Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 331 – 11/12/2018

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yesterday, on Armistice, when we celebrate the peace  of the ending of a war that was to end all wars with bells ringing and silence and dedication to perpetuating peace, goodwill and mutual understanding, a friend suggested we continue the observing of the 11th hour with bell ringing which sounds like a beautiful idea to me…

thank you for joining us in the ringing of bells and in silence for 11 days (11/11/11-11/22/11)  of the 11th month at 11 creating a wave of peace rippling across the cosmos raising and deepening the frequency of harmony entraining every sentient being, all our relatives into the sacred hoop of belonging…

shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 330 – 11/11/2018

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Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the gentle night to you.
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you…

looking into the wide screen of the cosmos, there is so much to mourn today and so much to celebrate on this special portal day of 11-11-11, this day of potent manifestation, this 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, a celebration of peace on earth, this day of celebrating the astonishing light of being with an image of Peace Pilgrim, the astonishing being inspiring this pilgrimage, this daily moment by moment practice of being peace, being deep peace in the ground of being no matter what is going on…

please join with me on calling in, invoking peace on this day of manifestation…

Peace to all beings
Whether near or far
Known or unknown
Real or imaginary
Visible or invisible
Born or yet to be born.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.
Peace to all beings
Within and beyond the imagination
In the world of ideas
In the world of memories
And in the world of dreams.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.
Peace in all elements
Of earth, air, fire and water
Fulfilled in space
Peace.
Peace in all universes
From the smallest cells in our bodies
To the greatest galaxies in space
Peace
And light rising
Peace to all beings
Within each being here
To those beings that have been in the past
And to those beings that are yet to be in the future
May all beings
Within each being here
Be well and happy
And free from fear.

in every moment, may we tune into a greater wisdom… the peace passing all understanding…manifesting  a cosmos of peace built on justice guided by love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 329 – 11/10/2018

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on the eve of 11/11/11 when we will celebrate both the most potent day for manifesting dreams and the 100th  Armistice Day, a day of celebrating peace worldwide when the first world war ceased, a dreamtime image emerges, a guide that has been teaching me since i was a child of two…

according to pythia, psychedelic rainbow serpent living in the deep waters of the heart of gaia, the great secret of life is to be perfectly still, slowing down to a standstill perfectly poised in peace, breathing into the belly and out through the crown resting more deeply with every breath in the stillpoint of creation where there’s only the dance of rainbow mystery calling us to join in moving in the rhythm of peace prevailing on earth and thank you for letting it begin with me and the and thee until we are one wave encircling the cosmos breathing and being peace in every cell and thought, word and deed… yes!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 328 – 11/9/2018

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today, as i celebrate my maternal grandmother’s 130th birthday, i re-member last year her birthday coincided with the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the holy day of Lhabab Duchen, a festival of re-joy-sing in all acts of kindness for on this day Buddha descended from heaven to liberate his Mother and repay her many acts of kindness….

join me this moment in the caravan of re-joy-sing of my grandmother who was a scattergood and joy-ner by performing acts of compassion joyously and scattering all of the acts of kindness and goodness you bestow and all the acts that have been bestowed upon you…

today is a day to throw kindness around like confetti because we always need it, especially the unkind who need it the most…

so, yes, let us breathe in deeply through the stone people, our ancestors, right down through the deep heart of the earth coming home ready to choose love over power, compassion over fear and construction over destruction…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 327 – 11/8/2018

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let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

we live in times of crisis… times of  danger and opportunity, times calling us to summon the courage to take on the response ability of being peace, of exploring the hard places in our heart and softening, of being water washing over the rigid and melting it into healing flow…

for so many moons, i, like you, have been calling in wise leadership being catalyzed within our collective soul with a song of justice and true power…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(The Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

may we contemplate and utter this song again and again, infusing the cosmos with a passion for justice overflowing our one heart with truth and compassion… all over the planet there’s so much suffering, all over the planet there’s so much love… yes, our work is cut out for us… to summon every bit of courage and stand in love for love again and again… in so being, we create a world of peace grounded in justice and guided by love…

will you join me in this moment, in every moment in a smile (start my internal love engine) of peace and breathe in deeply the boundless love all around us… informing us every moment is a teacher with a healing gift of grace for love is the most powerful medicine, the most powerful energy of all…

once we let peace begin with me, we can generously share this eternally renewable energy source with everyone and everything…

may we be bridge-builders, menders of brokenness, tenders of beauty in wounded places… in order to be whole, to be peace, we must accept every cell as the beloved, yes each of the trillions and trillions of threads of the web of life…

shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 326 – 11/7/2018

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now is the moment to dive deeply into the dark waters of the new moon in scorpio and tune into the great mother for support and encouragement… breathe in deeply from the heart of earth mother filling every wild cell with her warm golden light…

imagine a bandwidth of luminous frequencies encircling the cosmos holding the wisdom of rainbow mysteries….

drink in the golden nectar and fly across the sky painting peace and compassion in the rhythm of the waves…

looking around, we are filled with gratitude

looking above, we are filled with wisdom

looking below, we are filled with compassion

looking within, we are filled  with true nature

living as one  in peace and harmony

~

Song of Peace

We pray to the great Spiritual Power in which
we live and move and have our being.
We pray that we may at all times
keep our minds open to new ideas and shun dogma;
that we may grow in our understanding of the nature of all living beings
and our connectedness with the natural world;
that we may become ever more filled with
generosity of spirit and true compassion and love for all life;
that we may strive to heal the hurts that we have inflicted on nature
and control our greed for material things, knowing that
our actions are harming our natural world and the future of our children;
that we may value each and every human being
for who he is, for who she is,
reaching to the spirit that is within,
knowing the power of each individual to change the world.

~ Jane Goodall ~

blessed be!

namaste’

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 325 – 11/6/2018

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yes, it’s true, women do belong in the house… of Congress… in an historic election demonstrating that we are making the United States love again, 100+ women were  elected and are on their way to Washington to wage peace and healthcare and education and equality and justice for all children…

a night of many firsts…

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib became the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress and Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland, pictured above, became the first two Native American women to win election… also among the firsts are the youngest woman ever coming in and the oldest woman ever coming in in one class referring to New York House seat winner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, and Florida House seat winner Donna Shalala, 77… several of those elected are the first women to represent their district or state…

the wave of women running for office were inspired by the idea that they could do better running the house… may it be so…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 324 – 11/5/2018

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with every step today, with every breath, i bow to the beauty of grandmother who stands with grace in the center of the wheel holding the space of silence in a sacred way… in this place, she sees more than she can say and understands more than she sees… as she rests in stillness, she listens to the wind and knows in her heart, in our one heart, that we are hear to offer loving service to all our relations for we are one, one breath, one body, one being, one becoming…

for the past twelve hundred and twenty-five days, i have gathered with this extraordinary being of shining light in sacred communion to voice metta, lovingkindness blessings for all our relatives… each evening, we join at the threshold to offer ourselves and everything we are to the field out beyond… we envision the whole cosmos joining in and experiencing the true reality of oneness where we see all our relations as numinous love…

invoking this divine light of grace every day is one of the most transformative paths i have ever walked; sauntering along this rainbow trail of devotion daily, with this gifted guide, teaches and shows me the way of saging gracefully…

on this very special day, the anniversary of your birth, i celebrate you with this blessing prayed every morning by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, a blessing you walk and talk each day…

May I be a guard for those who need protection

A guide for those on the path

A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood

May I be a lamp in the darkness

A resting place for the weary

A healing medicine for all who are sick

A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles

And for the boundless multitudes of living beings

May I bring sustenance and awakening

Enduring like the earth and sky

Until all beings are freed from sorrow

And all are awakened.

~

deep bows and boundless love, beloved flow-er of beauty and soul of the space wherever your soles are kissing the earth, our one heart eternally smiles as we walk the spirit path together until all our relations are free of suffering, all relatives are liberated…

always flowing in beauty…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 323 – 11/4/2018

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

for this weekly installment showing you the astonishing light of your being, please re-member that you matter, that you can make a difference and we so need each other to be of courage, of strong heart when all over the planet, life is out of balance and we know we must change the dream we’ve been living… when we listen to the indigenous, the people of the land who listen to the all that is, we hear the clarion call to love our mother and each other… water, air, trees, sun, moon, stars, all our relatives, and we are all relatives, woven together intricately, inextricably, interconnectedly…

we can all feel we are at a tipping point, a sacred space with birth pangs so intense… the now moment when we must band together, stand together in love, throw off the illusion of separation, re-member the reality that we are one…

yes, let us take courage and be of strong heart, awaken the dream of the world we all share and long to realeyes… a world of peace built on justice and guided by love…

may we band together for this shared vision…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 322 – 11/3/2018

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May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence. May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses. May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon. May you respond to the call of your gift and find courage to follow its path. May the flame of anger free you from falsity. May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and anxiety never linger about you. May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul. May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention. May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul. May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

~  John O’Donohue ~