River Bed

Both sides of the river bed
are so near
but they never meet

it is likewise with our both channels,
the right and left channels
the one of thoughts and the other of emotions
the solar and the lunar one...

It is not permitted to the Sun to catch up the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law).
Quran [36:40]

they never meet

hence the suffering
when man stick to thoughts and emotions created by him and can NEVER
divide himself in two
for he is ONE in Spirit
yes, there was only ONE spirit breathed by Allah within Adam (pbuh)

but then,
what are these two channels for?

look not right nor left
but look within
what is filling the space between both channels?

it is the Middle Path/channel
and that is the stream of light
the WATER of the river
CONTAINED by both river SIDES

so you have to surrender INTO that Stream of waters
that is to be One with the Spirit

Only Truth remains

During meditations
we are supposed to WATCH the thoughts

it means neither to block them
to stay with energy
nor to follow them however attractive path they describe,
towards your progress

an Amerindian grandfather said to his grandson
within are two enemies who battle with each other
the son asked, which one wins?
he answered the one you feed the most [i.e. with your attention!]

thus at one point, one realises strikingly
that we are Someone watching thoughts
and we are no more them.

even if we say it with words
it is NOT true, unless you FELT it, or SENSED this dis-association.

and what happens when you let thoughts come and go?
they are no more being fed
thus they lose power/control over you
and are gone...
like dust.

it is said,
if you wish to know whether something is true or false
then remember
that only Truth REMAINS
while falsehood passes away, fades away

this is why it is said that shaitan lead men to attractive paths
but once he faces the Power of God
he leaves, saying to the servant he misled "i leave you there, as for me, i fear my Lord"
for falsehood never remains

and if you are associated with it
meaning, if you equals yourself with it
then you BECOME it
and as thoughts are MEANT to perish
as waves die in the ocean
you perish with them
hence the loss you feel

but if you watch the waves dying in the ocean
that is another beautiful spectacle, isn't it?
thus the state of WITNESS ( Ash- Shaheed) is the ONE sought after
not the one of the slave (of thoughts and emotions)

once you have reached the state of dis-association from thoughts (=do not associate gods with Me)
and KNOW you are NOT them (= la illaha = there is no god)
then TRUTH remains -UNCLOUDED- for you to SEE
there is ONLY ONE (ill Allah)

but those who meditate not
they let thoughts to accumulate themselves
as sedimentation happens in river bed
and what was before only an immaterial thought
becomes your physical condition
which can only decay and never be everlasting.


as it is said in quran,
surah al israa (=The Ascension) :

Say [to the people] that the Spirit of Truth has come and falsehood has vanished.

Qur'an [17: 82]

and that,

“Everything will perish, save His Face.” Quran [28:88]

From the interpretation of Ibn Kathīr: And God, the Most High's statement that “Everything will perish save His Face” shows that He is the Eternal, the Everlasting, the Ever-Living and the Self-Existent, who does not die while all of creation will die. As God, the Most High said “Everything on this earth will perish, but forever will abide the Face of your Lord, full of Might and Glory”, and ‘Face’ denotes the Being (of Allāh).

and
are thoughts not our creation ?

is not a skyscraper a thought initially? which has been fed enough to become a repetitive idea, then a decision and then a design on paper and finally a building?

it means not, "do not think",
but means do NOT IDENTIFY yourself with/nor love/nor devote your life for thoughts
that YOU have created!
they are only a creation of yours
and act as waves :
they come and GO.

but seek something ETERNAL, EVER-LASTING
which WAS, IS and WILL EVER BE
and that is YOUR TRUE NATURE.

The Pure Spirit breathed by Allah in Adam.
This is The Light of His in us

and those who seek, find :

O you who believe! whoever from among you turns back from his religion, then Allah will bring a people,
He shall love them and they shall love Him,
lowly before the believers,
mighty against the unbelievers,
 they shall strive hard in Allah's way and shall not fear the censure of any censurer;
this is Allah's Face,
He gives it to whom He pleases, and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.
Quran [5:54]


Everything will perish, save His Face ...

When you are faced with trouble

When you are faced with trouble
Where can you possibly turn?

it is said act but do not re-act.

we come with expectations
as to how a situation should turn
and how people will be attuned to our words and feelings
because wishing for the best for them
we think they are in our mind
and happy to follow the way we traced into our mind

BUT it is not so
they come with their own mind and mood
and are not cognisant of your intend

they have free will
and you have yours

if their will happens not to match ours
then, on the spot we feel a sort of hit
be it a surprise or a deeper astonishment
and you feel that your belly has stopped to breathe

and then, in the second following it,
how do you re-act?
actually you are in a state of amnesia
as you always are
you are on the spot as if you had never been taught anything
nor had ever encountered conflictual situation
and have gathered no wisdom whatsoever

and what do you do?
you re-act.

but here,
we have the time and the space,
the Grace to remember
that the only solution
is the one of the state of meditation

WATCH the scene
breathe
re-center, re-align yourself
by putting attention on top of head
and
LET
for God sake,
LET the Divine Energie guides you to new ways
to be experienced

why do you absolutely need
to think over and over again
about what happened?

Remember?
Where attention goes, there goes the Energy...

so unless you wish the Divine Energy to feed your trauma
again and again
that is really a sadistic approach : )
and is rather for those who do not believe in another way than of the suffering
hey that is also a choice,
but NOT mine

so,
you better watch the energy which is your personal helper and compagnon

and at some point,
you will spontaneously know what to do next.

so, summing up:
WATCH
LET GO
ATTENTION on top of head/on the Divine Energy.

Let the waves (situations) rise and fall.

Do not fight it
Do not shove it unto the carpet
Do not react to it

JUST watch it rising and falling.
then you will not feed it
while you keep feeling the energy
with your attention on top of head.


Because what you see is your own mind in action :


Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!”
So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”

After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake.
This time too he found that the lake was muddy. He returned and informed Buddha about the same.

After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back. The disciple reached the lake to find the lake absolutely clean and clear with pure water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said,

“See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be…. and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water. Your mind is also like that! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”

Source: http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/spiritual-short-story-746-Buddha%E2%80%99s+Advice+to+Calm+a+Disturbed+Mind.html]

Star dust and the prayer of Light

"Nous sommes des poussières d'étoiles"
-Hubert Reeves


« C’est mon histoire qui est racontée : ce sont les mêmes forces qui organisent l’infiniment grand et l’infiniment petit, les cellules de mon corps comme les gigantesques amas de galaxies. Je fais partie d’un tout, je suis…. POUSSIERES D’ETOILES» Hubert Reeves



Imaginez que nous sommes des étoiles qui vagabondent dans le très large univers…  Des fois, nous passons au loin de galaxies, fonçons à travers des nébuleuses, nous écrasons sur une Lune (avec des séquelles éventuelles)…
Nous pouvons entrer dans le champs gravitationnel de planètes ou d’étoiles plus grosses que nous : nous sommes alors accélérés ou freinés, et quand le phénomène est particulièrement agréable, nous pouvons nous mettre en orbite autour de ces corps célestes pour un certain temps.
On a tous traversé les turbulences d’un champ d’astéroïdes, ou fréquenté un trou noir dont il a été difficile de se dépêtrer…
Notre vie n’est qu’une succession d’illustrations de la théorie des chocs avec la réalité, des lois gravitationnelles autour de personnes rencontrées, de la relativité absolue (encore un oxymore !) et parfois, de la loi du chaos. Le reste du temps, on navigue comme on peut, avec notre boussole, qui pointe vers le nord de notre vocation ou de nos aspirations.

source : http://pilarlopezsophrologue.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/changer-pour-rester-soi-meme-48-le-sens-de-la-vie-enfin-revele/



when one is meditating
and attention is on top of the head
we are swinging between images and stillness

images are what we must let go
for we are not them
we do not block them
nor stick to them
they are part of the manifestation of life
but we watch them
rising as waves rise on the oceans
then we let the waves go
these images are like the trail of dust of stars,
still shining
and catching our attention
yet they are no more
for we are the Present
still going on, moving on
to our Home

then, we bring simply our attention back
to the energy we are feeling on top of the head
on the sahasrara
that is so much more honorable to recall

the energy there
shall purify your attention
like a power removing the rust from your mirror
or like the Hand of God removing the veils that darken your vision

till Light Be

so when you swing back to your place of stillness
and let the energy purify you
you align yourself to the straight path within
and you let her do the job for you
i.e. to purify you

and your mind is indeed being polished
sharpened
and shines
blur is removed
and light increases
like the intense light of the particle of dust entering into the Earth's atmospher
shining more and more while reaching its destination
and leaving behind its trail of light

Light upon light
the Being of Light behind the light

An-Nour

Tabarakta Ya Noor Al-Anwar
Nawar Qalbi Maarifatik
Ya Allah Ya Noor Ya Haqq Ya Mobeen

Bless be You O Light of lights
Enlighten my heart with the knowledge of knowing You
O Allah O Light O Truth O The Clear One


Prayer of Light of the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)


O God! You are light, and from You is light. Place light in my heart and on my tongue and in my eyes and in my ears and in front of me and to the right of me and to the left of me and behind me and in my presence. Place light in my nerves and in my bones and in my flesh. Make me live in light; grant me light; give me light; make me light.


 O Allah, place light in my heart, light in my tongue, light in my hearing, light in my sight, light behind me, light in front of me, light on my right, light on my left, light above me and light below me; place light in my sinew, in my flesh, in my blood, in my hair and in my skin; place light in my soul and make light abundant for me; make me light and grant me light.



Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.

source : http://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/st-patricks-breastplate.html

Here mistake me not...

Jesus peace be upon him equals not to Christ

Christ is the Light that is in all... The Light of God
and that is the True message of Yeshua (pbuh)

This is the light of your consciousness purified, as exemplified by Jesus.

You are the Light within
The Christos Light

When the waiting one
was the awaited one...

this is why the wait was so long
for it ended only
when the waiting one becomes one
with the awaited one

you are the witness to your own coming.
and Truth sets YOU free.

Under Water

This music is being played by Anoushka the daughter of Ravi Shankar,
who is a great indian musician. He was a realised soul.
And he departed recently, on the 11th of December 2012.


Ravi Shankar, KBE (Bengali: রবি শংকর, IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar, a plucked string instrument. He has been described as the best-known contemporary Indian musician.^[2]

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar



Sitar is for me the best instrument i ever heard.
one string produce so many notes,
it resonates so richly.

it is filled with so many harmonics
so many that one feels that it is a voice that is speaking.

in the following extract,
it feels indeed an inner voice that rises from within
and relates its own story
with its own emotions
while only ears to listen are needed to echo
what is being shared.

the voice is the soul turning its face towards the Spirit.