We Are Whole and Complete ~*~Release and Let Go

Mapping A New Reality

( by Siobhan Mac Mahon 2017)

When all the old paths

have been concreted over,

the way forgotten,

when words shape-shift

beneath your feet,

spelling another reality,

when you don't know

what to pray for anymore, 

let alone to whom- then

you must abandon

the broken compasses,

burn the man-made maps

and head for home-

follow the knowing

in your bones, the aching

of your heart,

the song-line of your body.

~*~

The sage Dattatreya, when speaking to his student Parasurama of the teachings of the Goddess said, 

"Association with the wise leads to Self inquiry. Inquiry is not simply asking questions like 

'Who am I?', 

'What is the cause of the universe?', 

'Why am I suffering?' 

and waiting or praying for an answer. 

 It is a process of discrimination, comparing the ego with the Self, accepting the knowledge that you are whole and complete and allowing it to percolate into every aspect of your being until the mind is transformed and your true feelings and actions harmonize with the Truth."

 "...People under the spell of ignorance think of themselves as limited; inadequate, incomplete beings. Because this is merely an ill-considered opinion and not a fact, they suffer. The more they cling to this notion the more disturbed they become, until everything they do reinforces this belief. A change of habits, devotional practice, meditation, or intellectually asking, 'Who am I?' will not remove this fundamental error. 

  But changing the platform from which you view yourself as adequate, whole and complete will cause your thought and feeling life to gradually shift and eventually synchronize with your real nature."

(an excerpt from The Mystery Beyond the Trinity)

~*~

Three Poems by Lalla Ded 

(She was recognized as a Saint in Kashmir, in the 14th century)

***

When the mirror of my consciousness became clear,

I saw that my family and others I

love are the same as me. 

The "you" and "I" thought

does not occur. 

The entire world is God.

***

Three things about grinding grain:

Once you start the mill turning,  

it easily keeps its momentum. 

Only the hub knows

the secret of milling. 

When fine flour appears by the millstone,

grist will find its own way

into the mill yard.

***

Enlightenment absorbs this universe of qualities.

When that merging occurs, there is nothing but God. This is the only doctrine.

There is no word for it, no mind

to understand it with, no categories

of transcendence or non-transcendence,

no vow of silence, no mystical attitude 

There is no Shiva and no Shakti 

in enlightenment, and if there is something that remains, that whatever-it-is 

is the only teaching.

~*~

May we all find our way out of the Mind, and into the Heart, and allow the Truth of our Being to shine.

Be the Light

Be the Love

Be Yourself

Shri Hari Aum

~*~

The Path of Liberation: Dealing with Anger and Love

This is a documented teaching from the sadhana of my teacher Baba Ram Dass, who guides us all still from the formless realms. As you read this message,  allow discomforts that arise to dissolve. Release your thoughts and return to this. May the Peace, Truth, Love and Compassion that is your Hearts's true nature experience liberation from the resistance your Mind projects over yourself and your world.  

HOW DO WE REMAIN MINDFUL WITHIN OUR ANGER AND RIGHTEOUSNESS?

      So it turns out there’s no rule book to take with you in life that says, “When I get into this condition, do this.” My rule is actually really simple, I continually work to quiet my mind, to stay mindful.

I continue to work to soften my heart, to stay ‘heartfelt.’ I work as well as I can to keep the energies moving in my system. I mean this is energy. I am constantly opening and watching and listening and tuning. I am listening my way into the universe. I am hearing my way, not listening actually.

You can feel that when you really listen, you almost start to dissolve into the other person’s storyline. You can feel that when you really listen, you tune your way into the universe, and when the fear arises, you sit with it. I sit with it and I don’t push it away. I don’t grab at it. I know what my limits are, and I often say, “I can’t handle that one just yet,” and I don’t end up feeling guilty about it.

I stopped holding myself to a standard of where I should be as a means of beating myself up when I’m not there.

Don’t turn the spiritual journey into another psychological thing to prove you are a victim, or you are somehow inadequate, or impotent or incompetent, or something. You can do it if you want to, but it’s really not that much fun to go about it that way. You want to go from using the spiritual journey in the service of your psycho-dynamics, in the service of your ego, to using your psychodynamics in the service of the spiritual thing.

In other words, I can use my anger to liberate me now, when before I used my righteous desire to show how good I was, which was an ego trip, and in answer to the question, “Who am I?” My usual answer now is that I don’t know. I don’t know, and it’s interesting that that part of me that wants to know, also just doesn’t really care now. I don’t know why, but all I know is that at this moment this feels fine.

However, if this were two in the morning, it probably wouldn’t. I may be sitting here alone, talking to myself and maybe someone would come along. It would be a new moment, a special moment, and maybe I’d keep talking, maybe we would start a conversation that would change how I feel. I don’t know, but at some moment, a set of events will transpire and this feeling will stop, and then I will come back to it again.

So I think from a political, social point of view, what you find is that in every walk of life, there are people who recognize the predicament, and that’s what you really end up doing, is hanging out with people who recognize the predicament, and then you do what you can do.

-Ram Dass

~*~

Om Hrim Shivaya Namaha

~*~

Be the Light

Be the Truth

Be the Love

Be Yourself

~*~

Shri Hari Om

Become A Living Sanctuary

 

Collage by Amaya Kalki @CascadianCreations

~*~

Click the link below for a musical journey to guide your heart to sanctuary.

~*~

Please Prepare Me ~ A Beautiful Chorus

Self Reflection

From my personal writings, 

An exploration of affirming Self, Choice, and Intention in the Moment.

(from 4/2/2018, edited 5/10/2018)

In Lak'esh

~*~

Releasing into the co-creative reality and being fully present in the Here and Now, fully embodying my Spirit in this Body, choosing alignment with well being and letting go of reexamining the past and worrying about the future. I relax into the support and protection of my Inner Being my Wholeness. The Source energy that is not only my True Self but also the same shared nonphysical True Self of Every other living lifeform embodied on this Planet, even the Earth itself and all that is outside of her. The knowing and being and believing in this Space and choosing the recognition of Self AS Abundance, Gratitude, Love, and Truth, I embrace Universal Laws and choose to give my personal will to the Divine Will of the Heart of my Higher Self. I radiate in the oscillating, pulsating, and polarizing field of limitless potential. Embracing choice and forgiving myself and others, embracing the choice to Love, to See, to Be and Forgiving myself and others, allowing Joy and Gratitude to flood my Heart, my Being, and overflow everywhere, everywhere, everywhere and forgiving self and others. I create my own life the way that I want it. I am safe to be myself and shine the light of our Truth, free from illusions- from my heart, from my mind, from my senses, from my aura. 

We flow in the shared Oneness and I choose to shift into alignment and focused awareness of recognition of those that also see, know, and choose to live in Oneness, as our True Self. I release any projections of expectations or assumptions that others have made of me. If they cannot recognize our Oneness, I treat them with compassion, empathy, and forgiveness. I share my Truth gently and nonviolently. I release attachment to others sharing my Truth and I choose to let go of any desire to step out of this alignment to please another’s vision of me. I maintain a peaceful, calm, still center within the movement that is my Nature. I understand the infinite tides of the movement of my Nature are one and the same with all the tides of my fellow cocreators on this plane and with the mechanisms of all the Multiverse. I understand that these Universal waves are diversely interpreted by each individual perspective. I understand that the tides and mechanisms of our co-created reality are directed by our focused Intention and Will, both singular and unified.  I choose to give my Will to Divine Will. I choose Love and Kindness, Forgiveness, and Compassion.

Within all this Oneness there remains my individual perspective. This point of Seeing and Being is not even a pinprick in the vastness of the nonphysical world full of other Selves who are at once our ancestors that came before, our unified Self, and those that have yet to be born. The regenerative, evolutionary process. Creative Energy, Love, and Light, becoming Matter or becoming simply, Ideas that Matter, being made, deconstructed, and remade- in ever changing forms and flows. All one and the same energy, everything and nothing all at the same time. Limitless creative potential as Awareness fractals out and Life continues to Spiral. 

My only work is to be in this Space/Time, this Here/Now and embrace that truly There’s Only The Everlasting Moment. Here/Now, I release any echo of any doubt or fear that I am unable to create the life I want. I forgive others who are not yet aware of their own creative power and energetic abilities and would seek for me to lower my frequency to validate their attachments. I choose to give my will to Divine Will. I forgive myself for believing in my family and society’s projections, ideas, and pressures and I am free from allowing those beliefs to influence my thoughts and behaviors in ways that are out of alignment with my True Self, True Heart, and Divine Will. I embrace that my current work is to shine the Truth of Oneness to All. To cultivate my Inner Fire, Peace, Joy and Knowing, allowing them to overflow from my being and dispel dissonance between my own Heart and Mind and the Hearts and Minds of others. I seek to allow the moment and to always See, Hear, Feel, Know, Speak, and Be my Awareness in the Here/Now, when I distract from the Moment, I simply return to the Peaceful Still Center within the movement. I see the ever changing, movement of the World outside this body, the co-creative space as the dynamic flow of all our desires vibrationally taking place everywhere both physically and non-physically. 

Exploring these vibrational fields and waves as my Being moves through the Environment, both positive and negatively-charged fields are experienced, as well as waves of dissonant and resonating energies. Within each of these, these descriptions are simply parts of vast spectrums and continuums of energetic and geometric thought-forms that are birthed as ideas in someone’s Personal Mind, moving from the Personal Mind into the One Mind, propelled by the Force of Desire. I am free from attaching to the projections, expectations, and assumptions of others. I am free of the stagnant pools of karmic energy and morphic resonance within the landscape of our physical reality. My Being encompasses All that Is. I am the creator and destroyer of my own Awareness and my own Oneness. I develop and maintain all elements and energies within and the Light and Love of all Creation/Destruction shines forth from my center resonating with all vibrations I interact with and within, dissipating dissonance and Healing in Harmony. My true center is an enormous capacity for falling in Love with everything around me and not being afraid to show it. I choose to Live and Be this center and from it emanate Love, Compassion, and Acceptance to All, to Nature.

 I choose to align with Truth, Light, Love, Compassion, Abundance, Gratitude, and Galactic Time. 

I choose Freedom from Fear, Hatred, Greed, and Doubt.

  

~*~

Be the Light

Be the Love

Be Yourself

Sacred Poetry Share

Welcome to today's sacred poetry share. My own joy continues to grow as a result of sharing the poems I come across, with all of you around the Earth. It's so very heart-warming to know these poems are touching hearts and are being shared with others. I am so grateful to continually experience growth and expanded awareness as the eternal moment unfolds and to be encouraged by others and by my own direct experience. My hope is that these poems also encourage all of you.

The poems I share here have each been a part of my personal path towards embracing union with the Eternal Oneness. I share them with you in the hope that they may lead you to your own Inner Peace and Knowing. Every passing moment is both the observance of the active, evolving, vibratory nature of reality and the peaceful stillness of the Breath and the Word, as the Illusion of Separation melts away in the Universal Fire burning in each and every being's Sacred Heart. 

 We are the stillness with the movement, vibrating outward and at the same time, all of the movement itself. We are Source, centered in Stillness- dynamically vibrating, resonating outwards and interacting with so many places and so many beings within those places. Whether we call each other, you, me, them, it, there, here, then, or now.....it's all Us. Spiraling up into Source, there is only Source. Spiraling down into the body, there is the moment, the personal self, the interactive reality, Source funneled into perspective. Source spread into fields of activity into waves permeating fields...

Up or down the spiral, all dissolves into the Infinite and the everyday interactions become those centered on Love, Joy, Peace, and Play as we become aware and conscious co-creators.

In many moments, it is clear to see, part of the nature of our dynamic selves and the experiential realm of the world is rife with paradox. Coming to understanding within the vastness of human ideas, cultures, histories, structures, systems, even the very nature of the physical world around us can be a challenging journey, especially given the variety of personal experiences happening on Earth.

In that understanding, I seek to live compassionately and release the personal mind's urge to attach, decipher, and deconstruct these paradoxes. Instead I've found focusing on the body, breath, and awareness and dissolving and releasing internal patterns and personal attachments has brought a true Freedom from Fear and the beautiful gifts of Living in Love, Loving Life and Embodying Spirit. 

May your own journey be as rich and rewarding and may these poems inspire you along the way.

~*~

Circling

by Marge Piercy

We seek not rest but transformation.

We are dancing through each other as doorways.

We are ripples crossing and fusing, journeying and returning

from the core of the apple, the eye of the mandala,

the cave in the heart of the rose,

the circle without boundaries centered on silence.

~*~

The Presence

by Denise Levertov

Before I enter the rooms of your solitude

in my living form, trailing my shadow,

I shall have come unseen. Upstairs and down with you

and out across road and rocks to the river

to drink the cold spray. You will believe

a bird flew by the window, a wandering bee

buzzed in the hallway, a wind

rippled the bronze grasses. Or will you

know who it is?

~*~

The next three poems are untitled selections

 by Lalla Ded

 

Enlighten your desires.

Meditate on who you are.

Quit imagining.

What you want is profoundly expensive,

and difficult to find,

yet closeby.

Don't search for it. It is nothing,

and a nothing within nothing.

 ***

Meditation and self-discipline

are not all that's needed, nor even

a deep longing to go though

the door of freedom.

You may dissolve in contemplation,

as salt does in water,

but there's something more

that must happen. 

***

Awareness is the ocean of existence.

Let it loose and your words will rage

and cause wounds like fishing spears.

But if you tend it like a fire

to discover the truth,

you'll find how much of that

there is in what you say. None.

~*~

Suppose

by Elizabeth Herron

From the tangle of the two

an exchange surprises

the bear and the dear

become a tree

We might see

whole jungles

emerge

from an embrace

 

~*~

Be the Light

Be the Love

Be Yourself

 

Sacred Poetry Share

As it has been a while since I've posted on my blog, I'll be rekindling the creative flow by sharing a handful of my own work. These poems were written during the closing of last year and the welcoming of the new year on the solar calendar. I have been inspired by the blossoming of Love in my own life to share more of my Spirit and my Truth and am looking forward to this post being the start of a new path of regular sharing both on this blog and in other avenues.

I encourage you to express your own creativity in whatever way you feel called. My words and the words of all the other poets spotlighted on this blog are echoes of your own voice from across the eternal Spiral. Clear your mind, let them settle in your heart and guide you to freedom.

As these are my own poems, I want to encourage you to leave comments or feedback that may help me improve my writing. As always, it is heart warming for me just to share these poems with all of you, but it is even more expansive to hear back from you, if they have touched your own heart.

So, sit back, relax, take some deep breaths and enjoy. 

Be the Light, 

Be the Love, 

Be Yourself 

 ~*~

Know Your Measure

By what means do you use to measure yourself?

Is it comparing to others?

 Is it comparing to Nature, to the world around you?

Is it a tool- external, solid, objectified? 

Is it a system- values, morals, laws?

Or, is it a feeling?

Is it an internal compass?

  Where does it sit?

Where does it point?

Who is even watching the needle spin?

Or the waves crest and fall?

~*~

Discovering

 

Lalla lit a way to here

and truly she did see,

there is no Shiva hiding here-

there is only you and me.

The Peace that comes when actually

the Union fully appears

is emptiness not loneliness,

for creatures such as we.

Freedom from

the piercing sweet 

and bitter taste

of lacking company.

My heart

so crystal clear 

-here now-

What is it that you see?

~*~

The Bounty of Union

The Guest would come

 for tea and eats

that lead to sweets.

Root in what is real

to drink of the one

whom is as sweet as Nectar.

To sip from the pools of your eyes

is impossible

until we are One

drowned in the Beloved.

~*~