"Seeing all things as naked, clear, and free from obscurations, we
understand that there is nothing to attain or realize. Everything is
naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as
part of the continually changing patterns of life. These patterns are
vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment . . . .

"The continual stream of new discovery, revelation, and inspiration that
arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity. We should
learn to see everyday life as a mandala -- the luminous fringes of
experience that radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our
being. The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life
experience moving in the dance or play of the universe.

"By this symbolism the inner teacher reveals the profound and ultimate
significance of being. Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous,
accepting and learning from everything. This enables us to see the ironic
and amusing side of events that usually irritate us."

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, *The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones:
The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action*

The foremost duty of everyone is to make love of God flow towards
all in creation.
Every man lives not for his own sake but to render service
to society.
To forget concern for the body is the way to realize
self-realization.
Of what use is human birth if you do not manifest unsullied
love towards all beings?"

- Telegu Poem

An Adamantine Song
on the Ever-Present
Rootless and baseless are appearance
and void, in the self-arisen rikpa
of every perception.
Vivid is the sense of noncessation:
luminous, the absence of object perception.
Within the voidness free of class distinction
all appearances dissolve, for their ground is lost;
The rikpa of liberation is spread evenly.
Subject and object are both void,
for their roots are lost.
The essence of self-arisen wisdom
and all duality are cleansed like the sky;
subjects and objects arise as free from bounds,
as naked dharmakaya!
This is the Great Perfection, free of cognition!
The self-arisen ground primordially pure,
the ultraversed path supremely swift,
the unsought fruit spontaneously savored,
such is the Great Perfection,
in the radiant dharmakaya.
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AUM BHUR BHUVA SWAHA
TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM
BHARGO DEVASYA DHIMAHI
DHYO YO NA PRACHODAYAT

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving,
I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. The experience of
heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy.

-ERICH FROMM

* Search out a forgotten friend.
* Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.
* Write a loving letter.
* Share some treasure.
* Answer softly.
* Encourage the young.
* Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.
* Keep a promise.
* Find the time.
* Mend a quarrel.
* Forego a grudge.
* Forgive an enemy.
* Listen.
* Apologize if you were wrong.
* Try to understand.
* Flout envy.
* Examine your demands on others.
* Think first of someone else.
* Appreciate, be kind, be gentle.
* Laugh a little more.
* Deserve confidence.
* Take up arms against malice.
* Decry complacency.
* Express your gratitude.
* Gladden the heart of a child.
* Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.
* Speak your love.
* Speak it again.
* Speak it still again.
* Speak it still once again.
* Thank God for this gift of today

Remain Blessed

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:

There is one moral; the love that springs forth from self-denial and blooms in deeds of beneficence.

The orthodox say, 'This is good, that is bad. This is right, that is wrong,' but to a Sufi the source of all good deeds is love. Someone may say that this is the source of bad deeds also, but that is not so; it is lack of love.

Our virtues are made of love, and our sins are caused by lack of it. Love turns sins into virtues, and its lack makes virtues meaningless. Christ said when a woman was brought before Him accused of sin, 'Her sins are forgiven, for she loved much.' Heaven is made so beautiful with love, and life becomes a hell through the lack of it. Love in reality creates harmony in one's life on earth and peace in heaven.

Nothing is everything. In order to grow strong you must first sink your
roots deep into nothingness and learn to face your loneliest loneliness,

"Irvin Yalom"