Silence speaks, part 1

1.

All I need
Is my soulful heart-access.
All God wants
Is my fruitful life-progress.

2.

My heart, O my sweet little heart,
Cry not for great comfort-pleasure,
Cry for duty's measureless delight.
Lo, you are now God's secret Treasure.

3.

Alas, I have a body-bound soul-cry.
Therefore, my heart suffers a
mountain-pain.
My faith, half-strangled by its enemy:
doubt.
Long lost God's Vision-embraced
Oneness-Chain.

4.

I love my mind, but my love for my heart
And its purity is infinitely more.
My mind, my life-journey's confusion-mart.
My heart has reached its silence-flooded
shore.

5.

My Heaven's blue vision-life
Never enjoys division-pride.
My earth's green reality-heart
Never enjoys ignorance-ride.

6.

No hope, no hope!
Each heart is stung by the destruction-doubt-bee.
No hope, no hope!
Each life is the failure-cry of a helplessness-sea.

7.

I shall not fail, I shall not fail.
For me exists no dark frustration-jail.
I shall not fail, I shall not fail.
My heart is daily fed by God's Concern-Mail.

8.

My beauty's soul was raised on Love.
My purity's soul was raised on Grace.
My freedom-life a runner great
In God's Vision-Reality-Race.

9.

My heart loves the ancient message:
"Love all, all one, no big, no small."
My mind loves the modern message:
"Behold, I have far surpassed all."

10.

I know I am always afraid of God,
Not because He is His Infinity's Power,
But because His Eye wants me to give
A new life to the long-deceased earth-flower.

11.

Ignorance-snake has bitten me.
My life, a slavery of self-servitude.
I see nowhere, I feel nowhere
My soul's birthless, deathless certitude.

12.

Untouched by temptation-fire
My silence-heart ocean-deep.
Dark-hued ignorance-giants
Are doomed to eternal sleep.

13.

In the inner world my Lord Supreme
Has made my life-tree tall.
Sleepless I sing, breathless I dance
With the trance-bound oneness-all.

14.

For God my mind desires to die.
For God my heart aspires to live.
For God my soul sleeplessly flies.
For God I take, for God I give.

15.

I cannot imagine
Why my mind's thought-world is so impure.
I cannot imagine
Why my heart's feeling-world is
so insecure.
I cannot imagine
Why my soul's hunger-world is
still starving.
I cannot imagine
Why my Lord's Vision-World
is still hoping.

16.

My Lord, I have too much pressure-fire.
"My child, you enjoy too much pleasure-mire."
My Lord, my life has done so much for You.
"My child, why then am I not close to you?"

17.

Are you watching your mad elephant-mind?
It wants completely to destroy
The beauty's world that your heart
sleeplessly loves.
Delay not, God's Grace-Eye employ.

18.

Something is definitely wrong
With me, I see today.
Long-disowned insecurity-game
I am dying to play.

19.

My mind, my earth-bound mind,
Sleep no more in a tiny body-cage.
God's God-Hour has arrived.
Wake up and be the vastness-oneness-sage.

20.

Hurry, my Lord Supreme!
How can You completely forget
Your Freedom-Promise to me?
Am I not still in a bondage-net?

21.

O when I join the bright company of saints,
I feel I can become their crown.
O when I join the dark company of fools,
Impossible to be their greatest clown.

22.

Soulfully and gloriously I have passed
Inspection on my life's assembly line.
My sacred secret you want to know:
Desire's hunger-breath I ruthlessly fine.

23.

Nobody desires to draw
My heart's weak aspiration-face.
My Lord, tell me not why.
Just make me Your Perfection-Grace.

24.

Do you secretly love and adore
Your life's ignorance-queen and king?
If so, how can the Lord Supreme
Inside your heart-garden ever sing?

25.

Before I discovered my hunger-heart
Mine was the life of a long-lingering sigh.
Now I sleeplessly sing and sport and dance
And hoist my Pilot's Victory-Banner high.

26.

No more my mind shall prepare
ignorance-feast.
No more ignorance-boat my heart shall sail.
Inside my new life's perfection-camera
My Lord's Delight-Smile-Film
will never fail.

27.

Once more I see my heart's
Sunrise, once more.
My Lord's Compassion-Eye
My Haven-Shore.

28.

I can separate my life
From my hunger-desire,
But never my Lord Supreme
From His Perfection-Fire.

29.

My immediate aim is to become
A lamb of God Supreme.
My ultimate Goal is to touch, spread
His Oneness-Lion-Dream.

30.

Alas, I barter not
With God's sleepless Affection-Light.
Yet He abandons not
My life-journey's perfection-flight.

31.

My soul is breathlessly drawn
To my Lord's Vision-Delight.
My heart is tenderly drawn
To His Compassion-Height.

32.

I shall safely go Home.
My inner storms have died away.
My heart is silence-smile.
I see the ignorance-shunned day.

33.

My earth-life is no more
The same unhappy story's tears.
No phantom-thoughts I breathe.
Within, without, God's Victory-Cheers.

34.

My mind, you are nothing
but a flood of talk.
In vain I protest, alas, in vain I protest.
But today my silence-soul has just arrived
To whisper: "You are under
permanent arrest."

35.

A never-ending struggle
With a soulless unreality's stark frown
Can never be my life.
Mine is the life for God's supernal Crown.

36.

My heart breathlessly loves
God the Creator.
My life sleeplessly serves God the creation.
Therefore, within, without, my body sees
No sombre death, no ruthless destruction.

37.

Alas, there was a nothingness-time
When my earthly breath was a long and heavy sigh.
But now it only sings and flies
In my Pilot's Satisfaction-Welkin high.

38.

O when I pray and pray and pray,
My life becomes my Lord's
Partnership-Height.
And when in silence I meditate,
My life becomes His
Oneness-Fulness-Delight.

39.

My heart's self-giving inner love,
My life's sky-climbing outer height,
My soul's God-spreading silence-peace,
Have covered the body of ignorance-night.

40.

My Beloved Lord Supreme,
Because You are Your Vision's
descending Grace,
Do I not safely belong
To Your Perfection's Satisfaction-Race?

41.

My Lord, I love You only, not because
You are within, without, below, above,
But because Your Heart has made
my surrender-life
Your Eternity's sweetness and
fondness-dove.

42.

The only song I wish to sing
Is my Lord's Vision-Grace.
The only dance I wish to dance
Is His Oneness-Embrace.

43.

God has a very good memory.
He will keep His Promise, He will.
But where is your heart's climbing cry,
Where is your life's expanding thrill?

44.

I always forget that God is an old Man.
Easily He can teach my mind.
I always forget that God is a little Child.
A playmate in me He will surely find.

45.

I think I am a mistake made by God.
God knows I am His Perfection-Dream.
I think my God is not here, but elsewhere.
God knows I am His Oneness-Scheme.

46.

My blue-red heart shall face ignorance-base,
My blue-red heart shall face.
My green-white life shall fly
in oneness-sky,
My green-white life shall fly.

47.

Only one line in God's entire Life-Book:
"Soulful is My seeker-child's heart-cry."
Only one line in the child's entire life-book:
"My Lord, perfect to be, I shall try."

48.

My purity-heart is my blue-gold crown
That none can take away.
My oneness-life is my deathless smile
For God's God-Victory-Day.

49.

O my heart-flower,
Close not your sweet, pure eyes.
O my life-fruit,
For all, your promise-skies.

50.

Tearfully I pray, soulfully I pray
To drown my life's ignorance-stay.
Sleeplessly I pray, breathlessly I pray
To be God's earth-transforming ray.

51.

No more, no more, I see no more
My eyeless journey's barren shore.
Flooded with my soul's vision-birth,
I drink deep freedom's silence-mirth.

52.

I shall not blame the world,
I shall not blame.
I shall just increase my heart's
blue oneness-flame.
The world will never blame my life,
never.
We are ready to play God's
nectar-drinking Game.

53.

Just close your huge thought-gate
To keep your mind-room clean.
Your earthly life will be the owner
Of a transformed fate.

54.

O where is the soulful cry
That touches every heart?
O where is the powerful smile
That smashes death's death-dart?

55.

The silver purity of my heart
Is God's Victory-Light.
The golden divinity of my soul
Is my self-transcendence-height.

56.

My God-drinking faith forecasts
My long journey's delight.
My God-serving peace forecasts
The end of division-night.

57.

I have been enjoying watching my mind's
Coiled confusion-cobra all along.
I know not when I shall be ready to sing
My heart's climbing aspiration-song.

58.

Mine is the mind
That swims in the sea of energy-delight.
Mine is the body
That is ever doomed to lethargy-blight.

59.

O do you know why
You are always spiritually ill?
Because you do not
Dare to outwit the stark desire-devil.

60.

Now that I have declined
To recline upon my ego-pleasure-chair,
My Lord shall permit me
To rise above the mad elephant-world-fair.

61.

My mind, do you know what I want?
I want an abrupt end to your stupidity.
My heart, do you know what I need?
I need for you my soul's deathless purity.

62.

O I shall strive and strive
For my soul's winning stride.
I know I shall succeed,
For I am God's Compassion-Tide.

63.

My mind demands and demands.
The Absolute reprimands.
My heart soulfully needs.
At once my Beloved feeds.

64.

How can you please Heaven's Cashier
Without your oneness-life?
And how can you please earth's cashier
With your division-knife?

65.

Wherever he goes, he creates
An atmosphere of Heaven's Delight.
His inner beauty's lustre
Shortens the breath of ignorance-night.

66.

Seeker-friend, what you need
Is a security-scaffold.
Then the whole world will see
In you your divinity's gold.

67.

Swiftly, bravely I passed
Through stark ignorance-fog.
And now I long to be
My Master's faithful dog.

68.

My mind-tree was destroyed
By confusion-cannon.
My vital-tree was devoured
By frustration-dragon.
Yet God's Compassion-Eye
Waters my heart-plant green.
His great Perfection-Dream
In me shall ever be seen.

69.

I shall celebrate
The ceremony of my God-choice.
The vast Witness-Light
I need is my Lord's Silence-Voice.

70.

I daily think of my Lord Supreme.
Behold, my outer success-light.
I daily offer my action-fruits.
Behold, my higher progress-flight.

71.

Ah, what I did before
Was to cater to self-indulgence.
Oh, what do I do now?
I now admire my soul's effulgence.

72.

Now that my mind
Is not a stranger to purity,
I shall easily and perfectly be able
To see God's Face.

Now that my heart
Is not a stranger to aspiration,
I shall not be asked to remain away
From God's fond Embrace.

73.

My silver faith has just returned
From my mind's cruel exile.
Who can defile now my heart's cry,
Who can dare to defile?

74.

O earth, I shall no more
Use your yesterday's bondage-rope.
O Heaven, my life is flooded
With your tomorrow's vision-hope.

75.

My earth-bound life is touched today
By God's Liberation-Torch.
Nowhere my freedom-life shall see
The old world's passion-scorch.

76.

Every day I commemorate
The lucid birth of hope.
Therefore, my life and I see not
The long depression-rope.

77.

No more my stupid mind shall live
In a wasteland of fruitless desire.
To please my Lord like my crying heart
My life shall become a flaming spire.

78.

How can you read
The transcript of the highest Truth
If your inner life
And outer life are not bridged by ruth?

79.

Alas, my mind's
Daily friendship with doubt
Is now plagued by
Dauntless destruction-shout.

80.

Your heart's aspiration-cry
How can you raise
If you always gorge yourself
On earthly praise?

81.

The human mind lives on
The feast of hope's possibilities.
The heart divine lives on
The feast of God's Love-Necessities.

82.

To be a spokesman for the Lord
My heart sleeplessly cries.
Who can tell me how far I am
From vast ecstasy-skies?

83.

God's Fondness-Heart
Soulfully I shall become today.
Lo, I have stopped
My proud, self-styled darkness-play.

84.

My little, brittle heart
For You, my Supreme Lord.
Save my death-captured life
With Your Oneness-Love-Cord.

85.

My sleeping body has sprung to life.
No doubts have I, no fears.
Delight within, delight without -
My heart in gratitude-tears.

86.

My insecurity-thief my soul has caught
With its confidence-light.
Now is the time for me to bravely reach
My forgotten Heaven-Height.

87.

I came to You, my Lord Supreme,
In my silver silence-dream.
You came to me with all Your Grace,
Oneness-Fulness-Embrace.

88.

O when your mind's doubt-thorns
Torture you ruthlessly,
Hide your heart's faith-flowers
At once plus breathlessly.

89.

I read my eyes and not my palm.
I see within and not without.
I love my heart and not my mind.
Ignorance-seeds have failed to sprout.

90.

What I sleeplessly need
Is a flaming, climbing hope
Before my heart is caught
By stark doubt's strangling rope.

91.

Do not exploit your crying heart.
Do not forget your serving life.
Your beauty's heart, your duty's life
Shall smash the world's ignorance-knife.

92.

An unfamiliar God-Mouth
Fascinates my mind.
My old familiar God-Heart
Ah, nowhere I find.

93.

No more my heart shall cry,
No more my soul shall sigh, no more.
Today my Lord Supreme
Has touched my orphan hunger-core.

94.

Receptivity soulfully receives
God the eternal Lover.
Spontaneity sleeplessly reveals
God the immortal Knower.

95.

I shall fulfil, I shall fulfil
My Lord Supreme.
My heart shall be His sweet and fond
Sun-Oneness-Dream.

96.

Never say no, never say no,
O never say,
When God's Compassion-Eye desires
Your heart to play.

97.

O all day long
My heart and I desire to hear
Only God-Song;
No song of doubt, no song of fear.

98.

My Lord Supreme,
You are my darkness-failure-night.
But I shall be
Your heart-vast Victory-Delight.

99.

Be not afraid to strike your mind!
Be not afraid to feel your heart!
Be not afraid to watch your life!
Be not afraid to smash death-dart!

100.

From morn to eve
I love to be the oneness-sky.
From eve to morn
I want no empty question "Why?"

101.

The lessons taught by my eyes,
The lessons taught by my mind
Have the same magic power
To tempt my breath and bind.

102.

Beneath my thought-debris
My eyes are seeing today
A flower of God's new Dawn
In His Heart's Love-Garden-Play.

103.

To have a richly happy life
My restless mind I have confined.
To be a flawless God-lover
A oneness-life my heart has designed.

104.

I have seen in my heart
My Supreme's Beauty-Light.
Therefore no more am I
My mind's abysmal night.

105.

Your hungry vital-tiger knows no rest.
How can you dream of sunny days ahead?
Your mind, your life, have both disobeyed God;
Yet God grants you His Eye's Compassion-Bread.

106.

The same sublime Perfection-Truth
Is told and retold:
God treasures my sleepless inner cry —
His Ecstasy-Gold.

107.

My life's dedication-smile,
My heart's aspiration-cry,
The same dialect they speak
In oneness and fulness-sky.

108.

O failure-world, O how can I
Ever disown your sinking breath?
With you, my friend, ever with you
My oneness-life, my oneness-death.

109.

O doubtful venom-mind,
O joy-devouring foe,
My pure God-dreaming heart
Nowhere with you shall go.

110.

My Lord Supreme has fed
My hungry heart-cries just today
With His Vision-Delight.
Ready to start our oneness-play.

111.

How can anything of yours
Fail
If your heart's silence-smiles
Sail?

112.

Depending on human beings
Is like depending on weak crutches.
Depending on God's Grace-Concern
Is like depending on Heaven-touches.

113.

Can you not finish
The work that God has begun?
You will then know
Life is only a costly fun.

114.

Tell me, where do you hide,
My heart's silence-delight?
Long lost am I in stark,
Soulless ignorance-night.

115.

My prime suspect, my evil mind.
Its ruthless eye strangles my breath.
I sail my boat to a goalless shore.
Within, without, the dance of death.

116.

Lo, lost and found-today
My old God-hunger lost,
My new God-meal now found
Completely free, no cost.

117.

I shall not permit my ego-life
To outgrow my oneness-light.
My Lord ere long must see in me
His own Perfection-Height.

118.

O one deep breath,
O one self-giving breath!
I am ready
To smash the pride of death!

119.

My Lord, I have nothing but faith,
And faith is all I need.
It has shortened my longest trip.
Smiling, my faith You feed.

120.

My heart knows how to beg.
My mind knows how to nag.
My vital knows how to brag.
My body knows how to lag.

121.

My aspiration-cry
Is my heart's sound-might.
My meditation-smile
Is my soul's silence-height.

122.

My heart of love shall go
Far, very far, today.
Nothing can dare to bar,
None can mar my God-way.

123.

My fulness-soul will change my fate.
My oneness-heart will open God's Gate.
My foolishness-mind, never too late
To start and reach perfection-date!

124.

My Lord, are You angry with me?
My Lord, are You withdrawing from me?
My Lord, if You leave me alone,
Who will fell my life's bondage-tree?

125.

The heart's innocence
Eventually conquers
The mind's insolence,
The body's indolence.

126.

Yesterday
He knew how to desire.
Today
He knows how to aspire.
Tomorrow
His doubt-friends he will fire.

127.

Man's teeming plans
Confuse man terribly.
Man's action-life
Pleases God immediately.

128.

Your mind is pining
For world-attention.
Your heart is longing
For God-Compassion.
Your life is nothing
But expectation.

129.

Unless you are ready
To change your own earthly life,
How can you dare to brave
The world's ignorance-knife?

130.

In the outer life nothing is easier
Than self-deception.
In the inner life nothing is mightier
Than self-perfection.

131.

My lost aspiration-key
I now have found again.
This time I shall destroy
My earth-bound bondage-chain.

132.

Think not of the mind's
Great success-height.
Feel only your heart's
Breathless delight.

133.

My doubting mind,
Today I must teach you
How to believe.

My timid heart,
Today I must teach you
How to receive.

134.

Although suddenly
I am too old,
I still maintain
My heart of gold.

135.

What is your soul's other name
If not God's Satisfaction-Game?
What is your mind's other name
If not a ceaseless hunger-fame?

136.

What your mind has
Is a venom-doubt-lance.
What your heart has
Is a nectar-service-dance.

137.

No more sufferings, no more,
Because my Lord's Compassion-Rays
Are blessing me today
With their ecstasy-days.

138.

It is not required to pay
The frustration-toll
In order to reach
The fulfilment-goal.

139.

Ah, yesterday my mind gave me
Its deaf ears.
Today my heart is giving me
Its blind tears.

140.

Between my mind's
Inspiration
And my pure heart's
Aspiration
No shadow of
Separation.

141.

God does not believe
In privacy.
God does not believe
In supremacy.
God believes only
In His Ecstasy.

142.

Your Compassion-Eye,
Lord, gives, sleeplessly gives.
My aspiration-heart
Receives, breathlessly receives.

143.

His mind
Is a complicated fool.
His heart
Is a sophisticated fool.
His life
Indeed, a frustrated fool.

144.

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Once more I need my inner strength
To see Your Beauty's Eye,
To feel Your Heart's measureless Length.

145.

His life has made
A fatal choice:
It loves stark death's
Soulless death-voice.

146.

Now that my life has become
A sky-blue heart-room,
I see nowhere the shadow
Of destruction-doom.

147.

O you cannot be
A perfect God-lover
Unless you remove
Your own heart's huge cover.

148.

If you care not to live up to
Your heart's purity-reputation,
Your life will never be granted
Your high soul's illumination.

149.

A God-seeker must always fight
Against ignorance-night
To scale quickly and breathlessly
His soul's Everest-height.

150.

I saw in him yesterday
Flame upon flame of aspiration.
Today I am seeing him
With his heart's grand renunciation.

151.

My life on earth can never be
A multiple-choice examination.
It is only one sacred question:
Am I ready for God-realisation?

152.

If you truly have a key
To the aspiration-door,
Then your life cannot be far
From the perfection-shore.

153.

Heart-hunger unfed,
Heart's beauty,
Life's purity
Completely dead.

154.

My life's examination
Without fail I shall pass
When my heart's perfection
Grows humility-grass.

155.

Challenge your failure-life
Fearlessly.
Lo, your heart is growing
Beautifully.

156.

I know each Heaven-Dream
Is a promise of fire-beauty
To completely destroy
The ignorance-night of impurity.

157.

My Lord has hired
My happiness-heart.
No more friendship
With ignorance-dart.

158.

How can satisfaction
Be ever at your disposal
When your own mind rejects
God's Perfection-Proposal?

159.

Be brave within,
Without be brave.
If not, desire
Will dig your grave.

160.

The rest of my life
Begins today.
My offering-game
My life shall play.

161.

O blind
Nothingness-death,
Long lost
Your feeble breath.

162.

Supreme,
Your Hand I hold.
Give me
A heart of gold.

163.

My human body's clay
Enjoys God's Cosmic Play.

164.

Purity-smiles are found
Perfect in silence-sound.

165.

Slowly I came,
To see and be
One with the earth's
Self-giving flame.

166.

Although you hurt me, Truth,
My heart shall love your voice.
In life and death, all-where
You will remain my only choice.

167.

My Lord, my Lord,
I shall please You someday.
In You, for You
Alone my heart shall play.

168.

I love my heart,
I love my soul.
In them my journey's
Blue-gold goal.

169.

Far, very far,
From impurity's core,
Purity's sea
And perfection-shore.

170.

At last, my soulful heart
Has reached today my goal.
God-Satisfaction smiles,
No more my sombre dole.

171.

O swift-moving and powerful hand of fate,
When will you open my soul's golden gate?

172.

Because you do not love
God's Compassion-Play,
I see ruthless death-frown
Devouring you today.

173.

Heaven has disowned me
Because my mind is not pure.
Earth has disowned me
Because my life is not sure.

174.

Your searching head is in Heaven,
Your aspiring heart on earth.
Therefore with you, in you I see
The beauty of a new creation's birth.

175.

My life-clock ticks on
Faithfully.
Therefore I am loved by the higher worlds
Richly.

176.

Each mortal dream
Awakens a deathless Reality.
Each fleeting day
Paves the road to Eternity.

177.

What do I truly enjoy?
I enjoy the celebration
Of my Lord's birthless
And deathless Compassion.

178.

My friend, since free access
To your Lord's Silence-Nest
You have not yet established,
No rest for you, no rest.

179.

When will you stop
Watching your mind's boastful glories?
When will you start
Hearing your heart's soulful stories?

180.

Do you not see that your
Aspiration-passport has long ago expired?
With whose clear permission
From life's battlefield have you retired?

181.

How do I deserve the Supreme,
O how do I?
For He Himself has shown me
Our oneness-sky.

182.

Surrender not
To your frustration-sigh.
Your life is meant
To fly and fly and fly.

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