deep in the retreat field of lovingkindness, feeling the call to comfort the suffering through witnessing presence…

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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.

Prayed every morning by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

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may our hearts burst open in unconditional love

may our minds be illumined by a peace passing all understanding

may our spirits touch all that is with our transforming radiant presence

namaste, beloveds…

Dedicated to St Valentine, Patron Saint of Pilgrims

every moment is valentine’s, a celebration of love… every pilgrimage is journeying along the path with heart… every pilgrim is a poet on a journey deeper into the heart, a saunterer – a holy lander, spiraling ever more profoundly into the ground of being where…

every breath is a naming prayer

every step a walking meditation

bringing us home to our one cosmic heart, an ocean of devotion

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dreams often inspire a flow of contemplation which inspire words and deeds… i’m in a classroom sharing with the openhearted children of the earth, sharing a heart mudra to the tune of “this little light of mine…” where you join your thumbs together for the base of the heart temple and your index fingers together for the spire which you place on your third eye to open the flow of divine light to shine through the heart as lovingkindness and compassion and then you move your hands, the heart temple of light, down to the belly, the center of being, the stillpoint, the watery womb of creation and with this movement, this simple action, our inner light, the eternal flame flows soundlessly throughout the all that is in ever widening waves, one with the tides of interbeing, the sheltering arms of the tree of life…

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as we meet this moment fully, we are loving kindness and compassion, joy dancing in swirling and whirling circles of peace passing all understanding, one with divine flow…

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may we be filled with loving kindness

may we be well

may we be peaceful and at ease

may we be happy

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today, as i celebrate my grandmother’s birthday, Tibetan Buddhists celebrate the special holy day of Lhabab Duchen, a festival of re-joy-sing in all acts of kindness on this day when Buddha descended from heaven to liberate his Mother and repay her many acts of kindness…. join in the caravan of re-joy-sing by performing acts of compassion and re-membering all of the acts of kindness you bestow and all the acts that have been bestowed upon you…

today is a day to throw kindness around like confetti showing more kindness than may seem necessary because we always need it, especially the unkind people who need it the most…

i love the Buddhist practice on full moons of metta or lovingkindness… what a perfect way to spend a day… with sangha being lovingkindness… let’s all join together across the innernet in  beloved communion, in sangha calling in/being the frequency of love, peace, joy and harmony…

breathing in love, breathing out light,

may i be free of suffering

may i be free of fear and anxiety

may i be lovingkindness

may i be peace

may i be free of suffering

may i be free of fear and anxiety

may i be lovingkindness

may i be peace

may i be free of suffering

may i be free of fear and anxiety

may i be lovingkindness

may i be peace

breathing in love, breathing out light,

may you be free of suffering

may you be free of fear and anxiety

may you be lovingkindness

may you be peace

may you be free of suffering

may you be free of fear and anxiety

may you be lovingkindness

may you be peace

may you be free of suffering

may i be free of fear and anxiety

may you be lovingkindness

may you be peace

breathing in love, breathing out light,

may we be free of suffering

may we be free of fear and anxiety

may we be lovingkindness

may we be peace

may we be free of suffering

may we be free of fear and anxiety

may we be lovingkindness

may we be peace

may we be free of suffering

may we be free of fear and anxiety

may we be lovingkindness

may we be peace

thank you sister moon for illumining the heart…

yes, people like you and i can transform our lives by awakening the longing of bodhichitta, the essence of loving kindness, the attitude of the bodhisattva… and it is urgent, very urgent, that we do so… when we look at the state of the world today, we realize this message is so very timely…

May I be filled with loving-kindness
May I be well
May I be peaceful and at ease
May I be happy

throughout this moon, this month of quantum love and beyond, will you join me in a practice of saying this a couple of times a day for fifteen or twenty moments?

namaste, beloveds