the awareness then, and you see YOU can be aware of this too so you can't be the awareness neither so then you go back to the pub and keep on drinking.<br /><br />Karl Renz <a href="http://www.karlrenz.com/">http://www.karlrenz.com/</a><br /><br /><br />Good luck!<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-48608743958096719862011-10-26T05:43:00.000-07:002011-10-26T05:45:37.053-07:00(?)That we expereience anything at all is remarkable, when you think about it. What or where is this experiencing entity? And how is it that we know with such great certainty that we exist at all?<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-23040321561066588932011-10-25T06:37:00.000-07:002011-10-25T06:40:06.024-07:00Seeking and findingWhen the seeking drops or falls away doesn't mean tha you stop finding.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-46112119239423995822011-10-18T06:24:00.000-07:002011-10-18T06:26:52.968-07:00All over the placeThere is no "me" to find, because the "me" is all over the place, it is everywhere.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-27590523058055749192011-09-07T09:43:00.000-07:002011-09-07T10:17:19.631-07:00My words...Take away the "me" from everything that is happening. Nothing disappears; the world is still there, but in an impersonal way. The world is free of the mind. The mind was the disturbance. It is quite and still, relaxation arises. The "me" thought is not necessary....If the "me" identification is taken away, what is left is your natural state.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-74051617228794294892011-04-12T06:08:00.000-07:002011-04-12T06:10:28.976-07:00Looking.....Did you know that the universe is looking at himself through your eyes?Roshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-9736457235522847162011-04-07T00:48:00.001-07:002011-04-07T00:49:32.387-07:00ShadowsTurn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Namaste RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-77413508336599711822011-04-07T00:48:00.000-07:002011-04-07T00:49:31.870-07:00ShadowsTurn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Namaste RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-51847603600030430752011-02-26T02:55:00.000-08:002011-02-26T03:10:48.978-08:00"What is life all about?A close look in the main questions about our self and life in general. It could sound like;<br /><br /> "What is life all about?<br /><br />A good question, isn,t it?<br /><br />or...<br /><br />What is it in me that makes this life happening to "me"?<br /><br />or...<br /><br />What am I asking??<br /><br />Where is this life?....in me....or outside of me?<br /><br />Is there any line between outside or inside?<br /><br />I cannot find it.....who is trying?<br /><br />I just cannot know....<br /><br />Maybe life itself.<br /><br />The thinking needs an answer but not life itself.<br /><br />Life is enough into itself.<br /><br />:-)<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-61534977958285021132011-01-20T07:43:00.000-08:002011-03-03T01:00:38.531-08:00My StoryMy search of the truth begun in my early youth. The big questions were hanging around all the time. Such questions which everyone naturally sometimes question. Once I was on a visit to one of my dearest friends and was reading a magazine for seekers. I read an amazing article of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I felt a great yes to his way of explaining things, his quotes and comments. On some level he made a strong impression on me, I wanted more. At the same time I read books of TM-meditation, J Krishnamurti and of a Indian Guru called Sri Aurobindo and his movement. One of the main books this time was "Journey to India" by Paul Brunton. His struggle and search for a true Guru in India. He finally met Ramana Maharshi after a long struggle.<br /><br />There is a saying in India, which I read in the book, it goes; "when the student is ready the master appears." In other words, I do my best but ultimately it is not in my hands. That quote somehow felt true.<br /><br />One Event also in my early youth I still have a great memory of happened when I was walking on a small bicycle road. Suddenly there was a so called jump in consciousness. My sense of a personal self was crystal clear. My identity as a person felt complete. Before there were just the world, but now there seem to bee a world AND a 'me'.<br /><br />The teenage period was chaotic, confusing, anguish full and lot of seeking. I wanted to do something with my life, I was after the Big One, to be famous was nothing, to be rich was futile, I was after God himself. India seemed to have something to offer, I looked for the east, Yogis , Gurus, Avatars, Buddhists and so on....After a while, I think it was 1984 I met a disciple and a devotee who was initiated to a Indian Guru from north of India. I was young and open to anything, he make a great influence on me. He as a person was also the total contrast to me. I saw that there was alternative way of living, to be. I had found a friend for life. This maybe sounds odd but it is just a way of expressing what took place. I could see that he was a light onto himself. He was luminous. That integrity, being, presence that light so to speak shine in the pictures of his guru. I wanted to meet him, I wanted to be initiated at any cost.<br /><br />One Zenmaster wrote a book called "the three pillars of Zen". In one chapter an American housewife got a great awakening experience, a satori after a retreat, I would say. It hit me quite hard. She said;<br /><br />"I am dead, there is nothing I can say is 'me'. There in reality has never been any 'me'. It is just a way of explaining things, a image in the mind, a pattern. I was dizzy and immensely happy. Everything that I gazed at radiated of beauty. In reality there is nothing to know. The physical world is an endlessly ocean of movement, time existence. But at the same time an infinite ocean of silence and emptiness. Every object is transparent and alive. ....there is nothing to do. to 'be' is a complete action in itself."<br /><br />The point was that can this happened to an ordinary American housewife, then it can happened to me too.<br /><br />In the spring of 1985 I was allowed to be initiated by the Gurus represent ant in Sweden and in the following winter I met the Guru in Bombay. I was 'doing' meditation, vegetarian, non alcohol, and still reading a lot. Rajneesh, Castaneda, Tibetan called Tartan Tulku (Time, Space and Knowledge) and a Swedish professor on sociology called Kaj Håkansson (The unseen), the Tibetan book of the dead and so on.<br /><br />My first meeting with mother India was a big chock. The heat, the smell mixture of diesel, dust, incenses, spicy food, latrine, open fires, burnt rubber. Beggars, the horrible traffic, noise and faces everywhere. I was lost in this chaos. But in away I was familiar with chaos, I had it inside. After a while a great love started to arise to Bombay and India. A feeling of being at home. This is the true life; chaos, insecure, colors, traffic jams, people, faces, nothing works in the way you want. Beautiful, life as it is, how it is.<br /><br />By heart I knew that my Guru was 'true' but there were lot of stuff in the teaching that didn't fit, it didn't make sense. I tried to 'make' meditation but it was a catastrophe, the body was acing everywhere. Something was wrong, but I didn't knew what. I was young and confused. Life was miserable. Identity crisis. Concepts, concepts, talks and words.<br /><br />Anyway, two main points was clear "Anything that leeds to meditation cannot be wrong and what is in India is here to. Where ever you are, you are there". This was my newearned guidlines.<br /><br />Between 1985 and 1990 I studied Indian Astrology. Interesting indeed. But the main lesson from these studies is how to see how concepts, believes has a great impact on the mind. The minds attempt to control future at any cost, manipulate God for its own purpose. Trying to figure it out what’s Gods next step would be. If you try use astrology in order reach a better life or finding some truth in it you will be disappointed, it is interesting but useless. My experience. I missed and longed for the juice of life. Life was desert like. Life was a mixture of working for a living, trying to make some kind of relationship to the other sex, and the constant seeking for the truth.<br /><br />My Guru and Rajneesh (now Osho) passed away the same year 1990. A new Guru succeeded my guru and a new era toke off with a new approach. But the main thing was that the meditation did not work for me. Where is the fireworks, when will the goods be delivered, I was confused. The contradictions in the teachings. Concepts. Where is the real stuff? Inside the teachings explanations were lacking. As a spiritual map it seem to be a catastrophe, for me anyway. Maybe it works for others but not for me, who knows.<br /><br />In 1990 I made a journey to The new Gurus Ashram and hade several talks which cleared up some issues. I could sense the same radiance from him as from my former guru. I was happy. Still impossible to sit in meditation, even if I tried. I hade a lovely time in the Ashram. Everything has an end, this to. But now there is some kind of a trust, or faith was growing inside. India in my heart forever.<br /><br />I met the new Guru for a second time in Germany, Mainz, lovely Satsangs. Back to everyday life in Sweden. Nothing was actually happening in spiritual matters. I let go of all spirituality. enough. Just an extremely ordinary life. Work. Married. New jobs. New girlfriends. studying. Usual living. My dad died, great loss. Years was passing. Five kids.<br /><br />THEN, something happened, I think it was 2006. I furiously started to reread old spiritual books. Along the road something has happened to me. I do not know what, but something is different. With the internet I found some beautiful clips of Osho. Then the Advaita hits me with full power. This two concepts start to sink in:<br /><br />- There is no personal self or 'I' in the first place. (remember the American housewife and here Satori)<br /><br />- we are already awake.<br /><br />- The sense of 'I am' is not an entity or an object in itself (it certainly can bee felt like that).<br /><br />- everything exists, but not for 'me'.<br /><br />- The idea of me is just what it is, an idea.<br /><br />- Can an idea meditate? No.<br /><br />- The place where the 'me' should be found, is just aware space<br /><br />If in the absolute sense all is an illusion, who is meditating? THIS is the reason why meditation isn't possible. This is not to say that practice and effort is meaningless. Spontaneously sometimes the thoughts is less and a opening occurs that makes everything possible. There is no one in the absolute sense that CAN meditate. Meditation can happen, but to no-one. The 'me' is an hypnotic idea appearing in the stream of thoughts. Very natural and completely misleading. The 'me' is not there, never were.<br /><br />Question the 'me' and everything else collapse.<br /><br />"Man is in life as an optical illusion of light and not real"<br /><br />Shankara<br /><br />"The 'I' can never know higher Time, space, knowledge, because he is the embodied abscens of that kind of knowledge"<br /><br />Tarthang Tulku<br /><br />This quotes somehow sums up the main struggle for me.<br /><br />Another thing is clear for me;<br /><br />"The discovery of your own 'being' is yours entirely. No-one else has nothing to do with it, including me. The joy and happiness lies in your own discovery of what you are. "<br />I started this Blog 2007 to use it as a some kind of a diary over my discovery from the Internet. Now I continue the Blog with an another purpose. The Blog is an reflection of my awareness, so to speak. The simple reason that I love the subject, Non-duality. It is meant to point to the Non-dual. To end this all, at last, remember. No words, however well said, never IS what is real. What is, is anyway. There is no point in claiming to be an advanced highly spiritual person, WHO is claiming that? Spiritual materialism.<br /><br />There is nothing holy in being anti-social or being quiet. Why not talk and write? Why not use a blog?<br /><br />What I talk about in this blog always remain untouched anyway.<br /><br />If there is no 'me' in absolute sense, what is the problem? What is there to defence?<br /><br />This is the story about the character called Roshi who is writing on this blog.<br /><br />No-one is invited and everyone is welcome.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />Roshi<br /> Roshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-77768346037507975912011-01-17T02:22:00.000-08:002011-01-17T03:07:39.837-08:00First postMy intention is to keep the subject as simpel and clear as possible. To begin with It is nothing about me as a person, I am a 'pointer', pointing to a direction. Sometimes I use quotes, but it is from my authority I use it in the texts. If anything is misunderstod it is my fault.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />Roshi<br /><br />:-DRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-85391515110565992232011-01-08T11:26:00.000-08:002011-01-08T11:38:40.018-08:00New start!I am back. Now I speak from my own understanding, so to speak. I love the subject. No-one is invited and everyone is welcome.<br /><br />Be what "you" are.<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-65067620129986467162010-09-29T04:44:00.000-07:002010-09-29T04:46:31.460-07:00!<a href="http://bit.ly/d6GKl8">http://bit.ly/d6GKl8</a><br /><br />;-)Roshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-81206653288481150502010-09-15T00:20:00.000-07:002010-09-15T01:02:59.976-07:00This day is your whole life...I am going to take a break or time out for a while from my blogg. From the beginning it was ment to be a diary for me but I got lot of respons to what I delivered on the blogg. It all started 2007 when I discovered Non-duality. After many years of seeking and practising there were the answers. A great "Ahaa" arisied. In a simpel maner Tony Parsons, Jeff Foster, Nathan gill, and others pointed out a possibility I never had heard before....maybe in me something were ready for the message.....in absolute reality there never was "anyone" there from the beginning, and still...the appearance of a person is there. It IS and it isn't. The living paradox in life.<br /><br />The reason we miss IT is beacouse of the simplicity of it all and the intimate nature of IT. We all are "That", like the eye can not see itself. We are that seeing, hearing, smelling whatever.<br /><br />When I start the blogg again, I am going to speak and write from my own window, from the appearance of "Roshi"...if... I start the blogg again. As a last gift, Jeff....latest. And links to the main teachers or what you want to call this "pointers":<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxEZnYd7gz0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxEZnYd7gz0</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theopensecret.com/">http://www.theopensecret.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/">http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nathangill.com/index.html">http://www.nathangill.com/index.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.richardsylvester.com/">http://www.richardsylvester.com/</a><br /><br />Quotes of the day:<br /><br />"The end of SEEKING, and the end of the SEEKER,is SEEING life as it is..."<br /><br />"This day is whole your life"<br /><br />Jeff Foster<br /><br />This two Books can sum up all this years:<br /><br />Being: The bottom line Nathan Gill 2006 (ISBN 0955176220)<br />Already Awake Nathan Gill 2004 (ISBN 0954779223)<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-51056961399830112682010-08-13T09:24:00.000-07:002010-08-13T09:31:09.502-07:00Quotes of the day-The only question worth asking: 'What are you defending?'<br /><br />-Nothing is not nothing , not the absence of all things, but also the presence of them, so that nothing is really everything.... and so it all ends not in nihilism, but in wonder, in fascination, in the kind of gratitude that breaks your heart.<br /><br />-Yes, all that is left is a radical simplicity that cannot be taught, cannot be formulated, reified, systematized, and ultimately cannot even be named - but still, it is all there is, and all there has ever been, and all there needs to be, because only a separate mind would ever want more.<br /><br />-....in the end, which is also the beginning, life is the only authority, and all the teachings of the world burn up in the fire of this unbounded freedom...<br /><br />Jeff Foster<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573986472605020617.post-62105309377838145502010-07-26T23:41:00.000-07:002010-07-26T23:48:18.041-07:00Poem by Rumi "the wolf is my shepherd,"This is a lovely poem by Rumi I got from a dear friend:<br /><br /><strong>"the wolf is my shepherd,"</strong><br /><br />The Sea boils with passion for you<br />The clouds pour pearls at your feet<br />A lightning from your love has pierced the earth<br />This smoke curling to heaven is its child.<br /><br />We were green: we ripened and grew golden.<br />The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown.<br />Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings.<br />We started sober: are love’s startled drunkards.<br /><br />You hide me in your cloak of nothingness<br />Reflect my ghost in your glass of being<br />I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream<br />Where your eternity briefly trembles.<br /><br />This love sacrifices all souls, however wise, however “awakened”<br />Cuts off their heads without a sword,<br />hangs them without a scaffold.<br /><br />We are the guests of the one who devours his guests<br />The friends of the one who slaughters his friends....<br />Although by his gaze he brings death to so many lovers<br />Let yourself be killed by him: is he not the water of life?<br /><br />Never, ever, grow bitter: he is the friend and kills gently.<br />Keep your heart noble, for this most noble love<br />Kills only kings near God and men free from passion.<br />We are like the night, earth’s shadow.<br />He is the Sun: He splits open the night<br />with a sword soaked in dawn....<br /><br />The man to whom is unveiled the mystery of Love<br />Exists no longer, but vanishes into love.<br />Place before the Sun a burning candle<br />And watch its brilliance disappear before that blaze,<br />The candle exists no longer, it is transformed into Light,<br />There are no more signs of it, it itself becomes sign....<br /><br />You are my soul, my universe:<br />what do I have to do with the soul and the universe?<br /><br />For me you are ever-flowing treasure:<br />what do I have to do with profit and loss?<br />One minute, I am the friend of the wine,<br />another the friend of him who burns me.<br />I have come to this age of ruins,<br />so what do I have to do with time’s melodrama?<br /><br />I am terrified by the whole world,<br />I am sprung free of the whole world,<br />I am neither “hidden” no “apparent.”<br />What do I have to do with existence or space?<br />I am drunk on union with you,<br />I need and want and care about no one else.<br /><br />Since I am your prey, what do I care<br />about fate’s bow and its arrows?<br />I live at the bottom of the stream,<br />why would I go looking for water?<br />What could or would I say about this stream that flows and flows?<br />I have given up existence,<br />why go on staggering under the burden of this mountain?<br /><br />Since the wolf is my shepherd,<br />why put up with the pretensions of the shepherd?<br />What abandon! What drunkenness!<br />You hold the cup in you hand<br />Blessed is the place you are,<br />and glorious to the eye of the heart.<br />Each atom, by your grace, is a universe,<br />each drop of water a soul.<br /><br />No one who has ever had a sign from you<br />need worry again about “name” or “sign.”<br />To find the place of splendor,<br />at the bottom of the Sea of truths<br />You have to dive, dive head first:<br />what do I have to do with feet that scurry?<br /><br />With the sword of the One God you have hacked a Path for us:<br />You have stolen all my clothes:<br />What will I give to the toll-man?<br />From your beauty ablaze like the sun,<br />from the curls of your hair,<br />My heart has become ecstatic:<br />O my soul, hand me this brimming cup,<br />Do not weigh pain and misery,<br />contemplate love, contemplate friendship:<br />Do not mull over tyranny and neglect:<br />think of all those who have their eyes fixed on you.<br />Surname all grief ‘grace’:<br />transmute pain and anguish into joy<br />And ask from joy all happiness, all security, all peace.<br />Demand that security, that peace, demand them,<br />Choose the company of those withdrawn in love<br /><br />Rumi<br /><br />Namaste<br /><br />RoshiRoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06786640040806318146noreply@blogger.com0