Walk Softly Live Gently

“Why aren’t you happy?
It’s because ninety-nine percent
of everything you do,
and think,
and say,
is for yourself
and there isn’t one.”
– Wu Wei Wu

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This, spontaneous recalling during meditation group tonight:

Remember who you really are and be that!
Remember the vast, radiant emptiness
from which you came
and from which all things arise.
Remember, you are that.
Not that you are one with all….
you are all.
Remember the sun that shines from
your eyes.
You are that.
Remember the moon that
gives you your dreams.
You are that.
Remember the love,
the compassion, the peace, the joy….
you are that too.
Remember the silence
out of which all things arise
in form, manifest in perfection, even
the seeming duality that allows you to write this,
read this, to love or to hate this.
Either way it is the same.
The same source, spirit, energy, consciousness as
“I and the Father are one”….
abiding the tension
between form and emptiness,
incarnation and silence.
Remembering, you are all of this.

Now having done all, just be.

An old Rabbi once asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day had begun.

“Could it be,” asked one of the students, “when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it’s a sheep or a dog?”

“No,” answered the Rabbi.

Another asked, “Is it when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell whether it’s a fig tree or a peach tree?”

“No,” answered the Rabbi.

“Then what is it?” the pupils demanded.

“It is when you can look on the face of any man or woman and see that it is your sister or brother. Because if you cannot see this, it is still night.”

— Hasidic tale

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While   Hard Work    and Knowledge will get you close, and    Attitude   will get you there, it’s the BULLSHIT   and    Ass Kissing that   will put you over the top

With your irresistible glance,
you captured my heart and soul.

Having robbed me of those,
take away my name and accomplishments too.

If any trace of me remains in this world,
please, don’t delay — take that too.

‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani in Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition translated from the Persian by David and Sabrineh Fideler

i am nothing
that is, no thing
i am all things
everywhere
at all times
and yet the vessel
is empty
that is, pure, clear
radiant emptiness
empty of form
yet full
of that which is
of life and love
that is, love
expressed
in giving all
yet receiving all
being all
i am
you are
.
ron russo
6.28.06