Thursday, July 31, 2014

Pluviophile


Pluviophile

(n) a lover of rain; someone
who finds joy and peace of
mind during rainy days.

are we all lovers of rain
a time of sharing and a 
common recognition that
sunshine is hidden..
but knowing that sunshine
is only interrupted and
that sunshine shines with
more beauty with a surprise
reentrance..
in the meantime
anticipation will do
and the rain turns 
our focus within
to another light
 Awareness...!


Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Rain (by Rose)


   Rain
                                                               
                                    The rain
                                        washes    
                                          splashes                     
                                            clears the
                                                streets  the
                                                    gutters
                                                       of debris
                                                          and of people


                                                   Rose              
          
                                                              

morning rain


morning rain

rain falling this morning..
walking away in the rain
 a hemingway ending..
the rain encloses walking
seeming quiet resignation..
love found but now lost
the mind stretches
finding elementary comfort
in sheets of dark wetness
the rain..
yet is the rain hiding
the closeness of Love..
and is the mind sensing
but not understanding
this closeness in rain...

(ending referred-
Farewell to Arms)


Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Cold War


Cold War

an airline downed
photographers sickened 
in their imaging...
a nation's leader remains
aloof in his reaching for
new power in energizing
a new fractal iteration
of his nation's past..
so we ask what is
necessary to interrupt
this and every pattern
in which similarities
unfold and repeat..?
what is the waking
we are waiting for..?
 is the strong belief 
in the separate self
and seeking solutions
immersed in this belief
the simple but hidden
root of these realities
of all suffering...?



Monday, July 28, 2014

The Grammar Secret

The Grammar Secret

those parts of speech
learned very early
taken for granted
now might serve
to trigger an entry
to Happiness
to Beauty
to Awareness..
subject and object
are the benchmarks
of the dualistic world
and with dissolution 
we become Aware..
the object's existence
is our senses
a simple stimulation
and nothing more..
with externals dissolved
we then find
the subject has
no object and so
makes an exit
leaving only That
which we are...

crucial...!!!


Taste of Awareness


Taste of Awareness

words are indeed power
but also limitation
a severe limiting
when we long
to taste Awareness..
our identities seem to
be made of words
nouns and verbs
subjects and objects..
yet in our quiet
we see that words
are seeds of division..
to reach Awareness
the object dissolves
and then the subject..
so our poet must
choose her words
as if painted on
simple Awareness
coloring not changing..
  a taste of boundless 
Awareness...!

Sunday, July 27, 2014

No Worthless Place (Rilke)


If your daily life seems of no account, don't blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its treasures. For the creative artist there is no impoverishment and no worthless place. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Paris, February 17, 1903
Letters to a Young Poet

Healing over distance


Healing over distance

is supported by awareness
and a recognition that
awareness is not one's alone
and that pain in the distance 
is the coloring of common awareness..
and this recognition
in simultaneous fashion
is healing itself..
and more
a new glimpse to show
distance and color
never were...




Butterfly's Sabbath


Butterfly's Sabbath

after the soaring
a landing and spreading
of wings accepting the
sun's warm light..
a morning model
of a sabbath taken
a return to her Source..
but then her recognition
there is no return
that her Source had
been soaring..
Now still in landing
a new wind and
we imagine interruption..
yet does she know
wind also as Source..?
Now a cloud cover
entering and leaving..
is there now distress
forgetting and remembering
or is her sabbath
enriching even now
when her Source
seems hidden...?



Saturday, July 26, 2014

What butterfly knows


What butterfly knows

a seeming effortless
movement of wings..
there must be subtle flows
tunneling in air
which she senses
knows and rides
with only slight
flutter of wings..
then to confirm
an airborne seed
with inert extensions
flies butterfly paths
and if knowing knows
that these paths assist
for going with flows...

That which is


That which is

There is that
each morning which is new
but also that
which is...
the new makes us
different this day
what seemed important
yesterday
the in-sight then
today is replaced with
morning displays of now..
But this now of morning
which is
of all mornings
 makes each morning
new...!

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Multiplicity


Multiplicity

Sitting in a spacious hotel lobby
which enclosed a carpet with repeating designs
Large TVs with changing projections on screens
These assertions of apparent separations in life
Two boys playing pool and a narrator on TV
speaking with all certainty proclaiming his side
A swinging lamp in pendular motion announced
the obvious rulership of linear time
However, remembering now that all these are
the making and iterations and extensions which
brighten in the light of our Awareness
But not yet home these brightened extensions
remind us that Awareness is only aware of itself
Next time might we start in Awareness and
watch the extensions arrive  ?



Monday, July 21, 2014

Aridity


Aridity

is a presence
a creator of the West
when the presence becomes:
clear dry air
brilliance of a starry night
grass bunches and clumps 
and piling tumbleweed..
carvings in cliffs
sculptured arches of beauty
earth's pigments unveiled..
yucca and her moths
in symbiotic dance and
warm walks in the woods..
and not forgotten
Western aridity which
as presence becomes...



(with gratitude for
Wallace Stegner's
Thoughts on the West)

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Generations


Generations

What can we make
of evidence showing
generational linkages
such that healing 
of grandparents also
and simultaneously
heals grandchildren..
then follow questions
is healing available
for passed generations..?
are future generations
engaged in our healing..?
Our time concepts
shout a negative
but may their short view
be subverted in a 
quick transcendence...?

(an IONS reflection..see http://noetic.org)

Friday, July 18, 2014

Storms


Storms

This morning's list
of what-to-dos
these pulls outward
resisted by a wish
for settled quiet..
after giving in
to pulling of weeds
the aftermath was
a calming recognition
that the settled quiet
ventured and returned..
the life challenge
to gain recognition
of settled quiet
in the midst of
the storms...

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Work


Work

the energy is found
a connecting circuit
whole to less
less to whole..
the work presents
awareness to become
what will be done..
this plan rehearses
for a realizing of
what will be done..
but alas
as ground is broken
obstacles loom and
awareness oft retreats
the connecting circuit
stretches to breaking..
a suggestion of rest
promises restoral 
whole to less
less to whole...

the cycle of
the Perennial Philosophy...




Wednesday, July 16, 2014

The significant Question


The significant Question

We want the mind to confront
a Question of significance
for the mind to struggle
and finally report that 
I know not..
A Question such as
What am I?
will reduce the mind to
a not-knowing friend
melding into simple
happiness of Awareness...

Monday, July 14, 2014

Let Everything Be


Let Everything Be

as it is
and those distractions
be as they may
rising and falling away..
let awareness be
that no-thing-ness
it's own substance
forming itself into
and curious about
those distractions 
which wander and go..
meditating on
meditation...

Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Doors of Perception


THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION

STRETCH: July 14th, 2014
MacKenzie Place
Facilitator:  Charlie Coon

"I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the qualitative equivalent of breathing -but of a breathing without returns to a starting point, with no recurrent ebbs but only a repeated flow from beauty to heightened beauty, from deeper to ever deeper meaning. Words like "grace" and "transfiguration" came to my mind, and this, of course, was what, among other things, they stood for. My eyes traveled from the rose to the carnation, and from that feathery incandescence to the smooth scrolls of sentient amethyst which were the iris. The Beatific Vision, Sat Chit Ananda, Being-Awareness-Bliss-for the first time I understood, not on the verbal level, not by inchoate hints or at a distance, but precisely and completely what those prodigious syllables referred to. And then I remembered a passage I had read in one of Suzuki's essays. "What is the Dharma-Body of the Buddha?" ('"the Dharma-Body of the Buddha" is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead.) The question is asked in a Zen monastery by an earnest and bewildered novice. And with the prompt irrelevance of one of the Marx Brothers, the Master answers, "The hedge at the bottom of the garden." " 
---Aldous Huxley


Set and Setting


Set and Setting

for a meditation
What we are    and
Where we are
bring us to our
unfolding experience..
What..?
this our interior
our awareness state
coming from before
and after our
birth and death..
Where..?
this our exterior
our location and
that yellow rose
but now made
of awareness light..
Set and Setting...

Time Expands


Time Expands

yellow swallowtail with
expanding flight
seems to slow smaller
with rapid wings..
the hummingbird's 
hovering stillness
a moment stalled
on beating wings..
a pole vaulter's pause
before the fall..
a photo brings stillness
in midst of a blur..
these expansions inform
our awareness and acquaint
with an eternal home...

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Buttery Yellow


Buttery Yellow

of a summer rose..
immersing in white rimmed 
light tinged yellow
awareness becoming
in around and through
yet remaining untouched
while making itself
spontaneously
buttery yellow...

Friday, July 11, 2014

the interlocking grip


the interlocking grip

the world is a splitting
splitting and splintering
accelerating separation and distance
creation making new difference
a downward and outward progression
often a painful procession..
but when we are watchful
occasions are present for reversals
unifying the separated
transforming our vision
finding new beauty in splinters...

for non-golfers please provide
your own title...!

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Mardi


Mardi

our cat at the screendoor
is curious and fearful
of the squirrels and work noises..
she wishes for the door ajar
for quick excursions and escapes
sitting on the edge
Mardi's morning paradoxical
stimulation...

STRETCH...Neurons-to-Nirvana



STRETCH...

July 14th, 2014
MacKenzie Place
(Union and Fillmore)
4:00 to 6:00 PM
No Cost
Facilitator:  Charlie Coon

Neurons to Nirvana

A Mind-Blowing Documentary about the resurgence of psychedelics as medicines

Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of five powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Cannabis) and their now established medicinal potential. 

Strictly focusing on the science and medicinal properties of these drugs. The filmmakers understand that this film touches on controversial territory but are committed in their belief in the message. Giancarlo Canavesio (Founder/President) of Mangusta Productions states:“This is an extremely important film. We understand that it challenges the standard perception of the war on drugs but our aim is simple, to help alleviate human suffering." 

For the first time in two generations, the use of these drugs is not being presented as harmful or as self-indulgent, but as a rational and valuable addition to therapeutic practice.
 
Several well-respected researchers are conducting clinical trials to treat a range of afflictions: PTSD, addictions and the psychological stresses suffered by late-stage terminal cancer patients. The initial results of all these studies are remarkable.

The story extends beyond these trials however. Clients of licensed therapists are using psychedelics not as escape routes or addictive crutches, but in a quest for transformation, mental health, creativity, intellectual and spiritual enhancement and insight.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

polarization


polarization

thought by many
as a pejorative
a name of illness..
might we inquire
of a benefit hiding..
pointing to a split
a duality
we are bombarded
with duality's insistence
of independent truth..
might a question arrive
sooner or later
on sole right to
represent our
Truth...?


Monday, July 7, 2014

Missing the Mark


Missing the Mark

we need expect
to miss the mark
with the shadow
such missing makes..
but the knowing that
under the shadow
lies the mark
the glowing mark
becomes a teacher
dissolving the shadow
then we know
we are the mark
and the mark now
knows itself...

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Reset


Hints



Hints

Disparate morning events I am recounting:
breakfast preparation of coffee and oatmeal
attention to programs for a week yet to be
newspaper accounts of wars of separation
re-seeding an empty birdseed feeder..
this brief portrait of mind and body 
especially a most sequential passage..
now seated and noting my time assumption
time provides notions of events quite separate
but is there a witness of this procession
and was the witnessing then as it is now..?
these seem clarifying questions
Questions of the morning with hints of joy...

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Staying awake


Staying awake

how is it done..?
mindfulness is life lived with awareness foremost
yet we are interrupted distracted and blinded..
awareness then must be renewed by new waking
again and again when sleeping seems to reign..
and new waking is waking from what majorities
claim is our real waking state..
but awareness knows that real waking is simply
our awareness aware of itself
and venturing forth to make and
discover a shining creation...