Monthly Archives: October 2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 299 – 10/11/2018

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Named Open Field 11 Thay at 92 on 10-11-18

Happy 92nd Day of Continuation, Thay!

Thousandfold thanks, Thay, for a lifetime of teaching us and showing us the way, of being peace, of walking your talk and being an example for others, for introducing us to the miracle of mindfulness, for always being love and being present in the present moment, wonderful moment… may we all mindfully breathe with you in every precious moment… may we re-member we have arrived and are home in beloved community…

“I think that the Buddha is already here. If you are mindful enough you can see the Buddha in anything, especially in the sangha. The twentieth century was the century of individualism, but we don’t want that anymore. Now we try to live as a community. We want to flow like a river, not a drop of water. The river will surely arrive at the ocean, but a drop of water may evaporate halfway. That’s why it is possible for us to recognize that the presence of the Buddha is the here and now. I think that every step, every breath, every word that is spoken or done in mindfulness—that is the manifestation of the Buddha. Don’t look for the Buddha elsewhere. It is in the art of living mindfully every moment of your life.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

in honor of today’s being International Day of the Girl , i offer deep bows to all special guardian girls…

to Nia, whose name means Radiance, awakened being of the wide open heart, leaping levitating dynamo of irrepressible spirit, boundless ecstatic love in motion awakening everyone she meets to our true nature of  radiance…

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 the sky
Until all beings are free from sorrow
And all are awakened.
~

thousandfold thanks for being a guard, raft, bridge, lamp in darkness…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 298 – 10/10/2018

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Named Open Field 10 Poetic PEACE Pilgrim 1 Field

Turn back from the outer, Set your eyes within.

~ Rumi ~

today is a sacred day – 10/10/11 or 1111 – the number of the energy flow of angels, a special portal day of threshold as we stand ready to leap into the void, the cloud of unknowing, the field of great mystery bravely taking the first steps down into the depths along this sacred pathway of descent… the deeper we go, the higher we rise; the more we let go into flow, the more we flow into letting go, dissolving into the field of the open heart being one with the one that cannot be named…

~

thank you for walking home with me down to the sea of love,

awesome place of power, smiled on by the stars above

here we breathe in deeply, preparing to go under

deep down into the below, sacred space of surrender

giving our all to beloved, undams the river of joy

 always flowing inside of us, flowing forevermore…

~

happy trails…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 297 – 10/9/2018

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Named Open Field 9 Imagine

Happy 78th Day of Continuation, John!

on the day we honor the birth of John Lennon, we also honor the day of miracles, the  birth of Guru Ram Das and so many more… today’s walk on the wild side is resting in an open strawberry field out beyond, a breathing space, a visionary place to commit acts of imagination on this ground of shifting sands, dreamscape of unknowing where we dream our collective dream forward of living in the moment in peace sharing our world as one…

naturally arising from our communal wellspring, is this image as in imagine, imagination of our imagining peace, a world living as one in this moment where there are no countries, no borders, no strangers, no wars, no religions, no possessions, no greed, no hunger, no homelessness… imagine all our relations living this moment in peace, sharing our astonishing light of being with every breath…

as we all come together in this moment to commit acts of imagination, may we live John’s, ever so relevant for today, call to action now…

Power To The People 

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

A million workers working for nothing
You better give ’em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Now, now, now, now
Oh well, power to the people

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Yeah, power to the people Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

~

Peace Out!/Peace In!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 296 – 10/8/2018

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Named Open Field 8 moon new in libra

yes, brothers and sisters of the boundless sky sea

this new moon draws us down into deepest inquiry

for us to listen to whom we are to be

children of  venus, of love eternally…

buoyantly floating in equanimity

painting peace across great mystery

listening to the ancestors’ wisdom

aligned with source tuned into the hum…

om shanti shanti shanti om

we are one being walking home

opening to live and let be

caged bird now set free…

~

take a moment to seed intentions in the open field of right relationship grounded in the first people’s precepts…

  1. Speak only words of truth.
  2. Speak only of the good qualities of others.
  3. Be a confidant and carry no tales.
  4. Turn aside the veil of anger to release the beauty inherent in all.
  5. Waste not the bounty, and want not.
  6. Honor the light in all. Compare nothing; see all for its suchness.
  7. Respect all life; cut away the ignorance from one’s own heart.
  8. Neither kill nor harbor thoughts of an angry nature, which destroy peace like an arrow.
  9. Do it now; if you see what needs doing, do it.

Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of Our Ancestors, pp 20-21

may we put our ears to the earth to hear the song of rebirth filling every cell with mirth…

om shanti shanti om

~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 295 – 10/7/2018

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Named Open Field 7 Goddess N Flo Jo++

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~Hafiz of Shiraz~

yes, let us all re-member who we are… light waves born of  the great light weaver… moments of great suffering and injustice can call forth the re-sources embedded in the core of our being… relatives, let us join together as one with our ears to the ground listening, listening to mama gaia’s heartbeat drumming throughout the earth… resounding truth of the Star Goddess, the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, whose body encircles the universe:

“I who am the beauty of the green earth and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters,

I call upon your soul to arise and come unto Me. For I am the soul of nature that gives life to the universe. From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return.
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold — all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

And you who seek to know Me, know that your seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.”

may we bathe together in the illuminated radiance  of love lighting every imaginal cell of cosmic being to walk as partners a path of courage, of great heart, of soul connected to source cooperatively, collaboratively, compassionately, wisely and peacefully living the truth that being in harmony, in right relationship with all wild cells of our one body is the way, the truth and the astonishing lightness of being…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 294 – 10/6/2018

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Named Open Field 6 Lotus

“Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us…”

~ Gabrielle Roth ~
for many, today is a day that shakes us to the core wondering what is right action in this moment in time when culture suffers a massive disconnection from soul with our no longer re-membering we are family, we belong to each other and must care for each other as the extended root system – the mycelium network nourishes, waters and cares for so many relatives which ripples out and out and out to regenerate the cosmos…
The “good” news is that just as chaotic as things are now is our ability to turn things around and we have the resources within and without to move in a direction that ends suffering and fosters liberation… yes, even as mired in the mud as we are, we, too, can blossom and be strong and wise…
may we all take this moment to gather the quintessence, to go deep down into the womb of the earth and be nourished by source  to act rightly…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 293 – 10/5/2018

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Named Open Field 5 Columbia Gorge 10-4-15 008

“I want my life to challenge people to think philosophically. I want people to ask themselves and each other what time it is on the clock of the world.”

Grace Lee Boggs, 1915 – 2015

In honor of Grace and her life of sacred activism on the three year anniversary of her death and in a moment when this question is more relevant than ever, may we all live this question as contemplative quest and re-member some more of her sage words on what time it is on the clock of the world…

“We need to find that balance of life that respects each other, that thinks that the most important thing at this time on the clock of the world is not our accumulation of things, is not economic growth which threatens and imperils all life on this planet including ourselves, that the time has come to grow our souls, to grow our relationships with one another, to create families that are loving and communities that are loving, to bring the neighbor back into the hood.”

What time is it on the clock of the world?

“The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to age the sacred teachings of humankind have constantly held the promise, is now at long last within the reach of the nations and the human family. For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective.World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet!”

Universal House of Justice

it is time on the clock of the world for all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering and for all beings to enjoy happiness and the fruits of happiness…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 292 – 10/4/2018

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Named Open Fieldr 4 Columbia Gorge 10-4-15 004

i awaken today feeling empty, unknowing, with nothing to hold onto no matter how much effort i expend… as i lie in this open field, i re-member being in this picture two years ago and two days ago, this open field of peace and the rhythm of deep earth being pulls me here to float… yes, there is much for me to do in the outer world today but for this moment i float in the open field of peace…

many moments later, i begin to prepare ritual space by gathering so many works in progress into a treasure chest to open sacred space for the new… and with this clean-sing, this emptying, a message of old becomes more emphatic – live simply to simply live…

now, i am smiling at the recognition that today is the feast day of the soul of simplicity…

to amplify this celebration of St Francis on his feast day, i turn to his namesake, Pope Francis, who turns to him in the introduction to his encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home:

. . . I believe that Saint Francis is the example par excellence of care for the vulnerable and of an integral ecology lived out joyfully and authentically. . . . He was a mystic and a pilgrim who lived in simplicity and in wonderful harmony with God, with others, with nature and with himself. He shows us just how inseparable the bond is between concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society, and interior peace.

 . . . Just as happens when we fall in love with someone, whenever he would gaze at the sun, the moon or the smallest of animals, he burst into song, drawing all other creatures into his praise. He communed with all creation, even preaching to the flowers, inviting them “to praise the Lord, just as if they were endowed with reason.”  His response to the world around him was so much more than intellectual appreciation or economic calculus, for to him each and every creature was a sister united to him by bonds of affection. That is why he felt called to care for all that exists. His disciple Saint Bonaventure tells us that, “from a reflection on the primary source of all things, filled with even more abundant piety, he would call creatures, no matter how small, by the name of ‘brother’ or ‘sister.’”  . . . If we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously. The poverty and austerity of Saint Francis were no mere veneer of asceticism, but something much more radical: a refusal to turn reality into an object simply to be used and controlled.

may we live in an open field of simplicity harmony and compassion for all our relatives…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 291 – 10/3/2018

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Named Open Field 3 Pacific Adventure with Geri and Mark, Part Deux 005

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there…

~ Rumi ~

what a delight to meet with you this moment in the open field beside the spacious and expansive windswept sea… just as the waves bring me home, being with you brings me home to the interconnected web of our interbeingness… in such a wild and wide open space, such a heart opening place, though our meetings in the outer world may be fleeting and rare, that connection of  interbeing, the meeting in the inner world is now all the stronger with the visceral imprint now encoded in cellular memory …  a day out of time, a day in spirit, inspired by love and the deep peace of running waves…

may we all return with the breath in this moment to our communal home, the watery womb of our grandmother sea’s flowing iridescent streams of love energy…

let us close with the deep celtic wisdom of  Brother John echoing from the depths of the eternal sea…

“Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days to shopping and kill time watching talk-shows… Let’s not let our days fall away like empty shells and miss all the treasure… The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.”

may we all awaken to the eternal within us… thank you and deepest bow for walking home with me catalyzing and inspiring awakening the eternal now moment of the open field…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 290 – 10/2/2018

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Named Open Field 2 Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing Green Bough Singing Bird.

thank you for joining the caravan of re-joy-sing today to travel along the mighty river of joy and ride through the open fields arriving at the green bough to  wait for the singing bird…

thank you for this day of dwelling in the open field listening for the cosmic hum of singing bird…

 thank you for this day of cultivating the green bough, the open heart of flowing love, peace and joy…

thank you for this day of courage kindling our one sweet heart to open to what is and to trust the journey is the destination… we don’t have to know where we are going in this river of life that’s fluid and dynamic, moving from moment to moment asking only to be open, one with the tides of life…

may we awaken today in the open field of the child’s  heart and beginner’s mind….

deep bow to green bough tara of the open field, pied piper of the singing bird…