Posts from — April 2008

Starlight comes already old, a memory
but younger than the light within us

Starlight comes an echo of

the light that

lit the fuse for each star to burn so bright

Starlight a memory

of star already dead

except in the mind of the viewer

light lives long after the death of a star

we have memories like this

each one brilliant full of light
each one to burn so bright
have you seen the stars tonight?

Points of light

older than earth

younger than the light that dwells within

you are ageless, timeless

light within you

calls out to shine

every memory of your life

a reflection, a refraction

of the light

that dwells

within

your psyche,

the soul that calls to be made

your spirit the connection to unknown things

all in the light older than the stars

look to the starlight and you will see

a memory of the spark the flew from

the light that dwells within

and lit up matter,time, and space

with light

that ever present

within your presence

that is light

that dwells within

all things

Softly,

so softly comes the unseen thief

to steal that which does not belong

to take away another’s freedom

through fear and and applying grief

who is this thief that takes so deftly

the essence of the Other?

It is the uncaring side of everyone ,

the You, the Me, the I, the Us and Them

who do not listen to the quiet laws of human integration:

We are all responsible, one for the other,

when one falls so do we all

when one ascends into humanity

and the universe descends revealing

our inner grace

we all ascend,

we all affirm our humanity

we are responsible

one for the other

Deep within us all there is a soft voice calling:

feed your enemies and give them help

bathe their wounds and wish them well

take time to understand

and forgive them all they do

This inner thief that will steal away our knowledge of who we are

is more dangerous than a bomb or gun

for it is thief that build such things so other thieves

may use them

To stop this thief you must listen deep within

to the voices that are calling

they are the children and the broken ones

since time first began

calling out an ancient lullaby to the child in every human being

which echoes from generation to generation

giving symmetry to the seasons

and empowers the desire within us to know the Whole

these voices that call

all sing the sing the same:

We are responsible, one for the other

The time for not caring is fast running out

for through caring you will find that the answers

to global hunger, global warming

food prices soaring, high school killings

species dying, is

in how we use the

global mind

the underlying resource

of all

humankind

Softly come the hands of Wisdom, folded in the rain

held in response the eternal in the touch

rain drops everyone a song, a note that hangs

sounding out a harmonic tone

softly comes the hands of wisdom, caressing trees with wind

lifting oceans to the turning clouds a spiraling down

bring ancient voices to the modern man and woman

every epoch of human life lives suspended in the whole

for I have seen from ancient hills the tuurning world of man

and the humble hands of Life, softly come the hands of wisdom

in the natural way, from skylark to distant breezes

from snowfall to the newborn heart

all conceived in the hands of wisdom

expressed in the touch of  Love

Softly come the hands of wisdom

Pause to embrace their touch, for in the hidden is the ordinary

in the sublime the simple path

where we wake from dreaming to the open heart

softly, come the hands of wisdom

You can buy Grapes without seeds, Cucumbers too, Oranges and Apples and Pears

Food without seeds are like dreams without memory, lost in a haze and wandering

Food without seeds are food with no heart, for the essence of life is in the seed

We are meant to eat the seeds digest the teaching in them and learn in the unconscious path of nature, Seedless food and seedless living, rootless and meaningless

soon to spread,

where are your seeds ? where are your dreams? where are your connections to the Earth?

When sadness, despair and life’s challenges

appear seemingly displacing all that you are

look to the seeds the bore the outcome

and plant them in the sacred garden that

lives within,

those of them that are poisonous and dangerous to your health

can through inward observation be digested as a tincture of your soul

as a flower essence of truth

and having imbibed your poison

you will discover your understanding

and that will give you immunity

and knowledge,

those that are beneficial , spread the seeds

watch them grow and bloom beyond your expectations ,

they will be your calendar in the changing seasons

Seedless plants? Seedless Fruits?

Meaningless agriculture manufactured for a profit, consider how this attitude has infiltrated the wider social construction, people are saying ‘no’ to genetically modified food but what about the seedless attitudes that are filling people?

Look and see what is seedless in your life, look not to the roots, but to the seed

To the Seed, always, to the Seed

Listening

changes your mind

Listening

changes your heart

Listening

changes your body

Listening

changes your attitudes

Listening

changes your relationship with others

and their relationship to you

Listening

changes your life

Listening

develops humility and non-violence

Listening

heals anger, fear and doubt

Listening

is the breath of

Life,

Listening

creates balance and peace of mind

Listening

brings courage

and

Listening

teaches us

the fragile nature

of every human being

Mystery,

our life is full of mystery

Beauty,

our life is full of beauty

the mystery brings us understanding

the beauty brings us vision

the mystery reminds us of the sanctity

the beauty calls us to be whole

the mystery is a prompt

the beauty a reminder

of how our humanity

is a pathway

to the divine

in each

of us

mystery and beauty

voices within

faces of

compassion

wisdom

and

humour

and you

can find

a direct

experience

of them

by knowing

the laughter

that dwells

in the

essence

of

everything

you experience

We believe of ourselves

what the world believes about us

this makes our soul smaller by the day

We believe what our negativities tells us to be true

We choose a brash rumour over a silent truth

We choose anger’s force over love’s patience

these choices are beliefs

they make us sadder by the day

the smaller our souls the smaller our lives

the sadder we become the sadder we all become

Belief is the fuel of the active soul

we all need belief in order to become

greater than we were yesterday

Belief is the marker of a maturing society

Belief brings understanding

Once I was asked :

‘what do I believe?’

My answer was…

“I believe in people, in the emerging human soul,

I believe in the eternal lesson of transcience

and the beauty of awakened mine,

I believe in the vision of the light

that dwells in the darkest heart,

I believe in the ongoing and constant

wisdom of

that self arising which dwells

in the most profoundest of all hells

in the simplicity of the good

and that all evil, violence and ignorance

is seeking to be found

and freed from its suffering.”

Belief is the power of all creation

and the identity of every nation

man and woman ,

belief needs only itself to be made real

Each of  us a prayer, imperfectly formed,

we are offered to all things in search of our deepest heart,

Each of us a prayer, imperfectly formed,

we find our intention and bring healing,

even though our lives

be racked by troubles, pain and sorrow

we are prayers in human form that seek higher wisdom

when all is unsure

All of our curses, threats and shrieks,

all our caring, soothing and gentleness

all the raging and the calm,

all are prayers,

each of us a prayer,

growing, formed, potential

Our lives , our bodies too,

a voice, a single world uttered by the divine

You, I, She, He, Us, Them, Enemy, Friend

All, each of us a prayer

A prayer in human form, sacred and profane, yet divine in each

humble adoration, life in form, each of us a prayer

for when we pray, whatever it may be , we pray for everyone

that is the miracle, the bewitching mystery

we are the prayer and the praying too

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

The moment comes fleeting,

illusory and charmed

like a bright star full of inspiration

empowered by the

flash of intuition

that leads us

past the facade of the world,

moments are illusory

there is no now,

formed by the gaps of the brain

we are children of the past

but by seeing the connections

we can jump into the gaps

between moments

and discover

the eternal

Living in the moment is a mental rat trap

stop ..

go beyond moments,

in the nanosecond that our brain pauses

between processing billions of  types of information

let your self dive

beyond

the brain made world

to

the place of consciousness

pause and be still

and there

the

gaps will

open,

vast ,

doorways

to the

underlying

reality