Monthly Archives: April 2022

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 125 – 4/20/2022

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“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth.“

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

listen, listen, listen to Beloved’s heart song calling us, in this moment of eternity of celebrating the astonishing light of being, to re-member the jewels are inside and all we have to do/be is open to their radiance filling us with soular power magnificent enough to power the cosmos with love…

dear sangha of light and love let’s conspire deeply through our one heart dropping into the center of being and taking another deep re-joy-sing breath, let’s drop down further into the core of being, the tiny space of the heart feeling the love you are, the love you transmit to the earth, the waters of life, your friends, family, trees, flowers, sunsets, sunrises, the moon, pet people, stone people, dolphins, whales, feathered people, ancestors…

let us rest here in this present moment, the only moment where love is all there is… here in the stillpoint of creation, open the heart a little more and take this beautiful moment to listen to the profound silence of the heart and beloved’s message for you…

now, in the flowering field of love, breathe in the golden light flowing like raindrops from our earthmother who loves us so and breathe in the golden light flowing so generously from the skyfather’s morning star as we listen in the heart to the song singing us… yes, the moment is now to fall in love again and again in every moment with every breath…

deepest bows…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 124 – 4/19/2022

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welcome, well come to this moment of celebration with the sun ingressing into Taurus and our getting the 52nd Earth Day re-joy-sing going early and not really early as every day is a celebration of our mama gaia… i savor this day of rain falling gently and warming myself around the inner campfire connected etherically with all that is through the field of akasha as i begin a week of celebrating the fiftieth (golden) anniversary of earth day… i was born (physically) on the 23rd day of one of our thirteen moons and soulfully on the 22nd of april which would become earth day nineteen years later… as a young child, i decided the 23rd psalm was mine since i was physically born on that date, so here’s a song adapted from the 23rd for the 22nd when i was soulfully born… join me in a song of gratitude and honoring…

The Earth is my Mother.
I shall not want.
Her hand brings forth the green pastures.
She tarries within the still waters.
She leads me in fields of fruitfulness for my Glory.
Yea, as I walk through the summer of life unto death,
I will not be afraid, for You are with me.
Your womb in the earth will enfold me.
You prepare a harvest before me and bless my home with children.
You fill me with milk and honey.
My cup overflows.
Surely, goodness and beauty will nurture me all the days of my life,
and I will become part of the earth forever…

and now, join me in invoking and actuali-sing this earth bles-sing…

may earth’s song reach us in our deepest and wildest places…

may we hear it as we walk on her, partake of her sustenance and nestle in her waters and grasses…

may we hear the voices of the stone people, the winds, the waters, all creatures and plant people above the chatter so we can heed these voices…

may all who try to conquer earth learn the wisdom of humility from compost and humus…

may compassion inspired by earth’s boundless gifts open polluters hearts so widely that poisons are transmuted…

may our every inhalation and exhalation reverberate throughout the ocean deeps resounding in all watery soul beings…

may dolphins and wolves lead the re-joy-sing howling that all is well…

may we have a cosmic celebration with all our relatives grounding our roots deep into the earth and entwining our branches in the vast skysea…

may our grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren smile with delight as they share the legends of when we transformed the consciousness of domination and love of power into co-llaboration and the power of love…

and so it is,,, blessed bee…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 123 – 4/18/2022

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perhaps you are wondering why i’m posting the full moon today and there are so many ways to respond that i’m consciously aware of… we are still in the radiation of this potent full moon, the first following equinox which determines the timing of the celebration of so many resurrection festivals throughout timelessness and with so much turbulence as we are still being called so emphatically by spirt to die to the old, it is critical for us to come together and listen for both our collective and personal soul song of creation of a cosmos of beauty… so, let’s come together in the sacred space of our one heart of boundless love to conspire, to breathe together spirit reality, attuning, at oneing a cosmos of balance and harmony and peace founded on justice and guided by love…

awesome, totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

be present in our every step as we wander into wonder

breathe us into being from the well of great silence

bless us as we journey deeper into grace

bless our homecoming into sacred space

for deep within is memory

of an ocean running free

round a field of rainbow light

cosmos of awe, garden of delight

here, breathe us into longing for the distant shore

breathing out belonging of oneness evermore

return us now to the belly, womb of singing cells

here, breathe us in and breathe us out in rhythm with ringing bells

resonance resounding throughout the galaxy

resonance resounding, blessed harmony

awesome, totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 122 – 4/17/2022

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today is truly a day of quintessence – celebrating the astonishing light of our being, Easter and Passover while still in the glow of the full moon of gaia with the image of yesterday’s double rainbow with an eagle flowing in harmony with rainbow mystery leading to that inner knowing that Wendell Berry names of always being led…

  in the very instant of surrendering to the whirlwind of life, the spirit that leads, we are transmuted into whirling rhythm… and in that moment, that long drawn-out moment, the world cracks wide open and thanksgiving sings us for the abundance of blessings that seen or unseen are always happening…

for our awakening to earth’s energy re-membering we are one heart…
for our awakening to earth’s oceans as our clean-sing tears…
for our awakening to earth’s wind as our enlivening breath…
for our awakening to earth’s landscape as our one body…

for our one heart opening dormant seeds…
for our tears filling rain clouds…
for our breath giving flight to migrating birds…
for our one body being an island of refuge…

for earth mother receiving our one heart for her energy…
for earth mother receiving our tears for her oceans…
for earth mother receiving our breath for her wind…
for earth mother receiving our body for her landscape…

for earth mother opening dormant seeds…
for earth mother filling rain clouds…
for earth mother giving flight to migrating birds…
for earth mother nurturing our islands of refuge…

and, for the cycles of life flowing unceasingly…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 121 – 4/16/2022

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this moment sings at the frequency of liberation, liberation arising from  letting go; it sings at the frequency of love and surrendering to the cosmic hum which whispers only love is real; today simply sings the call of spirit… i listen and re-member…

eleven years ago today, a day vibrating at the master frequency of eleven, the LIGHT frequency, i coded and an angel of rainbow tinted white light came into me and flowed through me as she always does in times of troubled waters, in moments of great peril…

spontaneously appearing as a vortex of whirling white light, this winged angel of flight activates a mysterious flow of healing energy sacredly, secretly, silently, softly, supportively, synchronisticly… i hear the team of earthly angels celebrating getting a pulse going in me, i’m returning to the land of the living, returning to the miracle of being breathed alive in this moment, in every moment… ah, i better understand the last 9 days of feeling septic, yes, the body keeps the score, is the archival library, the akashic ocean…

thousandfold thanks, dear angel of light, for watching over us in the dark of the night, in the light of the day, for breathing and weaving the all that is in the rhythm of waves of love energy, home to freely flowing rainbow mystery…

thank you, dear co-hearts, for sharing this journey, for walking home together into the field out beyond where we’re filled with the inner sea of luminescent love energy…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 120 – 4/15/2022

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Nobody who finds himself on the road to wholeness can escape that characteristic suspension which is the meaning of crucifixion. For he will infallibly run into things that thwart and “cross” him…

~ CG Jung ~

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today, Jung’s quotation could not be more apro pos for this moment of eternity, for this day, for the last 8 days, for the last 18 moons, for the last 2 years and on and on… as many of us across the globe honor this day as Good Friday, a (w)holy day in (w)holy week, i contemplate what crucifixion means and where it leads… i find this Jung quotation about being on the road to (w)holeness necessitating crucifixion so right on for on each of our paths, aren’t we led daily to the cross roads where we are given the choice to dissolve into and serve our greater self who responds in kind with wholeheartedly entering the human realm? isn’t this cross the true cross, the sacred stillpoint in the tiny space of the heart where every dance begins, where we real-eyes the gift of our suffering, of our bearing whatever is with grace, is what leads to the deepest peace of the flowing river of joy? and to liberation and how right on that at sundown many of us will begin the celebration of Passover…

deep peace of the running wave be unto you…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 119 – 4/14/2022

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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”
~ John  Kennedy ~

on this day, may we come together standing in love for love to invoke 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 filled with lovingkindness
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 filled with lovingkindness

Peace in all elements
Of earth, air, fire and water
Fulfilled in space, time and consciousness
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 filled with lovingkindness…

may we listen deeply for gaia’s call connecting with the wisdom of the ancestors on whose shoulders we stand  celebrating those who have stewarded earth mother for ten thousand years…

“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~

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 118 – 4/13/2022

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after a freakish afternoon on the internet when some hackers tried to take advantage, i must cleanse by taking this moment of eternity to conspire, to breathe together in gratitude gathering the quintessence re-membering who we truly are… loving sparks of light…

we are not these eyes and what they see, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

settle more deeply into spacious awareness saying… we are not these ears and what they hear, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

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

now, noticing thoughts and memories arising, let’s say… we are not these thoughts, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… we are not these memories, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

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

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

thank you for filling us with lovingkindness

thank you for supporting us in everything

thank you for holding us in peace and ease

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

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

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

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 117 – 4/12/2022

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 in the midst of these unprecedented times of instantaneous awareness of so much planetary suffering as we are all thrown into the whirlwind of mutation, a soul song of joy quietly sings me and breathes me on this day of the Jupiter and Neptune Conjunction in Pisces whispering of our dying to what doesn’t serve, to what has been corrupted and to open space for innocence, the inner sense of joy to rise again, to see through the fresh eyes of a child beholding the world as a wilder-ness of wonder… this moment of eternity is a resting in the river of joy, a reprieve, a coming together to chant the ancient Ho’oponopono mantra bringing us into harmony with all that is…

how joyous it is to celebrate this act of revolutionary spirit, of being reborn, of being in the world but not of the world, of being in this great turning together and awakening more and more into the crown chakra of Jupiter and the high heart chakra of Neptune knowing that we are beloved community, we interbe…

in this moment, this beautiful moment of eternity where we can choose to dwell no matter what is happening in the outer world, let us attune to, get in tune with the river of joy always flowing through us to the tune of may our hearts be softened, may our minds be purified, may our words be more tenderly spoken, may our thoughts extend love to every living thing, may our actions be a blessing unto the world, may our souls shine and may we be continually humbled, grounded in and saturated with wave after wave of transforming love and grace bringing greater comfort and understanding to every sentient being who desires it… may we move more deeply into beloved’s embrace now so that we may be consouled as one… let us seal this re-joy-sing in the revolutionary energy of joy, love and peace passing all understanding landing us in the sheltering energy of great mystery…

loving our resting in the river, viewing life from the mountaintop and serving in joy together…

namaste and deep bows, beloveds…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 116 – 4/11/2022

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“There is no path to peace; peace is the path.”

~Thich Nhat Hanh~

six moons ago, we celebrated Thay’s 95th continuation day and nine days ago, the international Plum Village community released A Cloud Never Dies, a documentary about Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) which i have watched many times in the last week and a half in this critical moment of eternity when we must commit to truly being peace; to followthis call, listen generously to some of the sage words from the Plum Village community’s Open Letter for Peace:

“Our community’s own roots lie in the tradition of Engaged Buddhism in Vietnam, where more than three million people died in a war that lasted nearly 20 years and some two million fled as refugees. We know from our teacher that war is never a solution. It leads only to division and hatred that can last for generations.

Our teacher worked tirelessly for peace in Vietnam by never choosing sides. Instead, he appealed to adversaries to look deeply into each other’s pain, anxiety, and existential fear, and to consider the war’s horrific toll on all victims. Forced into exile, he became a spiritual leader of a global movement for peace, reconciliation, and disarmament. We believe our teacher’s universal message of peace can offer hope at this pivotal time…

The Buddha tells us that our true enemy is not to be found in others but in our own fear, anxiety, and sorrow, our anger, greed, ignorance, and hatred. War is made possible by dualistic and discriminative thinking, and by the idea that only by eliminating our so-called enemy can we have peace and security. But as the Buddha said, hatred cannot resolve hatred. Only understanding and love can transform hatred.

As our teacher has said, when there is peace in ourselves, there will be peace in the world… We pray, too, that precious global resources can be redirected from war to where they are most needed, namely, to tackle disease, poverty, hunger and malnutrition, human trafficking – including exploitation of vulnerable children – environmental stress, and climate change.

Our world needs a culture of peace. Our human family needs to accelerate to a higher stage of evolution; to a “cosmic” spirituality and ethic that can unite all peoples and nations, removing separation and discrimination. In this spirit, as a community of Engaged Buddhism, we renewed our commitment on New Year’s Eve 2021 to practice mindfulness for peace on earth. Below, we share with our love this solemn vow.

The work of peace is the work of great and noble beings… our most urgent task is to invest all our energy and skills in exploring every viable option for peace at this time of great danger for humanity.

All our ancestors and descendants are counting on us.”

let us rise to the call by being peace with every breath…