Silence

Are you silent once you have eliminated every noise? Are you holy when no more judging thoughts appear? Are you pure love once you have defeated hatred? Are you awake when you are in a state of bliss?

Have you come home once you have transformed your traumas or bad feelings? Are you free once you have cast off all the chains of thought? Are you enlightened when the world can no longer touch you? Are you perfect once you have shaped yourself according to the image in your head?

This striving for a goal, or for changing what is, will keep you forever in a state of seeking and confusion.

Only when a turning away from all ideas or concepts about life appears does a space open up in which recognising what you are becomes possible.

Then you let yourself fall into the "imperfection" of this moment, forget love and hatred, let every thought be there, let every feeling be welcome, forget freedom or control, and lose interest in seeking or finding. You let each moment appear as what it is, without knowing where it is going.

It is precisely this freedom that you give back to life that lets you recognise that you are more. By losing all ideas, your pathless path of awakening appears.

Love,
Pratibha & Kareem