Peace prospects

Peace prospects

is there something new:
two heads of state..often said to be
unpredictable..even unstable..will
meet concerning an intractable
standoff.. a division decades old..
we know that peace will only arrive
as parties meet knowing shared identity
before discussion of history and fences..
the recognized single identity enters 
and shines..recognizing egos as 
illusory barriers..yet..let us give 
peace a chance..by knowing now:
their shared identity 
is mine and ours...


Several readers have shared a report:
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, told President Moon Jae-in of South Korea when they met that he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the United States would agree to formally end the Korean War and promise that it would not invade his country, a South Korean government spokesman said Sunday. In a faith-building gesture ahead of a summit meeting with President Trump, Mr. Kim also said he would invite experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States to watch the shutdown next month of his country's only known underground nuclear test site.

The comments by Mr. Kim were made on Friday when the leaders of the two Koreas met at Panmunjom, a village on their shared border, the spokesman, Yoon Young-chan, said on Sunday, providing additional details of the meeting. "I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States," Mr. Kim told Mr. Moon, according to Mr. Yoon's account of the meeting. It was another dramatically conciliatory statement by Mr. Kim, whose country threatened to do exactly those things during the height of nuclear tensions last year.

~~SLASHDOT

Paris (2)

Paris (2)

art provides a glimpse

of eternal reality

pointing to our identity

an identity that seems hidden

until an artpiece parts the curtain..

and the curtain itself now glows

as it has always glowed behind

 our curtained perceptions...

extricate yourself

extricate yourself

do this and 

taste the beauty

in the seascape

and all around..

extricate the tangling

and regard yourself anew

as the luminous whole

which is your birthright..

then look again at the 

sea and mountain

and experience

the taste of the

forenamed beauty...!

Paris (1)

Paris (1)

the day soon to arrive for departure

for this city of springtime..

gathering maps and luggage

and passport and advice..

the imaginings of Paris

color pre-departure awareness..

thoughts and perceptions

are bundled with expectation

for new colorations as the

journey unfolds..

my father was in Paris

during the war to end all wars

and my own military memories

will likely lead to Normandy

and new appreciation for 

those fields of sacrifice...

One of the reasons we love to travel is that that element of ourselves which never goes anywhere is, by contrast with the movement involved in traveling, brought into focus. The changes emphasize the changeless. The sense of deep peace that often accompanies a journey is the peace of our changeless presence. We love to go to different places only to taste again and again the recognition that we never go anywhere and to feel the peace that accompanies that recognition. ~ Rupert Spira

ambition

ambition

brutus finds the truth
of the ego's struggle
upward..seemingly for each
new ladder rung..
to discover from the top
that temporary happiness
accompanied each rung
but eluded finally
on each and from the top..
there is the thought
that the discovery of futility
could have been discovered
nearer the bottom of one's
ladder of life...

Julius Caesar

2.1.21-27

Brutus

But, ‘tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder
Whereto the climber upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.

Who is the lord?

Who is the lord?

check it out: 

Emerson's Experience

who speaks of

7 lords of life..

and Mary Oliver with

6 recognitions of the lord..

and from Belyani:

knowing oneself is

knowing the lord..

what is the common..?

each seems to recognize:

that we have the capacity 

each of us

to experience here and now

what's traditionally named

as the lord..

a discovery of ourselves

as the light

and a discovery of the 

universe as that

same light... 

burning branches

burning branches

the vine

a new name coloring I am..

the shepherd is now the vine

the hired hand the branches..

the colors change

but I am..our identity..remains..

branches express the separation

which we all experience..

we live in what seems as

a subject-object world..

as branches we seek the vine

unaware that we already are

the vine..!

then it happens in a moment

as the seeking wearies

our false identity as branches

is burned..at last revealing:

I am the vine..and the

fruits of joy burst forth...

John 15:1-8 Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Jesus Is the True Vine

15 Jesus said to his disciples:

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of what I have said to you.

4 Stay joined to me, and I will stay joined to you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it stays joined to the vine, you cannot produce fruit unless you stay joined to me. 5 I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I stay joined to you, then you will produce lots of fruit. But you cannot do anything without me. 6 If you don’t stay joined to me, you will be thrown away. You will be like dry branches that are gathered up and burned in a fire.

7 Stay joined to me and let my teachings become part of you. Then you can pray for whatever you want, and your prayer will be answered. 8 When you become fruitful disciples of mine, my Father will be honored.