Jeff Foster citáty

„KONEC SPIRITUALITY
Mou jógovou podložkou se stala země pod nohama.
Mým oltářem se stal kavárenský pult, vtip vyměněný s baristou, přátelský úsměv postupně vítězící nad zamrzlým obličejem, a celý svět, který má zájem.
Mým chrámem je obchodní dům, čekárna u zubaře, klidná ranní louka s jemným žlutým slunečním světlem a čerstvým vzduchem.
Mým guru je kručení v briše, melancholie večera, naděje i zoufalství nepřikrášleného bytí.
Není třeba nic přidávat.
Mým osvícením je obyčejný okamžik, světský prožitek prosáklý sladkým nektarem mé pozornosti.
Mým východiskem je dech a dech je i mým cílem.
Součástí mého rodokmenu je hladová kočka, jež mě zdraví při návratu z večerní procházky, jde kousek se mnou a přitom se otírá svým kožíškem o mou holeň. Má srst jemnou jako kašmírová přikrývka mé babičky, do které nás za chladných večerů balila. Srst se stává kůží, kočka se nonšalantními pohyby vydává prozkoumat vyhozený obal od bagety a já jdu dál.
Má spiritualita je hluboko v zemi, v její bahně, horku, v jejích útrobách, ve zvláštním i nepohodlném, ve stesku po mámě i v odvaze vstoupit do neprozkoumaných krajin mé psyché. Je v touze po domově a ve šťastně vyčerpaném návratu.
Moje blaženost nespočívá v ničem, co by mohla uchopit moje mysl, i kdyby hledala milion roků.
Má radost je prostá, jako radost těch, kteří žili život naplno a jsou připraveni zemřít.
Ulehnu na louce, batoh jako polštář, zajedu prsty do hedvábné, lepkavé trávy, a celý můj život splyne v jeden jediný okamžik, vzpomínku i momentální vjem, a i to se vzápětí rozplyne, i se mnou. Je jen louka, jemné žluté světlo, čistý osvěžující vzduch, naděje i příslib, plnost i milosrdenství.
Nehledejte mě. Nenajdete mě, a pokud ano - nepoznáte mě. Jsem neviditelný, neboť jsem se stal vším, co je viděno, vším, co je poznáno i stále nepoznáno.
Nepraktikuji spiritualitu. Rozpadl jsem se, rozložil, vykostil a znovuzrodil, znovu se stal člověkem, beztvarou formou. Povstal jsem znovu, neoddělitelný od všedního, vzkříšený smíchem ptáků sedících za úsvitu na elektrickém vedení.“

—  Jeff Foster

Překlad: Kateřina Grofová
Zdroj: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/the-end-of-spiritualitymy-yoga-mat-has-disappeared-into-the-ground-under-my-feet/2917818988315690/

„LÁSKA, JAKOU SI ZASLOUŽÍTE
Ze všeho nejvíc toužíme po tom, být viděni.
Být drženi v prostoru bezpečné, neposuzující, všeobjímající přítomnosti,
být viděni milujícíma očima.
Být viděni - to je zároveň i to, čeho se nejvíc bojíme.
Víc než smrti. Děsíme se pronikavého důvěrného pohledu.
A zároveň po něm nejvíc toužíme.
Ukázat sebe sama vyžaduje tolik odvahy!
Sundat masku, zvlášť ve chvíli, kdy se cítíme nejhůř.
Sundat v takovou chvíli masku, (která nás přitom stejně jenom dusila), a říct, "Podívej! Podívej! Tady jsem, světe!"
Dovolit si být viděn,
ještě než se na to budeme cítit připraveni.
Když se cítíme nejvíc prohnile, špinavě, nejvíc uboze a nezvladatelně, nejvíc nudně, zmateně, opuštěně, zlomeně, smutně, naštvaně nebo bolavě… dovolit si být viděn právě tak.
V tomto bolavém, ostudném místě.
Nechat do něj proniknout světlo.
Vyjít z úkrytu a pozvat druhé do svého "soukromého" světa.
Dovolit, aby byli svědky našeho autentického bytí.
Pustit je za žalostně marnou ochrannou vrstvu, které říkáme "osobnost".
Říct, "Podívej! Podívej, příteli. Tady jsem!"
Podstupte riziko být milovaný.
Ano, to riziko, že budete odmítnuti.
Možná i riziko, že budete znovu zahanbeni, že se vám znovu vysmějí, poníží vás.
Riziko, že se na vás budou dívat jako na někoho, kdo selhal. Jako na špatného, zlomeného, škaredého, nebo slabého.
Ale riziko být milovaný?
Ano. Podstupte to riziko ještě dnes, protože život je krátký a potlačovat vaše přirozené já vás stojí tolik sil. Dovolte, abyste byli viděni ve své syrové kráse. Vaše zranitelné já. Vaše já bez falešné ochrany, bez odpovědí, bez vědomostí experta. Vaše nedokonalé já.
Neboť ten nejhlubší stud může být uzdraven jen ve světle lásky. Vaše nedokonalosti po celou dobu toužily po doteku vědomí tak jemného, že by pod ním našel sám sebe celý vesmír.
A tak se odevzdejte objetí milujícího přítele.
Který vás bude držet.
Ve vaší nahotě, odhalenosti, nedokonalosti.
Hodni lásky.
Takoví, jací jsi.
To je láska, jakou si zasloužíte.
Lidská láska, která je i láskou Boží.
Láska, která vás něžně omývá, když se cítíte nejvíc zahanbeni, vyděšeni, nejvíc ztraceni. Když se cítíte docela maličcí.
Obrovská láska, která vás drží.
Nikdy se nespokojte s ničím menším.“

—  Jeff Foster

překlad Kateřina Grofová
Zdroj: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/the-kind-of-love-you-deservemore-than-anything-we-long-to-be-seento-be-held-in-a/1340515899379348/

„Please, don't talk to me about 'Pure Awareness' or 'Dwelling in the Absolute'.
I want to see how you treat your partner,
your kids, your parents, your precious body.
Please, don't lecture me about 'the illusion of the separate self' or how you achieved permanent bliss in just 7 days.
I want to feel a genuine warmth radiating from your heart.
I want to hear how well you listen,
take in information that doesn't fit your personal philosophy.
I want to see how you deal with people who disagree with you.
Don't tell me how awakened you are, how free you are from ego.
I want to know you beneath the words.
I want to know what you're like when troubles befall you.
If you can fully allow your pain and not pretend to be invulnerable.
If you can feel your anger yet not step into violence.
If you can grant safe passage to your sorrow yet not be its slave.
If you can feel your shame and not shame others:
If you can fuck up, and admit it.
If you can say 'sorry', and really mean it.
If you can be fully human in your glorious divinity.
Don't talk to me about your spirituality, friend.
I'm really not that interested.
I only want to meet YOU.
Know your precious heart.
Know the beautiful human struggling for the light.
Before 'the spiritual one'.
Before all the clever words.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/1523252961105640

„Be willing to expose your unhappiness. Give a voice to the sorrow, the anger, the fear, the deep loneliness burning at your core. Break some taboos. Say the ‘wrong’ thing. Shatter the false image. You may lose followers. You may lose friends. You may lose your job. You will certainly lose your mask.

Change may scare the shit out of you. Good. It’s supposed to. You may lose everything and you may have to begin life again. But the soul will rejoice. It has been through myriad deaths and rebirths. It couldn’t give a fuck about protecting itself from change. It finds change thrilling, life-giving, erotic even.

Yes, there is a bigger Happiness that embraces and celebrates even our deepest unhappiness!“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5RcCpknF7y/

„Don't try to be beautiful. Just be real, and this is already beautiful enough.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/CE1MDw4HZEH/?igshid=1n491r0058nzk

„Stop trying to heal yourself; fix yourself; even awaken yourself. Stop trying to Fast-Forward the movie of your life Let go of 'letting go'. Healing is not a destination.
Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your longings, your fearful thoughts: they are not mistakes, and they are not asking to be 'healed'. They are asking to be held. Here, now, lightly in the loving, healing arms of present awareness.“

—  Jeff Foster

„Healing hurts. But what hurts more is the refusal of the call. The true pain of living is the abandonment of self, the mind-body split that makes us fear life. Our ache may be heavy and our souls tired today, but resistance makes it all feel a thousand times worse. Rejection of where we are amplifies suffering. Until we cannot take it anymore. Until there is no way out but in. Diving into the blackness, we discover not death but more abundant life. This is the great paradox of healing, which all great artists and poets and seers have known. We die into our trauma and discover our courage. The fiercest warriors are the ones who have let life break and remake them a thousand times over. The gods of healing are calling through your pain today. Healing hurts, yes, but the hurt itself may eventually heal you.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-16fjMHi5o/

„The greatest gift you can offer anyone
is their complete freedom.
Freedom to love, to laugh, to cry,
to feel scared, angry, insecure,
full of doubt or full of joy.
To hold them in a safe and sacred space.

You don't exist to make anyone else happy.
But you can be present.
Present to their unhappiness, their excitement.
Present to the life that moves in them.

And you can invite them into a deeper Happiness.
The Happiness of Being itself.
The Happiness that holds them
exactly as they are.

The way you hold them now.

The way the ground holds the flowers, the trees, the great mountain ranges.

The way you were held as a little one.

And before the stars were born.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxctntcHCUR/

„Pain is not the real problem; the real problem is our thinking about pain, our resistance to it, our attempt to escape it and get to an (imaginary) future.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/

„Thoughts and feelings are not mistakes, and they are not asking to be HEALED. They are asking to be HELD, here, now, lightly, in the loving arms of present awareness…“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/

„Sometimes you have to break a little more to heal a little more.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjn4FdnwLI/?igshid=1srn2m0wwoodi

„NO EMOTION IS A MISTAKE

Awakening is not about deleting or transcending human emotions, for how would the ocean transcend a single wave, and how would the sun transcend one of its beloved sunbeams? It's about seeing that every emotion - from joy to despair, bliss to boredom, agony to ecstasy - is only a movement of life energy, actually a movement of yourself, a wave in your vastness. No emotion is a threat, an enemy, or a punishment. Every emotion is an invitation to remember your vastness, rest in your oceanic nature. You are on a pathless path of radical inclusion, friend, and there are no mistakes here.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/photos/no-emotion-is-a-mistakeawakening-is-not-about-deleting-or-transcending-human-emo/1109464082484532/

„Awakening is not a path for the faint of heart.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/CGirPCJHZTS/
Kontext: A HUMBLING PATH

Awakening is not a path for the faint of heart.

You will be humbled. Oh yes. Brought to your knees. Many, many times.

What you thought you knew will occasionally dissolve into nothingness.
Your most brilliant insights, your astonishing expertise, your life’s work, it can all crumble to the ground.
Sometimes without warning.

You will be asked to begin again, and again, and again.

And again.

(Did I say, this is not a path for the faint of heart?)

Oh yes, you will touch the bliss and joy of existence, for sure!
You will laugh at the simplicity of things, some days, of course!

But you will also be asked to confront your deepest fears, face the darkness and the night within, go to the places where the unloved creatures dwell.

You will step into pockets of grief you never knew were there.
You will cry a billion tears for the lost and abandoned children, within and without.
You will rage to the sky, to your parents, to all the teachers who failed you, to the lies you were fed, to the ones who never showed up when you needed them the most.
You will tremble with fear some days.

Some days the ground will open up and swallow you and spit you back out.

Sometimes you will think you’ve reached the end of the path, and then you will find yourself back at the damn beginning.

Sometimes you will feel like giving up.
Sometimes you will feel like you’ve made no progress at all.
Sometimes you will curse the day you started out on this journey.

But you are healing.
Yes, you are.

You are thawing, undoing billions of years of karma. Fear-based conditioning is melting away, and you are meeting life in the raw.

You are returning to nature, to the Garden, to the wild, where you were conceived.

It’s not always easy. It’s not always peaceful.
It’s not always the spirituality you were sold.
It’s not always love and light and joy and positivity and pure undisturbed Awareness.
(These are only dreams for frightened children.)

No, it’s an authentic awakening. You are a warrior of realness now, tired of the bullshit and the false promises, weeping and raging and laughing your way into the terrible, wonderful wholeness that you are.

All your old …..

„Please, don’t talk to me about ‘Pure Awareness’ or ‘Dwelling in the Absolute’.
I want to see how you treat your partner,
your kids, your parents, your precious body.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/1523252961105640

„Spiritual awakening is not a special feeling, state, or experience. It is not a goal or destination, somewhere to reach in the future. As the Buddha was trying to tell us (though few actually listened), it is not a superhuman achievement or attainment. You don’t have to travel to India to find it. It is not a special state of perfection reserved for the lucky or the privileged few. It is not an exclusive club. It is not an out-of-body experience, and it does not involve living in a cave, shutting off all your beautiful senses, detaching yourself from the realities of this modern world. It cannot be transmitted to you by a fancy bearded (or non-bearded) guru, nor can it be taken away or lost. You do not have to become anyone’s disciple or follower, or give away all your possessions. You do not have to join a cult. You do not have to follow anyone.

Rather, is a constant and ancient invitation – throughout every moment of your life – to trust and embrace yourself exactly as you are, in all your glorious imperfection. It is about being fully present and awake to each precious moment, coming out of the epic movie of past and future (“The Story of Me”) and showing up for life, knowing that even your feelings of non-acceptance are accepted here. It is about radically opening up to this extraordinary gift of existence, embracing both the pain and the joy of it, the bliss and the sorrow, the ecstasy and the overwhelm, the certainty and the doubt. Knowing that you are never separate from the Whole, never broken, never truly lost.“

—  Jeff Foster

Zdroj: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/