Reflections through Human Experience
1
Take A Walk Across the Land
Take a walk across the land,
or down the street, extend your hands,
feel the human pulse in all that is there
step back do you feel fear?
Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make
the landscapes in your mind, through the crowded market place of emotions
and through the long rememberings of the longing heart,
extend you hands
..feel the human pulse in all that is there…
do you feel love?
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
2
The Sound of a Single Note
Each of us remains too frightened in our daily lives,
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
there are harmonic rhapsodies in the faces of love and fear,
call to them,
like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn
or the Snake Charmer of Lucknapoor ,
they will come scuttling to the tune,
fear comes like a horde of rats
because fear is stronger in a crowd and more curious,
love will come willingly for love is willing
and not because the piper calls but that
love knows that piper in order to heard needs to be followed
until the day that the piper casts the pipe away
Love and fear harmonic interplay
you can travel world on a single note
from future to the past and
the illusion of now
extend your hands and feel the human pulse
3
The Finder is Not the Knower
we are born to meander through the human pulse
in search of meaning and the celebration of our Self
If you seek to look for God or the answers to your life
stop and feel the human pulse
for all the names of God are found
in the human world in the beating heart and it essence
if you seek to be comforted, the comfort that is
within is to be reflected in the creation of friendship
if you seek for answers to your life then stop to know
the way of how you love and why you do
then give it up and you
will find the truth
whatever you may search for will be found
but on finding it then you must understand
understanding is the discoverer and explorer too
been the finder is not the knower
You may find God, You may find Meaning
You may find Love, You may find fame
Finding is not the Knowing
to know we must give up what we have found
to understand we must give up meaning
to have meaning we must give up all our prejudice
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
4
Unknown
In the world and in our heart there is the
divine, unknown, we seek to find a way to love
which will lead to us been known.
but all things return to the unknown
and the emergent
when you feel alone and lonely
separate and unknown
pause and offer up these states of being
as imperfect prayers to the unknown
and you will find that the
Cosmos and its Descent
will be falling within and up
bathing you in the Unknown
We are the Unknown
the lonely and the content
we are the journey and the last coin spent
we are the meaning and dreaming
and the reflections through human experience
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
5
What We Have Now is Also This
All is offering and acceptance
seeking its own delight
all our bitterness is a call for this
all our love and suffering too
what we have now is also this
what we seek is in the seeking
we fall in love with ourselves
this is what we seek
what we have now in the essence of our being
is what we had in the first impulse of our coming into being
we are reflections through human experience
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
6
With a Single Constant Breath Make Ourselves Again
Give up the patterns of your thoughts
the past, wherefores and whys
go beyond comparisons
beyond truth and lies
through the furnace of awakening
through the glamour of illusion
go beyond to
the one unspoken word
there is no this or that
there is no us or them
there is no good or bad
for the Cosmos and its Descent
only moves to find its way
a sunset and sunrise
a moonset and moonrise
fleeting light on fleeting lives
starlight, lovelight, carlights
there is
Awake and be kind to your heart
look out around you
to the mind field, that pattern which you call your life
there the mind field is a vast skein of light
harmonic interludes that create day, birth, night, death
and eternity
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
when the world is at last, swept away ,we will gather up the dust
and with a single constant breath
make our selves again in the image of our being
our creation will be
reflections through human and divine experience
