Understanding...

 

AI generated 

Understanding is not only a function of effort 

both to digest knowledge 

and strive to realize its experience, 

it is also a function of time. 

The understanding of a conscious teacher 

cannot be transmitted in full to anyone directly. 

No one would understand. 

Everything in the work is so intimately personal 

and comes from our own direction and undertaking, 

our own desire to realize each stage of the work.

~O

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The Cupola...

 

The Cupola is a beautiful structure 

and has the opening directly in the middle of it, 

where the "real I" CAN LOOK. 

Years ago, in Mexico 

I was in a monastery, 

and there was a room with a cupola 

and below it a coffin 

where the monks were laid out at their funeral. 

The realisation was, for me at that time, 

that the soul escaped and saw the entire gardens 

and place where it had lived. 

That this room 

was an objective space for it to see in the moment 

of release after the body had died, 

everything it had lived in that space of the monastery, 

all the rose gardens 

and surrounding areas of the monastery from a higher place.

~C

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Faith

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"If the soul is all we have, maybe faith is its fuel...

a quiet trust in the Divine and the Unknown." 

~C

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It Is Easy...

 

It is easy to sit up and take notice,

What is difficult 

is getting up and taking action.

~Honore de Balzac

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I Have Been Digging...

I have been digging in the dirt 

looking for a real, nasty root 

from a thorny vine that went unnoticed 

and unaddressed for years. 

The vine tangles between the branches 

of a thick bushy plant 

and was hard to get to. 

With patience and physical labor, 

I did not lose energy over the challenge. 

It was a natural unfolding 

of removing bits and pieces in the way. 

I see how deeply and intertwined 

things can feel too much of a challenge. 

At first, I could not see clearly 

what was going on in the mess of things 

hiding my vision to see. 

I had to twist and turn my body 

into many different angles. 

This I verified is a way forward for me.

~M

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