When we do not search for meaning in the words
And listen to them like music
When we do not search for form in the words
And read them like an artwork
We might discover
What is hidden
Beyond and close
Outer and inner
Omnipresent
Rapturing
Silence …
Every word
separates
us from them
I from you
Silence
unites
us with them
I with you
No word
can express
the sacred
Silence
that is …
When madness spreads
and war becomes the norm
When darkness rules
and death becomes the norm
Let us kneel down
and fold our hands
and wisper words
of wisdom
love
and light
embracing madness
embracing darkness
embracing you …
When you think you are something:
a christian, a muslim, a jew, a buddhist, a hindu,
an atheist, a carpenter, a painter, a writer, a friend,
a man, a woman, a child, a mother, a father, …
And when you believe that you are what you think you are,
You can go inside and do this meditation:
Without using your
thoughts, memories, associations, perceptions, emotions,
are you a christian, not a christian or neither
Be still and wait what comes up …
And do it with the next and the next and the next …
No word can describe what you are;
no word; no word; no word …
When you
believe a thought
you do not hear
the singing of
your heart
With every new thought
you do not believe
you hear
the singing of
your heart …
The best thing that can happen to you is doubt
Doubt takes you beyond knowing
Doubt takes you beyond the absolute
Doubt takes you into disidentification
Doubt takes you into: “I don’t know”
Doubt takes you into Space
Doubt takes you into Love
Doubt takes you into You …
Where doubt arises,
Love can grow
Where there is doubt,
You are …
When we listen to conversations
When we listen to ourselves
When somebody tells us something
and we react and disagree
When someone asks us a question
and we defend ourselves
There is so much ‘No’ …
‘No’ feeds resistance,
‘No’ feeds the mind
‘No’ separates us from our soul
‘No’ separates us from ourselves
Living is the art to say
‘Yes’ all the time to our soul
To acknowledge the voice within
To see where the other person is right
To digg deep within
To sit with our irritation
And not act out
Living is the art
to act in …
Every word we use, we were taught
Every meaning of a word we use, we were taught
Every word is the verbalization of an impuls, a sensation we feel in the body
Every verbalization is an attempt to put into words what can not be put into words
Every feeling that is put into words
Every thought that is put into words
Every memory, association, perception that is put into words
Is an attempt to point at something which is beyond words
What is love
What is tenderness
What is compassion
Maybe we can not express what something is
Maybe we can only be what we are …
“What we do is to snap the brain out of it”: that is a frequent used quote by Cesar Millan, the dogwhisperer.
I sat with that quote for somehow I felt there was something so deep and true in it. “We snap the brain out of it, before it escalates; before it goes to the red zone”. The red zone is most of the time the state in which the dog attacks and can not be controled any longer.
I began translating this quote to what I do with people, when they come to me for help. In most cases the people who come to me, want help with the on going thoughtstream in their head. They feel stressed and often they suffer from burnout symptoms.
What could be the case is this.
The brain receives impulses and produces thoughts and the mind, as identified consciousness, attaches to those thoughts and takes them for real. When the mind is stopped in that identifying process by being confronted it with the reality of the moment, the “mind is snapped out of it”. The mind has this identifying habit and is conditioned to do so for thousands of years. It is not personal. It comes with the human species. So when we confront the mind with itself and when we hold up the mirror so the mind can see itself, then it is possible that the mind stops and “is snapped out of it”.
Finding the absolute truth in ourselves by asking ourselves if it is true what we believe and waiting for the heart, intuition, cosmic intelligence, or whatever, to answer from the depth of our being, stops the identifying process. And when we do that often enough, the mind will gradually get used to the conditioning of investigating thoughts , before believing thoughts.
Cesar Millan is the whisperer for dogs. We can all be the whisperer for people. Holding up the mirror, asking if it is true, is what we can do. It takes time to get used to this new way of looking at our thoughts. I think the time is right to dive in the depths that are waiting inside of us. And what I found is that that depth has no ending …
Blessing on the journey into yourself; the journey without end and without distance …
Walking in the pristine snow
with almost silent sound of falling snow
the tears of Gratitude pour out
and melt the white sweet cover
I feel the lively essence
of what I AM in me
and have no words for that
which is alive in me
How can I define this wonder
and bind it to some words?
Life is the wordless beauty
present in the stillness
of freshly fallen snow …
Wonderwalk 