Monthly Archives: November 2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 339 – 11/20/2018

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Named Now 20 Child

If we wish to create a lasting peace, we must begin with children.

 ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

may we all  keep alive our child heart of wonder, of pure awareness seeing the beauty and sacredness of this moment, of every moment…

today is universal children’s day, a day established in 1954 and celebrated on November 20th each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare… this year, the day is about building a world where every child in school is safe from harm and can fulfill their potential…

 To every child – I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy.

~ Malala Yousafzai~

isn’t this dream shared by us all? surely we have it in us to create  such a world for the seven generations… yes, let us re-member our child heart and be wise innocents because…

Children Learn What They Live
By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

~

“truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God and become like a child… you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. … “

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 338 – 11/19/2018

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Named Now 19 Blessing Magical Pilgrimage 045

another day of now november, another day of gratitude, i am so grateful to share the journey with you, anam caras, soul friends…

now, some words dedicated to all our relatives, the  lights shining across the cosmos the ones who change the if to when by serving the whole as beautiful mirrors, serving the whole as great soul…. thank you, thank you, thank you again and again…

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it…
[and, you must be an anam cara or a dog or both…]
~ Rudyard Kipling ~
( except for the last line in brackets )
thank you for shining brightly as we walk each other home…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 337 – 11/18/2018

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Named Now 18 Yosemite Fall Reflection

with Thanksgiving Day upon us in the USA and today being the astonishing light of being day, it feels perfectly in rhythm to share the astonishing beauty of pachamama… may we all be filled with Wopida Tanka, Great Thanksgiving, for this day that came into being thanks to the compassion of the indigenous for the colonists’suffering… may we all be filled with Wopida Tanka, Great Thanksgiving, every day for the boundless gifts always being showered…

let us dance and sing these sacred words together together…

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of your friends and relatives, and look upon them with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of your pledge.

Be fair in your judgment, and guarded in your speech. Be unjust to no one. Be as a lamp to them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, and a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression.

Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all your acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring.

Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of humankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.

~The Blessed Beauty~
(The Spiritual Teacher who revealed this Sacred Teaching, also known as the Ancient of Days)

let us close with the lotus of gratitude meditation by curling all our fingers close to the heart and one by one uncurl a finger like a lotus petal rising from the mud and sound a gratitude for this moment continuing until all fingers are unfurled like a beautiful lotus in full bloom  with its roots grounded in the mud…. now, weave your fingers together and place them on your heart for all of the bounteous thanksgivings to enrich the core of being, our one great heart…

being thanks with every breath…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 336 – 11/17/2018

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Named Now 17 Re-TREAT Trappist Abbey Path

yes, the path of presence is calling me just as i call it… being stillness in an interior sanctuary suits me to a tee just as does nesting in a tree… resting in beloved is the perfect space to be…

join me in the space of presence…

~

breathe in, peace in oneself

breathe out, peace in the world

breathe in, peace in oneself

breathe out, peace in the world

breathe in, peace in oneself

breathe out, peace in the world

~

smiling now, we flow

re-membering presence in this moment, in every moment

one with nature’s rhythms

~

may we all be here now in the presence of  vast spaciousness…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 335 – 11/16/2018

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Named Now 16 MLK-Beloved Community

on this international day of tolerance, these prophetic words, written over six decades ago, give such hope today as we witness and listen the last dying gasps of the old paradigm, the system of  extractive capitalism and patriarchy, while witnessing and participating in the emerging new world of beloved community, partnership society, a new paradigm of synarchy, of governing in concert, all of us coming together and standing in love for love…

may each shock to our collective and personal nervous systems, jumpstart our one heart into taking courage and right action in alignment with the will of the whole guided by our one true nature of peace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 334 – 11/15/2018

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Named Now 15 Peace March.

every breath, every moment is a chance to be and make peace with the world…

almost a half a century ago, 49 years to be exact, i, along with a half a million other people journeyed to Washington for the largest peace march ever… yes, squint your eyes and you can see me in the middle of the crowd standing around the reflection pool…  standing in love for love, calling for peace…

fast forward forty-seven years and once again on the ides of November, i join with thousands all over the world in a day of action… a day of standing in solidarity with standing rock, standing in love for love, calling for our mother waters’ protection, calling for  earthmother’s protection…

 fast forward another 2 years to this moment, where  i stand with you and thousands of our relatives holding hands across the planet, across the invisible cosmic realms in love for love and peace, deep peace of the running wave we are forever…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 333 – 11/14/2018

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Named Now 14 Yosemite Peace Lake

are you feeling the rhythmic pull to hollow in as we near the closing of this turn around the circling of the sun, this cycle of life? here in the northern hemisphere, the darkening also inspires burrowing, hibernating…  bear nature is pulling me into the dream cave to still every cell, to dance without moving, to commune in silence, to open the heart so widely as to take in all the suffering transmuting it into blessing for all in pain, for all suffering loss…

 let us take this moment to ring the bell and enter the garden of peace…

“I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together. For unity and peace.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

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may we be at peace

may our one heart remain open

may we all realize the beauty of our true nature

may we all know the astonishing light of our being

may we all be whole and a source of healing for all our relations

~

breathing infinite gratitude deeply through our one heart,
may we all be safe. may we all be loved. may we all be held. may all be well.
may we feel the support encircling us with a thousand angel wings.
may we rest gracefully in the beauty of this moment…

~

“The first step toward living a happy life is to treat every other human with kindness. There are several steps after that, but I can’t remember right now.”

~ Dalai Lama ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 332 – 11/13/2018

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Named Now 13 Peace True Nature

let us take this moment of peace to awaken to our true nature…

Entering the garden,

I see my true nature.

In its reflection

My heart is at peace.

breathing in, we enter the garden, we come fully into this present moment

breathing out, we see our true nature, we commune with and reverence nature and the true self

breathing in, in its reflection, we see nature mirroring our true nature

breathing out, my heart is at peace, we are peace in this wild and precious moment

breathing in, entering

breathing out, nature

breathing in, reflection

breathing out, peace

entering

nature

reflection

peace

may we all awaken openheartedly…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 331 – 11/12/2018

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Named Now 12 Bells Ringing Peace

yesterday, on Armistice, when we celebrate the peace  of the ending of a war that was to end all wars with bells ringing and silence and dedication to perpetuating peace, goodwill and mutual understanding, a friend suggested we continue the observing of the 11th hour with bell ringing which sounds like a beautiful idea to me…

thank you for joining us in the ringing of bells and in silence for 11 days (11/11/11-11/22/11)  of the 11th month at 11 creating a wave of peace rippling across the cosmos raising and deepening the frequency of harmony entraining every sentient being, all our relatives into the sacred hoop of belonging…

shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 330 – 11/11/2018

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Named Now 11 Astonishing Light of Being 11-11-18 Peace Pilgrim Map

Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the gentle night to you.
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you…

looking into the wide screen of the cosmos, there is so much to mourn today and so much to celebrate on this special portal day of 11-11-11, this day of potent manifestation, this 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, a celebration of peace on earth, this day of celebrating the astonishing light of being with an image of Peace Pilgrim, the astonishing being inspiring this pilgrimage, this daily moment by moment practice of being peace, being deep peace in the ground of being no matter what is going on…

please join with me on calling in, invoking peace on this day of manifestation…

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.

in every moment, may we tune into a greater wisdom… the peace passing all understanding…manifesting  a cosmos of peace built on justice guided by love…