I am in a meditation course… I sat for a full 10 days and now am serving a course for 10 days… learning about feeling my sensations, exactly as they are and observing them. Simple, Profound and full of Truth.
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I am in a meditation course… I sat for a full 10 days and now am serving a course for 10 days… learning about feeling my sensations, exactly as they are and observing them. Simple, Profound and full of Truth.
dhamma.org
In the past few months I have been reading a passage from Tao te Ching every night. I have read them all and now randomly flip to a page. This one came last night and I thought it was fitting. Although I am trying to refrain from certain input that comes from technology during my fast, but I thought I would share this as an output…
Tao 22
If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything,
give everything up.
The Master, by residing in the Tao,
sets an example for all beings.
Because he doesn’t display himself,
people can see his light.
Because he has nothing to prove,
people can trust his words.
Because he doesn’t know who he is,
people recognize themselves in him.
Because he hsa no goal in mind,
everything he does succeeds.
When the ancient Masters said,
“If you want to be given everything,
give everything up,”
they weren’t using empty phrases.
Only in being lived by the Tao
can you be truly yourself.
I am starting a fast come tomorrow
being selective about technology – emptying my cargo
opening the flood gates of my mind
it definitely time to realign
my mind, body and spirit
turning inside out all of my pockets
getting ready for my silent meditation
in hopes of finding my own Eden.
I don’t want to be a heart breaker
I want to find balance between giver and taker
I want to fly high, I want to fill your cup
I want to love you dearly
But surely I know I will want to break up
I don’t want to break your heart in the process
Don’t take it personally, it just me… I still want to progress
I’ll experience what you have to offer
I’ll see how I am affected by it
And as easily as I’ll fall in love
I’ll fall right back out…
Don’t take it personally that I chose a different route
I wish I knew how to be another way
And still be happy and joyful every day
This is why I need time to be alone
Spending days all on my own
Falling in love with myself and who I am
Learning about me and learning how to stand
I will reach down low and stretch way high
I’ll try to keep my feet on the floor
While I let my mind and soul fly
It has to start with me first
I will try to break my heartbreak curse
As one love once said as he sat still
“If you let me love you, I will”
Now its time for me to instill
This thought of love and acceptance
Of hope and repentance
For me first and then for you
Then in my life I can be one of two
I owe it to myself to do this now
I’ve not done it before, I’m not really sure how
So, I will do what I think is best
Cutting myself off from the rest
Until I figure out a bit more
Until I reach to the depths of my core
Where I find my own true love for my soul
Then I’ll come back out to play
With a refreshed outlook on the day
Where I can confidently believe and say
“I love my self whole-heartedly for who I am”
until this happens I will not accept another person’s heart in my hand,
first I must know about myself in order to know love and understand.
I like to swim around in the currents
on my own, without any deterrents
diving deep to see whats hidden below
then rising above to challenge what I know.
There’s so much life in my soul’s canyons
with layers upon layers to recount what has happened
its a tough trek, steep and dry
all by myself but I know I must try
There’s abundance and life at the bottom that’s all mine.
At the lowest depths where life abounds
I can jump, fly, relax and swim around
absorbing the love within me that I’ve found
hearing nature’s harmony resound
taking in the beauty that’s so profound
its all about goodness when you go this far down.
It’s all in my head
what I’ve seen, what I’ve read
what I’ve heard, what I’ve said
what I’ve consumed, what I’ve been fed
it will be this way until I’m dead.
“It’s all in your head”
but I know what I feel
not all that we see is real
I know there’s more to an orange than it’s peel
I’m on an adventure and I’m at the wheel
I’m not afraid to embrace what others fear
I accept what I know and hold onto it dear.
Knowing others is intelligence;
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
Mastering yourself is true power.
if you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
if you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart
– you will endure forever.
Life is all about your perspective… if you think you are some way… if you follow that way taking on its nuances… you will be that way. Thus, those around you will treat you that way because you are that way. Perspective… I can have and be in any way/life/path/reality I choose. Always. When you think that way you become that way…
If this is true… then always choose the best way, the one where you feel the most love… and you will in return get the most love because it is starting from within you first… and if you can start from within it will all work itself out just as it is supposed to be… you just have to embrace your true nature…
Talking about the ways of an ever-dancing child,
Inspiration pouring down the timeless river nile.
It starts at the source, a course that comes from within,
Waterfalling from the heart to the valley of the pen.
It pours to the people, the ones that want to hear,
Come down to the river for the time is coming near.
To open up the door to what your waiting for,
Oh what the hell, image doesn’t matter anymore.
It’s a musical explosion passing on it’s seeds,
To all nationalities, colors, and creeds.
Now it comes easy, just a matter of releasing,
Taking a jump from the ship of dignity, into a sea of eternity.
It’s a dance that we do, to the movement of the stars,
Traveling miles without the use of cars.
Fourth-dimensionality, moving as a wave,
Passing through the people, all the people say Hey!
Yes, can we dance to the flames of a fire,
Oh can our voices rise higher and higher?
Out of time, out of mind, only in the now,
Don’t bother asking why, cause we’re going to show you how.
What I’m talking about is not some luxury vacation,
Just a lesson in the one and only, positive vibration!
Uniquely we journey through a higher space,
Subsequently sending peace to our race.
Millenium magic shining in the night,
Right before your eyes and then flashing out of sight.
What’s that you say, Can you explain it a little more?
About this game that we are playing where no one’s keeping score.
Well life is the game and the journey is the board,
Breath is our peace and the lion is our roar!
The sea just bubbles as the stars begin to fall,
While islands of laughter just echo down the hall.
It’s the absence of judgment, but not the lack of choice.
Talkin about another way to utilize your voice.
The power of the people, the one’s that speak as one,
The movement of the masses going to outpower any gun.
Love is our sword and we strike it all around,
To anybody open to this hip vibration sound.
We move as a tribe, as we dance in the field,
Singing, Hallelujah to that ever sacred seal.
That binds us together to make a solid chain,
you and me, him and her, we’re all just the same.
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i met a gal
and showed her how
I frame my window
to see the world
with clear glass panes
seeing the light of the sun
explaining that it will rain
and suggested she try to reframe.
she smiled and said
she felt good around me
and would try as well
to turn that key.
my other friend said
my presence is intoxicating
that its so different when I’m around.
i said i will never know
what its like when I’m not in tow
i only know what i know
and i only know how to be me…