For 247 days i dance this mantra as i practice…
SMILE (Starting My Internal Love Engine)
Heart breathing deeply thru our one heart
Embracing, accepting all that is
Reverencing what is
Opening
on the Journey Home to
Stillness
Essence
Love
Flow
Thank you, thank you, thank you for walking home with me along this sacred path of mystery
awaken to a running conversation… get quiet syncing into light… breathing deeply through our one heart, listen for heart whispers… be mother to scared child afraid of being homeless… darling, i love you and will be there for you… come onto my lap and we’ll rock awhile while we breathe in the rhythm of the waves up from the belly of the earth and through our one heart feeling we are coming home, being home and now fully home in the love we are, breathe it out radiating love to all the trillions of wild cells in your body and out and out to the furtherest reaches of our one body… yes, dear one, wherever you go, you are always home…
walking in trust today… trusting in a friendly universe, i travel to a field out beyond the known… trusting the path will carry me home to the mighty snowy dome… feeling the way to the belonging place, coming home to sacred space where i am Tahoma touching the sky and i am the sky flowing throgh glaciers and i am the water falling home restoring the spirit of home sweet home… longing becomes belonging…
May I Be a Guard
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.
~Prayed every morning by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
today as i dance with Rumi’s question about taking the long journey into self, i re-member that on an instinctive level i’ve been traversing the long journey for a long time and now, in this moment, i partner that dance step with a more conscious slow waltzing into innermost being, the calm center, stillness, the peace that passeth all understanding and stands still no matter what turbulence rages in the outer world, knowing that all is well, i am held, i am supported… dancing in this center, mine is only to witness as everything falls away leaving only oneness…
Sorrow has played a major chord on the dance this week with so many untimely deaths and conflicts covering the globe… And then i re-member on the pilgrimage back from Mt Rainier coming home by way of Mt St Helen’s and seeing the side that blew and this Spirit Lake which was right in the path of the lava flows and so violently ravaged that her coming back to life was in question but as you can see, sorrow has paved the way for joy as she is so beautifully and miraculously restored… May we all witness the transforming of sorrow into joy…
today, i re-member and re-member and re-member that we are light and stand still like a lighthouse in the flow of ocean tides trusting in the beacon of light i am/we are always shining within to illumine the pilgrimage path…
the day is spent in packing, readying for a move into the unknown while the night is a celebration of the annual O-Bon Festival sending the spirits back home with dancing, prayers and candle lights to illumine the path… farewell…
i knew something profoundly sad had happened before i heard the news of Robin Williams’ death, my body/our body connected with the overwhelming pain hours before the reporting… Robin is such an everyperson for we are all over the top in our joi de vivre evry now and again and at our best, honest and vulnerable about our warts, fully human. Robin so generously shared love, laughter and courage, the heart to face challenges. My heart grieves for the unbearable pain he and so many others feel and my heart smiles with his generous spirit and the way he came right in and made himself at home and opened doors we didn’t even know were closed.
Love that your twinkle will brighten the skies…
On this the hottest day of the pilgrimage, i feel fall’s approach and it’s not for the first time with skies darkening so much earlier in the evening and lightening later in the morning… Awaken in awe to hear of the spiders spinning webs with the falling stars, yes, the spirits are coming back as whispering winds… Welcome!