Kabir

I just look.

Kabir says, It is the mercy of my Guru that has made me know the unknown.

I have learned from him how to walk without feet, to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to fly without wings.

Without eating I have tasted the sweetness of nectar, and without water I have quenched my thirst.

Kabir says, The Guru is beyond any world and supreme is the good fortune of the disciple who comes.

Aum Shanti.

May everyone find peace.

Mm-hmm.

And even Sant Kabir, um, he's, he speaks about how the fish ...

It's like being a fish and being thirsty des- despite being surrounded by water.

Uh, and in the same way, us as human beings, we are surrounded by divinity but yet whe- whether consciously or unconsciously, uh, whether through material pursuits or spiritual pursuits, we are going from pillar to post seeking that which is actually right there within us.

The world of Sanskrit, the world of Persian, the world of Urdu, the world of medieval Hindi and we bring all that together in the spoken word.

For instance, you know, in Banaras, for instance, it's not uncommon for people to be quoting Ramcharitmanas and Kabir and Ghag and Gang, these medieval poets.

It's not uncommon for people in Delhi to be quoting Mir and Ghalib or people to be quoting Shakespeare.

But these things don't necessarily come together on stage in a single presentation.

Now, the story goes this way.

Because he didn't understand Sanskrit or, um, didn't understand the intricacies of logic and all, his guru told him, he gave him a teaching from Kabir Das.

«Khule nain dekhun sahab ko.» "With open eyes I see my Lord." So he told him, his guru told him that, "You see God in the Himalaya and the Ganga." Hmm.

Then he quoted from the Vedas, from the Rig Veda.

The next axiom is what gets fired gets wired, which is essentially where attention goes, energy flows, and neural connections grow.

So to appreciate that through continued practice, through curiosity and inquiry and sitting in the fire, there's a line from Kabir where he says, the secret one is slowly growing a body.

that through our Dharma practice, that the neural circuits required to sustain and maintain clear presence and continuous attention, the neural circuitry necessary to open our hearts to love and compassion for ourselves, for others, for all beings, that we increase our capacity through rewiring the nervous system and the energy system and the chakra system and the energy meridians, slowly over time, where our attention goes, energy flows, and those connections are made within the nervous system and the energy system.

And the final axiom is that the inner work that we're doing leads to the outer work that we do and that our every action of our body, speech, and mind creates ripples of influence that extend boundlessly through time and space and across generations.