Do You Know Who You Are?

What I love about baby squirrels is that 

they make the best gurus!

They are totally free in every moment

and never pretend to be something they're not.

They remind me of who we are!

From the very beginning, 

it's all just been a case of mistaken identity!

All the problems in the world are a result of 

not knowing our true identity...

LOVE !

Imagine the whole world getting together
in love and just hanging out
like these little squirrel brothers!
It's happening right now!
2012 is here!

Every Child Has Known God

Every child has known God,

Not the God of names,

Not the God of don'ts,

Not the God who ever does 

Anything weird,

But the God who knows only 4 words.

And keeps repeating them, saying:

"Come Dance with Me, come dance."

                                                 -- Hafiz

I Bow to the True Guru

There is an amazing Indian chant called "Aad Guray"

and sung by Deva Primal and Miten.

The translation of the words are:

I bow to the primal guru,

I bow to the guru woven through time

I bow to the true guru, the true

identity of the self.

I bow to the great guru whose great

glory will always be.

What is this primal guru?

Byron Katie calls it "what is";

Candice O'Denver calls it "clarity"

or "open intelligence";

Eckhart Tolle calls it "now",

and the Oneness community calls it

the "Presence".

Certainly there are a thousand names for this guru!

I call it LOVE....

In the following video, Candice elaborates

on the simple practice of

taking short moments~

a simple way to recognize

"the great guru

whose glory will always be"!

The true self is who we really are~

"Please call me by my true names,

so I can wake up,

and so the door of my heart can be left open,

the door of compassion".

Thich Nhat Hanh

03 Aad Guray by julie-squirrelady

The Ultimate Prayer

Last night I dreamt I was praying to fully know myself

as awareness. And when I was waking this morning

I heard the words to what sounded like "The Lord's Prayer",

only it was a new version... a non-dual version.

It was so beautiful that I created the lovely backdrop.

Creator of heaven and earth,

You are me,

I am you.

prayer of a Navajo girl - early 20th century

You are the love of your life!

There is a lovely poem

that beautifully portrays

the realization that

you are the love of your life!

Love After Love

The time will come

when, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror,

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

~ Derek Walcott

from Sea Grapes 1976

Looking For Love

A strange passion is moving in my head.

My heart has become a bird

which searches in the sky.

Every part of me goes in different directions.

Is it really so

that the one I love is everywhere?

The Love Poems of Rumi

Everything is All Right!

I have been reading a beautiful text written by Candice O'Denver. It is called

"The Basic State ~ THE SOLUTION IN ALL PROBLEMS."

It is a soothing, wonderful book because

it reaffirms over and over the great truth that

we are already free;

that there is no mountain you have to climb

in order to arrive at freedom.

The many gurus that have realized this

and share in satsang

are all saying the same thing in various ways.

Here are a couple excerpts from The Basic State:

"To chase after perceptions and strive to correct them is as futile as the sky chasing the sky. All fixed descriptive frameworks appear where there is no openness to the sovereignty of the basic state. These ideologies see human beings as flawed and trapped within the determinism of contributing factors such as natural selection. Within these outlooks there is no recognition of, or support for, the natural perfection of the basic state that is intrinsic to being human."

"Yet the naturally perfect basic state is very exacting. In the basic state, there is found increasing mental stability, spontaneous empathy, sympathy and happiness. These are already present but go unnoticed when it is believed that they must be cultivated or that they simply appear at random. Compassion, clarity, perfect insight and complete mental stability are the norm for human beings rather than a rarity. To assume otherwise is tragic because it destines perception to whatever limitation or restriction is believed.

The starting point for understanding the true nature of the phenomenal world is the basic state, continually at rest in equipoise, clarity and insight. This is the exalted height of human intelligence."

We have been looking at ourselves and humanity through the lens of misperception. It's all been a simple misunderstanding...

Listen below as Mooji talks about this in the following video:

Short Moments of Rest...

...repeated many times, become continuous!

You don't have to sit like a buddha to experience true rest.

Rest is available all the time. Even in the midst of chaos,

we can take a short moment.

That means.... stop thinking....

and let everything be as it is.

It is a simple practice and a powerful one.

What happens is that one begins to

identify with the ALL rather than

the measly point of view.

We are powerful beings!

Stand in the pure beingness that you are!

Watch as the various phenomena arise,

live their life,

and then dissolve!

Why get caught up in a mirage?

You are the one

you've been waiting for...

What you are searching for

is the infinite that you are already!

Candice O'Denver, founder of the

Great Freedom Teachings,

talks about our true identity below:

Open Intelligence - Our True Identity - 5.8.11 from Balanced View Candice on Vimeo.

What Does It Take to Wake Up?

Lake Travis, near Austin, Texas

There is a Cree Prophecy coming true~

"When all the trees have been cut down,

when all the animals have been hunted,

when all the waters are polluted,

when the air is unsafe to breathe,

only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

San Angelo State Park, Texas

It's a friendly universe....

Can you imagine a Mother Earth so lovingly patient

that she allows us to learn our lessons

in our own time?

Can I be as loving with myself?

Today on a blog I found, was a photo of a father teaching his young son

to hunt squirrels. Why is it that people feel the need to kill?

Now let me ask myself:

Where is it that I kill ?

... the fire ants in my yard.

...the squirrel hunters in my mind.

Let me remember the prayer of St.Francis:

"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light,

and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may

not so much seek to be consoled,

as to console;

To be understood, as to understand;

To be loved, as to love;

For it is in giving that we receive,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

and it is in dying that

we are born to eternal life."