I watch you Meddling with your mobile And there is this longing somehow Wishing that you would look up at me And stay present to me instead Yet in a twinkling of a moment I remember And I smile Realising the fruitless possibility That if I need to remind you To stay present to me […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Poems on Aug 20th, 2011
I will have to admit That there are issues in me That remains unresolved, unaccepted I am still learning, you see In this game called life Lessons yet to be transcended Learned and realised Because I noticed that in me And possess deep compassion for me I cannot not project that onto you And not […]
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Posted in Being the Master on Aug 19th, 2011
From moment to moment, I am dealing with different parts of me. It is never separate. It is either me here—mind only or mind and body; or me here with another seeming separated mind or mind and body, which is apparently not me. Irrelevant which is which, there is no difference for I am still […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Poems on Aug 9th, 2011
For so long It has been like this You in your outrage And me in my silence Your outrage scorching me with fumes of fire My silence, like a little bug inside you, eating you up noiselessly Both defending by attacking One loud, one silent What is the difference? Both refusing to budge. And today […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Poems on Jul 24th, 2011
Expression not expressed becomes Suppression. Suppression further suppressed becomes Repression. Repression not addressed becomes Depression. Depression with added ajbetness becomes Oppression. Oppression not forgiven becomes Death – as in, the living dead. Are you one of them?
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One day, “Mommi, what is a ‘church’?” “Oh, a ‘church’ is a place where people go to pray to God.” “But why, mommi?” “To connect to God.” “But they are already connected to God.” “Yeah, you are right, but they don’t know that; that is why they have to go to church to do it.” […]
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The words used need not matter. Whether it is “I”, “I am”, “God”, “Awareness”, “Awakefulness”, “Wisdom”, “True Self”, “non-self” or whatever that is commonly or uncommonly used in the spiritual context, of an inward journey. It does not change a thing, except create further barriers by language, also culturally distorted by each’s conditioning. Has it […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Ideas on Jun 25th, 2011
When you hang on to your view, which naturally disables your ability to expand your own understanding thus creating a right and wrong, a holier than thou attitude, at the same time establishing an illusionary hierarchy with the other, you have put yourself back into the prison cage which you had fought so hard to […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Ideas on Jun 23rd, 2011
My partner and I recently signed the divorce papers. It is interesting to observe the different responses from others upon hearing such news. Those who somehow thought that we were one of those that would have a long lasting marriage seemed distraught and upset that we signed the papers thus attempting to convince how we […]
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Posted in Going Inwards, Poems on Jun 11th, 2011
Strangely enough why is it necessary to be the damsel in distress in order to be cared for in the world? As if the wise old spirit can only do all the caring undeserving of being cared for strangely enough. This ancient pattern untranscended causing the hollowness in the heart. The tug of war between […]
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