Words of Power: Vultures

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Vultures

Salvador Dali - West Side of the Isle of the Dead (1934)

If you want to arrive at utter stillness, sink into the heart's ceaseless beating.

If you want to hear the voice of the silence, sing from the heart's core.

If you want to drink soma, pour from the deep pools of the heart's emptiness.

This heart is not "something" inside of you.

It is not the Anahata chakra or some bundle of emotions.

It is the lotus blossom of creation itself.

If you want to journey to the end of this endlessness, follow the vultures.

That darkness ahead is actually a blinding light. The sun itself is its shadow.

Look deeply into that blinding light and you will see the universe with new eyes.

-- Richard Power

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About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.