Sunday, November 18, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
The Deepest Rest
Let everything rest
In the Source of all things.
Let the mind rest in the Mind
Let the heart rest in the Heart
Let sensations rest in the Body
In the Source of all things.
Let the mind rest in the Mind
Let the heart rest in the Heart
Let sensations rest in the Body
Just as the wave rests back in the Ocean
There is no effort required here.
Simply Ocean rising and falling as wave.
Continuous. Ever changing.
Yet always Itself.
There is no effort required here.
Simply Ocean rising and falling as wave.
Continuous. Ever changing.
Yet always Itself.
Just as exhale follows inhale
Allow the waves to come and go.
Allow the waves to come and go.
This is being as you Are.
Monday, October 8, 2018
The Love of the Cosmos for Itself
Sometimes your heart will break.
Sometimes you will be asked to bear the depths of humanity's grief and suffering
And it will seem an impossible task;
To bear witness to the upheaval and ignorance,
To watch the intractable forces,
To live in the midst of the inevitable breakdown
Of life as we have known it.
Sometimes you will be asked to bear the depths of humanity's grief and suffering
And it will seem an impossible task;
To bear witness to the upheaval and ignorance,
To watch the intractable forces,
To live in the midst of the inevitable breakdown
Of life as we have known it.
Be gentle and kind with yourselves
As waves of grief, resistance and anger arise,
Allow them to lift up like steam, dissolving
In the healing atmosphere
Of the Love of the Cosmos for Itself
As waves of grief, resistance and anger arise,
Allow them to lift up like steam, dissolving
In the healing atmosphere
Of the Love of the Cosmos for Itself
It is only as we make room
For that which has remained homeless within us
That we can be a healing force for this world.
For that which has remained homeless within us
That we can be a healing force for this world.
May we continue to bear witness
To take sacred action
And to meet all of it with Love.
To take sacred action
And to meet all of it with Love.
Aho.
(Painting Marina del Mar)
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Secret of Secrets
When one recognizes that
The Remover of Obstacles
Is made of the same substance
As the obstacles,
What else is there to do, but...
Dance!
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Infinite Presence
I used to think I had to sit in a cave
Or at the very least bar the door
From interruptions to the Peace
I felt when alone.
Or at the very least bar the door
From interruptions to the Peace
I felt when alone.
Then we began singing together, voices joined in holy Communion...
Opening, harmonizing, dissolving in
Union
And there was just One Voice.
One Peace.
One Love.
Permeating, radiating, everything
Just.This.Heavenly.Bliss.
Opening, harmonizing, dissolving in
Union
And there was just One Voice.
One Peace.
One Love.
Permeating, radiating, everything
Just.This.Heavenly.Bliss.
I used to think I had to wait to be alone
To drop into this Silence;
To turn off all sense of Other in order to enter into I.
Until I looked into your eyes,
Listened to your voice,
And then I was lost
In the depths of a Silence that has no center
That needs no boundary
Everything drenched in this Stillness
That spreads out
Into Infinity.
To drop into this Silence;
To turn off all sense of Other in order to enter into I.
Until I looked into your eyes,
Listened to your voice,
And then I was lost
In the depths of a Silence that has no center
That needs no boundary
Everything drenched in this Stillness
That spreads out
Into Infinity.
I used to believe that some-thing some-day
Would bring me to this freedom.
Then every you became I.
Now I receive darshan from the cows on my morning walk
Dance with a friend in ever expanding space
Gaze into the eyes of a beloved and see the Universe
Feel the deep peace of a newborn as he sleeps
And sing with the rooster at dawn.
Would bring me to this freedom.
Then every you became I.
Now I receive darshan from the cows on my morning walk
Dance with a friend in ever expanding space
Gaze into the eyes of a beloved and see the Universe
Feel the deep peace of a newborn as he sleeps
And sing with the rooster at dawn.
Everything, everything magnifying this Stillness
Everything, everything deepening this Love
Everything, everything singing your holy name
Everything, everything deepening this Love
Everything, everything singing your holy name
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
The Ocean of Love
The heart opens…
And all thoughts born of separation
Tumble out and
Flow down the river
To the Sea
Flow down the river
Dissolving in ecstasy
In The Sea
Returning Home
Swimming again
In the Sea of Love
(art by Simone Lipscomb - "Ocean of Love")
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