2018

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Jo Beall

may it be so… may righteousness be restored… we are in the midst of navaratri, a major hindu festival celebrating nine manifestations of the goddess Durga over nine nights and ten days…

awakening early with the river of joy flowing, soon i run into some powerful whitewater and it’s good to connect with Durga in her fierce love manifestation, the form that removes darkness and negativity from our lives…

thank you Durga for helping me remain wide-open like the sky, fertile like the earth, unshakable like a mountain, shining like a flame and lucid like a crystal in the face of turbulent waters threatening loss of connection…

thank you Durga for whispering to let it be, you are in flow wherever you go, surely you know there is only flow… a moment of crisis brings us to our knees, a perfect place to re-lease… all illusions of separation transmuted now into the field of unification… returning home to the watery womb of creation, resurrected now from the dark tomb of separation…

thank you dear Durga for bringing good fortune, protection and blessings into the web of life…

may we be as wise Durga who teaches and shows us that we belong to each other helping us realize interdependence, the way of the heart, is the way…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 302 – 10/14/2018

Posted on October 14, 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~

today we have a stellar image for showing the astonishing light of your being… a man whose life was dedicated to helping the poor and disenfranchised, a man who could not be silenced was canonized by Pope Francis today… St Romero has long been a national hero of El Salvador… repeatedly condemning military dictatorship attacks on El Salvador’s civilian population, he was murdered by a gunman while holding mass on March 24, 1980 setting off El Salvador’s civil war (1980-1992)…

in his homily on March 23, 1980, the day before he was murdered, Romero addressed the Salvadoran military directly:

Brothers, we are part of the same people. You are killing your own brother and sister peasants and when you are faced with an order to kill given by a man, the law of God must prevail; the law that says: Thou shalt not kill. No soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. And it is time that you recover your consciences. . . . In the name of God, then, and in the name of this suffering people whose laments rise up to heaven each day more tumultuously, I plead with you, I pray you, I order you, in the name of God: Stop the repression!

only a few weeks earlier, Romero had said:

I have often been threatened with death. I must tell you, as a Christian, I do not believe in death without resurrection. If I am killed, I shall arise in the Salvadoran people. I say so without boasting, with the greatest humility. . . A bishop will die, but God’s church, which is the people, will never perish.

in addition to arising in the Salvadoran people, St Romero, you shine as a beacon of light for all our relatives eternally…

om shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 301 – 10/13/2018

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Jo Beall

today’s pilgrimage is one when i thought i knew which open field i’d be sauntering in until i found myself in the openhearted field of compassion chanting for 24 hours nonstop one of the most powerful mantras of the Buddha of Compassion… Om Mani Padme Hum flows continually through every wild cell holding me in such courageous space, so tender, so strong, so complete, so energizing for facing whatever is, so joyful…

it sparks re-membering Joanna Macy’s recounting of the twelve centuries old Tibetan Buddhist prophecy as told to her by her teacher…

“There comes a time when all life on Earth is in danger. Barbarian powers have arisen. Although they waste their wealth in preparations to annihilate each other, they have much in common: weapons of unfathomable devastation and technologies that lay waste the world. It is now, when the future of all beings hangs by the frailest of threads, that the kingdom of Shambhala emerges.

Now you can’t go there because it is not a place. It exists in the hearts and minds of the Shambhala Warriors. And you can’t tell a Shambhala Warrior by looking at her and him. The time is coming said Rinpoche when great courage is required of the Shambhala warriors, moral courage and physical courage and that’s because they are going to go right into the heart of the barbarian powers to dismantle their weapons.”

ah, yes, today is perfect for bathing, purifying in the watery field of compassion and gathering the quintessence to adventure right into the heart of dominance consciousness to de-colonize crumbling structures and co-create an interbeing consciousness of true peace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 300 – 10/12/2018

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Jo Beall

Rising Up on Indigenous Peoples Day

(oops, i thought this day is celebrated on the 12th, now i realeyes it’s the 2nd Monday but we have to visit this field this week and every day of the week)

as Changing Woman dons her seasonal robes shifting the colors of the landscape, do you feel the shifting consciousness moving us from celebrating a domination consciousness to an embodied, relational, holistic, sacred way of being in harmony with the web of life?

where we… respect natural laws, live in reciprocity with our earth mother, live within capacity, respect the sacredness of all our relations, of nature as a sanctuary that fills our every need, listen to the voice of the first peoples whose ear to the past and eye to the future grounds them in the present moment as a fractal of every moment…

this ecological tipping moment where their call to action to stand for our water and air and trees is ever so timely and so critical… no more polluting water, cutting down trees, digging out oil for oil is earth mother’s blood and if we dig it, creation will die…

may we all stand in solidarity with the wisdom and ways of an embodied, wholistic consciousness simultaneously referencing past and future informing our actions in the here and the now to live well with deep reverence and close to the ground in sacred relationship with our mothership…

thousand fold thanks to the protectors of the earth…

“We all share the blood of the first mother – we are truly children of one blood.”

~ Layne Redmond ~

When The Drummers Were Women

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 299 – 10/11/2018

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Jo Beall

Happy 92nd Day of Continuation, Thay!

Thousandfold thanks, Thay, for a lifetime of teaching us and showing us the way, of being peace, of walking your talk and being an example for others, for introducing us to the miracle of mindfulness, for always being love and being present in the present moment, wonderful moment… may we all mindfully breathe with you in every precious moment… may we re-member we have arrived and are home in beloved community…

“I think that the Buddha is already here. 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 ~

in honor of today’s being International Day of the Girl , i offer deep bows to all special guardian girls…

to Nia, whose name means Radiance, awakened being of the wide open heart, leaping levitating dynamo of irrepressible spirit, boundless ecstatic love in motion awakening everyone she meets to our true nature of radiance…

May I Be a Guard
May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and the sky
Until all beings are free from sorrow
And all are awakened.
~

thousandfold thanks for being a guard, raft, bridge, lamp in darkness…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 298 – 10/10/2018

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Jo Beall

Turn back from the outer, Set your eyes within.

~ Rumi ~

today is a sacred day – 10/10/11 or 1111 – the number of the energy flow of angels, a special portal day of threshold as we stand ready to leap into the void, the cloud of unknowing, the field of great mystery bravely taking the first steps down into the depths along this sacred pathway of descent… the deeper we go, the higher we rise; the more we let go into flow, the more we flow into letting go, dissolving into the field of the open heart being one with the one that cannot be named…

~

thank you for walking home with me down to the sea of love,

awesome place of power, smiled on by the stars above

here we breathe in deeply, preparing to go under

deep down into the below, sacred space of surrender

giving our all to beloved, undams the river of joy

always flowing inside of us, flowing forevermore…

~

happy trails…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 297 – 10/9/2018

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Jo Beall

Happy 78th Day of Continuation, John!

on the day we honor the birth of John Lennon, we also honor the day of miracles, the birth of Guru Ram Das and so many more… today’s walk on the wild side is resting in an open strawberry field out beyond, a breathing space, a visionary place to commit acts of imagination on this ground of shifting sands, dreamscape of unknowing where we dream our collective dream forward of living in the moment in peace sharing our world as one…

naturally arising from our communal wellspring, is this image as in imagine, imagination of our imagining peace, a world living as one in this moment where there are no countries, no borders, no strangers, no wars, no religions, no possessions, no greed, no hunger, no homelessness… imagine all our relations living this moment in peace, sharing our astonishing light of being with every breath…

as we all come together in this moment to commit acts of imagination, may we live John’s, ever so relevant for today, call to action now…

Power To The People

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

A million workers working for nothing
You better give ’em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Now, now, now, now
Oh well, power to the people

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Yeah, power to the people Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

~

Peace Out!/Peace In!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 296 – 10/8/2018

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Jo Beall

yes, brothers and sisters of the boundless sky sea

this new moon draws us down into deepest inquiry

for us to listen to whom we are to be

children of venus, of love eternally…

buoyantly floating in equanimity

painting peace across great mystery

listening to the ancestors’ wisdom

aligned with source tuned into the hum…

om shanti shanti shanti om

we are one being walking home

opening to live and let be

caged bird now set free…

~

take a moment to seed intentions in the open field of right relationship grounded in the first people’s precepts…

Speak only words of truth.

Speak only of the good qualities of others.

Be a confidant and carry no tales.

Turn aside the veil of anger to release the beauty inherent in all.

Waste not the bounty, and want not.

Honor the light in all. Compare nothing; see all for its suchness.

Respect all life; cut away the ignorance from one’s own heart.

Neither kill nor harbor thoughts of an angry nature, which destroy peace like an arrow.

Do it now; if you see what needs doing, do it.

Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of Our Ancestors, pp 20-21

may we put our ears to the earth to hear the song of rebirth filling every cell with mirth…

om shanti shanti om

~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 295 – 10/7/2018

Posted on October 7, 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~

yes, let us all re-member who we are… light waves born of the great light weaver… moments of great suffering and injustice can call forth the re-sources embedded in the core of our being… relatives, let us join together as one with our ears to the ground listening, listening to mama gaia’s heartbeat drumming throughout the earth… resounding truth of the Star Goddess, the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, whose body encircles the universe:

“I who am the beauty of the green earth and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters,

I call upon your soul to arise and come unto Me. For I am the soul of nature that gives life to the universe. From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return.
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold — all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

And you who seek to know Me, know that your seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.”

may we bathe together in the illuminated radiance of love lighting every imaginal cell of cosmic being to walk as partners a path of courage, of great heart, of soul connected to source cooperatively, collaboratively, compassionately, wisely and peacefully living the truth that being in harmony, in right relationship with all wild cells of our one body is the way, the truth and the astonishing lightness of being…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 294 – 10/6/2018

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Jo Beall

“Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us…”

~ Gabrielle Roth ~

for many, today is a day that shakes us to the core wondering what is right action in this moment in time when culture suffers a massive disconnection from soul with our no longer re-membering we are family, we belong to each other and must care for each other as the extended root system – the mycelium network nourishes, waters and cares for so many relatives which ripples out and out and out to regenerate the cosmos…

The “good” news is that just as chaotic as things are now is our ability to turn things around and we have the resources within and without to move in a direction that ends suffering and fosters liberation… yes, even as mired in the mud as we are, we, too, can blossom and be strong and wise…

may we all take this moment to gather the quintessence, to go deep down into the womb of the earth and be nourished by source to act rightly…

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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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 295 – 10/7/2018

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

~Hafiz of Shiraz~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 294 – 10/6/2018

“Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us…”