Oh, spacious opening of a mind not cluttered by unnecessary things.
Dear One, Ours is not a caravan of despair. Even if I have broken my vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come. ~ Thank You Rumi
Pir Vilayat, Blessings be upon him, guided us to the highest spheres well beyond joy into an ecstasy that sweeps out the clutter of our mind.
(Rewrite & Post on Facebook sometime)When someone starts asking me a question or shares a special feeling, my eyes close and I go deep within. Very deep. ‘I’ am gone . . . gone away. In what is a timeless duration, I open my eyes and share a reflection upon what they said or asked. I could explain this as a product of my elder mind struggling to be in focus, but I don’t care what it is. I accept it. I appreciate it. If I need to call it something, I imagine it as ‘deep listening‘ Let us imagine a wonderful world together. – – – Shams
Taking a gentle in-breath, the half breath, is enough to allow our deeper self to become present. But for me I need a cue, an early warning sign. I have found it. It is when without patience “I think I have something I must get in — as if I know what is right.” Then I am starting to become possessed by my own opinion, and if I catch my self at this very beginning stage, I only need to practice one gentle in-breath to be Present. But more often than I would like to admit it explodes into ‘interrupting’ and even the egregious of sins, ‘over talking’. Dear One Help me. – – – Shams
Be Not The Molder and Shaper of Thoughts.
Be In The Natural State. Having a plan, an agenda, having something ‘You’ want to say, these desires and expectations to ‘make’ it one way — All This Is Interference. Expect Not. Plan Not. Control Not. Assume Not. Imagine Not – Predict Not. Let Them Be. “Dhems a lot of Nots.” – – – Shams 😉
In The Path of Gardening, in this work of Breathing-In poisons of this world, openly receiving, accepting and letting then in, really feeling them and then Letting Them Go. Here I find a worthy Life Work.
“It seems like everything I do and say and create are all letters to my Self ” Rather a pompous statement but surprisingly true.
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One World 