The funeral pyre

"Love is the funeral pyre
Where the heart must lay
Its body"

Hafiz
The Gift

Dance with the unpredictable

Control is having everything in order, making things go our way.
Being in command is dancing with chaos. Flowing with whatever comes up and feeling the joy of it.
There is a sense of freedom that comes from being in command. A liberation that we are not slaves to the circumstances but are in charge of our lives.
Being in control limits our abilities to adapt. Imprisons us to a certain set of conditions and narrows our world.
Drop the desire to control and learn to dance with the unpredictable.

Enlightenment smells like chocolate

Enlightenment doesn't smell like chocolate.
It can smell like coffee beans, fresh baked bread, soiled diapers, melted butter, rotten eggs or rain.
Enlightenment is the moment when you are so aware of that particular moment that nothing else exists.
There is no past and future. There are no worries or expectations.
There is just now.
Your senses are experiencing the smell or touch or taste or vision so profoundly that you get lost in it.
The moment becomes everything. It becomes eternity.

Like the drop of rain sliding down your neck on a summer afternoon.
Experience it.

In that moment there are no questions or answers. There is just the rain drop and your sensation of it.
That is eternity.

That moment doesn't last long, but the moment we wake up to it we can consciously work to practice it more often.

Enlightenment is not a goal, not a place to reach but a practice of embodying the human spirit.
The practice of breathing consciously and waking up to the collective awareness while in the human body.

Fear is a habit

Fear is a habit. 

The beauty of the human mind is in its intelligence. 

Its focus to look for patterns to make, connections to find the most efficient and brilliant way reach a goal. 

To achieve and keep achieving. 

In the quest  of efficiency the brilliant human mind dismissed the beauty of non- doing, of not achieving but simply enjoying the sensation of freedom. 

In the quest of tireless productivity and endless control the brilliant human mind abandoned the mystery of the unknown and created fear. 

Through fear control is easy. 

The brilliant human mind created this pattern of fear of the unknown, to discourage the soul from veering into foreign territory, to disspirt us from venturing into the mysterious, where the mind has no control.

And that is how an endless battle began for the soul longs to be free and float into the ocean of consciousness constantly learning and enjoying the unknown. 

And the brilliant human mind is tirelessly working to gain control over the frivolous soul, designing intricate scenarios of habits, patterns and fear. 

The small part that the soul is forgotten is that without the soul the brain is a dead  body. 

The soul doesn't need the body to exist, it is eternal. 

Yet, without the soul the body is lifeless. 

Ultimately the soul is always in command. 

We just have forgotten, we have given in to the ease of floating on a narrow, predictable path. 

Lift your eyes, see the endless sky and remember where you come from!

The boundary of illusion

Just like the body is the outline where we are separated from the rest of the physical world, the ego is the boundary we create to feel separate from the rest of the conscious world.
We create an illusion of a separate being, an intricate web of personality features- likes and dislikes, mine and yours, an illusion to keep driving us towards illusionary goals of possesiveness and achievement.
The purpose of inhabiting this human form is to experience and learn, to probe into human emotions and gain command over the frivolous mind.

And in the end to be able to navigate the intricate design of the human mind without letting go of our brightness as a luminous energy being.
To be able to inhabit the physical form effortlessly and sail through the experience of life on earth without loosing the awareness and consciousness inherent to our soul.

Fear of power

Sometimes what we think we fear is not a particular action or situation or a feeling.
What we fear is releasing the power in us that we are blocking.
With Fear one can control, with power we have command.
Most fears are representation of our blockages.
We tend to lock in and store away the power that lies in our nature because with power comes a lot of responsibility, a lot of work.
It's easier to sit on the edge dangling our feet and waiting for someone or something to come take us away.
It takes courage to leap on our own.
And we have placed a lot of fears, a lot of layers of protection because we have forgotten we can fly.

No one can give us the support, or the courage to leap.
No one can give us what we already have.
Others come into our life to remind us we already have everything we need.
Feel the wings on your back and trust!
When you feel the urge to be free take action before the mind creates blockages and plants fears.
Leap and trust that you already know how to fly.
Let go of the fears and trust that your soul is in command.

Fear

Fear is a shadow cast over the eternal sunshine of our being.
Fears are the little corners, the dustbunnies we like to sweep under the rug.
Illuminate the secret corners of the mind and see fears are only an illusion.
Fear can only exist in the places we don't want to look in.
Shine the brightness of the soul and exterminate fear.