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Showing posts with label Kabir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kabir. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2012

First and Last Identity






Be strong then,
and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.

Kabir


We spend so much time looking outside of ourselves for validation or unconditional love.  We need to accept ourselves just the way we are ... imperfect.  Imperfect in the sense that we are an unfinished product, still under construction, and vulnerable to unexpected change.

When our first identity is associated with being Buddha's Heart or Christ Consciousness or Divine Universe, we stand more firmly upon this ground.  As a spark of the Divine, we  experience being human through our family, work, community and belief systems.  We live more harmoniously remembering that our soul is unchanged in spite of  external human labeling.

Identifying with our spiritual nature, our human developments are less dramatic with more effective solutions.  As our perspective is clearly spiritual, every day happenings shift in importance.  

If we are seeking the answer to the question of "Who am I"
simply go within and connect with our soul.  Soul is the first identity we experienced coming into this incarnation and it will be our last identity as we depart.

Friday, May 13, 2011

A Place To SIt




                                                                               
A PLACE TO SIT
                                                                            Kabir

Don't go outside your house to see flowers.
My friend, don't bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers.
One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit.
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside the body and out of it,
before gardens and after gardens.

---Translated by Robert Bly