Thursday, April 23, 2015

I Come to You Empty

I come to you empty
Did I think that I was no longer worthy?
Has this broken spirit cursed you?
The beacon of innocence cracked from the weight of the dark majority
Has faded from view

I once came to you out of longing
I once came to you in need
I once came to you for healing
Now, no pleasure nor sorrow succeed
The beacon no longer a focal
For the temptation for light does flee
In the presence of greater and greater humility,
I now concede; I see you in everything.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

The Inner Landscape of Beauty-John O'Donohue On Being with Krista Tippett

http://www.onbeing.org/program/inner-landscape-beauty/203

Cheers to the late and great John O'Donohue.

Walk with me to the center of the clock where time stands still and the world rotates around us. There is a kindness in suspending the past and future. We revolt against the antagonism of the unknown and revel in the extraordinary sensation of being-drawing forth our presence not from earlier nor later, rather, from the unmistakable mystery of the soul.


Friday, September 19, 2014

Prayer for Your Enemy

My heart.  I ask that I learn how to pray for my enemy.  Send me words of redemption.

May I learn to respect your humanity when confronted with pain.  Let my heart break.  Allow my heart's contents to empty into rivers that carry them away. May these tender scars remind me of the contours of the sacred. What is sacred?  What is sacred is that I may heal-that my innocence remains uncorrupted when violated. Our innocence does not have to die but strengthen discernment.

Darkness earns its rewards through deception. The psychologically aimless is vulnerable to the contagions of disease and betrayal.  May I persistently turn my attention towards my wholeness and dwell in the revelation of truth. That which is true never harms in retaliation. That which is true is merciful. That which is true has no reason to hide or to feel shameful. That which is true reveals the sinews of human folly weaving humanity together into an evolutionary body. What is true is what is in you is in me, too.  To err is to assume sanctimonious distinctions.

Remove this rage, this disbelief. May the disquiet awaken unexpected forces of good. May this ache to repair the other find its authentic possession; and, that is the ache to restore my soul. For all aspects of life must be purged from the disciple in order to deepen their wisdom.

May I direct my attention with penetrating intelligence towards the liberatory genius of transcendent thought.  Uplift me from the despairs and disrepairs of the past.  May the wings of possibility beat fervently, raising me into the realms of mystical perception-where the roadways of our lives cross, where the fertile farmlands run snuggly into each other like puzzle pieces, and where the picture broadens into a life story.  Profundity eclipses these tiny fractures in time, where the presence of the absolute arises bubbling into the ever-present "a-ha" of my true identity. With every breath another false attachment exhales my body. This truth is what breathes me; this truth is what breathes you.

May this quiet moment of forgiveness liberate us both. I release you again and again and again.  I release you.  When I say, "thank you" these words sincerely brush my lips, for I have learned that I am still capable of wanting to return harm unto another-that I can lose myself in the pain-and that the darkness can eclipse my light. You have redirected me to my light in some strange way.

Blessed be your beautiful life.

Monday, August 25, 2014

When Still

When the spirit is still, there is no war
Your anxious body melts into holiness
From within, the entanglement unwinds itself slowly

Does our nature seek and admire adroit force?
Do we appreciate banging our heads against Berlin walls?

There is no need for native tongue
I can feel you
Your story moves through me like a breeze
I understand more than you would care to share

You are more vulnerable when you hold your gun
Your weariness carries your shoulders with discipline
Your aching body so resolute
How tired your soul must be


There is nothing here my friend
There is no war to fight
I am empty and you point your gun
Steady my way
You created an enemy
Your soul must be so tired.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Sunday, June 8, 2014

The Simplest Things

Enter the joker juggling
Mystifying gravity
Particles pounding feverishly in sweaty palms
Chasing one another
Activity building and building upon one ball after another

The joker plays with the art of surrender
Letting go of this one whilst catching the other
The joker makes an art form out of gravity

A drop of water never stops midair to ask, “Where is the ocean?”
The drop drips freely, liberated by the very act
Compelled to follow gravity’s lead
As selflessly as its identity expels
Merges with ease
A collection of give give give give give

To be sanctimonious is to snivel at drops
Miscalculating the force of the collective
Therefore, a humble person finds their greatest power
In the simplest things
They recognize who they are.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Into the Depths of Your Stillness

The quiet deep I sink. Submerged. Cupped within the weightless, I am held. Talk to me. Talk to me. I am finally listening. Make your presence known. Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life.  Take me deep. I am here now. Let it unfold. It won't happen in an hour, and it won't happen in a day.

Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Reveal yourself in the nature of my dreams. May my days be colored by the qualities of my soul.  I am listening to the radiance. I am resting in this grand stillness so that I may hear these truths.

Grant that through my errors there is a humbleness that opens a secret passageway into the absolute intimacy of my heart, where through the pulse of creation I am renewed.  Grant that through times of great loss I shall not seek within emptiness, but sink into emptiness-such loss less gravity to pull. Peeling layers of nakedness, my essence is weightless the more you remove. May I honor you; may I remember you in all ways. 

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Liberation

The face of truth reflects from thousands of mirrors
The truth licks like flames and then disappears
Similar are our actions of spontaneous emissions

Wisdom speaks through the sun’s tongues
The reverent ignite in unison

The liberation begins and spreads

The liberation ends when what is to be liberated from is dead.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

A Mixing Together

A coin's face and tail dictate the perfect spin.
Why such confusion?
Answer:  When out of your content arises imbalance, this side you face opportunity as challenge.
When embers burn in the pit of your stomach, the other side reveals the best healing tonic.

Why such a chaotic mixing together?

Answer:  You will desire to find me as a formidable union from within.

Confusion to fusion to confusion we dance-a cocktail-party of neuroses and psychoses and clarity.  The one you choose to dance with must certainly be me!  This side and that side the opportune side awaits.  Flip the coin once or twice, and perhaps even thrice.  Your sweet charity is when you see me, irrefutably so.  

Monday, November 25, 2013

The 0 Dimension

The activity of life swarms.  From where does movement arise but from absolute stillness?  Dimension 0 is a reference point-the immovable, silent, stillness from which the activity of our mind and all other manifestations can be referenced. If all were abuzz, there would be no point of reference and movement would be completely incomprehensible and chaotic.

Absolute stillness has no dimension, no form, and therefore no form in which to move.  If one could penetrate their deepest desires and follow their rays of disambiguation, one would be led deeper and deeper into the point of no dimension which leads into infinite depths revealing infinite layers of truth.  A point has no beginning and no end, no definition, and unutterable suspension.  Like the warm breeze that cartwheels autumn leaves across sidewalks, the sidewalk is the stillness, and such stillness remains the foundation to leaves prolific capering.

The silence between notes, the absence of color commingling with the radiance of rich hues contrasting starkly, vibrantly, and lively, these are the blissful expressions of our relationship and reference to unequivocal stillness.

Undisturbed clarity, purer than the purest crystal, clearer than the clearest lake, within its sapient depth of tranquility-life thrusts outward like violent fireworks, exploding from the timeless, evokes and emits from the threshold of the absolute. Pure, unadulterated love pours, unencumbered, eternally pouring forth from this formless perfection, serving as a sublime sweetness for all other love. Love is an unbearable giving to another without due cause. Love is an eternal spring from which its wells pour forth undeterred.  A luminescent tear drops from the cheeks of angels as we come closer and closer to reveling in the boundless expression of what love truly is-selfless giving of another to another without need for return, basking within the radiance, freely submitting to her calls, for her song is eternal and true.  For those who find justification in withholding such profound love, they will one day be saturated by her wholeness and completion with such humility and awe, that they will be ignited, burning like an alchemical transfiguration into the purest metal. Transformative and configures, the 0 dimension heeds perfection.

Permit the ballerina to master space with graceful pronouncements.  The face of god aches in every gesture the delicacy of power and force, the impermeability of absolute wholeness, a radiating outward from the centerless center-the dimensionless, and the stillness of immaculate self-containment enraptures the soul like a gasping breath.

The currents of mind, the destabilizing anxiety of other's thoughts and actions, the concern for what we've created and its consequences-these are exasperated the more we embark on a journey with no reference, no compass. The irony is that the greatest of reference has no distinction, no body, no sound, no form.  Without this reference, the tumult of life becomes unbearable and immeasurable.  Decisions arrive from disquiet determinations.  Life becomes an overwhelming chore rather than a blessed and sacred journey of discovery leading us to wholeness and our authentic humanity.

Be still, be silent, be humble, be still, be still and pierce the dimensionless.  Feel the motionless soothe the mind, for all great deeds have a trajectory from absolute stillness.  

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Wear it Well

Know your inner truth, scavenge your deep interior
Know it well; wear it on your chest like a burning sapphire rose
Your truth is what connects the unchartered powers of divinity to you
An enigma a chance a passionate texture
Your mystery cannot be absolved of misunderstanding
Wear it well; come to know truth in your heart the blazing fire
Your connection is your power your lightway
You are ablaze with justice, and by night shadows are mere figures dancing on walls
Their outlines flirt with your darkest fears, yet no amount of suffering steals your fire,
Grasping the amulet carved into the contours of your soul
You are capable of enduring the grievous while turning pain into gold,
Bending the elements into a majestic crown.
You are the royal messenger of what must be born
Undo yourself until unbound
Roar for the freedom from tyranny
Now the candle flickers in your heart
Reveling by night the freedom towards.