Monthly Archives: September 2021

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 288 – 9/30/2021

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today is such a special blessing the space moment of eternity as we close this sacred moonth of september, a moon of  being silently drawn  by the pull of surrendering to love – thank you, dear Rumi, and happiest of turns around the sun on this 814th anniversary of your birth…

blessing the space of a moon of our continued witnessing of the world’s great turning, one long moon moment of intensity and chaos as we are pushed to the edge and over the edge awaiting the birth of a dan-sing star…

let’s close this moon together by syncing with our beloved earth mother sitting in circle around the central sun finding a place where we are comfortable, let go of any doing… now, take a full breath – holding it for a moment and then releasing it completely… and, another full breath – holding it for a moment and then releasing it completely… and, one more deep cleansing breath…

continue breathing slowly, deeply and without effort – releasing all doing, simply witnessing the easing of stress and tension in the body… notice any place that feels tight and release the tension feeling a softening around that area… as we continue to breathe in, let’s begin to draw our attention within with every breath… notice any thoughts and release them gently…

now, draw your attention to our earthmother – no matter where we are sitting, let’splace our attention on the earth below our feet… is it soft and verdant or hard and frozen? our earth – our home – our Mother… notice a pulsing, vibration of energy and draw that connection up through the feet, up through the sitz bones – wherever we are connected with our earthmother – and draw that energy up into your first chakra noticing the grounding and connection…

continuing to breathe fully, deeply and with ease, notice your attention and bring it gently and effortlessly to the vibration of our earthmother within… be one with our Mother as she holds and nurtures us… as you continue deep breathing, begin to bring that connection, that energy up to your heart chakra, noticing the energy, the vibration of the earth as it expands within your heart, within our one heart…

witness any thoughts, feelings or emotions releasing them with love and ease… feel your heart expanding with each breath… pulling in the energy and vibration of our earthmother, notice your heart to expanding with light, love, and peace…

light, love, peace… our heart opening and expanding with each breath… light, love, peace… connecting with the earth, with nature, with all beings… light, love, peace… witnessing the intelligence within every living being…

as we breathe we are connecting with all that is, with earth and sky, oceans and mountains, all beings and the cosmos which surrounds us… we are one with all… light, love, peace… expanding and connecting with all… gradually bringing our awareness back to our heart, notice the steady beating of life, the rich fullness and the expansion…

now lay your hand upon your heart and notice any thoughts or feelings and then release these thoughts with ease bringing your focus back to the breath…

gradually feel your breath bringing your attention back to your first chakra noticing the energy of the Mother holding us quietly and still… with great gratitude and love, release the energy and vibration back to the earth saying, thank you, thank you, thank you for sustaining us and holding us as one and thank you for your gifts of light, love and peace…

slowly and with great ease, notice your hands and feet, wiggle your toes and gradually open your eyes simply sitting for a few moments and witnessing deeply our connection with our earthmother and all living beings…

may we always be silently drawn by the stronger pull of surrendering to love… blessed bee…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 287 – 9/29/2021

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i re-member a lucid dream five years ago right in this moment of eternity, 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 five (quintessential) years, i have devoted  the energy flowing through me to gathering the quintessence, the essence of love…

let’s take this moment to conspire, to breathe together in gratitude gathering the quintessence re-membering who we truly are… loving sparks of light… 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…

now, feel this healing light flooding every cell of our being dissolving all rigid, inflexible, habitual ways of being into patterns resonant with quintessential soular consciousness…

let’s pass this gift forward sending the divine light of love through our raised hands… feel the light emanating from your hand and feel this energy of light attracting more and more light, more and more love with every pulse we transmit into ever widening circles…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 286 – 9/28/2021

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“Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence. Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal. Others, less talented, need long periods of silence, perhaps more than one hour of quietude, before they reach the desired result. The desired result is what the old sorcerers called “stopping the world”, the moment when everything around us ceases to be what it’s always been. This is the moment when sorcerers return to the TRUE nature of man. The old sorcerers always called it ‘total freedom'”
~Don Juan (Carlos Castanada)~

“The world… has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living.  Not all…  are called to be hermits, but all…  need enough silence and solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self to be heard at least occasionally.  When that inner voice is not heard, when man cannot attain to the spiritual peace that comes from being perfectly at one with his own true self, his life is always miserable and exhausting.  For he cannot go on happily for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul.  If man is constantly exiled from his own home, locked out of his own spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person…  He becomes a kind of automaton, living without joy because he has lost his spontaneity.  He is no longer moved from within, but only from outside himself.”

~ Thomas Merton ~

The Prayer of the Heart

“To deliver oneself up, to hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hills, or sea and desert; to sit still while the sun comes up over the land and fills its silences with light….few are willing to belong completely to such silence, to let it soak into their bones, to breathe nothing but silence, to feed on silence, and to turn the very substance of their life into a living and vigilant silence.” ~Thomas Merton~

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 285 – 9/27/2021

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equinox is a favorite day of mine and so belatedly i’ll post what i lived on this day of balance and celebration with a beautiful pilgrimage to a sacred valley with the energy of the goddess and the ancestors emanating such serenity and a sense of all is well in the core of the ocean of our interbeing…

equinox mission:

balance the opposites

transmuting either/or into both/and

celebrating unity’s harmony…

breathing in this moment of balance… being balance in this moment of eternity… reflecting yin/yang above/below, light/dark, spirit/matter as one… being one… creating a new vibration of integration… fusing all paths into one golden path dancing the way to the new world of harmony where we breathe in the rhythm of our one heart…

on the portal of equinox, we move deeper into the mystery of balancing the opposites in the seasonal call of harvesting ripened fields and planting new seeds, we pause in the moment of equal night and day experienced by all gaian inhabitants… on this holy day, may we reap an inner harvest and appreciate a cornucopia of blessings…may we be gratitude embodied for all that is…

O Gracious Goddess of the Feminine and of all Fertility, we sow and
reap the fruits of our actions….
grant us the courage to plant seeds of joy and love and peace in
the coming year… teach us and show us the secrets
of wise cosmic existence..,
O luminous one of the night!

blessed bee!

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 284 – 9/26/2021

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“Empty yourself of everything.  Let the mind rest at peace.  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.  They grow and flourish and then return to the Source.  Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.  The way of Nature is unchanging.”  ~Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching~

Invocation of Peace and Harmony

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.

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 moments of eternity, we intend deep peace… on my 11 days of re-treat, i followed Lao Tzu’s sage dictum to rest in peace while metaphorically painting peace across the vast skysea…

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
 ~Thich Nhat Hanh~

“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~

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
~ Black Elk ~

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 283 – 9/25/2021

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it’s now the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the dreaming in the rhythm of waves re-treat when i’ve let go of everything to simply be in the moment opening to the clear light to dreamweave the world awake while running with the waves along the liberation pathless path…

so many favorite days in surrendered to love september and there are three in a row – the full harvest moon in pisces, the international day of peace and equinox – that i must sing…

immediately, it became clear to me this re-treat was all about dreamweaving the world awake and this harvest moon bathed in dreamy piscean waters is a perfect catalyst… i had many images in mind but then the winds blew in this prescient image i had made some seven years before and the wind spirits delivered it right after a lucid dream of running with the waves feeling so wild and free and so aligned with the rhythm of the perfect moment to merge with the sea, to surrender into the devocean of interbeing…

join me in these sacred waters reveling in the luminosity of the clear light
dreamweaving the world of wisdom and wonder awake…

 
we are dreamweavers
whole and holy
wild and free.
gatekeepers of divinity
 
the sacred waters of the cosmic wombspace reveal
the dreams we carry, the dreams forgotten,
the dreams long remembered…

as holy vessels of heaven/earth, we surrender our entire
being for these dreams to be heard, felt, called forth,
woven into the sacred web of life for the greatest good of all beings…
 
this is a sacred commitment to live our devocean…
 
this is our starseed destiny…

into the watery womb, speak a dream aloud that you are actively tending for yourself and the collective…
take a deep breath feeling into the energies present and listening for nature’s response…

as spirit and matter merge,
and the mythic and mundane together re-weave, 
it is done, it is done, it is done…

we are dreamweavers 
dreaming the world awake
here and now
always and forever…

and so it is, and so it is, and so it is…
blessed bee, blessed bee, blessed bee…


 

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 272 – 9/14/2021

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every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

this almost ides of september seems an especially potent day of calling many of us to let go, to surrender all to love and though i have had a daily practice of this mantra for going on seven turns around the sun, for the last many sun rises and sunsets, the call to leap into the unknown trusting in the wings, the sheltering arms to appear has been so emphatic… so, i’ve been listening to great spirit blessing adventuring into new spaces, wide open places of true refuge, coming home to our one heart and i’m going to act accordingly…

meaning that i’m going to unplug to take in fully the nourishment of the earth and
the clarity of light to flow
harmoniously in rhythm with the tides of life
under the protection of the ancestors
while a slow
wind whispers words
of love all around encircling
us and wrapping us in the wonder of great mystery weaving a web of life where we all know
we are one body, many cells belonging to each other…

happy rainbow trails to all until we meet again…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 271 – 9/13/2021

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“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 ~

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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 love

welcome home to our belonging circle

welcome home to an ocean of love

today, the walk on the camino delivers me into community, truly, a common unity of love and compassion and generosity and encouragement for all the brokenhearted living in the gap of the world that is and the world that can be once our one heart is broken wide open and we all re-member we belong to the universe…  today is the first day of nine days of cosmic unity culminating in international peace day on the twenty-first where we come together and re-weave the world with wisdom and wonder holding ourselves with integrity through whatever comes re-membering we are peace in our pure essence…

every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 270 – 9/12/2021

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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 ~

the poetic peace pilgrimage was conceived so many moons ago as a daily breathing practice of sacred activism, a breathing in of the bodhisattva vows to keep returning to the breath until all beings are liberated…

every day is a day of peace, every moment is a moment of peace, surrendered to love september really underlines the collective theme of peace with celebrating it on the 21st just as this prayer of St Francis, a favorite since childhood is the prayer, the intention, the vow of the peace pilgrimage….

so, welcome, well come to this astonishing light of being awakened into peace, to this astonishing moment of eternity when we re-member that no matter what we can always be at peace in the deep peace of the running waves always flowing within the ocean of our interbeing…

may we conspire, breathe together these sacred vows this moment, every moment transforming ourselves and the world as we surrender to the vast ocean of peace…

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

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 269 – 9/11/2021

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every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

such a conscious quest i’m on these last four years to do just that – to awaken every wild cell in this one cell of the one body we all are and what an adventure transmuting the lead into gold…

on this iconic day of flames etched in the collective unconscious, on this 9-11 day i re-member four years ago when my fire eye, the eye suffering a devastating injury surrendered to the inflammation process that had been percolating for moons… the pain was as intense as when the eye had been clawed and once again it was not looking good… shuttled from department to department for tests and more tests, i stayed in constant communion with beloved expressing my doubts about being up for this calling to surrender and awaken in the most transformal way to date… this intense purification has geometrically progressed turn around the sun after turn around the sun for these last many moons opening me and so many others to the deepest, most conscious awakening initiation ever…

as with all calls to initiation, i (and i don’t think i was alone in this sense) did not feel i had it in me to make this pilgrimage and, yet, in surrendering to  limited outer sight, a rhythm of  synchronisiddhi, of meaningful co-incidence followed opening my broken heart to a heart broken wide open… holy synchronicity, in this deep pool of reflection, a re-membering flows by… today is also the eighth anniversary of the first outer poetic peace pilgrimage, a day when i connected with Sacajawea who vowed to guide me through the wilder-ness…

poised on the precipice of the beginning of the fifth year of this conscious awakening cycle, it’s so interesting to find myself once again in the midst of making another leap onward, another strenuous challenge catapulting me into another letting go and emptying to make space for the new world…

thanks be for the awakening project we call life guided by the enspirited soul emphatically, magnetically pulling us home to be instruments of peace, hollow reeds, channels for source energy to pour love through…

so, on a day such as this, under the spell of this moment of eternity, may we let go of  the inessential and re-member what truly matters is who we really are…