Monthly Archives: September 2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 278 – 9/20/2018

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Named Sacred 20 Lovingkindness Wedding Trip Pilgrimage 047 Oceanside Cape Meares

today is the eve of the International Day of Peace, a day where thousands will create, are already creating a huge wave of peace flowing across the planet… to honor this wave of peace pouring onto the cosmos…

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute the Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
~Gandhi’s Prayer for Peace~

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.

~Buddhist Prayer~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 277 – 9/19/2018

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Named Sacred 19 PEACE Created World

every moment is pregnant with the promise of peace… with every breath, consciously practice peace saying/feeling… i am peace, may we all be peace with every breath… for all the moments of today on this high holy day of at-one-ment and the remaining two days of global unity across the planet, we will be intending deep peace culminating on friday with the International Day of Peace… thanks to all for joining in a heartfelt effort to be peace for our cosmos…

Invocation

                                                      

We call all noble-hearted people to find within the light of love and divinity that dwells in them from immemorial times, since their souls have existed.
May this light … expand on the earth showering her face with peace and harmony.
May this light … calm and harmonize the black shadow of war, violence, hate and disharmony .
May this light … fill the hearts of all people and the sites of nations where the shadow of violence has found a place to stay.

May this light reach the hearts and minds of ALL the Heads of State,
of ALL leaders of the revolution from  right to left from north to south.

We extend our profound gratitude to all the Mamos (Shamans) of the world, all men, women and children from  different cultures, races and creeds, from all cardinal directions who have joined us and those who will join us in this effort to raise a prayer for peace and nonviolence .

We wash away the cries of the distressed, the blood of the victims of violence, the pain of their families.

May they be replaced by the innocent laughter of children, the ideals of youth and the wisdom of life of our elders.
May we no longer know the signs of strife: to hear birds singing sorrows, nor watch clouds stained with blood, nor feel breezes intense with heat, nor see rivers swollen by the mountains’ tears .
May new fraternal bonds of unity and peace formed through our invocation together  embrace humanity in harmony with itself and with nature.

shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 276 – 9/18/2018

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Named Sacred 18 Wedding Trip Pilgrimage Oregon Gorge 5-27-15 023

a day of listening to falling water

and dancing with the rain…

a day of walking without feet like riverwater

flowing home to source…

a day of gathering in the river below the river

singing and celebrating motherwaters…

a day of rising and falling waves, always being ocean

flowing home peacefully to the sea…

as the sun set today, we enter the portal of the highest holy day in the Jewish faith, Yom Kippur, Day of At-One-Ment which falls like water during 11 Days of Global Unity culminating on World Peace Day, September 21…

these days of Global Unity aim at strengthening the ideals of community and equality, diversity and oneness, harmony and compassion and, above all, at advancing a Culture of Peace…

one by one, breath by breath, moment by moment,

each of our individual thoughts, words and deeds poured onto the unitive field

transforms the cosmos into a beloved communion

of peace guided by love and seeded by justice…

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 275 – 9/17/2018

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Huge Tidal wave crashing onto the beach with man

today marks the seventh anniversary of the occupy movement which inspired me three months later to occupy the abundance of infinite love and gratitude… today i also remember the dream of three years ago of the tidal wave facing me, being in a state of suspension pondering whether i could open myself to the strength flowing through the cosmos, do i have it in me to hold the tension, to feel the dissolution, the loss, can i summon the courage to walk the path with heart…

today i see great spirit in the wave in a new way… as a dolphin eagle dog… the more i look into the wave, the more i tune into the breath of great spirit, the more i can deepen into breaking down to breaking through to freedom…

yes, Don Juan, all paths are the same for the journey is the destination, it is the process not the outcome, the coming home to the heart, to the now here…

yes, choose a path with heart, follow it wholeheartedly and rejoice in the moment of this extravagant journey that is life, the quintessential pilgrimage…

may we all travel a path with heart open to the strength and support and peace of our ever more abundant cosmos generously gifting us whatever is needed…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 274 – 9/16/2018

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Named Sacred 16 Rumi I AM the soul

welcome to the weekly edition of sharing with you the astonishing light of our being… perhaps you, too, have felt the great turning within your being as we bear witness to the great turning in the outer world as well… i re-member a lucid dream three years ago right at this moment, a dream of a tidal wave extending from the ocean floor to the vast sky, a wave commanding rapt attention and intention… in the ensuing three years, i have devoted  the energy flowing through me to gathering the quintessence, the essence of love…

join me now in the field out beyond and deep below with a soft gaze bringing attention and intention to the eyes saying… I am not these eyes and what they see, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

settle into spacious awareness saying… I am not these ears and what they hear, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in and out and simply being saying… I am not this mouth and what it tastes, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… I am not these hands and what they touch, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… I am not this nose and what it smells, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now noticing thoughts arising and memories saying… I am not these thoughts, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… I am not these memories, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now seeing the whole body and feeling the body from within the body saying… I am not this body, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in feeling simply loving awareness… breathing out letting go of everything except resting in the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

may we all be nourished by these words and awakened to serve for the benefit of all as we dwell in this moment re-membering who we are…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 273 – 9/15/2018

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Named Sacred 15 Fave Heart One Global Unity.

We need joy as we need air.

We need love as we need water.

We need each other as we need the earth we share.

~ Maya Angelou ~

yes, we the beloved community need each other and belong to each other eternally in the deep peace of of our one heart…

we all be longing to come home to our one heart

 to awaken and re-member our original space of belonging

where mother waters sing to us of our true nature

one body, one mind, one heartbeat, one spirit

welcome home to our belonging circle

welcome home to our ocean of love

~

today’s pilgrimage reflects the walking of this talk as our sangha comes together for an annual feast celebrating the treasure of the sangha, the communion, on how precious we are to and for each other, ourselves and the world…

in closing, let us chant the Dalai Lama’s Vow and Four Great Bodhisattva Vows…

For as long as space endures

And for as long as living beings remain

So then may I too abide

To dispel the misery of the world.

~

Beings are numberless, I vow to free them

Delusions are inexhaustible, I vow to end them

Dharma gates are boundless, I vow to enter them

The Buddha Way is unsurpassable, I vow to embody it

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 272 – 9/14/2018

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Named Sacred 14 Blue Star Vortex+++

i return to the village well today and am challenged, appropriately so, in this sacred moonspell of september to contemplate what is sacred to me, so sacred that i’d go beyond usual comfort zones and give the fullest measure of my energies… this contemplation is one that plays through me like a broken record and one where i love bringing up the image of both the inner and outer cosmic blue star  as the whirling primordial space, the womb of chaos giving birth dancing stars, big dreams, brave new worlds, that space of breaking free of convention and daring to dream with wild abandon…

so, dear sangha of free and easy wanderers, what is sacred to you, what calls you to break your heart wide open?

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 271 – 9/13/2018

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Named Sacred 13 Heart Pilgrimage Chalice Well

“You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to the highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”

~ R. Buckminster Fuller ~

yes, today i re-member the well as i gather by livestream at the Village Well Symposium being held conjointly with the Global Climate Action Summit, the largest gathering since 2015’s COP21 in Paris…. the irony of listening to the call from the well as across the country family is weathering Hurricane Florence expected to drop twice as much rain due to climate destruction is not lost on me, the call to commit all the more imperative…

thank you for joining in this  call to be of service to the Earth and to the survival of our species for it is the widespread lack of connection to the sacred and to the indivisible interdependence of all life that lies at the heart of our current climate crisis… we need all hands on deck for this most crucial challenge, all of us committing to the following steps with the most important ongoing step being to cultivate a way of life prioritizing our connection and sense of belonging to the Earth…

  1. In careful observation of your life and community, including showing up for local politics and reaching out to those outside your social circle, choose and commit to an area of focus… Examples include: water protection, wildlife conservation, resource extraction, renewable energy, frontline impact and community education.

  2. Commit to taking a journey of research and learning in order to understand the intricacies and approaches to the topic you choose.

  3. Connect with a friend or organization to create an accountability structure that will support your regular, impactful involvement.

  4. Make showing up in your local community and getting involved a part of your work in the world. Be the example of what it looks like to truly commit to being a part of the solution.

we are born of the earth and all that we have comes from the earth, every day of our life, every breath that we take… now is the time to give back daily ensuring that the circle of life continues and flourishes…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 270 – 9/12/2018

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Named Sacred 12 Heart Breathing.

to honor the elephant-headed Ganesh, Lord of Wisdom on his birth, let’s take a deep breath through our one heart and unwrap a present of presence…

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Awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to
follow its path.
Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame.
May anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of
soul.
Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek
no attention.
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 ~

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may our moments in the river of life be filled with delight, flow with ease and blessed with wisdom…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 269 – 9/11/2018

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Named Sacred 11 Afraid - Born with Courage to Do This

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
~ Lao Tzu ~

on this seventeenth anniversary of 9-11 we have the opportunity both personally and collectively to bear witness to the tragedy of our global dark night of the soul as suffering and as our fate when we fail to see what is ongoing… an orgy of violence in the outer world mirrored in our inner worlds…

at the end of the first world war, William Butler Yeats bears witness in…

THE SECOND COMING

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

    The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

~

although written ninety-nine years ago, it feels like it is describing today… breakdown, anarchy, corruption  and then he moves into a new vision leaving the outcome open-ended as it is for us…

may we have the courage to face the evil, both inner and outer, and hear the cries of the world and ourselves… may we listen to the old master and transmute the darkness within by sitting quietly, invoking the invisible reams and plugging into source energy to empower right action… the wisdom of the serpent coupled with the gentleness of the lamb…

namaste