Befriending the Mystery
How much do we want the answers?
What would we give to know them?
Do we even know the questions that drive us?
For me—the questions
At this moment
In my world
Would sound like:
Will I be okay?
Will I die alone?
What’s the cost of striving toward answers?
What do we compromise in that striving?
What would we trade for knowing?
Wait one moment.
Maybe it’s not full answers we yearn for…
Maybe it’s just…
A tad
More
Information?
Wouldn’t having more information be helpful?
Wouldn’t it make us “safer”?
Safer?
WTF.
What does safer even mean?
The illusion
Of safer?
What if—there is—no knowing.
What if—there is—no information needed.
What if—working so hard—trying to figure IT out
Heads us in the wrong direction?
Figuring it out!
There it is again,
That suspect,
That bogus
Spiritual practice.
The bottom line?
We avoid the Mystery.
The bottom line?
We avoid
The Great and Glorious.
We avoid the Mystery,
The very place
Where
Condensed
Grace
Lives.
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Let’s remember, dear friends, that Living Yoga is the balancing, the yoking, the unity and harmony
between the body, the mind, and the spirit.
Clearly, we are born with that balance, that yoke, that unity, that harmony in place.
Perhaps this is a simplistic comment, but/and, the “over-development” of our minds seems to be the driver of wanting, needing, information, answers, solutions.
It is our hearts, our precious, precious hearts that long to live in the Mystery. To shake its hand. To relax into. To welcome in. To snuggle in its arms.
Our
Precious
Hearts.
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Promise me you will watch this. This six-minute interview between our beloved Mary Oliver and Coleman Barks, poet and master-translator of Rumi, is powerful, profound, and insightful. Listen, please, to their hearts:
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How might you welcome the Mystery into your day, just a tad more?
What might that look like? Be specific.
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May we look at the tree
And be there
For
The
Looking.
May we smile at the black
Squirrel scampering,
And be there
For
The
Scampering,
Be there
For
The
Smiling.
May we welcome
The blessings
Of the sunset
And
Be
There
For
The
Blessing.
May we practice
As best we can
Being in the vastness,
The spaciousness,
The generosity of energy
Of
The
Mystery.
And when
We cannot,
May we
Hug
Our
Hungry
Hearts,
Give ourselves
A giant break,
And
Keep
Practicing.
With gratitude,
Aruni
FOLKS, The Inner Quest Intensive is a container of Vast Mystery.
Give it to yourself.
Send it on to others.
Offer it to your spouse, your child, a friend.
Let’s practice embracing the Mystery together.