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Triangulation -- a poem

Triangulation

You hear

What I say

You say

And I hear

You are

And I see

You see

Who I am

You know

And I know.

I know.

I know.

When I know

And I know,

Why

this triangulation?

Why

When I say

You hear

You repeat

So they hear

What you say

Why

When I see

Who you are

Then you show

So they see

Will they see?

If they could

hear and see

then they would

hear and see

Why speak?

I am

And You are.

Let this be.

Let this be.

~ ramla

January 07, 2010

At the writer's desk

Making a Decision

Dear Self:

Let's make the decision today. Right now, about this life... about this ever-branching life.

You know the path that has your heart on it. Shall you, or shall you not take it?

If you cannot make up the mind about the path of the heart, then pray, honor this confusion. Take a moment. Take a deep breath. Write about it. See where the writing leads your soul. Never be afraid to explore your own "Yes" and "No". This is the only choice you have.

Enjoy the process of arriving at your decision, much as you would experience the joy that the decision, once made, will bring you.

The Deception of Phenomena

Dear Self:

Do not let phenomenon lie to you. Do not let good or bad actions deceive you.

The true measure of a human's quality is their character.

If character is well, all is well. Whatever they did, wherever they wandered -- all that brought them to where blessing is: in upright character.

If the character is ill, whatever that has preceded in their life has been in vain.

And those who show illness of character -- leave them. Leave them all no matter their numbers and ranks. Leave them without fear, regret, or remorse.

Now what does 'leave' mean?

It means:

- stay away from

- detach from

- do not take the burden of

- let be

- part company from or association with
- etc.

Some people we can physically or transactionally 'leave', some people we leave in the sense of giving up on them. Letting them be to their devices.

Why do I warn you? Because character elicits character in humans. Who you are with, makes you.

Be made well, because you shall in turn make another.

Watch your heart; watch all signs of illness in it closely. Where does it come from? Inquire upon yourself.

No! It is never old-fashioned or foolish to practice this. This is the only thing of worth you can achieve in life by your own work. Aspire to it.

Honor yourself, your heart, your space. Honor another, their heart, their space. Honor yourself, your heart, your space.

This is how it is.

Sleep well. ~

What Is The Middle Path?

Dear Self:

I want to re-teach you something that you must remember, especially in these times when the illness in human hearts has come to surface; our potential energy becomes kinetic. That is, what was inside has now become apparent. Therefore, these are busy times.

I want to remind you of The Middle Path, and how this is the only path to welfare.

What is The Middle Path?

For long, it has been understood to be the total of good and bad divided over two.

This is impractical, and makes no sense. A mind can be lost over reasoning this out. This, in other words means, indecision. Indecision is an unhelpful act to everyone in the situation, for it stops the flow of events. Flow is life. Block is death.

Therefore, this is not what the Middle Path is.

The Middle Path is the ability to stay one's natural course, no matter the ebb and flow of events.

The word "middle" means to stay consistent whereas the two extremes are the ebb and the flow. Neither the ebb nor the flow are favorable or unfavorable -- it is only our selective perception which thinks so.

This is why humans have been invited to observe how everything in this existence modulates on those two extremes. From light waves to the currents of the ocean to the flow of day & night to pendulums that swing; from seasons to sleeping patterns to moods to energy for work; from tea and perfumes that make you active or sleepy to clothes that are meant for these contrary purposes too -- everything in the world remains in motion through fluctuating between two polarities. This is how your heart beats, too, or you will die if it only let blood flow as through a tap, or, well, stopped.

Human sickness is to assume either polarity as permanent. So we think that either aggressive or pacific behavior alone is the answer, forever, always.

But you se? Sometimes the times are so aggressive that life become impossible. Sometimes life is so pacified that useful ambitious flees from the hearts. So noither appraoch alone is the answer.

Life lies in between the ebb and flow.

The Middle Path is to remain consistent despite these fluctuations, even as we witness that the pendulum of humanity or events (ah, same thing!) has become stuck in one direction. To stay the middle course is not to resist, but to persist.

The real course that events take is that middle course -- just as light waves do. Neither do they remain stuck in the upper arc, nor the lower.

Now why do I remind you of this?

It is because the events of today have reaching a proportion and number so vast, the human mind cannot encapsulate them if we see things in terms of these events.

Forget the events, focus on the principal. Remember you life is to stay the middle course, and also know that the middle course is the shortest and the straightest path to welfare. This is not merely a religious or philosophical notion, this is a mathematical fact. No matter what your belief about the world may be, this is true. This is observable, morally or scientifically.

Stay the middle course, and stay on it with firmness.

I can tell you one thing then: you will surprised how the fluctuations will pass over or under you -- but no harm shall come to you. None.

Maintain quiet on the ebb and flow, and the middle ray of light will take you straight out of the darkness.

If you follow this, in this will you find both wisdom and liberation.

---

Timely Advice

Shut up, my dear, and write.  

Alarm

It is not usual of me to feel the kind of alarm and threat that I am sensing in the air right now.

Well, what is to happen is inevitable. What matters now is to keep yourself alert and aware, and move quickly.

What is happening?

Time is ending. You know that it's beneficial for humanity. We will be in the moment, driven by inevitability.

What will it mean?

That around you, Truth will reveal fast and pure.

Why do I have misgivings?

It's natural for you to be attuned with your surroundings. Follow your instincts. I can only tell you this: you are more prepared than you know. Do not worry about the events. Focus on your preparedness and agility. Move quickly.

Thank you.

Quiet

Well, today is an unusually quiet day. The air is warm and still, the birds are chirping, yes, but other sounds are still. Something is not quite right. I have found my mind talking and slipping back & forth again. Perhaps, it is the mind? I am not in a place where I can afford the waste of the mind activating.
 
My space is now in silence. So. Let's see!
 
But I want to share! So here it goes: I am delighted that the work that I am doing for youth is getting support. Just as miraculously as it had to be. Allah bless the kind souls who come forth and join hands!... Kind souls have certainly sprung up to support my spontaneously. So I thank God!
 
And now I must thank God for something that is quite annoying me: Anger! Jealousy! I swear - I never really thought I'd feel these feelings. I've often been told I have a "good skin." But of course. I wash my face with water all the time, but above all, I keep my heart clean of grudge and mean thoughts!

But right now - oh my God! I am so plain jealous.

Yaar listen, one has to live the truth, eh? You say, "honor your feelings." Now you know you're angry and jealous. Superb! Honor your feelings. (LOL!) I mean sorry I laugh at your misery. But what does it mean?

It all means that you are being asked to clear your heart out completely. These feelings are like the mice scurrying about in a dark room suddenly lit up. So in a way it's not the mice that's the issue at all. Know that they are exposed, and delight in that.

But let this not be a philosophy or a mere insight. You know what to do. Give yourself 30 minutes of quiet solitude. Ask yourself, what exactly do you want? You know you will get whatever you want. Don't play with your intent. Be ready for it to manifest, darling girl.

Do this, and the mice will vanish.

Let God Be

I want to remind you of a truth that you knew:

That to ask oneself, "What if?" is not only futile, it's destructive. There is no "What if?" There is nothing that you could do better, worse, more, less, happier, sadder that what you did! All Existence exists as is! At once! Anyone who looked at a satellite map of the world should be able to envision this. It's not an airy spiritualism. It's the truth as it is!

Everything exists at once! You are in Eternity! You are connected to it! You are within it!

Now, please know, should you insist upon knowing: NO YOU COULD NOT HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENT IN THE PAST! What kind of a futile imagining it is? How could you be anyone other than who you were? Whether you make your decisions blindly, lovingly, foolishly, gallantly, happily, absentmindedly, under influence or threat - the thing is that you made them in a position where you were who you were at that time.

You live with yourself. That is the key for you to understand. You live with yourself. There is no heaven or hell out there, it is in your heart. What does that mean? Consider this statement not as though you're still thinking of a place, and now that is a little microscopic Disneyland in your heart. The truth is that it's not a Disneyland at all! It is your heart!

A heart at peace is Heaven, a heart at constant disagreement is Hell.

But I must tell you the larger Truth: which is that whoever concerned themselves with Heaven or Hell will always find themselves in these places. The master of their Self does not even bother. Do you understand?

Here is the key to the Truth: DO NOTHING. Which means, do not go on creating new circumstances. When circumstances arise of Divine Will, respond with a graceful Human Will.

Can I tell you an even larger Truth? Forget about what I just told you! Remember Me! Remember who you are!

Resist nothing, and you will see what is to be seen. Wish for nothing, and the Divine Wish, of which your soul is aware, will fulfill. Let God be.

Look Within Your Heart!

My dear woman,

Neither in the tomes ancient,
Nor in words of women and men wise -
Neither in the prayers of the kind,
Nor even in the warm embrace of lovers...

At some time, not even in the spirit that protects you
lies God within.

When you come so far,
Then no further shall you go.

For now there is no going back or forth,
North or South, East or West.
Stop and look now within your heart,
Where always, ever God does rest.

---

Dear Prophecy:

You feel dismay? But of course! Enjoy the feeling, and surrender to it, so it shall reveal its secret. It tells you that you indeed shall not get anything from anyone at this moment. It tells you, in other words - there are always, ever, other benevolent words we grasp hardly - it tells you that you have reached the point where you must now find the remedy within you!

You won't see anything if you look around, for it is the moment to look within.

Look within your heart, my dejected self, look within your heart! Celebrate your dejection - it is a sign post! Look! Look! Look Who's coming to stay within!

Surrender!

****

Counting the Beans

My fearful Prophecy:

Counting & counting & counting is an attitude. It does not matter whether what you are counting is a virtue or a vice. What matters is the essence of your action.

Counting, my dear, closes things. Close things do not grow. This stage is of opening. Open!

To those with the first degree of sight, counting is limited to material. So they conclude that it's counting such things as Money which is an obsession and a flaw of character. Those who perceive subtler things frown upon counting Time.

You, Prophecy, should now remember the even subtler deception: counting of Virtue.

Do not, my worrisome self, concern yourself with Eternity, for you already exist within it. Do not calculate the ramifications of your actions. Surpass that stage where you think you are accountable to the blind who insist upon de-fabricating everything. Or rather, do not pander to your own internal bean counter, and all such people will vanish from around you. They are simply your road signs, your warnings, your reflections. Honor them.

Don't ponder upon your own inability to understand what good are you? Who knows? Hu knows!

This is the world of impermanence. This is the space of shift. Everything alters too quickly for you to calculate every thing. And there is no use. What are you going to do with your results? Will you certify yourself? Or will others, who have the uncanny knack of being very timely dis-interested in such matters?

Shed off making meaning. Perceive the meaning there is. In-joy the process!

I love you; and wish you the Best.


[Written on August 28th, 2008]

Presence

:-)

My darling! You have all the hints of approval from Being. There is no need to work out how things work. Rather, to stay with the process.

Ponder not the infinity of choices. Worry not about others and others. Stay in the moment and choose.

Trust yourself. That is the key. Trust yourself. You live with your Self, not with the Other. Understand this. You are exactly where you need to be. Let go of where you are not, and you will arrive in a state of arrival.

I trust you to be present.

*Smile*

I'm a Lover. This is My Way.

Dear Prophecy

Allah's Design is astounding. To come here you had to close your heart. It is uncharacteristic of you, but it was required to get you moving on from a certain stage. Love, my dear, is by principle open. To draw nearer, open up your heart. Again. Be vulnerable. Enjoy this. You have forgiven. That is a state of ego.

Now seek forgiveness! Can you reach out to those who you must connect with? Can you shed your identity and your involvements behind? Can you, instead, just be truly human? Can you extend your right hand in cooperation and in love?

Can you lose your sight and see through Allah's Eyes? Can you quieten your inner voice and hear through Allah's Ears? Can you drop your arm and work through Allah's Hand? Can you stop your footsteps and walk with Allah's Feet?

You can. You will. For from here onwards, this is the Way to Reach Love! Give love. Seek to connect. Drop your residual agenda. Submit to Allah. Live through Hu.

(Written on August 24th, 2008 in my diary, as an inspiration hit me.)

Lack of Trust?

Dear woman!

Somewhere, deep down in your heart, you do not trust the world. Deeper than that, I like to believe, is an ocean of trust - but perhaps that is common to all souls. We humans have the capacity to cap the ocean within - and you may be doing that.

You know what it could be. Transform it.

There are two ways to look at the same thing: either you choose to blame it, or you make something out of it. The latter, actually, is the product of a grateful heart, they say.

The first approach is sometimes used for a dramatic effect. There is much in the media and social culture that nods to that one episode of screaming, shouting, laying the blame, shocking the other out of their wits. That seems to settle scores. That seems to put an end to life as it "happens." It stops the world in some way.

The other is a quieter approach which is less visible in outer machinations, but requires great maturity within. It is the way that seems to disturb nothing, but produces an infinitely more beautiful life to live in. It changes us - which is the key project for which we are created.

The purpose of life is to live your own life Prophecy. In addition to some broken trust - which, actually, is just an interpretation of an event - what may be ailing you right now is seeing your life through another's eyes, putting your reins in another's hands. Are they even asking for it?

No.

Don't set yourself up for automatic failure by making choices that are bound to be unrealized. Far more worthy of your trust is your own self, your intuition when it speaks. Ask yourself. In the smallest of matters, adopt a way of looking that is the Way of Allah. See things through Allah's eyes. Let things be, for they may be needed for the Story of the Universe to be written out. Don't dwell on the script, act!

You love, you know how to love, you must love your self. Not the base, animal, selfish self - but the Self Within. The deepest core of you. Remove the veils from the eye that sees the world with trust - it is the eye of the Source. This is not an abstraction, and this is not mere philosophy. This is a way of perception, which leads to a very real world.

Calm your heart, and drench it in remembrance of who you really are!

The, even the very question of trust or lack of trust will dissolve. Trust me!