Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 313 – 10/24/2020

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blessed be and holy synchronisiddhi!!! on this very day 75 years ago, the UN was founded and today…. drumroll… Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons! 50 is the magic number for this treaty which is a huge milestone in the decades-long effort to eliminate nuclear weapons and it will officially enter into force 90 days from today, on January 22, 2021…

thanks be for more nations of the world adding their voices to the chorus demanding the elimination of nuclear weapons thus paving the way for a world of peace… as more and more people around the world take up the cause of delegitimizing the arsenals of the nuclear nations, we must hold nuclear-armed nations to account for these weapons are an urgent existential threat to human and all sentient beings security…

the future we want – a world free from threats of mass destruction – is on the tip of our consciousness…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 312 – 10/23/2020

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more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

a day of journeying into the unknown, letting go of the path well trod to walk beside the river of the beyond and face the challenge of rising up and shining forth in the wilderness…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

a day of standing tall and seeing through and letting go with an open heart…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

a day of giving up control to allow a greater power, nobility of spirit, to author the way…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

may we all shine brightly in the wilderness as we walk each other home along the pathless path…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 311 – 10/22/2020

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being present in flowing life currents… opening to this wild moment of creation… breathing in and breathing out… ebbing and flowing… dancing the mystery… gliding through the hard places and reflecting the light hidden within… always trusting that in surrendering to the beloved, love opens the way and we are home in our one heart grounding into the deep self and the impeccability of the unfolding rhythm of the implicate order…

how wondrously crisis awakens the creative imagination which organically vaccinates the most virulent infection we all face – fear…

so let’s put on our oxygen masks and breathe in the sea of love we are all swimming in nourishing ourselves with overflowing helpings of gratitude inspired by the spirit of love always aflame in our one heart….

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 310 – 10/21/2020

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CONSIDER THE TREES WHICH ALLOW THE BIRDS TO PERCH AND FLY AWAY WITHOUT EITHER INVITING THEM TO STAY OR DESIRING THEM NEVER TO DEPART. IF YOUR HEART CAN BE LIKE THIS, YOU’LL BE NEAR TO THE WAY.

three weeks of of dancing devotedly in the tides of openhearted october brings me deeper into our communal home… our one heart of love and compassion… of burning away more of the need to manage life and witnessing the organic rising up from the ashes life  as free flowing river of joy where…

all is well

and all is well

and all that is, is well

to inspire living like trees and closer to the way of love and compassion, let’s listen to the sage wisdom of an 11th century Tibetan monk…

Eight Verses for Living Love and Compassion

~ Geshi Langtri Thangpa ~

By thinking of all sentient beings
As more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
For accomplishing the highest aim,
I will always hold them dear.

Whenever I’m in the company of others,
I will regard myself as the lowest among all,
And from the depths of my heart
Cherish others as supreme.

In my every action, I will watch my mind,
And the moment destructive emotions arise,
I will confront them strongly and avert them,
Since they will hurt both me and others.

Whenever I see ill-natured beings,
Or those overwhelmed by heavy misdeeds or suffering,
I will cherish them as something rare,
As though I’d found a priceless treasure.

Whenever someone out of envy
Does me wrong by attacking or belittling me,
I will take defeat upon myself,
And give the victory to others.

Even when someone I have helped,
Or in whom I have placed great hopes
Mistreats me very unjustly,
I will view that person as a true spiritual teacher.

In brief, directly or indirectly,
I will offer help and happiness to all my mothers,
And secretly take upon myself
All their hurt and suffering.

I will learn to keep all these practices
Untainted by thoughts of the eight worldly concerns.
May I recognize all things as like illusions,
And, without attachment, gain freedom from bondage.

~

help us to live as generously free from judgement and as openhearted as our tree relatives, the standing talls…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 309/7Years – 2500 Days – 10/20/2020

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“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

did you awaken as i did to this moment re-membering the universe with every breath is making an irresistible offer? thousand fold thanks, Desiree, and everyone for conspiring to gift me with so many moments of savoring these twenty-five hundred days of  awakening initiation into wedding and weaving the cosmic I AM presence into the lush field of the divine matrix… a day, 20/2020 or 222, truly, of love after love…

“Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”

Derek Walcott

may we all belong to the caravan of re-joy-sing…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 308 – 10/19/2020

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these words perfectly reflect feeling echoes that have been arising the last couple of days on the pathless path as reactions leaving me dancing out of rhythm, out of sorts… to come back into rhythm, i connect with source breathing in prana from the earth mother and up through the extended root system into every wild cell and radiating out this golden light breath into father sky and beyond while whispering thank you with every breath to great mystery for providing just what is needed trusting in divine orchestrationand my intention of being open and present to whatever is…

always coming home to the heart, to the sacred gaiatree grove of peace deep within, being present in the moment, in the presence of the beloved… resting in the stillpoint, the unchanging, taking a pregnant pause in a moment of feeling so stretched and uncomfortable right before birth… in this moment of presence, i open more fully to birthing the new… surrendering to true nature, to love and co-creating from this sacred space… YES! to full blooming lotushood…

and, YES! to gathering with you in this flowering field to witness the wonder of the great turning and re-turning, the miracle of being here now in nore and more loving presence, trust, surrender and devocean…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 307 – 10/18/2020

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today as we celebrate the astonishing light of being as the sun shines on the hexagram of veneration, i re-member and venerate this being born eight years and a day before my birth… being cancerian crabs, we also share a love of water, today calls me into the field of water crystals to honor his life around the anniversary of his death and seeing that date brings up an image of the occupy movement of  nine years ago inspiring my occupying the abundance of infinite love and gratitude, now known as dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude…

so many synchronicities, so many interconnections as i gaze on this water crystal called love and thanks and let Dr Emoto’s words on gratitude perfume consciousness…

may we all aspire to being the embodiment of gratitude re-membering the practice of gratitude is one of the most transformative acts making us shining crystals of astonishing light…

thank you, thank you, thank you, Masaru, for opening us to water’s hidden messages…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 306 – 10/17/2020

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may it be so… may righteousness be restored… we are in the midst of navaratri, a major hindu festival celebrating nine manifestations of the goddess Durga and honoring the power and grace of divine mother over nine nights and ten days…

  whenever i run into some powerful whitewater, it’s good to connect with Durga in her fierce love manifestation, the form that removes darkness and negativity from our lives…

thank you Durga for helping me remain wide-open like the sky, fertile like the earth,  unshakable like a mountain, shining like a flame and lucid like a crystal in the face of  turbulent waters threatening loss of  connection…

thank you Durga for whispering to let it be, you are in flow wherever you go, surely you know there is only flow… a moment of crisis brings us to our knees, a perfect place to re-lease… all illusions of separation transmuted now into the field of unification… returning home to the watery womb of creation, resurrected now from the dark tomb of separation…

thank you dear Durga for bringing good fortune, protection and blessings into the web of life…

may we be as wise Durga who teaches and shows us that we belong to each other helping us realize interdependence, the way of the heart, is the way…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 305 – 10/16/2020

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yes, brothers and sisters of the boundless sky sea

this new moon draws us down into deepest inquiry

for us to listen to whom we are to be

children of  venus, of love eternally…

buoyantly floating in equanimity

painting peace across great mystery

listening to the ancestors’ wisdom

aligned with source tuned into cosmic hum…

om shanti shanti shanti om

we are one being walking home

opening to live and let be

caged bird now set free…

~

drawing down the energy of this new moon of cosmic balance, of creative imagination, of divine union of the opposites… weaving a path of equilibrium trusting the wisdom of the heart…

standing in the center, being balance dancing the rhythm of harmony, being equanimity unshakably anchored in  true peace stability…

as we be and become our true nature – water – we are the eternal radiance – we are woven together as one field, one sky out beyond…

in this moment of  cosmic re-ordering, bathe in chords of celestial harmony singing in the buoyant sea and take a moment to seed intentions in the openhearted field of right relationship grounded in the first people’s precepts…

Speak only words of truth.

Speak only of the good qualities of others.

Be a confidant and carry no tales.

Turn aside the veil of anger to release the beauty inherent in all.

Waste not the bounty, and want not.

Honor the light in all. Compare nothing; see all for its suchness.

Respect all life; cut away the ignorance from one’s own heart.

Neither kill nor harbor thoughts of an angry nature, which destroy peace like an arrow.

~

may we put our ears to the earth to hear the song of rebirth filling every wild cell with mirth…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 304 – 10/15/2020

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there seems to be something so potent in the rhythm of the autumnal web of life, especially around the ides, mid-month… as the new moon will be here in about 12 hours as i write this and we will experience the outer dark night just as collectively we are in such a dark night at the close of this era, i feel the imperative to remind us that when we listen deeply we can hear the even more beautiful world breathing and to act like a squirrel by gathering the quintessence and calling in Porcupine Goddess to share an ancient wisdom story illuminating the place i and we find ourselves…

long ago, in the coldest winter ever, many of our relations were dying… we of the porcupine council met and decided we’d nestle together to keep warm and stay alive… alas, we were warm but the quills of our neighbors were wounding us, so we decided to separate from each other to relieve the hurts of living in close quarters… although now we were protected from being wounded, we began to die one by one, alone and frozen cold… faced with our extinction or living as wounded porcupines, we chose wisely – deciding to return to being together… we learned to live with wounds caused by being in close relationship to receive the greater benefit of the warmth that comes from others. this way, we were able to not only survive but also to thrive; to flourish in regenerative cycles organically arising from the harmony sung by the implicate order…

may we be as wise as our porcupine relations real-eye-sing re-membering interdependence, the way of the  openheart, is the way…