2018

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Jo Beall

on the heels of celebrating United Nations Day, Global Oneness Day and the full moon in taurus yesterday, may we continue to stand together in love and hope re-membering ourstory is built on compassion, sacrifice, courage and loving kindness…

Let our standing be a mindful gesture: mindful of the ground on which we are standing, the one little plot of land on this earth not belonging to one nation, but to all nations united. It is a very small piece of land, indeed, but it is a symbol of human concord, a symbol of the truth that this poor, mistreated earth belongs to all of us together.

As we stand, then, like plants standing on a good plot of ground, let us sink our roots deep into our hidden unity. Allow yourself to feel what it means to stand and to extend your inner roots.

Rooted in the soil of the heart, let us expose ourselves to the wind of the Spirit, the one Spirit who moves all who let themselves be moved. Let us breathe deeply the breath of the one Spirit.

Let our standing bear witness that we take a stand on common ground.

Let our standing be an expression of reverence for all those who before us have taken a stand for human unity.

Let us stand with reverence on the ground of our common human endeavor, joining all those who stood on this ground, from the first shaper of tools to the engineers of the most complex machines and institutions.

Let us stand with reverence on the common ground of the human quest for meaning, side by side with all who ever stood on this ground in their searching thought, in their celebration of beauty, in their dedicated service.

Let us stand in reverence before all those who on our common ground stood up to be counted, stood up – and were cut down.

Let us remember that to stand up as we have now stood up implies a readiness to lay down one’s life for that for which one stands.

Let us stand in awe before those thousands upon thousands – known and unknown – who have laid down their lives for the common cause of our human family.

Let us bow our heads. Let us bow our heads to them.

Let us stand and bow our heads, because we stand under judgment.

We stand under judgment, for “One is the human Spirit.” If we are one with the heroes and prophets, we are also one with those who persecuted and killed them. One with the henchmen as we are one with the victims. We all share the glory of human greatness and the shame of human failure.

Allow me to invite you now to focus your mind on the most inhuman act of destruction you can find in your memory. And now take this, together with all human violence, all human greed, injustice, stupidity, hypocrisy, all human misery, and lift it all up, with all the strength of your heart, into the stream of compassion and healing that pulsates through the heart of the world – that center in which all our hearts are one. This is not an easy gesture. It may almost seem too difficult for some of us. But until we can reach and tap with our deepest roots this common source of concord and compassion, we have not yet claimed within our own hearts that oneness that is our common human birthright.

Standing firm, then, in this oneness, let us close our eyes.

Let us close our eyes to bring home to ourselves our blindness as we face the future.

Let us close our eyes to focus our minds on the inner light, our one common light, in whose brightness we shall be able to walk together even in the dark.

Let us close our eyes as a gesture of trust in the guidance of the one Spirit who will move us if we open our hearts.

“One is the human Spirit,” but the human Spirit is more than human, because the human heart is unfathomable. Into this depth let us silently sink our roots. There lies our only source of peace.

In a moment, when I will invite you to open again your eyes, I will invite you also to turn in this Spirit to the person next to you with greeting of peace. Let our celebration culminate and conclude in this gesture, by which we will send one another forth as messengers of peace. Let us do this now.

Peace be with you all!

amazingly, this prayer was not created for yesterday’s day of action but was led by Brother David Steindl-Rast at a gathering of spiritual leaders at the 30th Anniversary of the United Nations, October 24, 1975.

let us stand together in love for love re-membering our birthright is of compassionate lovingkindness…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 312 – 10/24/2018

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Jo Beall

today, we gather across the planet to celebrate the full moon in taurus and global oneness, our one love, our one heart in a beautiful field on the sacred ground of our earth mother… as she lovingly holds us and the evening star bathes us in the rays of transformation of the feminine, the wind whispers and carries our prayers and songs of praise across the cosmos deep into the center of Great Mystery…

today we re-member the ancient story arising anew of the unitive field of oneness we are with a birthright of cooperation and collaboration passed forward from one to another over the millennia calling us to create a world where peace is built with justice and justice is guided by love…

let us rise up singing in thanks to the spirits, the mighty winds of creation…

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possessing our voice, wind sings through me and thee

transmuting us into the wild deep sea…

like the waves of devocean, we are rolling rhythm

humming wind’s melody, the eternal aum…

when we hear these long lost chords, may we dance merrily…

awakening deep wonder in great mystery

breathing, being flowing wind liturgy

singing our one cosmic pure heart’s ecstasy

being in lak’ech with every breath eternally…

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may we ride the winds of change gracefully and easily…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 311 – 10/23/2018

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Jo Beall

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…

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 arising and memories saying… 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, Iwe are 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…

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 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 5 – Day 310 – 10/22/2018

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Jo Beall

i’m feeling the moon’s waxing and contemplating how many moons have waxed and waned since i adopted this way of life, this way of greeting everything as a guest, this way of crossing the rubicon of conditioned existence and breaking free, of crossing to the far shore, the shore of the open field of the sacred heart, the one heart every heart beats in rhythm with, the one web we all live in, the tree of life sheltering every cell of creation…

living in harmony with what is… this bubbling cauldron of mess and beauty and chaos and coherence and uncertainty and clarity, of missing the mark and being in the sweet spot and everything in between stretching us, bewildering us moving us, shifting us into a more expansive spaces, deepening our experience of timeless presence, of real-eye-sing we are intricately and intimately connected in this interdependent breathing imaginal cell floating in an infinite sea…

as the moon waxes full filling the sky with lovingkindness, may we be filled with lovingkindness and compassion born of the reality that we all belong to each other, we are all walking each other home and let us greet each other on the buen camino as a friend, as an honored guest… our moment here is brief, walk in beauty…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 309 – 10/21/2018

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Jo Beall

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~Hafiz of Shiraz~

the pilgrimage today and for the last seven days, the last nine days, has been so filled with messages and blessings from the invisible realms and in such a physical way that they must be acknowledged, affirmed and appreciated… holy synchronicity! it’s the day to share an image of astonishing light and who better demonstrates this energy than the angel of light…

join me in invoking her presence…

Praise to the Angel of Light, the swift Heroine! Your eyes flash like lightening.
Born from the tear of compassion, you arise from a blooming lotus.
Praise to the Angel of Light, whose face, like the gathering of a hundred full autumn moons,
Blazes with the illuminating radiance of a thousand star nebuli.
Praise to the Angel of Light whose hand is adorned with the blue-gold lotus.
You are the embodiment of generosity, joyous effort, discipline, patience, peace, and meditation.

now, let’s join with these messengers, beings of light in the open field of resonance, of light, of love to ask for , draw down and eat their healing light which floods every cell of our being dissolving the rigid, inflexible, habitual ways of being into patterns resonant with soular consciousness…

let us now pass this gift forward sending the divine light of love through our hands… feel the light emanating from your hand and feel this energy of light attracting more and more light with every pulse you send…

may we all be siddhizens of the light living freely…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 308 – 10/20/2018

Posted on October 20, 2018 by Jo Beall

today is a day of perfect wind, a day when spirit calls for cruising on the love boat and gliding across the sea of love energy with nowhere to go and nothing to do freeing me to dwell in the space of true refuge, our wounded, softened heart and experience the goodness of all our relations of the awakened heart…

thousandfold thanks to the generative social field for radiating so much love and light inspiring a response in kind and kindness to all with a kiss = keeping it super simple on this day of adventure, this day of sailing an unknown sea, this day of flow, of holy synchronicity, of being still at the center, living creativity, living in the chaos that gives birth to a dancing star and re-membering the soul song of our multiverse… join with me in bodhicitta re-joy-sing. co-hearts of the one wounded heart….

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all is well

and all is well

no matter what, all is well…

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namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 307 – 10/19/2018

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Jo Beall

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

did you awaken as i did in this heart space to this moment re-membering the universe in each moment is making us an irresistible offer? thousandfold thanks, Desiree, and everyone for conspiring to gift with so many moments of savoring this potent space between us of initiating the cosmic wedding and weaving the threads of eternal presence into the lush field of the divine matrix… an infinite moment after moment, truly, of love after love…

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 306 – 10/18/2018

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Jo Beall

today, as the sun shines on the hexagram of veneration, i re-member and venerate this being born eight years and a day before my birth… being cancerian crabs, we also share a love of water, today calls me into the field of water crystals to honor his life around the anniversary of his death and seeing that date brings up an image of the occupy movement of seven years ago inspiring my occupying the abundance of infinite love and gratitude, now known as dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude…

so many synchronicities, so many interconnections as i gaze at this water crystal called love and thanks letting Dr Emoto’s words on gratitude perfume consciousness…

though i aspire to being the embodiment of gratitude and the practice of gratitude is one of the most transformative acts, i am yet to be a shining crystal of light…

thank you, thank you, thank you, Masaru, for opening us to water’s hidden messages…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 305 – 10/17/2018

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Jo Beall

spending this moment, this beautiful moment of the peace pilgrimage in the beloved field of interbeing with Thay’s contemplation of the unitive field…

Interbeing

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are. “Interbeing” is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix “inter-” with the verb “to be,” we ha vea new verb, inter-be. Without a cloud and the sheet of paper inter-are.

If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow. In fact, nothing can grow. Even we cannot grow without sunshine. And so, we know that the sunshine is also in this sheet of paper. The paper and the sunshine inter-are. And if we continue to look, we can see the logger who cut the tree and brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper. And wesee the wheat. We now the logger cannot exist without his daily bread, and therefore the wheat that became his bread is also in this sheet of paper. And the logger’s father and mother are in it too. When we look in this way, we see that without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist.

Looking even more deeply, we can see we are in it too. This is not difficult to see, because when we look at a sheet of paper, the sheet of paper is part of our perception. Your mind is in here and mine is also. So we can say that everything is in here with this sheet of paper. You cannot point out one thing that is not here-time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat. Everything co-exists with this sheet of paper. That is why I think the word inter-be should be in the dictionary. “To be” is to inter-be. You cannot just be by yourself alone. You have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

Suppose we try to return one of the elements to its source. Suppose we return the sunshine to the sun. Do you think that this sheet of paper will be possible? No, without sunshine nothing can be. And if we return the logger to his mother, then we have no sheet of paper either. The fact is that this sheet of paper is made up only of “non-paper elements.” And if we return these non-paper elements to their sources, then there can be no paper at all. Without “non-paper elements,” like mind, logger, sunshine and so on, there will be no paper. As thin as this sheet of paper is, it contains everything in the universe in it.

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

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“If you are mindful enough you can see the Buddha in anything, especially in the sangha. The twentieth century was the century of individualism, but we don’t want that anymore. Now we try to live as a community. We want to flow like a river, not a drop of water. The river will surely arrive at the ocean, but a drop of water may evaporate halfway. That’s why it is possible for us to recognize that the presence of the Buddha is the here and now. I think that every step, every breath, every word that is spoken or done in mindfulness—that is the manifestation of the Buddha. Don’t look for the Buddha elsewhere. It is in the art of living mindfully every moment of your life.”

~Thich Nhat Hanh~

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may we feel the one in every wild cell, may we be awakened with every breath and with every step we meet fully as a friend…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 304 – 10/16/2018

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Jo Beall

there seems to be something so potent in the rhythm of the autumnal web of life, in the open field of October around the ides, mid-month… each turn around the sun at this moment i feel the collective dark night so intensely and its spilling into the personal realm… as the global dark night casts a shadow across the cosmos, i’ve been experiencing a mini dark night, profound loss in a brief moment until i act like a squirrel by gathering the quintessence and calling in Porcupine Goddess to share an ancient wisdom story illuminating the place i and we find ourselves…

long ago, in the coldest winter ever, many of our relations were dying… we of the porcupine council met and decided we’d nestle together to keep warm and stay alive… alas, we were warm but the quills of our neighbors were wounding us, so we decided to separate from each other to relieve the hurts of living in close quarters… although now we were protected from being wounded, we began to die one by one, alone and frozen cold… faced with our extinction or living as wounded porcupines, we chose wisely – deciding to return to being together… we learned to live with wounds caused by being in close relationship to receive the greater benefit of the warmth that comes from others. this way, we were able to not only survive but also to thrive; to flourish in regenerative cycles organically arising from the harmony sung by the implicate order…

may we be as wise as our porcupine relations real-eye-sing interdependence, the way of the heart, is the way…

Abundance Created Together (ACT)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke –

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“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

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