Posts from — May 2009

If you want peace in your life

do not play the role of enemy

If you want contentment in your life

be thankful for both the challenges and the sweet things that come to you

If you want money in your life

give up all ideas of ownership

and it will come

knowing that there is only a limited supply in the material world

If you want to be your self

then let the every day mind evaporate

for it is nothing but steam and memory

If you want strife,danger,conflict and mistrust

then cling on tightly

to all the selves within you

that seek

to make you small and less than who you really are

the years in which we live

are the stanchions

on which

we dream

and by dreaming

make the unseen

part of our human soul

democracy in order to survive

needs consumerism

and a free economy

based on the natural cycles

of the natural world

the way to peace

comes by gathering

up all the broken

parts of one’s life

and mixing them together

until melted by the heat of one’s own innner vision

create a new alloy

a fusion of soul, mind, intent

and consciousness

for the mind creates all your suffering,

the soul reacts to your suffering,

intent is a bridge no wider than a hair

which leads you

to

consciousness

and there

you will find that

consciousness

needs nothing

but itself

Some people say that time is a straight line,

Others state it is a cycle

but I say its a

wave

a giant swell,that rises and falls

within the mind

the mind field

that is the world

so learn how to ride the wave

and time will not constrain you

time starts and ends

in the wave

the swell

of the

breath

within

your breath

that stiches you

as a seam

to the world

of the

everyday

mind

we are on the path of dreaming

that is the way of this world

dreamers all of us

until we awake

and see

the simplicity

in the complicated

and know

that there

just

the awakened state

Where do you belong?

Family, friends, a distant shore?

where is your identity form from

how is it made,

who are you,

the ‘you’ of now

has faded

gone

fleeting

the ‘you’ of yesterday is more remembered

in tones and hues of named selves

where do you belong?

In a belief or theory

a fact or fiction?

a group or faction?

belonging is not the question

and neither is where

but how

and what

brought you to this place

that your life inhabits

in which of many self-made moments

shall you call your Self?

Look to the wind and the sea

and how they play together

of how starlight, moonlight,sunlight

create identities within you

each for a different Self

that calls you

home

there is movement

in the self and mind

the many selves make many minds

that form the shifting face of humanity

that scrys

to divine

its identity

mankind is not a mirror that reflects itself

but a river that flows back to its source

and like water evaporates

to vapour to return to the cycle of becoming

once more

all things are movement

until they rest

with great stillness in between

and even thus the silence moves

back to the flow of being

History is not just the recording of events

for them to be interpreted at a more convenient time

history is not just the words of the victor

or the propaganda

History is largely hidden

in the seasons

and the stars

in the waves of the ocean

the breathing of humanity

of a mountain lion

watching tourists from afar

history is the basket of time

that catches

all the small things

that seem

to the world

of no importance

history is a language

of humanity and the evolution

of all life

within the sphere

of

Earth

we are part of the crowd

in the throng

the mass

the populace

until each of us

changes the way we think

until

we

cut

the strings

that

trap us

to

the

thoughts of the lowest common denominator

to the atavistic glamour

of the collective

when each of us can emerge from the membrane of the tribe