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Saturday, October 3, 2015

Tradition

Tradition

“Anyone who tells you
they were born good is lying –
We’re just born and we are dying.”*

We learn to love,
and we learn to hate.
We learn to live, and we learn to try.

Our fleshly heritage burns
with the fears and hurts of ages past
we never knew,
but perpetuate
so to “belong”,
too afraid to break
the chain of “tradition.”

Tradition can be sacred;
Tradition can be evil – it’s a choice,
a judgment of culture and “tradition.”
Who’s “tradition” will win?        
And at what cost?
And why bother?

But we who animate this bag of molecules
belong to a greater tradition
hidden in the glowing folds
of the One and Myriad Spirit.
I, me, here. 
I, me, there,
– only One am I.

This is a grand production,
movie, theater.
As below, so above.
So, get over it.

That heritage of fear
is only a cloak -
so let it fall,
and shine the light of your being.           
You are a star, made of stars.

Choose Life!
Conquer the fear.
Connect the Love.

agd 10.1.2015


*Noah Gundersen, “Empty From The Start”

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