“A MIND THAT HAS NO WALLS, THAT IS NOT BURDENED WITH ITS OWN ACQUISITIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, WITH ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE, A MIND THAT LIVES TIMELESSLY, INSECURELY – TO SUCH A MIND, LIFE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. SUCH A MIND IS LIFE ITSELF…”
– JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –

today is a day of contemplating and more sacredly reverencing, the hatching, the breaking open of shells that now constrict to move into expanding into a more spacious home, an even more open heart… as with any birth, growth, transition, transformation, there is pain involved which underlines the importance of our nestling together and embracing each other’s journey in the chrysalis and through the birth canal into the river of awakening that flows into the ocean of love…

yes, these moments which seem so deathly to our protective selves are precisely the perfect ones to embrace what is, to befriend whatever comes our way with a loving mantra of thank yous… Rumi says it so beautifully…

“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. “

let’s close our sacred ceremony for today with dedicating ourselves to living in the unified field of our interbeing guesthouse…

“I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world.

I may never complete this last one,

but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, that primordial tower.

I’ve been circling for thousands of years

and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,

a storm, or a great song?”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

standing still in the center of the wheel this moment of eternity – on this day when science is catching up understanding we didn’t come from the great bang and women got the right to vote in the usa and It’s Krishna’s birthday and national bee day – communing with source and by extension with all that is brings peace and the understanding it is the moment to break free and live in ever widening circles of compassion spiraling deeper and more expansively…

wowzer! what a most interesting moment we are in as we circle around what is and who we are demonstrating that we, like the cosmos, are ever expanding and deepening and we have it in us to face into the pain, the suffering, the despair of  a world of  uncertainty supported by the boundless wellspring of love always flowing through us, around us, above us below us, beside us…

yes, this moment’s the moment to stop the world, to stand still in the center and listen to all the messages of the inspiriting whirling winds of change as the spirits come back…

re-membering, we can always return to the breath being still and fully present in this beautiful moment being a mantra of thanksgiving, being a falcon of free flight, being a song of joyous delight, taking this moment, this wild precious moment to love boundlessly and shine luminously as a beacon of wise hope and comfort in the storm… blessed bee!

today is the thirty-fifth anniversary of harmonic convergence, one of my favorite of days – yes every day is a favorite and every moment of eternity is one of harmonic convergence… i love celbrating this day, every day, as a day of devocean, a day of grace, a day when the sun, in the form of holy grandmother spider creatrix, shines through the clouds offering very warm embraces and whispered words of wisdom to be still in this moment of wild abandon into the great turning, to trust this moment of surrender to the true self, to re-member the sun always shines and when it shines on rain, creation is transformed into iridescent rainbow arcs encircling the cosmos within and without converging, confluing in perfect harmony, in this moment, this beautiful moment of grace… may we all awaken to the beauty breathing us alive…

yes, there is beauty in this moment as we open to mama gaia sending us more and more increasingly emphatic messages about changing our ways of dominion and power over and coming home to walking in balance… yes, caterpillar, let go of ravenous consumption dying to the false self to be re-birthed as imaginal cells of the one body of the true self – rooted, winged deep diving beings of flight…

aloha and mahalo…

so much to honor and celebrate today on the 4th anniversary of the songbird known as the queen of soul, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, child musical prodigy, civil rights activist, touchstone of  the times calling us, singing us into the core of being where love, beauty and truth abide, this extraordinary/ordinary being circling around the cosmos singing us home to our one heart…

more than ever, we need the truth and power of Aretha’s soul song… may we be inspired to walk the talk, to dance the soul song of r-e-s-p-e-c-t Aretha so beautifully emanated…

i still can’t re-member a time without her voice echoing in the background, thankfully, her voice echoes eternally…

synchronously, on awakening, i re-member a dream also of six years ago of being in a field where the Beloved Communion dwells and hearing that our mission is to sing… as on so many awakenings, a melody sings me as i luxuriate in this liminal space with one sole in dreamtime and the other in awaketime…

on this anniversary of the queen of soul dropping her body, are you hearing beloved singing you? listen a little deeper for the cosmic hum as you suspend noise and distraction in this moment, this beautiful moment… are you hearing the whispers of the ancestors flowing through our oceanic body? ah yes, let’s pause here in the stillpoint and align with the rhythm of our one heart…

may earth’s song reach into our deepest and wildest sacred spaces… may we hear the melodic voices of all our relations: stones, stars, streams, breezes, sand, sun, ocean, currents, plants, starfish, seas, planets, creatures, rivers, and winds… may our inhalations inspire re-joy-sing and our exhalations re-sound and re-verberate lovingkindness and harmony throughout the watery womb of our one heart…

sing, sing, wherever you are, a song of compassion blessing pachamama, the spirit of land, the spirit of life, the one spirit encircling all in the great web of life intricately interconnecting all our relatives as one body with trillions and trillions of cells resonating and harmoni-sing as we converge into one vast field of love…

this image visits me frequently now and has for many turns around the sun… in dreams, in waking moments, especially in a moment of turbulence such as our planet is in and on a day such as this, a day of slowing down and seeing inside, of hearing the call to rally for peace as we celebrate the assumption of mother mary sauntering along the rainbow trail, the path with heart, the pilgrimage of the soul, the pathless path…

the peace pilgrimage, the pathless path of soul takes courage, a heart letting go completely to soften into the call of the beloved trusting that in this surrender, the cosm, the cosmos will have our back…

“A true vocation requires shedding anything that would impede or obscure the call. A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.”
~ Michael Meade ~

rapidly, i’m approaching the quintessential anniversary of being called into the lion’s roar, into awakening into the deepest initiation adventure of this incarnation, five turns around the sun of arriving, of  coming home into the present moment, the true self wholeheartedly with all the trillions and trillions of wild cells humming, embodying the frequency of soul…

which brings me back to this image of crossing to the other shore, a crossing so much of this incarnation has been about… over the last two and a half years, everyone’s been invited to make this crossing and it’s taken on a deepened and expanded meaning… thich nhat hanh talks about when the boat people were leaving viet nam and facing turbulent seas, if one person could remain calm, they would stay aright… i take this on as a vow to be the person to stay calm in the storm trusting in the cosm always having our backs…

thank you for joining in solidarity as a rebel of love, a reveler of love, a revealer of love, a revolutionary of love taking courage in the dream of second coming, of all awakening in the promised land…

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi ~

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self.”

~ Bhagavad Gita ~

a day of tahoma, the native name for beloved mt rainier pictured here… love the name tahoma sounding like to home, ah… and in deed, another day of coming home to the heart and trusting in this wild, uncertain journey… trusting in it’s rhythm which dances to the beat of the divine drummer of our one heart… following the rhythm deep within to the silent stillpoint where our most profound purpose lies in the ground of being calling us to nurture this trust daily… calling us to offer full presence, lovingkindness, compassion and generosity which opens the portal to a freedom of floating in the golden buoyant sea and vibrating in a river of joy frequency which is in the core of all being, that field of unitive harmony out beyond and in beyond all boundaries and borders into the unknown where we follow a pathless path, a path the soul carves out and invites us to be open and curious bearing reverential witness to the unfolding and taking action through dreaming, attention, intention…

before signing off, i want to honor that on this date six years ago, i began what has become a weekly sun day practice of reveren-sing the astonishing light of our being and i began with an image of a quintessential emissary of joy – sister hummingbird who reminds us all of our birthright as children of the light… let us take this moment to invoke her presence of soul consciousness through the hum of her wings, our soul in free flight, resonating with the cosmic hum, the heartbeat of earth mother, flowing in the rhythm of star nation’s light waves…

if ever we feel fear, doubt, depression, loss, call on hummer to share the deep sea journey of surrender, the pilgrimage of impermanence… be in this moment, this beautiful moment drinking the nectar and letting it go… breathing in love and breathing out light… singing and re-joy-sing again and again…

thank you for joining me in pau-sing in this moment to drink in beloved’s love and appreciate the unconditional support always offered as we are called to break open our one heart wider and wider and deeper and deeper…

love dan-sing home through the unitive field of harmony with you being breathed together as one…

“This magnificent refuge is inside you.
Enter.
Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway.
Be bold. Be humble.
 
Put away the incense and forget
the incantations they taught you.
Ask no permission from the authorities.
 
Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads
to the invisible path
that leads you home.”

~ St. Teresa of Avila ~

let’s take this sacred moment of eternity to come deeper into our one cosmic heart re-membering the lineage of love of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene who is pictured in this beautiful painting of her by Jennifer Mayol… feel us standing face to face in the beauty of spirit… here now, we create an altar, the outer reflection of our innermost truth…

taking a deep clean-sing breath, we envision now an inner altar in the middle of our chests which is pristine, pure and empty… beneath and beyond is vast space… now, re-member all the different beliefs, concepts and ideas you have accumulated throughout the years visualizing them as dusty clutter on the altar… now, let’s do an inner alchemic sweeping of the altar using our breath:
breathing in all the heaviness into the vastness of the heart and
letting spaciousness and light ride on the out breath, washing the altar clean…

let’s close our sacred ceremony with a commitment to keep the altar of our one cosmic heart empty and clear… as we go deeper and deeper on the journey within, feel all the support in this sacred space of the hara where we follow a path of light through a dark tunnel that starts to open into a cave of the Magdala where we see a figure of pure light and love, the crone magdalene emanates humility and luminosity having moved through deep suffering… she offers to anoint us to keep us open and then offers us a golden chalice of sacred wine… in this communion, we merge with her frequency feeling the inner central sun and moon in sacred union… listen deeply for the messages… blessed bee and deep bows…

let’s walk a bhakti path today,

floating through life in a buoyant way…

living wu wei effortlessly with no where to go,

resting still in the now here motion, the ocean of flow…

resounding love’s holy names polishes our one cosmic heart,

resonating, reverberating at the frequency of the love we impart

deepening the awakened illuminated heart’s vibration of peace and harmony

attuning us all to the vast expansive spaciousness and infinitude of great mystery

~

today spirit invites dancing life in a sacred way knowing that love, service and re-membrance bring great value to the sacred hoop of life, the unbroken circle of interconnection…

five years ago today, i stood at an altar of love having flown home for a family wedding uniting the opposites with joy and celebration while across town, Charlottesville was exploding… it was good then to be standing in a unitive field of love balancing the hatred happening blocks away and it’s good to stand with you in love today and everyday with each of us invoking the beloved in our own authentic way… perhaps, you’ll join me in placing your hand on your heart and calling up the image of a relation you love… or, maybe, spend time in the company of a tree or play in water and squeal with glee or plant seeds of compassion and joy drawing down the  courage of the leo lionhearts… whatever it is, float in devocean, the ocean of devotion with your  wide open heart re-joy-sing in the dream of the cosm – peace in every moment… i’ve been meaning for weeks now to be celebrating daily here the magdalene and the sacred union she entered into with the beloved. todayy seems just right as goldilocks would say…

~

“This magnificent refuge is inside you.
Enter.
Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway.
Be bold. Be humble.
 
Put away the incense and forget
the incantations they taught you.
Ask no permission from the authorities.
 
Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads
to the invisible path
that leads you home.”

~ St. Theresa of Avila ~

in the gospel, Yeshua shows Mary Magdalene a vision of a map of awakening consciousness in the form of the The Tree of Life Within and the 8 gates and challenges we must go through to awaken and embody a more expansive consciousness…

see us walking in the soft light of sunset
the land is hot and dry under our feet
we know this land intimately as mother
there is an inward smile radiating through our interbeing
reaching us through the mirage of space/time…

like a mirror the beloved arrives inside our one cosmic heart
pure presence, warmth, unwavering vast love in our own wondrous heart

thank you, Magdala for leading us into the very depths of the love the beloved embodies…

may we dedicate the fruit of our practice
for the benefit of all sentient beings
and may all beings know peace in our one cosmic heart…

~

did you see the corn moon light the night sky?

feel grandmother close enough to touch?

hear the cosmic cricket hum?

taste the winds of change blowing in the wind?

whispering: now is the moment to go beyond the protective self, the comfort zone and explore new ideas and revolutionary thinking with the support of the fixed air sign of the aquarian, the electricity bearer, full moon of the first harvest blessing all children of the earth with the energy to create paradigms of new possibilities for the great turning which are amplified with venus moving into leo, the one heart attuning us to our soulful destiny and blessing us as we live the quest ion of how we are to serve spirit… blessed bee…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, the sounding and resounding of the bell invites our closing your outer eyes and tune into the universe of the illuminated heart within… breathe deeply into the belly the radiant light of the inner sun into every one of the trillions of wild cells we are and take another deep breath and begin to align with the peace of the darkness of inner space… as you float in this spaciousness of the skysea of being, re-member what you love… now, lie down in this field of beauty with all your senses tuned into the cosmic hum of the stillpoint and enjoy the dream images organically arising and dancing through your being…

take comfort in this gentle space with nowhere you must go for you are now here in your space of true refuge, a magical place so easily accessible by simply breathing in the rhythm of light waves and turning your senses within, coming home to our one heart… luxuriate in being taken back to factory settings to awaken into this cosmos of original blissing (blessing + bliss = blissing) where there’s no where (now here) to go and no thing to do, purely bearing witness to the present moment while acting locally, feeling globally and thinking cosmically…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, listen for beloved’s sweet refrain to come back, come back, return to me dwelling this moment in harmony…

going with the flow… opening to the unfolding… being still mountain reflecting in the mirror lake… attending, intending more and more light and more and more love and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

may we all meet in the field of the illuminated heart to conspire, breathe together resonating in joy to birth a planet of peace and harmony that works for all, a cosmos built on justice and guided by compassion and mercy…