{"id":1384,"date":"2019-04-15T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:16:22","slug":"the-nondual-community-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/the-nondual-community-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nondual Community Expands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mathematicians say some infinities are bigger than other infinities. So be
\nit. Infinity shmininity. It is what it is, or, in other words, I am that I
\nam. Basically, it’s all the same. Nothing changes in the changeless.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, some things do get our attention. It seems that miracles still
\ndo tend to stand out, like the one wherein I had the extraordinary privilege
\nof being invited to attend a dear friend’s labour and delivery.<\/p>\n

For the previous year, she and I and a few others had been meeting to study
\nthe Vij\u00f1ana Bhairava, a 7th century Kashmiri Shaivist text, a great deal of
\nwhich is devoted to the recognition of true nature through the seemingly
\nordinary experiences of life in the world, such as the delight in seeing a
\nfriend for the first time in a long time, the pleasure of eating, the
\nintensity of strong emotions like fear and anger, etc.<\/p>\n

I had calculated the number of aphorisms per session that we normally
\ncovered and realized that we’d either have to lengthen our normally 3 hour
\nweekly sessions or increase the number of meetings per week if we were to
\nfinish this astonishing text before the mother-to-be, already great with
\ntwins, was to give birth. So during the summer we increased our meeting
\nfrequency to as many as 3 times a week, not including preparation time. We
\nwere completely immersed in the text, the suggested meditations, the
\nsubsequent discussions and contemplations, and we barely finished up in
\ntime.<\/p>\n

Soon we found ourselves at the birthing center living the text we’d been
\nstudying, mother-to-be wired to the monitoring equipment, heartbeats
\nbroadcasting rhythmically into the room, as extreme body-sensing accompanied
\ncontraction after contraction. The rest does not fit into prose :<\/p>\n

For Rana-Jolie Tushti and Summer-Rain Ananda
\nSeptember 3, 2010
\n<\/em><\/strong>
\ntheir heartbeats
\nlike distant hoofbeats galloping into the world –<\/p>\n

it was long,
\nlabouring deep into the night, before
\nthe crack of dawn
\ngave in to the possibility
\nof incarnation<\/p>\n

it was a long
\nnight as being
\nmade its way into manifestation<\/p>\n

how the mystery of pregnant
\nfound its way into form<\/p>\n

of course it hurt – how could
\nheaving the one into many
\nnot bruise the frontiers of the bearable<\/p>\n

and there we stood, holding armfuls
\nof babies, our arms outstretched, welcoming
\nvastness into our little abode<\/p>\n

with a whiff of a vow to remember
\namidst the inevitable busy-ness to come –<\/p>\n

the source, the ocean, flowing out
\nto the floor of the world<\/p>\n

their tiny arms outstretched, welcoming
\nthe world, time, bright lights,
\nwelcoming us to this birth
\nday of being.<\/p>\n

Birthing Twins
\n<\/em><\/strong>
\nDear Sweet Lord,<\/p>\n

If you’d heard their first cries,
\ntiny and momentous,
\neven You
\nwould have broken
\nYour customary Silence
\nand declared<\/p>\n

I AM HERE<\/p>\n

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