My Crown

I'm wearing my crown
Can you see it?
No, because it is my crown - you have your own.
Can you see and enjoy yours? I hope so:
It's made of the same jewels as mine I expect
Unclassified, uncut, mega-faceted...
I'm silly to try and describe my crown.

Forget your chakras,
My crown has no up nor down
No right side, inside, outside, upside down-ness
No colour, whiteness, dark or lightness
Its beauty comes from fullness of feeling:

I feel fulfilled as I merge into my crown now.



Forget your chakras!
Melt into that ocean within
Where even a moment can be appreciated
Like drops of pure water seeping from a mountain spring
One by one
To my thirsty mouth
Each one quenches
Yet the thirst is delicious too.

On crossing the bridge

How many times - today - have I crossed this bridge?
And have I really crossed over it lately?
Have I crossed to the gardens and the lake;
the fountain and the ancient trees?
Or have I just timidly ventured to the first few pylons,
felt the tremble of its engineering beneath the rushing load of traffic,
breifly surveyed the scene,
admired the view with panic in my heart
and retreated to the safety of the eastern shore?

I know the answer and it points to ye olde thirst again:
"I'm gonna be fulfilled before this day is done, starting now!"
Determined to cross to drink in the downpour of freshness on the other side
And then to dance back home, fulfilled, and ready to ask myself
"Now what can I do to celebrate and participate?"

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This Here Now

This is it!
Not that or there
But This, Here.

Could This be a new name for the un-nameable?
Could Heaven really be Here Now?

There's no room for doubt in feeling
Only enjoyment.
Gratitude feels best:
It flows

Round Peg Weaves His Own Round Hole on the Net

It’s all too easy to get caught up in problems; to get distracted from one’s own definite major purpose; to “lose the plot”! And nowhere is this easier than at my computer on the Internet. I mean it’s not called “the Web” for nothing and if you’re not the spider you just might find that you’re the fly, getting caught and sucked dry!

Recently I unsubscribed from a number of email lists. I couldn’t even remember joining some of them but I understood one thing: I don’t have an issue with the authors or their programs, the issue was with me. It has to do with round pegs, square holes, glass slippers and horses for courses.

During a period of panic, when my business was going nowhere due to technical issues that I couldn’t control, I joined a few online business opportunity and training programs. I didn’t make any money from most of them but they’re not to blame for that. I did learn some good stuff about marketing and in particular internet marketing, from each program or newsletter but I just can’t complete something if my heart isn’t into it.

I was like the fly buzzing around looking for goodness knows what – a quick fix really – and it was inevitable that I’d get caught. I needed to settle down and learn to spin my own web – to create my own home in this new environment of internet marketing and home based business. I needed to see my own path. What do I uniquely have to offer? What am I learning that I can share? What are my talents and opportunities? Once clarity starts to return the fog of questions and doubt clears.

And clarity is with me all the time. All the teachers and their books can possibly teach me I already know or it already exists. I’ve learned a lot and have plenty more to learn in every aspect of my life. There are so many great teachers and mentors ready to help and guide me and the ones that I’ll follow are those that echo my own voice – after all that’s the voice I hear when I read their text.

The greatest teacher in my life has never sold me a single book, e-book, video or seminar, but just consistently held up a mirror: “this is who you are and that’s more than the sum of all your good and bad…” Once I see and feel myself again the next step is clear and I can get on with it with Gratitude in my heart. That’s the way I love to live.

What A Symphony (Under the Stars at Amaroo Queensland)

I'm off to Brisbane to be with Prem for five days next week, so here is an extract from a recent talk he gave for you to enjoy...

Paradise Within

Every day is important. What will you do today? A lot of people like to sit down at the end of the day and say, “Let me figure out what I did today.” That’s a little too late.

You wake up in the morning and think, “What am I going to do?” Maybe there are ten thousand things you have to do, but remember one: today I’m going to be content, I’m going to be in peace, I’m going to be in joy. And then do whatever you have to do—all the chores you have, the sad things you may have to do, even the bad things you will have to put up with. But remember one thing: today, I’m going to be content.

You go through your journeys in life, and hopefully, you come out wiser—not lacking something, but with something. That’s what this life has to be, because this is your life. Life is not about saying to somebody, “Look what you did to me.”

You are the captain. This is your life. Enjoy every moment of it. It is incumbent upon you to facilitate that and never, ever—no matter what comes in your life—to forget it. You are unique. No one ever has or ever will be able to express the joy of this heart the way you do. Your hard times will pass, but the most important thing is your focus. When a person walks on a tightrope, through the entire journey from the beginning to the end, where is their focus? Are they thinking, “How much further do I have to go?” “How far have I been?” No. Their focus is on only one place: their balance. If their focus wavers, they will fall.

In our lives, we’re walking a tightrope, too. Each day that goes by will never come back. It’s gone. That makes some people sad. And some people say, “If that’s really true, then every day is important.” And it is. Every day is important.

Contentment has nothing to do with all those things that go on during the day. It really doesn’t. When clarity isn’t there and the focus isn’t straight, everything matters—even red lights. “Look at this, I’m getting every single red light. Not one single green one.” And when the clarity is there, it’s another moment to remember something important.

This life is not about red lights and green lights or the bad things that happen. Regardless of all the bad, if there are more things that are good in your life, then it is good. So, for you, is it good or is it bad? There is one thing that tips the balance, and that’s your clarity. If you are clear, then the sum of all the good things put together is better than the sum of all the bad things. And good it is.

A coconut floating in the ocean doesn’t say, “How come there are waves?” It uses what it has been given. So, let there be waves. Probably the coconut gets to a point where it says, “The bigger the waves, the better, because that means I’ll be thrown far inland.” Everything switches; everything turns around. This is how we are meant to be.

There is a paradise within. You don’t need to count all the problems. Just say, “There is all that, but in the middle of it all, there is something so beautiful, so real.” And the real is more real than the fake is fake. Reality is incredible.

Maharaji

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