prayer

 

Lead me from dreaming to waking.
Lead me from opacity to clarity.
Lead me from the complicated to the simple.
Lead me from the obscure to the obvious.
Lead me from intention to attention.
Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am.
Lead me from confrontation to wide openness.
Lead me to the place I never left,
Where there is peace, and peace


~ The Upanishads

 

 

 

 

 

within the heart

The little space within the heart
is as great as the vast 
universe.
The heavens and the earth are there,
and the sun and the moon and
the stars.
Fire and lightning and winds are there,
and all that now is and
all that is not.

 ~ The Upanishads 

no bell

When I heard the sound of the bell ringing,

there was no bell,

and there was no I -

there was only the ringing. 

Once you stop clinging and let things be,

you’ll be free, even of birth and death. 

You’ll transform everything…

And you’ll be at peace wherever you are. 

Even as fire finds peace

in its resting place without fuel,

when thoughts become silence

the soul finds peace in its own source. 

When the mind is silent,

then it can enter into a world

which is far beyond the mind:

the highest End. 

The mind should be kept in the heart

as long as it has not reached the highest End.

This is wisdom, and this is liberation. 

~ Upanishads