Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

~ Pema Chodron ~

let’s listen again to Pema…

…”But it’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for this is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.”

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~ Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change ~

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may we all open to living beautifully and gracefully with what is – uncertainty and change – trusting in great mystery’s impeccable flow of the implicate order…

let’s close this sacred space of ceremony with a blessing offered into the sacred fire within, the inner light of great spirit residing in all our relatives: may this day be blessed with gifts, lessons, understanding and friends… may our energy be a gift to all we meet… let us be centered, healing and open facing the day with courage, kindness, insight and compassion… may we honor this day…

“Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but Love.”

– Rumi –

this is the murmuration month of may so the lenticular clouds hovering over this sacred apu looking like visitors from another world match the dreamtime world i,like uou, am being magnetically pulled into, a coming home to the heart, tahoma, the mountain feeling like divine mother, our first home…

what a joy and a wonder this ever deepening into the heart’s tiny space, a field of green, a field of love, a circle of timelessness in the center of the cosmic medicine wheel, the sacred space of stillness, the resonant place of silence where everything is music, the harmony of the cosmic hum…

gather with me here in wholey communion feeling the new world breathing us…

into being the world of the sixth sun, a gathering of lovers, a family of one, a world of peace founded in balance guided by compassion…

namaste’, beloved co-hearts of the one heart…

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

~ Pema Chodron ~

it is flag day and i imagined early this day of celebrating today as 99 days until International Peace Day and i have along with another day in a string of so many that dynamic flux is upending the world; let’s listen again to Pema…

…”But it’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for this is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.”

~ Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change ~

may we all open to living beautifully and gracefully with what is – uncertainty and change – trusting in great mystery’s impeccable flow of the implicate order…

let’s close this sacred space of ceremony with the blessing we began reciting 12 days ago into the sacred fire within, the inner light of great spirit residing in all our relatives: may this day be blessed with gifts, lessons, understanding and friends… may our energy be a gift to all we meet… let us be centered, healing and open facing the day with courage, kindness, insight and compassion… may we honor this day…

tonight, i have listened to the Dalai Lama as he broadcast live from Dharamsala and was re-minded of the Buddha’s words to concentrate the mind on the present moment, being here as fully as one can and open to what is… in this moment, i am tuning into the cosmic hum and hearing Rumi’s re-assuring words of trusting in Beloved’s orchestration of the journey along with the heartsong’s reassurance that great mystery is always with us, always re-membering us…

are you also hearing The Beloved’s love song echoing through the canyons and valleys of our deep earth beingness? are you feeling trust in the journey and able to rest and relax, tune into the tiny space of the heart, into true nature, beloved community  where we all belong to each other?

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It has no membership, save those who know they belong.

It has no rivals because it is non competitive.

It has no ambition – it seeks only to serve.

It knows no boundaries, for nationalisms are unloving.

It is not of itself because it seeks to enrich all groups and religions.

It acknowledges all great teachers of all the ages who have shown the truth of love.

Those who participate, practice the truth of love in all their being.

There is no walk of life or nationality that is a barrier.

Those who are, know.

It seeks not to teach, but to be, and by being, enriched.

It recognizes that the way we are may be the way of those around us because we are that way.

It recognizes the whole planet as a being of which we are a part.

It recognizes that the time has come for the supreme transmutation, the ultimate alchemical act of conscious change of the ego in to a voluntary return to the whole.

It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice, but in the subtle realms of loving.

It salutes all those in the past who have blazoned the path, but have paid the price.

It admits no hierarchy or structure, for no one is greater than another.

Its members shall know each other by their deeds and being, and by their eyes and by no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace.

Each one will dedicate their life to the silent loving of their neighbour and environment, and the planet, will carry out their task, however exalted or humble.

It recognizes the supremacy of the great idea, which may only be accomplished if the human race practices the supremacy of love.

It has no reward to offer, either here or in the hereafter, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving.

Each shall seek to advance the cause of understanding, doing good by stealth and teaching only by example.

They shall heal their neighbour, their community, our planet and living beings in whatever form they take.

They shall know no fear and feel no shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds.

It has no secret, no arcanum, no initiation, save that of true understanding of the power of love and that, if we want it to be so, the world will change, but only if we change.

All who belong, belong; they belong to the Church of Love.

The Cathar Creed of 1244 AD

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