Category — Comfort
Christopher Hansard:[ Presence in all things]
no matter
where you are
no matter where you think you are
no matter what you believe yourself to believe
in matter
in thought
which is matter
there is
presence
in
all things
the ever knowing
You
July 3, 2011 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[ listening to...]
what are you listening to?
do you know?
do you care?
is it out of habit or a quiet despair?
what are you listening to?
to voices in the background, to thoughts inside your head
to the clanging of memories or the unwritten future?
what are you listening to?
underneath and within all of this
there is another listening going on
a listening to the inner way
the beauty, the song
to the dreaming that unmakes dreams
and makes the world
to the sacred, the profane
the great and the mundane
what are you listening to?
‘What’s that?’ you say..’what should I listen to?’
listen to the listener within
and you will
be
listened too
September 14, 2009 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[ Minuet on Credit]
1
Benjamin Franklin would have been refused credit
so would Plato too,
Socrates, Wagner and Schiller
Mahler, most certainly Mozart
unacceptable credit risks
St Francis having no real assets
would be dismissed
George Washington
Marqui de Sade or Rocheford,
Duke of Wellington, Napoleon
too,
Balachine, Gorky
Kafka
Credit
belongs
to
those
whose heaven is on earth
covered up by concrete
cemented by debt
2
anger is the most communicable disease
of the politically correct community
if you want to be truly authentic
know where your anger
arises from.
heal it and move on
know where your greed arises from
heal it and move on
know where your lust in all its forms arises from
heal it and move on
3
my time here is over
i have moved on
4
karma is intentional action, thought and deed
free yourself from ignorance to understand full intention
love all things
5
look into the noise of life
and hear the silence
the music
the light
the rushing of
the Way
October 19, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[When the Sunlight Falls]
When the sunlight falls upon the waves
carefree and glancing as they lap around the
last remains of a sky scraping tower
the young child from the little boat looks up with wondering eyes
‘who made these things?’ his mother catches his thoughts..
‘men who were like gods, men who fell to the earth and could not get up again’
the child wonders,sad thoughts
trawling a memory of what was once
another world, fingers trailing in water
as fish swirl around the little boat
as by thought it moves silently
across the great saltwater lake
deep in the refracted depths
white whales harvest the plankton
while a serrated moon
hangs tilted in the blue starred night
years pass the child now a man
goes past in a little boat
and his daughter wonders the very same as he once did
a hundred years go past
people pass by they do not see the ruins
they do not know what they are
the ruins
they have slipped
from memory and so they do not exist
April 30, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[Anger]
The world is full of it…
of anger,
anger is the rage and shame of having no power
anger too can take you to a place of change when it is truly right to be angry
but anger though is impulse, it is not a destination for each of us needs to
go beyond it, to leave its power behind and embrace the power of Love
anger seeks its own demise, its own transformation but can lose
its way to healing
look to the anger within you, see how it moulds your life
and how the anger of others influences your state of being ,
anger can be glamourous, even kind, anger can be generous and also blind
anger seeks its own destruction and understanding
it is the light of extreme dissatisfaction and the voice of fear
April 29, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[Love is Within Us]
ONE:
Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall
Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye
Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat,
Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury the oncoming fear
Lust craves a chance at halting mortality and believes in the tempoary as real
Illumination lights only what needs to be illuminated for the awakening of the Self happens in the dark
Loss and learning go together, and love and liberation are good friends.
TWO:
Love was within us before we came and went, love was in the first cosmic form
and fell in the first rainfall, love was within us and will be when we forget that we once dwelt
upon the Earth, love was within the first rising spark of Wisdom and the clear sight of Compassion
and Love took the journey willingly into the dark matter and confusion of the temporal world in order
to evolve back to its own recognition again.
THREE:
The human race is a pathway in which Love plies its course,
a river that flows through time and space
creating diversity and matter, consciousness and place,
perception and awakening and the nature of living light
Love has made the chance for Life
when it embraced itself openly with Light,
for Love and Life make Light and from that all things are:
for in Light, Consciousness takes form
shrouding Love’s constant breath
and in that come the two eternal seasons, mortal life and mortal death
two great teachings of Love and Light
by which the Cosmos and Consciousness descend and create form
April 27, 2008 No Comments
Reflections through Human Experience
1
Take A Walk Across the Land
Take a walk across the land,
or down the street, extend your hands,
feel the human pulse in all that is there
step back do you feel fear?
Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make
the landscapes in your mind, through the crowded market place of emotions
and through the long rememberings of the longing heart,
extend you hands
..feel the human pulse in all that is there…
do you feel love?
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
2
The Sound of a Single Note
Each of us remains too frightened in our daily lives,
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
there are harmonic rhapsodies in the faces of love and fear,
call to them,
like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn
or the Snake Charmer of Lucknapoor ,
they will come scuttling to the tune,
fear comes like a horde of rats
because fear is stronger in a crowd and more curious,
love will come willingly for love is willing
and not because the piper calls but that
love knows that piper in order to heard needs to be followed
until the day that the piper casts the pipe away
Love and fear harmonic interplay
you can travel world on a single note
from future to the past and
the illusion of now
extend your hands and feel the human pulse
3
The Finder is Not the Knower
we are born to meander through the human pulse
in search of meaning and the celebration of our Self
If you seek to look for God or the answers to your life
stop and feel the human pulse
for all the names of God are found
in the human world in the beating heart and it essence
if you seek to be comforted, the comfort that is
within is to be reflected in the creation of friendship
if you seek for answers to your life then stop to know
the way of how you love and why you do
then give it up and you
will find the truth
whatever you may search for will be found
but on finding it then you must understand
understanding is the discoverer and explorer too
been the finder is not the knower
You may find God, You may find Meaning
You may find Love, You may find fame
Finding is not the Knowing
to know we must give up what we have found
to understand we must give up meaning
to have meaning we must give up all our prejudice
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
4
Unknown
In the world and in our heart there is the
divine, unknown, we seek to find a way to love
which will lead to us been known.
but all things return to the unknown
and the emergent
when you feel alone and lonely
separate and unknown
pause and offer up these states of being
as imperfect prayers to the unknown
and you will find that the
Cosmos and its Descent
will be falling within and up
bathing you in the Unknown
We are the Unknown
the lonely and the content
we are the journey and the last coin spent
we are the meaning and dreaming
and the reflections through human experience
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
5
What We Have Now is Also This
All is offering and acceptance
seeking its own delight
all our bitterness is a call for this
all our love and suffering too
what we have now is also this
what we seek is in the seeking
we fall in love with ourselves
this is what we seek
what we have now in the essence of our being
is what we had in the first impulse of our coming into being
we are reflections through human experience
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
6
With a Single Constant Breath Make Ourselves Again
Give up the patterns of your thoughts
the past, wherefores and whys
go beyond comparisons
beyond truth and lies
through the furnace of awakening
through the glamour of illusion
go beyond to
the one unspoken word
there is no this or that
there is no us or them
there is no good or bad
for the Cosmos and its Descent
only moves to find its way
a sunset and sunrise
a moonset and moonrise
fleeting light on fleeting lives
starlight, lovelight, carlights
there is
Awake and be kind to your heart
look out around you
to the mind field, that pattern which you call your life
there the mind field is a vast skein of light
harmonic interludes that create day, birth, night, death
and eternity
I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,
the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light
when the world is at last, swept away ,we will gather up the dust
and with a single constant breath
make our selves again in the image of our being
our creation will be
reflections through human and divine experience
April 18, 2008 No Comments
The Four Fists
The First Fist is held high and states aloud, “If you enter into my territory I will defend myself and the consequence will be yours!’
This fist defends territory and the consequences engulf everyone. Territory eventually falls. Boundaries and borders may change but still keep their resilience.
The Second First is held high and states aloud, ” If you do not give me what I regard as mine I will take it from you!’
This fist is afraid and has no trust of the world.
This fist is afraid of aggression but is driven by what it fears most.
The Third Fist is held high and states aloud, ” If you try to take from others or from me I will use all reasonable force to protect my interests and those who I protect.”
This fist believes in the politics of the protector to get what is wants.
All of these three fists believe they are fair, just and compassionate. But all of exact huge costs, people, culture and environment, the present and the future are all altered.
The Fourth Fist is held high and states aloud , ” Look..my fist is unfolding to be a gesture of peace and friendship, join me.”
This fist seeks nothing but unity and cooperation.
It is stronger than the other three but has less attraction, for peace has no glamour or conquest, other than love for all that you fear the most and all that invades and seeks to change what you regard as yours.
Look at the World today, where do you see these four fists being held high?
Banners of human flesh on a strong and forceful wind.
April 10, 2008 No Comments
What Will You Do?
What will You do when you can not put gas into your car?
What will You do when you can not buy your food at the supermarket?
What will you do if you can not find any water clean enough to drink?
What will you do when the lights go out?
What will you do if your software fails?
What will you do if all that you know suddenly falls apart?
What will you do?
What will you do when the rain fall burns your skin?
What will you do when the rain stops falling?
What will you do when the rain pours down day and night ?
What will you do when the last glacier evaporates?
What will you do when all the knowhow of all that you take for granted is meaningless and cannot save you?
What will you do?
Stand in the light of your own being and try not to be afraid, that is what you can do
When the Zoo gets raided for the meat in the cages what will you do?
When everyone around you is in despair what will you do?
Stand in the light of your being and try not to be afraid, that’s what you can do ..
Start now and learn how to know what to do,
Stand in the light of your being and try not to be afraid
Trust the cycle of spiritual unfoldment in the world
This is the sad time of the World versus the Earth, when there needs to be no competition
When the Earth asks you, and that day will come, what did you do? What will your answer be?
The World has no answer and no question. That is why many do not know what to do.
There are two species of humanity, one dwells within The World
The other dwells with the Earth..the choice is , what will you do?
March 21, 2008 No Comments
Christopher Hansard:[ Karma, Rebirth and Reincarnation]
People often wonder… what is Karma?
Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative. Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond measurement, we all are linked in a karmic fish net, that trawls the bottom of our unconscious karmic ocean.
If we wish to change patterns in our life, we need to understand what prompts our thoughts, actions, words and gestures, and what are the drives behind our intentions and focus. We can change karmic patterns by changing the nature of our intentions to the world, our inner world, outer world and to all people and other living creatures.
People often wonder …what is Rebirth, thinking it the same as Reincarnation.
Rebirth is the process of suddenly been born as soon as you are dead without any understanding or control over the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of dying. If you lived a confused life and died with confusion, fear or any other overwhelming emotion that caused you to feel trapped,then it can be that you will be born immediately, as there are endless wombs waiting to be filled with life.
Rebirth is sudden and without understanding, it is a rush an endless flow and pattern. But you can rise out of that pattern by learning how to become conscious and more aware of your inner state so it does not sabotage your mental state as you die. This leads us to Reincarnation.
People often wonder… what Reincarnation is…
Reincarnation is the conscious application of mental , emotional and spiritual insight to yourself as you die, thus clearing away all the inner fears and projections that emanate around you as you die. You create a choice within you as to how you shall be, you enter into a dimension of choices. And when you know it is right, you have an element of choice over how, when and to whom you will be born.
In the death process if you enter into the state of clarity, you can redeem yourself, heal all your regrets, learn as to the whys and hows of your karmic legacy and inheritance and transform yourself.
Death is the great equalizer but in that you have choice and intention and focus. Whatever you have done, you can heal in the process of death, and stay in the dimensions between the former life and the possibility of a new one, to enhance your inner evolution and well being.
March 13, 2008 No Comments








