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In the Place of the Quiet Heart: By Ken Knight

. INSPIRATIONAL, LIFESTYLE, PERSONAL . , ,

Leave it. Let them go;
The bruising car horns,
The tearing blare of amplified film music,
The town with its currency of coins and noise
Has no hold.
Come away,
Leave it.
Let them go,
Come to where the currency is stillness.

How is it that one’s purse can be filled?
Beneath the benign gaze of Arunachala
Whose peak draws up the heart’s delight
And whose slopes soon veil the town,
Take the winding path to a quieter realm.
See the greens and yellows and reds of trees, bushes and earth.
Catch the perfume of soft flowers on the gentle breeze,
Hear the sound of your tread on the sandy earth.
Be patient.
Listen.
Listen to the sounds of many birds singing.
Listen.
Listen to the sound of one bird singing…
Soon you will come to the place of the quiet heart
Where all may take their rest by the silent water,
For here is the currency of stillness.

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Mazie Lane’s Poetry: By Mazie Lane

. ART & POETRY . ,

No Form All Form Nowhere Everywhere

Not in form bound in or around this round of existence,
I Am.
In every form finding itself floundering all around, unfound,
I Am.
Can’t be expounded, can’t be propounded, can’t be in my head pounded,
I Am.
This is nothing, that is nothing, you are nothingeverything, say THAT
I Am.
Someone moves inside from somewhere bringing something speaking nothing,
I Am.

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Being Stillness: By James Traverse

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Oneduality
Space Silence
Stillness

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Space is Infinite.
Silence is Eternal.

Stillness is Absolute.

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Space is Beauty that shapes everything.
Silence is Love that sustains everything.

Stillness is oneduality, Space-Silence.

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Eric Ashford’s Poetry

. ART & POETRY . , ,

There Is A Doe Eyed Eagle

There is a doe eyed eagle.
There is a love within the tiger
of every appearance.

Call to the sky forms
that God paints Her eyelids with,
and become the water in the eye of Her ocean.

You are beautiful limbs of God.
The vein that bleeds this earth
and returns Her blood to Her.

There is a doe eyed eagle.
and all hearts turn inside out,
To catch the song of it’s flight.
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The Call of Love

. ART & POETRY, Love, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Yoga . , ,

Damini

Long ago, I gazed into your eyes
and then stopped breathing
but still survived.

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You Would Have Made A Splendid Old Lady

. ART & POETRY, PERSONAL . , ,

jerry

Dedication for Jerry and Dolores

When I first met Jerry Katz, Jerry was a happy go lucky philosopher and expounder of wisdom with no website. I was in the same boat and having fun. Jerry and I often debated about profound things and hurled wisdom filled words at each other. Jerry was good at ducking though. If a discussion did not go his way, Jerry would shift positions, saying that words do not mean much anyway. If I said Truth and Love were the same, Jerry would insist that Truth was higher than Love. If I said that Self was the highest Truth, Jerry would say no, there is something higher than Self. If I quoted Ramana, Jerry would quote Nisargadatta. If I read lines from Robert Frost, Jerry would take out his Walt Whitman poetry. If I talked about health foods, Jerry would talk about the donut shop that he goes to every morning. You get the drift. Jerry and I had to argue a little on a daily basis. All friendly stuff. Jerry never gets mad. Well, actually Jerry does swear sometimes.

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Recognition: By Daniel Singer

. Advaita and Yoga . ,

There is an infinite silence in all storms. As a raindrop emerging from a cloud, every song and every cry emerging is from this silent Source.

As a mist returns to the air in the warmth of the sun, every birthing, every living, every dying appears within this silence.

Neither sound nor hush, neither beginning nor end can be distinct from Source.

Tentacles of sensation perceive and create experience.

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What I Love about Vedanta: By Jody Radzik

. Advaita and Yoga, PERSONAL . , , , , ,

There’s a whole lot to love about Vedanta, as Vedanta straddles every spiritual ideology and practice that is known to man. It provides a marriage between Bhakti and Jnana yoga, bringing the ways of the heart and of intellectual discrimination together.

Ceaseless manifestation is the way of Mother Shakti, and Her constant acceleration makes the World an endless dynamo of creation. But Vedanta is like an eternal bell that rings in every moment of history. Its form finds the contours of every culture and society. All we need to do is hear it with the ears of the time and place we are in.

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Is Practice Necessary?: By Jon Evans

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A common issue that often comes up in the minds of aspirants of Truth is, “Of what value is sustained practice? Is it necessary?” As a long-term Buddhist practitioner and someone who has dabbled in Advaita Vedanta, I have come to see practice as an absolute necessity. I find that in my own practice, it has helped me achieve, what is the most poignant answer to the most revealing question that the aspirant can ask his or herself. This simply being, “What is it that I really want in life?” I have found that the answer to this question, if one is completely honest with oneself, directly points to the need to practice.

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Nondual Meditiation: Negation and Self-Inquiry, as Taught by Ramana Maharshi: By Richard Clarke

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My name is Richard. I am a seeker, practicing Self-inquiry. I am taught by two Sages, Nome and Russ. They have been teaching Self-inquiry in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 25 years, at SAT (The Society of Abidance in Truth) in Santa Cruz. The focus of their teaching is very much on Self-inquiry as taught by Ramana Maharshi. They both came to Self-Realization through Self-inquiry.

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