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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 280- 9/22/2023

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equinox mission:

balance the opposites

transmuting either/or into both/and and either/or

celebrating unity’s harmony…

breathing in this moment of eternity on this sacred day of balance… being balance… reflecting yin/yang above/below, within/without, 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 and act from our true nature of co-operation and co-llaboration…

on this day of equinox, as we move deeper and deeper into the mystery of balancing dark and light in the in between seasons’ space of pause, of inner harvests and planting new seeds, the wheel turns and the new world is breathing herself alive…

let us close this equinox ceremony with first peoples’ wisdom…

Chinook Blessing

“We call upon the earth, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and soaring heights,

its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it

Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the mountains, Saddle mountain and Wahkiakum mountain, the Willapa Hills, the summits of intense silence, and we ask that they:

Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the waters that rim the earth, the waters of

Our great river the I-a-gayte-imas, the waters of Willapa Bay,

And all of the waters the flowing [sic] our rivers and streams, the water that falls

Upon us, and we ask that they

Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the land which grows our food, the nurturing

Soil that sustains our lives, we ask that they

Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the forests, the great cedar trees reaching

Strongly to the sky  with earth in their roots and the heavens in their

Branches, cedar tree is the keeper of all

Knowledge, and we ask them to

Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the

Seas, our brothers and sisters Lilu the Wolf, Emulak the elk,

And Mauich the Deer, Chak-cahk the Eagle, the great

Whales and the Sturgeon, and the Salmon people who share

Our Chinook waters

Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our

Ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for future

Generations, and upon whose lives our lives are built, and

With thanksgiving, we call upon them to

Teach us, and show us the Way.

And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the

Presence and power of the Great Spirit

Which flows through all the Universe, to be with us to

Teach us, and show us the Way.”

Delivered by Chinook Tribal Chief Gary Johnson in Chinook homelands

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 278- 9/20/2023

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today is the eve of the International Day of Peace, a day where thousands will create, are already creating a huge wave of peace flowing across the planet… to honor this wave of peace pouring onto the cosmos…

“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~

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“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~

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 277- 9/19/2023

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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 the moments of today on the remaining two days of global unity week across the planet, we will be intending deep peace culminating on thursday with the International Day of Peace… thanks to all for joining in a heartfelt effort to be peace for our cosmos…

Invocation for Peace

We call all noble-hearted people to find within the light of love and divinity that dwells in them from immemorial times, since our 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 medicine people of the world, all men, women and children from  different cultures, races and creeds, all our relations 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.

shanti shanti shantihi…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 276- 9/18/2023

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today’s a perfect day to sync into the rhythm of the newborn/wise old sage of wonder and wisdom to mirror peace and all is well energy so needed by our nervous systems in this moment of eternity…

this reverie sparks re-membering Joanna Macy’s recounting of the twelve centuries old Tibetan Buddhist prophecy as told to her by her teacher of the mystical land of peace and harmony known as shambala which rises when the world is in danger of annihilating itself through greed and corruption – sound familiar?…

“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 waterfalls 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, a story to share with all children of the earth of why we come here… to be siddhizens of shambala – wise, courageous, compassionate peacemakers/ healers using the sacred tools to first de-colonize and purify our consciousness and then role model that in every moment for all to feel and see… blessed bee!

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 275- 9/17/2023

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“All paths are the same, leading nowhere.”

~ Don Juan ~

today marks the twelfth anniversary of the occupy movement which inspired me three months later to occupy the abundance of infinite love and gratitude which opened such a beautiful camino where we saunter (walk on holy ground) deeper and deeper into the sacred grove to be one with our wise elders, the tree seers who vibrate at such a profound frequency of interconnection and innerconnection transporting us more and more profoundly into a communion of care resonating now here consciousness, sacred space for activating the inner marriage, the container, the tenemos for holding space for the opposites in the field out beyond where unconditional love guides the way…

yes, Don Juan, in this moment of eternity, i’ll be a broken record: all paths are the same for the journey is the destination, it is the process and not the outcome, the coming home to the heart is what it’s all about, this magical mystery tour, the buen camino, the good red road, this project of awakening, this being in the present moment, the now here…

may we all choose a path with heart, any path resonating as one with heart, follow it wholeheartedly and then rejoice and laugh knowing life will be over altogether too soon and if we choose not to listen and then sing our soul song there is a hole in the web of life…

and, may we all cultivate the feeling with every breath as we all travel this peaceful pathless path with heart of being open to the strength and support and peace of our ever more abundant cosmos generously gifting us whatever is needed…

om shanti, shanti, shantihi…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 274- 9/16/2023

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in this sacred moment of eternity, when I wish to show you the astonishing light of your being, here are four beautiful lights snuffed out so early on earth to shine eternally in consciousness reminding us of whom we really are…

sixty years ago on the ides of september, a horrific bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama took the lives of these four astonishing lights of innocence…

shocking the nation and the world, their tragic deaths marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, ultimately, contributing to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964… instead of provoking a race war, Birmingham Sunday rallied people from around the globe to support the civil rights cause…

today, racist rhetoric is is at a fever pitch and terror and violence are once again being used to oppress but now, as then, millions of people are standing in love for justice…

 in memory and honor of all astonishing lights paving the way for shifting consciousness from domination to harmony, we must continue moving in alignment with great mystery and bending the arc of the universe towards justice for all…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 273- 9/15/2023

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how appropriate on the ides of september to have had a lucid dream 8 years ago of an immense tidal wave towering over me, a dream familiar to me of the tidal wave facing me, being in a state of suspension pondering whether i could open myself to the strength flowing through the cosmos, do i have it in me to hold the tension, to feel the dissolution, the loss, can i summon the courage to walk the path with heart? in this moment there is no desperation or panic… butterflies, yes, and a deep relaxed reflective posture… to merge with the sea, to leap in wholeheartedly or to panic and tense?

the pull of the heart of the ocean of love is so much more powerful so it’s quite natural to make this organic shift into heart consciousness, divine flow dancing in rhythm with the energies of life…

today i see great spirit in the wave in a new way… as a dolphin eagle dog… the more i look into the wave, the more i tune into the breath of great spirit, the more i can deepen into breaking down to breaking through to freedom…

yes, Don Juan, all paths are the same for the journey is the destination, it is the process not the outcome, the coming home to the heart, to the now here…

yes, choose a path with heart, follow it wholeheartedly and rejoice in the moment of this extravagant journey that is life, the quintessential pilgrimage…

may we all travel a path with heart open to the strength and support and peace of our ever more abundant cosmos generously gifting us whatever is needed…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 272- 9/14/2023

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on this new moon in virgo of manifestation, may we all listen for the cosmic soul song… here is the virgin goddess drawing down the energy of the dark moon and singing of being virgin, one in yourself and owning the astonishing light of your being:

under the dark moon be reborn,

witness your intentions take sacred form

believe in the energy flowing through

align with source for dreams to come true

re-member in every molecule who you are,

a free and easy wanderer, a dancing star

dance boldly on the pathless path, sing with glee

under this new moon of rainbow mystery,

transformation is ours, blessed bee…

every moment is pregnant with the promise of peace… with every breath under the new moon of planting seeds, may we intend peace; re-membering we are peace, may we all be peace with every breath… for all the moments of today, may we join with all that is in a heartfelt effort to be peace for our cosmos…

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New Moon in Virgo Peace Invocation

We call on all noble hearts to find within the light of love and divinity that dwells in us from time immemorial, 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 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 medicine people 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…

We wash away the cries of the distressed, the blood of the victims of violence, the pain of their families.

May their cries 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 bonds of unity and peace form through our reciting this invocation together  embracing humanity in cosmic harmony…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 271- 9/13/2023

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

~ Victor Frankl ~

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

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“This is how you change
when you go to the orchard
where the heart opens:

you become
fragrance and the light
that burning oil gives off,

long strands of grieving hair, lion
and at the same time, gazelle.

You’re walking alone without feet,
as riverwater does.

The taste of a wine that is bitter and sweet,
seen and unseen, neither wet nor dry,
like Jesus reaching to touch.

A new road appears without desirous imagining,
inside God’s breath, empty, where you quit saying
the name and there’s no distance,
no calling dove-coo.

A window, a wild rose at the field’s edge,
you’ll be me,
but don’t feel proud or happy.

Bend like the limb of a peach tree.
Tend those who need help.
Disappear three days with the moon.

Don’t pray to be healed, or look for evidence
of “some other world.”
You are the soul
and medicine for what wounds the soul.”

~ Rumi ~

walking the camino of peace into the unitive field out beyond is such a deepening and widening and inspiriting of the open heart of soul transporting me into a cave of illumination and silence and is a perfect prelude to the next adventure of moving into a season of letting go and emptying to return into the deep earth as the dark becomes more and more the landscape in the northern hemisphere marked by celebrating the holy day of equinox soon and with the new moon of balance tomorrow … in these intense moments of the great turning, i join in the ubuntu mantra and ask for peace for all re-membering peace is the way to peace and peace begins with each me of all our relations… deep bows…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 270- 9/12/2023

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in this sacred moment of eternity, may we trust in our soul song, the who we really are and may our moments in the river of life be filled with delight, flow with ease and blessed with wisdom… to anchor this in our one cosmic heart, let’s take a deep breath, bear witness to the unfolding of great mystery and unwrap a present of presence available to us with every breath…

For Presence

“Awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to
follow its path.
Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame.
May anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of
soul.
Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek
no attention.
Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.…”
~ John O’Donohue ~

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