Complete Mantra:
I sit, gently I hear your Name
Whispered on wind and rain
Touching my skin so softly

On fire, my heart is aflame again
Burning from deep within
Waiting for this dream to end

I surrender my fear
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And my foolish pride
And my tears
I come home to you
Again and again

Gurmukhi: Ang Sang Waheguru
Translation: The miracle of God, and the experience of God is within each and every cell and fiber.

Imagine a woman who embodies her spirituality.
A woman who honors her body as the sacred temple of the spirit of life.
Who breathes deeply as a prayer of gratitude for life itself.
~Patricia Lynn Reilly

Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes

THE ESSENCE OF REALIZATION

The Essence of Realization
You are not a thing. You are not a thinker. You are not a feeler.

Make no mistake about it, for we are already in the maze of words. Forget the words (they are just thoughts – and go to the essence).

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What is luminous, ever-present and prior to any mental cognition? You are that.

The seeker is a thing, a thing on a mission. Both the thing and its mission are illusions of the mind already wedded to lack and inadequacy. That is the core delusion.

It is also the Wound.

The seeker is the mask that is the inevitable outcome of the Wound as well as that which keeps it partly hidden. No matter how hard we try the pain of the Wound will always be with us. It is the permanent scar of our primal scarring.

The false identity will always coalesce around a thought, for it is a thought and thoughts can only know other thoughts! Reflect on that; thoughts can ONLY refer to other thoughts – it is a universe of thought.

How does that happen?

It happens this way. One thought fixates on another. The connection of the two thoughts creates an entity (“you”).

Fixation occurs in two flavors. One, it (the subject thought, i.e., “you”) will judge another thought as bad (or good). That is flavor one. The second flavor clings, where the subject thought (“you”) claims another thought as itself. This is how the false “you” is created. It is created a hundred times or more everyday. In this way it is made into a deeply embedded and inevitable habit. We call this habit the psyche.

So what to do?

Just notice without ever judging or clinging. Just softly and graciously notice the whole show of appearances. That’s the whole teaching.

This is, in essence, pure Buddhism. It is simple, but it’s not, necessarily easy, but it doesn’t need to be difficult. Only the mind (the “you” thought) will judge it so and thus make it so.

Just softly and graciously notice. That’s all.

KNOW

Know

that you were conceived in perfection.
that you are a sacred being.
that you never came here to prove yourself.
that your birth is all the proof you will ever need.
that your parents were not equipped to accept you exactly as you are.
that, as a result, they used Fear and Force to mold you into the being they thought you should be.
that you may not be able to be yourself as you truly are, for you have absorbed those projections.
that love is a birth right and never needs to be earned.
that the Power that created you created the mountains and the oceans.
that the only meaning Life possesses is for you to express your love and joy.
that we live in a time where the foundations of this culture are built on Fear.
that this Fear is what makes this time unique, as well as to make it such a challenge.
that our false identity is also built on a foundation made of Fear and that this Fear is passed through the generations.
that on account of this identification with Fear that we hoard, we flee, we secure ourselves in the many prisons of the psyche.
that the challenge of our lives is to see how to bring the false to light.
that when the false is brought to light that we liberate ourselves from the dense web formed as a consequence of our personal and group invalidation.
that the root of Fear is Invalidation.
that we are healed through understanding and the return to Heart and Love.
that the root of Invalidation is the failure to see our inherent perfection and Authentic Self.
that the time of Light and re-birth remains ahead of us.
that we bring that world to possibility by reversing the legacy of Invalidation.
that this reversal arouses Authentic Compassion and Clear Seeing.
that Authentic Being arises first in our own lives and only then arises in the whole world as the light of our collective Authentic Selves.