“Live in joy and freedom, even amongst those who are sick or troubled. Live in joy and a peaceful heart, even among those in conflict. Quiet the mind and heart and find the sweet joy of living in the dharma.” ~ Buddha ~ ~ in this sacred moment , i feel us sitting on a high dune with a panoramic view of the all that is poised in a pregnant pause on the edge, the verge of a new world – can you hear her breathing? this new world of unconditional love guiding us into justice for all building a rock solid peace beyond our most expansive and deepest imaginings… did you feel a crescendo today as thousands and thousands gather across the cosmos standing in love for love real-eye-sing there is only one of us here and in moments when it feels the center cannot hold, it is incumbent upon us wherever we are to engage, to involve ourselves in right action, both sacred and subtle action… let us bless this sacred space of the stillpoint at the center of our circle, the hub of the wheel where all that is, is still, where everything is oh so real, where the peace that passeth all understanding is palpable calling us into deep silence…. listen, listen to the cosmic hum… listen, listen to our heartbeat’s drum… listen, listen for the sound of the bell syncing our breathing to the mantra, all is well… deep peace of the running wave to you, deep peace, deep peace, deep peace… always being love, always becoming love… always being light, always becoming light… every moment a moment of peace…
thank you for walking home with me along the rainbow trail to Tahoma, the great mother of mountains and cathedral of stillness… today marks a sacred anniversary… four years of sauntering along a devotional path of invocation, fourteen hundred sixty-one days of opening the seven sacred seals’ portals of grace, thirty five thousand sixty-four hours of offering the wounds of us all up for clean-sing, two million one hundred three thousand eight hundred forty moments of being breathed into life more abundant… thank you Beloved for breaking our hearts open ever wider empowering us to see through the eyes of love, to deepen in the ways of compassion, to stretch our capacity for patience and trust, to flow in the peace that passeth all understanding in this moment, this beautiful moment… deepest bows to my beloved contemplative partner whose steadfast devocean brings us to this moment, to Richard Rudd, receiver and transmitter of The Seven Sacred Seals and to all beings populating the one cosmic sea of love energy… thanks for pausing in this beautiful moment on our endless voyage deeper and deeper into the great unknown to honor our sacred pilgrimage of coming home to the heart with a blessing for travelers from John O’donohue… ~ Every time you leave home, Another road takes you Into a world you were never in. New strangers on other paths await. New places that have never seen you Will startle a little at your entry. Old places that know you well Will pretend nothing Changed since your last visit. When you travel, you find yourself Alone in a different way, More attentive now To the self you bring along, Your more subtle eye watching You abroad; and how what meets you Touches that part of the heart That lies low at home: How you unexpectedly attune To the timbre in some voice, Opening in conversation You want to take in To where your longing Has pressed hard enough Inward, on some unsaid dark, To create a crystal of insight You could not have known You needed To illuminate Your way. When you travel, A new silence Goes with you, And if you listen, You will hear What your heart would Love to say. A journey can become a sacred thing: Make sure, before you go, To take the time To bless your going forth, To free your heart of ballast So that the compass of your soul Might direct you toward The territories of spirit Where you will discover More of your hidden life, And the urgencies That deserve to claim you. May you travel in an awakened way, Gathered wisely into your inner ground; That you may not waste the invitations Which wait along the way to transform you. May you travel safely, arrive refreshed, And live your time away to its fullest; Return home more enriched, and free To balance the gift of days which call you. ~
we are nomads in the vast skysea dancing waves of rainbow mystery singing songs of peaceful harmony ~ There is no independent existence. There is no you and no me apart from other people and the earth and the wind and the sun. We exist because of numberless causal factors—our genetics, the love of our mothers and fathers, our place in time, the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and so on. And we are defined by our relationships to others and to our world. This is the matrix in which we act. When designing a garden we will again and again remind ourselves of this and cultivate the mind that thinks in unfolding, evolving energetic systems. Because a garden is a complete mandala, its parts relate to one another. Together they form one whole energetic system. The parts are inseparable from the whole, and the whole is inseparable from its parts, and both are in process of changing. Excerpted from: The Sound of Cherry Blossoms Zen Lessons from the Garden of Contemplative Design by Alxe Noden and Martin Hakubai Mosko, page 19–20 ~ in this moment of stillness beyond space and time, deepest bows to the Beloved, the all flowing source of love, wisdom and truth and to all populating our one cosmic sea of love energy…
It’s the silence, not the sound, that defines magic of Aum. The connection to the silence behind the sound is everywhere, at all times.
so, join me this moment in chanting a couple of mantras from the sanskrit peace collection under this moon of coming aum to the heart… ~ May peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the vast ethereal space everywhere. May peace reign all over this earth, in water and in all herbs, trees and creepers. May peace flow over the whole universe. May peace be in the Supreme Being Brahman. And may there always exist in all peace and peace alone. Aum peace, peace and peace to us and all beings! ~ Lead us from the unreal to the real Lead us from darkness to light Lead us from death to immortality Aum peace, peace, peace! ~ This gift of love is given to source for the gift of life more abundant…May this gift bless all beings…
and so it is today, traveling the way of heart across the sound waves into Africa to have a beautiful communion with two amazing peace builders who are truly creating that more beautiful world of peace built on justice and guided by love… onto re-membering love winning as in four years ago, the Supremes ruling for marriage equality all over the USA and moving on to re-membering on this very same day President Obama delivering balm for the soul of our nation at a memorial service in Charleston, SC including his singing “Amazing Grace” which reminds me of a daily practice I’ve followed for four years which tunes one into the frequency of grace as well as grounding one into the wellspring of joy that is always bubbling in the deepest core of our being… yes, what a joy to traveling the way of the heart, what a healing balm as we meet each moment as fully as we are able and meet it as a friend so that we experience each moment as a moment of peace with life singing us and filling us with loving kindness and more and more compassion… ~ Amazing Grace Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. ’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. The Lord has promised good to me, His Word my hope secures; He will my Shield and Portion be, As long as life endures. Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, And mortal life shall cease, I shall possess, within the veil, A life of joy and peace. The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, The sun forbear to shine; But God, who called me here below, Will be forever mine. When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’d first begun. ~
today is a day of walking with sunlight, feeling the inner sunlight, being sunlight, painting sunlight on the canvas of the more beautiful world we create with every thought, word and action, breathing in light, breathing out love… ~ Instructions to Painters & Poets I asked a hundred painters and a hundred poets how to paint sunlight on the face of life Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous as if they were all guarding trade secrets Whereas it seems to me all you have to do is conceive of the whole world and all humanity as a kind of art work a site-specific art work an art project of the god of light the whole earth and all that’s in it to be painted with light And the first thing you have to do is paint out postmodern painting And the next thing is to paint yourself in your true colors in primary colors as you seem them (without whitewash) paint yourself as you see yourself without make-up without masks Then paint your favorite people and animals with your brush loaded with light And be sure you get the perspective right and don’t fake it because one false line leads to another And then paint the high hills when the sun first strikes them on an autumn morning With your palette knife lay it on the cadmium yellow leaves the ochre leaves the vermillion leaves of a New England autumn And paint the ghost light of summer nights and the light of the midnight sun which is moon light And don’t paint out the shadows made by light for without chiaroscuro you’ll have shallow pictures So paint all the dark corners too everywhere in the world all the hidden places and minds and hearts which light never reaches all the caves of ignorance and fear the pits of despair the sloughs of despond and write plain upon them “Abandon all despair, ye who enter here” And don’t forget to paint all those who lived their lives as bearers of light Paint their eyes and the eyes of every animal and the eyes of beautiful women known best for the perfection of their breasts and the eyes of men and women known only for the light of their minds Paint the light of their eyes the light of sunlit laughter the song of eyes the song of birds in flight And remember that the light is within if it is anywhere and you must paint from the inside Start with purity with pure white the pure white of gesso the pure white of cadmium white the pure white of flake white the pure virgin canvas the pure life we all begin with Turner painted sunlight with egg tempera (which proved unstable) and Van Gogh did it with madness and the blood of his ear (also unstable) and the Impressionists did it by never using black and the Abstract Expressionists did it with white house paint But you can do it with the pure pigment (if you can figure out the formula) of your own true light But before you striek the first blow on the virgin canvas remember its fagility life’s extreme fragility and remember its innocence its original innocence before you strike the first blow Or perhaps never strike it And let the light come through the inner light of the canvas the inner light of the models posed in the life study the inner light of everyone Let it all come through like a pentimento the light that’s been painted over the life that’s been painted over so many times Let it all surge to the surface the painted-over image of primal life on earth And when you’ve finished your painting stand back astonished stand back and observe the life on earth that you’ve created the lighted life on earth that you’ve created a new brave world ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ ~
I’ll tell you the mystery of life, Life is not a mystery at all. It is a simple mastery of the self. ~ Yogi Bhajan ~ ~ what a pilgrimage of radiance this week is, this week of being full of SELF = Stillness Essence Love Flow, this week of World Refugee Day, Soulstice, World PEACE and Prayer Day, World Yoga Day, World Rainforest Day and on and on… every moment a galvanizing moment to stand in love for love… in turbulence, more and more need for more and more loving presence, more and more trust in divine unfolding, more and more surrender into divine flow… hear now these lovely intentions so perfect, as metaphor, for this moment invoked by the Reverend Kevin Ross at the US House of Representatives… May we turn within and look higher to the God of our understanding and pray. Loving Presence, we invoke from the celestial balconies the witness of the pioneers of our progress whose bloodied journeys marshaled unprecedented faith and birthed a new nation of radical inclusion. Bless these sons and daughters of promise gathered in this, the people’s House. Let them reach higher for crowns of conscience to exemplify compassion and bring from their districts to their desks sharp pencils that carve on their hearts the faces of freedom that they represent. Let this House be an incubator for our best ideals, not a prison for our poorest politics. Let these heroes and sheroes of the people’s House summon the intellectual imagination and intuitive navigation to serve bolder together and break through the ideological gridlock that arrests the potential of our great Republic. Let these innovators of cooperation and builders of the beloved community reunite these States of America and lead the way for a world that works for all. This is enough. In the name of a love supreme we pray, and so it is. Amen ~ may every moment of this journey of re-membering unfold into greater harmony
way out/in the beyond carried by the wings of love heart breaks wide open ~ “There was a startling recognition that the nature of the universe was not as I had been taught… I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it.… I was overwhelmed with the sensation of physically and mentally extending out into the cosmos. I realized that this was a biological response of my brain attempting to reorganize and give meaning to information about the wonderful and awesome processes that I was privileged to view.” ~ in the quotation above, astronaut Edgar Mitchell shares an epiphany from outer space travel, a shift in consciousness that has been called the overview effect… after many days/moons/turns around the sun/incarnations of inner space exploration, traveling at the speed of light toward ultima thule, the great beyond, the overview effect is now living me and in this wondrous state, i feel i have crossed the rubicon and sit perched in a nest high in the heavens and deep in the buoyant sea with telescopic vision empowering a 360 degree view of the cosmic web in that field out beyond right and wrong doing where we float in grace, in sacred space in awe of true emptiness, the vast spaciousness of being free, a light wave of infinity, dancing rainbow mystery…
Happy World Rainforest Day! today on World Rainforest Day – a day encouraging action and awareness to protect the world’s rainforests – stop, take a breath, and reflect on our intimate relationship to the life-giving power of the Amazon rainforest and all that she provides for us as the lungs of the planet… i love this image, even more, i love seeing pachamama as a rainforest showering us with breath, giving us life… so, let’s take this moment to feel pachamama breathing us through our one heart flowing right into the stillpoint, our ground of being, oneness… in this sacred space, we open our hearts in rhythm with beloved’s flowing breath and feel the suffering of the cosmos and in the silence hear the whispers of what’s ours to do with our out breath… i love this image, this metaphor returning to me on this day of pilgrimage when i’m re-membering the conception of the poetic peace pilgrimage over six years ago as a daily breathing practice in rhythm with flow… i love this image, this metaphor returning on this day of pilgrimage when i awaken in wonder and awe of great mystery and of bearing witness to the medicine of these cosmic lungs… thank you, pachamama , for giving us these organs of breath, may we steward sustainably…
When there is no more separation between “this” and “that”, it is called the still-point of Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle, one sees the infinite in all things. ~ Chuang Tzu ~ ~ on soulstice, we stand in stillness with brother sun, welcoming you smiling with folded hands, honoring your radiance breathing through our one heart, greeting you as beloved and opening our heart to you… today, the veil between the worlds is so thin, a magical day to see through the mists… to return to the isle of Avalon on a metaphorical journey of transformation on this day the sun stands still for the divine union between heaven and earth, masculine and feminine, electricity and magnetism to occur… a sacred moment when divine feminine spirit pours the luminous light of love all over the cosmos… may we all feel this fluid energy of light flowing, a loving compassion that frees us to enter the vast unknown, to stand still with the sun… how i love this day of standing still withe sun and re-membering life is a pilgrimage to the inner sun, sol, soul, the city of gold in the heart within the heart, sacred space of radiance… holding the treasured wisdom of our true value and how we savethe worlds…. ~ A Prayer of Healing We come together this Summer Solstice under old oak trees, nurtured by the ground, the living green grass under our feet, to honor the longest day of the year. We see the pain of the Earth, the devastation of Her body. But today we celebrate Her. We say Prayers of Healing, for pachamama and for all Her children. We join with the earth and with each other. To celebrate the seas. To rejoice the sunlight. To sing the song of the stars. We join with the earth and with each other. To recall our destiny. To renew our spirits. To reinvigorate our bodies. We join with the earth and with each other. To create the human community. To promote justice and peace. To remember our children. We join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery: for the healing of the earth and the renewal of all life.We join with the earth and with each other. To bring new life to the land. To restore the waters. To refresh the air. We join with the earth and with each other. To renew the forests. To care for the plants. To protect the creatures. From the United Nations Environmental Sabbath ~ may we all trust in our inner radiance of divine love…
