with every step today, with every breath, i bow to the beauty of the one who stands with grace in the center of the wheel holding space in a sacred way… in this place, she sees more than she can say and understands more than she sees… as she rests in stillness, she listens to the wind and knows in her heart, in our one heart, that we are hear to offer loving service to all our relations for we are one – one breath, one body, one being, one becoming…

for the past nineteen hundred and fifty-six days, i have gathered with this extraordinary being of shining light in sacred communion to voice metta, lovingkindness blessings for all our relatives… each evening, we join at the threshold to offer ourselves and everything we are to the field out beyond… we envision the whole cosmos joining in and experiencing the true reality of oneness where we see all our relations as numinous love…

invoking the divine light of grace every day is a most transformative path; sauntering along this rainbow trail of devotion daily teaches and shows the way of saging gracefully…

on this very special day, the anniversary of your birth, i celebrate you with this blessing prayed every morning by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, a blessing you walk each day…

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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 sky

Until all beings are freed from sorrow

And all are awakened.

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deep bows and boundless love, beloved flow-er of beauty and soul of the space wherever your soles are kissing the earth, our one heart eternally smiles as we walk the spirit path together until all our relations are free of suffering, all relatives are liberated…

always flowing in beauty being the soul of the stillpoint space…

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

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a mind like the sky

emptiness as vast as space

witnessing wonder

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the sanskrit word for emptiness is shunyata while the chinese character is sky… both representations plus the image of hang gliding convey some of the experience of our true nature of emptiness…  the joyful freedom and liberation when empty of separation, weightiness, burdens and limitation… a state empty of suffering while grounded in boundless compassion for all relatives, a state sans borders and boundaries, as vast and expansive as the deep peace of the running wave flowing through the all that is…

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re-member open sky

return to her, breathe and fly

our one heart soars high

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lovely day walking the camino of peace and purification… purifying, emptying, being a hollow reed, an instrument of peace tuning into the cosmic hum while floating in the buoyant sea of spacious timelessness

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 in this love field may we walk
all day long may we walk…

for the second day of the fifth year as we dance along the rainbow trail…

Pilgrimage Blessingway

awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

be present in our every step as we wander into wonder

breathe us into being from the well of great silence

bless us as we journey deeper into grace

bless our homecoming into sacred space

for deep within is memory

of an ocean running free

round a field of rainbow light

cosmos of awe, garden of delight

here, breathe us into longing for the distant shore

breathing out belonging of oneness evermore

return us now to the belly, womb of singing cells

here, breathe us in and breathe us out in rhythm with ringing bells

resonance resounding throughout the galaxy

resonance resounding, blessed harmony

awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

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namaste

flowing in beauty in the center of the wheel

re-membering, real-eye-sing only love is real

all my relations are teachers to me

inspiring compassion as the way to be

thank you, thank you, thank you words rise up to sing

being one with celestial bells that resoundingly  now ring

proclaiming a universal message to all my relations

to love one another as the highest of vibrations…

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so many miles traveled in the course of this day, so many moments of being present and true, so much trust in and surrender to divine flow… an ordinary/extraordinary day of simply showing up wholeheartedly to align with beloved who shows the way through logjams and oil spills and detours of a dark and unknown terrain… a day of celebrating traversing the narrow passageway to the freedom of the other shore, a day of communion with spirits, visible and invisible, a day of love and light giving rise to our one heart soaring in liberated flight…

I’m at home wherever I am 
And in the room of lovers 
I can see with closed eyes 
the beauty that dances 
Behind the veils 
intoxicated with love 
I too dance the rhythm 
of this moving world 

~ Rumi ~

may everywhere we are be love