Monthly Archives: August 2016

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 238 – 8/10/2016

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Named Awakening August 10 Set Eyes Within 2012-6-9 Coordinator w the Mostest - Jo

in this moment, this beautiful moment, close your outer eyes and tune into the universe of the illuminated heart within… take a deep breath and begin to align with the peace of the darkness of inner space… as you float in this spaciousness, re-member what you love… now, lie down in this field of love with all your senses tuned into the cosmic hum of the stillpoint and enjoy the dream images dancing through your being….

take comfort in this gentle space with nowhere you must go for you are now here in your space of true refuge, a magical place so easily accessible by simply breathing in the rhythm of light waves and turning your senses within, coming home to our one heart…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, listen for beloved’s sweet refrain to come back, come back, return to me dwelling this moment in harmony…

may we all conspire in joy and birth a planet of peace and harmony…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 237 – 8/9/2016

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Named Awakening August 9 Peace Park Nagasaki

seventy-one years ago today, at the end of World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki in Japan with the hypocenter right on the grounds of what is now the Peace Memorial Park… in that moment, 39,000 people were killed…

listen to an excerpt from Words of the Sculptor about the Peace Statue he created to commemorate all who lost their lives to atomic radiation:

“After experiencing that nightmarish war, that blood-curdling carnage, that unendurable horror, Who could walk away without praying for peace? This statue was created as a signpost in the struggle for global harmony. Standing ten meters tall, it conveys the profundity of knowledge and the beauty of health and virility. The right hand points to the atomic bomb, the left hand points to peace, and the face prays deeply for the victims of war. Transcending the barriers of race and evoking the qualities of Buddha and God, it is a symbol of the greatest determination ever known in the history of Nagasaki and the highest hope of all mankind.”

-Seibo Kitamura (Spring 1995)

may we all stand together for love singing out peace and harmony for all our relations in our ever expanding universe and thank Great Spirit for breathing us into deeper harmony and peace with every breath…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 236 – 8/8/2016

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Named Awakening August 8 lions-in-love

are you feeling the energies of your inner lioness and lion uniting and balancing  the divine feminine and masculine as they gently purr into all your wild cells quickening the rhythmic flow of love and compassion?

yes, today the doors of love and compassion have been flung wide open for all to breeze through with our courageous lionhearts into this brave new world of lovingkindness and compassion….

let’s all take this moment, this beautiful moment. to bask in the radiant light streaming through us to see all that is as it truly is… a beautyway of love and light…

i see you… i am you… i honor you… i love you… i love you… i love you…

may we experience this magical day as a sacred gift woven around our one heart of wonder…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 235 – 8/7/2016

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Named Awakening August 7 Meeting Moment 2012-6-9 Coordinator w the Mostest - Jo

in this moment, in every moment as we saunter along the peace pilgrimage path, we begin with a smile to start my internal love engine and rev up the love with a continuous loop of thank yous while breathing deeply through our one heart and down, down, down into the belly, our core, the stillpoint where the dance of creation begins…

being fully present in the here and now, in the only moment there is in unconditional openness, we are able to respond to everything that arises with an embrace… in this intimate connection, we enter a reverential state inspiring our one heart to open ever wider…

i love dwelling in the sacred space of our collective womb where we witness in wonder the weaving of trillions of iridescent threads into one seamless cosmic tapestry and when we listen very deeply we hear the hum of all our relations entraining the many notes into one frequency… love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 234 – 8/6/2016

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Named Awakening August 6 PEACE Cranes with sadako

another day, another prayer for peace…

Sadako was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city seventy-one years ago. Nine years later she developed the atomic bomb disease, leukemia. Hearing the ancient Japanese story that says when you fold 1000 paper cranes your wish will be granted, Sadako folded 644 cranes with her wish for healing before she died at twelve years old.

Inspired by her courage and strength, her friends and classmates dreamed of creating a monument to memorialize their friend and all children killed by the bomb. Young people all over the land of the rising sun realized their dream a couple of years later when in 1958 a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in Hiroshima Peace Park. The children also made a wish. It is inscribed at the bottom of the statue and reads:

“This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world”.

Today, people all over the world continue to fold paper cranes and send them to Sadako’s monument in Hiroshima.

May there be peace on earth and may it begin with me…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 233 – 8/5/2016

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Named Awakening August 5 PEACE in Hiroshima Atomic_Bomb_Dome_Aug_2016.

I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.

~ Rumi ~

the children of the earth gathered today in front of the Atomic Dome in the Hiroshima Memorial Park at exactly the time 71 years earlier that an explosion of atoms shattered the world… today, millions gather in front of the dome and across the world for an explosion of a different sort… an explosion of love, a chorus of voices with every country in the world represented in one unified prayer for peace…

yes, the heart of all our relations choir is now unstoppable… yes, peace prevails on earth…

thousandfold thanks for standing together in love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 232 – 8/4/2016

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Named Awakening August 4 PEACE in Japan

The World Peace Prayer Society and James Twyman are collaborating on a year long journey to Light up the World with Peace by focusing  the prayers of millions of people who are dedicated to healing the heart of humanity…

today, i prepare for a prayer vigil tomorrow for nuclear disarmament on the 71st anniversary of the first atomic bomb which fell on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945…

thank you for joining with me in being a pulse that lights up the world with prayers for harmony, conscious evolution and for peace to prevail on Earth…

here is one of the prayers we will recite together…

The Nuclear Prayer

The Beginning and the End are in your hands, O Creator of the Universe. And in our hands you have placed the fate of this planet. We, who are tested by having both creative and destructive power in our free will, turn to you in sober fear and in intoxicating hope. We ask for your guidance and to share in your imagination in our deliberations about the use of nuclear force. Help us to lift the fog of atomic darkness that hovers so pervasively over our Earth, Your Earth, so that soon all eyes may see life magnified by your pure light.

Bless all of us who wait today for your Presence and who dedicate ourselves to achieve your intended peace and rightful equilibrium on Earth. In the Name of all that is holy and all that is hoped. Amen. 

Thousandfold Peace, Thousandfold Peace, Thousand Thousandfold Peace in our one heart…
Thousandfold thanks, thousandfold thanks again for joining in the being peace chorus…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 231 – 8/3/2016

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Named Awakening August 3 New Beginnings Tahoma Equinox 2014 009

i love beginning each moon/month with this beautiful blessing… awakening august is no exception as we all step onto new ground, on a path that has been quietly forming in the background just waiting for us to awaken…

and, so many of our relations are doing just that and hearing the cries of the world, feeling the suffering and responding with compassion, letting the pain strengthen our realization of belonging to each other and the reality of interdependence – we must stand together in love…

as we step onto new ground, let’s step up our practice of unconditional opening to all that arises… taking in the suffering, transmuting it into compassion and sending it out as lovingkindness and peace…

recognizing the great benefit of loving all our relations,

may we bring all beings to joy and peace through the strength of devotion…

breathing in the heaviness of agitation or anger or sorrow or rage,

we breathe out the lightness of well-being and peace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 230 – 8/2/2016

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Named Awakening August 2 Leo-Lammas moon new black

i love new moons and their magnetic pull to go within, to slow down, to pause and listen to the cosmic hum, the music of the one animating spirit flowing through you, flowing through me, flowing through all our relations…

and, with this new moon of renewal coinciding with the ancient first harvest celebration of and thanksgiving for all the many blessings, the power of this moment is magnified exponentially…

so, in this regenerative space fueled generously by gratitude, take a wild joyride on the high tides of sister moon into the ocean of imagination and dream wildly and expansively of what you’ll cultivate to serve the all…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 229 – 8/1/2016

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Named Awakening August 1 Jo Awakening

how auspicious! beginning this new moon of awakening august with a new moon, a moon of strength, a moon of renewal, a moon of infinity, alpha and omega, a moon of strength, a moon to re-member, a moon to be tender…

i re-member tenderly that in my second year memorialized by this picture, i had the big awakening dream of the rainbow serpent who has guided me throughout my life, teaching me stillness at 2, that we are one and love is all there is at 21, my mission at 42 to be one of the heart whisperers breathing out heart wisdom consciousness being breathed through me…

what are you re-membering?