Portal

Not noticed 

yet most nearly near

hiding in plain sight..

A portal to what all are seeking..

Seeking by plan and by process

awaiting the day and the time

for that which is sought
to appear..

That has many names

reduced to finding our portal..

Many findings on many paths

flare in the moment

announcing the search's end..

But those findings

very soon confess:

not here..now not..
It is close
much closer...

The chameleon's lesson

The chameleon's lesson

It is a lesson on time

taught by changing colors..

The external coloration

never really changing the

whole chameleon..

It seems that creations within

a whole being

simply color that being

with the colors

made only of that being..

This is our own Reality:

the external world

our chameleon colors..

An experience of wholeness

here and now

outside of time...

Intersection

Intersection

Where is the point

where consciousness meets

our conventional self..?

Seems as depending

on our point-of-view..

From the conventional point

there is a shining experience

available to all:

simply..I am..

From the consciousness point

a veil is drawn

to allow for the

conventional point..!

The thought arises

The thought arrises

and will soon dissolve

unless the mind

keeps it around..

History seems to be

a pool of lingering

thoughts..thoughts 

extending their stay

 casting their burden 

on many each day..

Bringing to mind 

 boundaries and rules

which seem idolatrous

in their staying power..

History as taught

seems to suggest

we are made of thought..

Our need now is to

expect quicker passage

of all our thoughts

great and small..

Celebrating their

absence: find only

freedom remaining...

Thanksgiving, 2017

Thanksgiving, 2017

Why state the year

when the true Thanksgiving

is timeless..

We give Thanks perhaps..for

 the turkey and dressing

or the new home

or a future brightening..

These passing Thanksgivings

outpour from the true Thanksgiving

which will remain true and near

when Black Friday dawns...

Happy Thanksgiving...!

What do we mean when we repeat

this most common of words..?

Most of us would say

a multiplicity of things

many names of occupations

locations and the resume

most recently written..

This objectified I

accumulates memories

pleased with the good

fearing the bad

and so it goes over our years..

There are expressions of

Thank You

for material abundance

and for a good name..

This I is personal and close

but if we admit..not quite

the I we long to be..

And on occasion

a question asserts:

How might I be truly

Happy..?

Recognizing that I

good teachers will say

would mean that this

would be truly a

Happy Thanksgiving...!

Emerson on teaching...

"The spirit only can teach."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Divinity school address, 1838

This is the advice which our teachers

are waiting to hear and adhere..

Our teachers..of course, with exceptions..

teach from a belief in their finite existence

veiling that inner spirit which could make 

the teacher they would wish to be..

Our teachers are products of our culture

a culture immersed in material belief

and a tamping down of the subjective self..

As a result..mind limitations are not assumed

as would be evident with the spirit of truth..

Complexity and information reign over 

a simplicity of learning to learn..

A revolution must come:

a teacher joyously awakening to her

real self...CC