Category — Communication
Christopher Hansard:[ Sky Clad]
Sky clad
the world
in blue
sky
clad
in
ancient
wonder
what people see as the future
is a memory
of once
what
was
made in the sky clad minds of our ancestors
in the world
before this world
in the earth
that gave birth to this earth
November 19, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[ Twilight ]
All loss is the loss of
the psyche’s imagining
all gain is the gain of the psyche’s grasping
the psyche is the shadow and the light of this world
inbetween the psyche and the greater consciousness
is the twilight of becoming
the metaphysical realm of possibilities
July 12, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[Kindness]
The kindness that you seek in others
can be found within yourself
the kindness that you are afraid of receiving
will wait until you are ready to receive it
waiting close by like a fathful friend
there is kindness everywhere
if only you stop to see
kindness is the source of community
and of healing and understanding
if you seek wisdom, knowledge, spirituuality
first develop kindness
and you will find all other things accrue naturally
kindness needs nothing but itself
and is everywhere waiting to shared
May 27, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[ Ever Since Heaven Made Cutbacks..]
Ever since Heaven made cutbacks on its budget
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
have had to take public transport
(it was mentioned at a policy meeting that they would lose the Public Relations impact)
and gender issues have arisen so
now they are known
as theĀ Four Horsepeople
of a Possible Near Extinction Event
Political Correctness
was invented by the Devil
who attends
an anger management group
for the dammned
run by
an angel that used to be a social worker
and no one understands
the strategy he has planned
a thousand proclaimers
warn the people of things
to come
but do not look
at the ancient teacher
beneath their feet
I was asked once ,
‘what do you believe?’
My reply was and is
‘I believe in the eternal that dwells in the human state,
the movement of consciousness
of clear light and slowness
of the everchanging
and the unspoken path
that dwells in every being
that lives in the ten worlds
and beyond,
in the simple
and the profound’
having found my answers unacceptable
confusion reigned
its natural
Political Correctness
is political control
it is surveillance
of the individual
without the cameras
The time will come
when even an atheist will be
crucified for such a belief
a hindu and a jain,
a buddhist and a druze
a christian and a communist
will all be held in contempt
of the state
it is said the devil is in the details
he once told me that he is just misunderstood
and god feels like that too
well, i said both of you are just
bit players in the drama of time
both of you concerned
with political correctness
but then both of you are related
devil and god
but both of you forget
that life is not about the outcome
but the attempt
there is no fall or rise
no sanctuary or prize
the spirit is self realising
and that is the
only truth and deities, leaders
and those who want control are terrified
of that, of
the story tellers and the poets
the magic people and the inbetween walkers
the mountain holders
and stone collectors
they do not conform
to the supermarket stacking
of political correctness
I have seen the face of war
and know the haunting
rush of meaning as it trickles with the blood
in dying moments
people see the truth
of their own divine humanity
and reject
all constraints
as they look
into the clear light
and go beyond the whisperings
of gods or politicians
to ride the note of a flute
to their true home
only to stay awhile before returning
May 24, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[Why?]
Why let new tears drop to the ground
over over old events of the past?
Does sorrow live for ever?
Only grief would have you believe that
There comes a time when grief will pass away
and sorrow will no longer haunt the mind
or the actions of daily life
Why let new tears fall onto the ground?
Look up into the everness of the heart
look down, to the sides of your being
everywhere is the heart
The heart calls all those who wish for life
to come and bathe in the
light of wisdom and humour
why let old tears fall to the ground?
when all things pass away
and mankind is no more
when even the memory of starlight
loses its traces in the depths of space
the heart of all things
will still
beat
life’s rythymn
and sing
like a mother to a child
why let new tears drop to the ground?
each one, single, ample
pristine and full of life
holding history and potential
let your tears be ones of joy
joy for the sanctity of your being
and the beauty
of all that you have been
and shall be
May 7, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[When the Sunlight Falls]
When the sunlight falls upon the waves
carefree and glancing as they lap around the
last remains of a sky scraping tower
the young child from the little boat looks up with wondering eyes
‘who made these things?’ his mother catches his thoughts..
‘men who were like gods, men who fell to the earth and could not get up again’
the child wonders,sad thoughts
trawling a memory of what was once
another world, fingers trailing in water
as fish swirl around the little boat
as by thought it moves silently
across the great saltwater lake
deep in the refracted depths
white whales harvest the plankton
while a serrated moon
hangs tilted in the blue starred night
years pass the child now a man
goes past in a little boat
and his daughter wonders the very same as he once did
a hundred years go past
people pass by they do not see the ruins
they do not know what they are
the ruins
they have slipped
from memory and so they do not exist
April 30, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[Anger]
The world is full of it…
of anger,
anger is the rage and shame of having no power
anger too can take you to a place of change when it is truly right to be angry
but anger though is impulse, it is not a destination for each of us needs to
go beyond it, to leave its power behind and embrace the power of Love
anger seeks its own demise, its own transformation but can lose
its way to healing
look to the anger within you, see how it moulds your life
and how the anger of others influences your state of being ,
anger can be glamourous, even kind, anger can be generous and also blind
anger seeks its own destruction and understanding
it is the light of extreme dissatisfaction and the voice of fear
April 29, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[Love is Within Us]
ONE:
Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall
Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye
Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat,
Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury the oncoming fear
Lust craves a chance at halting mortality and believes in the tempoary as real
Illumination lights only what needs to be illuminated for the awakening of the Self happens in the dark
Loss and learning go together, and love and liberation are good friends.
TWO:
Love was within us before we came and went, love was in the first cosmic form
and fell in the first rainfall, love was within us and will be when we forget that we once dwelt
upon the Earth, love was within the first rising spark of Wisdom and the clear sight of Compassion
and Love took the journey willingly into the dark matter and confusion of the temporal world in order
to evolve back to its own recognition again.
THREE:
The human race is a pathway in which Love plies its course,
a river that flows through time and space
creating diversity and matter, consciousness and place,
perception and awakening and the nature of living light
Love has made the chance for Life
when it embraced itself openly with Light,
for Love and Life make Light and from that all things are:
for in Light, Consciousness takes form
shrouding Love’s constant breath
and in that come the two eternal seasons, mortal life and mortal death
two great teachings of Love and Light
by which the Cosmos and Consciousness descend and create form
April 27, 2008 No Comments
Mystery and Beauty
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
April 21, 2008 No Comments
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
April 18, 2008 No Comments








