Awake: It's Your Turn

“What in the world is that light, that unity, coming and going in? What allows it to unify and seemingly shatter again? What is the vessel for lightness and darkness?”

“His great will and power are inexhaustible. He charges to the high plateau far above the cloud-mists, or in an impenetrable ravine he stands. He dwelt in the forest a long time . . . infatuation for scenery interferes with his direction. Longing for sweeter grass, he wanders away.” —Fourth Oxherding Picture

“Mounting the bull, slowly I return homeward. The voice of my flute intones through the evening. Measuring with hand-beats the pulsating harmony, I direct the endless rhythm. Whoever hears this melody will join me. This struggle is over; gain and loss are assimilated. I sing the song of the village woodsman and play the tunes of the children. Astri

“Dwelling in one's true abode, unconcerned with that without. The river flows tranquilly on and the flowers are red. From the beginning, truth is clear. Poised in silence, I observe the forms of integration and disintegration. One who is not attached to "form" need not be "reformed." The water is emerald, the mountain is indigo,

“I hear the song of the nightingale. The sun is warm, the wind is mild, willows are green along the shore, Here no bull can hide! What artist can draw that massive head, those majestic horns? As soon as the six senses merge, the gate is entered. Wherever one enters one sees the head of the bull! This unity is like salt in water, like color in dyest

“What we are looking for is what is looking.” —St Francis of Assisi

At some point a sort of “event horizon” is crossed, and then—boom! At that moment you’ll feel exactly what awakening is in every part of your being. You will not suddenly understand awakening; you will be the awakening! Everything will be seen to be awakeness. There will be not a hair’s breadth of separation anywhere. You will move as your innate a

A natural and relaxed confidence emerges. It is a pervasive feeling of “alrightness” that you had totally forgotten was possible in life. Some people remember it as a distant experience from early childhood or even before. There is wonder, mystery, and awe in moment-to-moment living. Most important of all, there is a knowing that there is nothing i

What I’m talking about is uninterrupted peace as primary to all your other experiences. I’m talking about living life with peace being interwoven into the fabric of all experience. This isn’t something you do, by the way; it is a realization of the nature of what is. You see, life doesn't push against itself in any way. Life has no way of pushing a