Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 103 – 3/29/2021

welcome, weli come to day 59 of a season of peace, this day of the first moral monday when jesus went into the temple and overturned the moneychangers’ table of exploiting the people in their love of power while today we gather in solidarity to overturn another almost trillionaire moneychanger’s table to lift up the working people…

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take heart, pilgrim!

you were born for this:

to leap into the void and wonder how to sprout wings and fly…

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feeling tender in the turbulence as i write tonight, so, i shall let  Pema’s words on the deepening interior journey we are all traversing speak for me…

On the journey of the bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, our companions in awakening from fear. At the bottom we discover water, the healing water of bodhichitta. Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta. It is gentle and warm; it is clear and sharp; it is open and spacious. The awakened heart of bodhichitta is the basic goodness of all beings.

yes, take heart..