It’s said that desire, craving, longing is the root of suffering. But desire, in its rawness, rather appears to be a very intense expression of aliveness, with unique qualities. Suffering might arise when desire is attached to achieve the imaginary, that, what is not real.Desire, in its essence, is part of the unfolding life, life… Continue reading Desire and Attachment
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Instant #4
What about todayWhen there is no tomorrowTime leaves youYou are leftBehind, while there is nothing aheadMemory, bittersweetEmerging from a maelstrom, getting absorbed by a voidTears of grief, tears of joyAliveness invades, kills what you believed to be true, realSpacetime loses its coordinatesYou loseYou are lost Alive
Handle
The darknessThis sacred yet feared placeNot hidden but you don’t want to see itLet alone encounter itYour eyes crave the dazzling, ecstatic lightGenerating alluring image over imageBubbles in the most beautiful, mesmerizing colorsJust may they not burst FlyingHigher and higherMore and moreClimbing up the ladderTrying to reach beyond the top of the worldA transcended, better… Continue reading Handle
Abyss
It’s very dark, you cannot see, although your eyes are wide open.Some sublime terror is surrounding you.It’s the terror of death, your annihilation, the annihilation of everyone and everything that ever meant something to you. The stories that wrote your life, your past. The mirrors that reflected love, and you sometimes have chased this reflection… Continue reading Abyss
Home
The beginning does never endAnd no end ever beginsNature, so alien and mysteriousYet utterly familiarI hear, although sound doesn’t reach my earsLight, invisible to my eyesIlluminatingUnknown Here, now, nowhereAm I emerging?Am I declining?In this presenceAll becomes oneWhile I become fragmentedI am assimilated Now, in another world, desert of the otherTransient creatures of the mindLonging for… Continue reading Home
Light sparkling Darkness
From the darkness, I am bornDestination unknownEmerging from the formless into formShifting matter – no matter I am the sunriseThat wakes you from your night dreams I am the high noonIn which your sleep turns into a volatile shadow I am the sunsetTurning the vibrant bright light into twilightTo bring it back home to its… Continue reading Light sparkling Darkness
In the Face of Fall
You look into her eyes and try, try to read anything. Anything you could understand. Her eyes are deep like the dark night, but there is a raging fire in their black abyss. You can barely see it, as it is almost entirely absorbed by the darkness. Unknown depths swallowing what has been seen, what… Continue reading In the Face of Fall
Nothing exceeds
Just let itstopBestillfor this momentOne momentAll, one momentNowThe thought stream passesSurrender the fightResistanceLet it all goLet it all beRight, wrongnothing is right, nothing is wrongNothing to achieveNothing to surviveNowhere to arrive Everything is lostTo this one momentTo abundant presenceA sanctuaryLoss is the gateNothing to hold onStill carried Uncertainty is the ground on which everything growsTransience… Continue reading Nothing exceeds
Certainty
Shifting, here, thereoverwhelming is the unknownScared, you face how everything gets out of controlSurrender, resistance?You have no choiceInside you is a warWhere do I belong to?It takes youAnd wherever it takes youYou areYou can not be anywhere elseNo other time And based on your belief and conditioningThe place you are defines what isRight and wrong… Continue reading Certainty
Momentum
There is some heaviness looking through your eyes,How could it have come so far?How could you just have not seen it?Where does your surprise come from?It was always in sight, always close.You just didn’t dare to face it.Attached yourself to dreams and an imaginary futureHypnotized yourself into the illusion of free will and controlDriven by… Continue reading Momentum