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Monday, June 27, 2016

Wake up!

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
    Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
    Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
    Don't go back to sleep.

RUMI

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Cat-napping

I Dreams Reality

A gray day
presses down
and makes me say,
"Let's do a round
of napping."

I can't resist,
my eyes roll,
I feel a mist
taking its toll,
I'm napping.

The fields wide open,
Flutter-bys flitter,
I'm really hopin'
to catch that critter
today.

Tis safe here,
I'm in charge,
nothing to fear,
Life is large
while I'm napping.

The body rests,
but not I.
I explore knolls and nests
and won't even try
to awaken.

agd

Love one another

This reading, from today's Liturgy in The R.C. Church, speaks so clearly to the lack of love we see even among those who think they are followers of Jesus of Nazareth. Religious institution too oftens creates yokes which are not practical, nor are part of the message they are trying to protect. Why trade one slavery for another? Love one another - that's all you need to know and to practice. This reading also speaks to the present political situation.

Gal 5:1, 13-18

Brothers and sisters:
For freedom Christ set us free;
so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.

For you were called for freedom, brothers and sisters.
But do not use this freedom
as an opportunity for the flesh;
rather, serve one another through love.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement,
namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

But if you go on biting and devouring one another,
beware that you are not consumed by one another.

I say, then: live by the Spirit
and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh. 
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh;
these are opposed to each other,
so that you may not do what you want.
But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
               

Friday, June 17, 2016

Be Light

Gospel Mt 6:19-23

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
But store up treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

“The lamp of the body is the eye.
If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;
but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness.
And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.”

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Violence and Nature

Humans always want to experience MORE - of whatever it might be - taste, visuals, sound, pain, risk - to the edge, and then some - and it seems that this material life is all about that - not the "classroom," "let's learn how to be 'better' persons, advancing in soul-power." Please! We are clouded by the evolution of human history, creating "morals" and "ethics" which work one way in one community and another way 2,000 miles away. Bah. It's all an illusion anyway. It's a drama - yes, Will, the world is a stage, and yes, we are all players upon it. Why? Ask the Beloved (I hear a snicker, and a shoulder shrugged - a squirm, even). Meh.
I'm not apathetic. I sense a great divide between the maniacal activity we observe all around us, and the silent "I AM," even though there is a connection, in fact, they are one. There is only One. You and I are miniscule parts of a cosmic brain CELL in which this iotic world plays out its dramas. And they are dramas. And they have and they will pass into memory and hardly be brought up except by the One who relishes all the variety of human experience. 
Yet, each one of us are so unaware of the false ego which impels me and you to be involved and be compassionate and be filled with joy and be violent and be angry and be happy and be depressed, that we actually think it all matters. Meditation calms the vibration of  conscious activity to a near stand-still - and when it stops there is no experience until consciousness begins to wiggle and increase in intensity and we "wake up" again in our little life. As the vibrations of our experiences increase, we move and act in our lives in our province and we can ride to the edge of violence - and may be propelled into chaos - mentally, emotionally, physically. Socially,  extreme activity (vibration) is not acceptable. The utopian society we seem to be trying to build (the kingdom on earth) is populated by middle-of-the-road citizens, vibrating at an acceptable mean. Anything outside that mean is an aberration and is not tolerated.
But that's NOT what the Cosmic Mind wants!! Just look at this universe and all the intensity and violence we are learning about. My God, we are moving in the vacuum around us at unimaginable speeds! And we just report that fact as if it were nothing to be concerned about. Why not? Just look at our earth without us and see how extreme the earth-experience can be in itself- nothing remains calm and peaceful for very long - there is always upheaval and re-creation. Violence is what makes life "interesting." But the statement, and this whole diatribe, must be understood on a level of self-awareness not everyone experiences. Samadhi is not a common experience.
Yes, if everyone meditated we might have the ideal society, a middle-of-the-road citizenry vibrating within reason. But it could never remain that way. The variety of human experience we are aware of globally teaches us that variety truly is the spice of Life, a Life that is not ours, but which we are a part of, for better or worse, until death do us part.
Can we live in peace? Sure - if everyone's on the same page.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Love one another

Mt 5:43-48

Jesus said to his disciples:
“You have heard that it was said,
You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I say to you, love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you,
that you may be children of your heavenly Father,
for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,
and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have?
Do not the tax collectors do the same?
And if you greet your brothers only,
what is unusual about that?
Do not the pagans do the same?
So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Just coincidence?

This morning, in the cat's bowl, the remnants of his breakfast formed the unmistakable shape of North & Central America, from Alaska to Panama, but without a Florida. I went for a walk, and in a large cloud mass was the very same shape. Coincidence? Meaning? Prophecy?

Quantum Effect

You are praised
for numbers of friends,
for an altruistic heart
and a philanthropic hand.

You are praised
for your talents,
for your skills and risks
that entertain bored eyes
and amaze the sleepers.

How blessed we all are
for the good you do,
yes… YOU,
for what I can NOT do.

Yet, your gifts are my gifts.
Your praise is my praise, too.
And I breathe contentment,
I breathe peace.

Thank you for decorating Life
with your being.

You are us,
and we are they,
and One we all are.
Blessed be.

Say, "Amen."

agd

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

What a Wonderful World!

An expanding universe,
with millions upon millions
upon millions of galaxies …
GALAXIES!
And double that in human measurent
from one end of the Galactic Superstructure
to the other.
And the GS is only one of billions of
Superstructures which comprise this Universe.

And we, thinking ourselves
so grand, so perfect,
powerful and and knowledgeable,
faux egos bent on God-rule,
sized just a bit more than a bacterium,
are yet iotic forms,
and though significant -
for every existent has purpose for the all,
we are mere extras on the stage of Life.

This one world alone
teems with diversity,
every moment new -
just watch a clouded sky.

From virus to whales,
diversity abounds,
and we are entertained
by their being,
and awed by their
beauty and behavior.

Color and form
to delight and cheer,
how can one be bored
with so much wonder near?

Thou we are many,
we are One,
singing our past,
dancing to the
music of the spheres,
ecstatic for the
grandness of it all.


What a ONEderful world!

agd

Monday, June 6, 2016

Mantra for Today

"I am well and happy in the light and life of God."

Hazrat Inayat Khan - Sufi mystic - D.1927

Comet cometh

Speeding thru space,
(How big is it anyway?)
with a plethora of stars,
planets, non-planets
and "stuff."

Rogues don't aim,
don't manage to miss,
but sooner or later
will connect, will ram,
will crash into "stuff"
causing chaos,
destroying communities,
dispersing elements
and spores to one day
birth a new world,
a new community,
a new cycle.

It's time.

Raise your eyes
to the sky often

and pay attention.

agd

The Door

The Door

Lonely the days
when the folks are gone.
I was young
and did not understand.

Days turn into weeks and more,
and mostly,
I just stare at the door.

I nap, and sit
by the window longing
to run through that green
and chase a bird songing.

Oh, they return.
But don't they think
that I, too, live a life?
We're not in sync.

Imprisoned, yet free,
Fed and sheltered,
I guess I'll just wait.


Hmm… that door needs painting.

agd

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Signs and Wonder

D.T. - a sign
(I dare not pronounce his name)
and symbol of a future??
Like Nero uncaring,
this one is pricking at
the thin spirit
of a people painfully
worn by economics,
an exercise in greed.

The world takes two steps forward
to a compassionate,
sharing, global community,
then,
Close the gates!
Build the wall!
and we step back eight.

He wants America to live as he,
closed and walled off
to protect his greed,
and humanity will take
a few more steps back
from Chardin's hopeful evolution
of global consciousness,
cooperation and tact.

What are you afraid of?
He blames himself for nothing.
"The devil made me do it!"
Ah yes, so you blame yourself, eh?
You have duped a multitude, sir,
for you are he.
           
John 8:44; Acts 13:10
1John 2:18


agd 6.5.2016