Integral Poetry

Be as freshly fallen snow

2010-03-02T22:07:00.000-08:00

Be as freshly fallen snow

Each fragile crystal moment tells the story of the whole universe
from a fresh and difference perspective
.

Be as snow melting into the earth

Every drop a precious moment not to be wasted

Breath the pristine air, drink the melt water, quench your thirst

Return to the earth

Return to that which is nameless

No mind, no thing

Live in the paradise of balance

2010-03-02T22:04:00.001-08:00

Live in the paradise of balance

being nourished by the spacious moment

Always in the presence of what is of ultimate concern

Always listening to the deep continuous chant of pure potentiality

Letting your heart play exotic beautiful melodies
Let your being be a divine paintbrush

Mantra

2009-12-29T17:42:00.000-08:00

in one moment
in one breath

the ones joins to be many
the many embrace to be one

outside inhales to inside
inside exhales outside

individual embraces inside existence
individual partakes outside existence

the group embraces the inside existence
the group shares the outside existence

sequential flows to simultaneous
simultaneous flows to sequential
agency flows to communion
existence flows into non-existence

suchness itself flows yet never moves

Not Two, Not One

2009-05-13T17:24:00.000-07:00

Find the resting point between
voluntary and involuntary
Between feeling and emptiness
Between breath and emptiness

There is simultaneously only
Manifesting and only emptiness

Infinite nothing - no duality
Manifestation birthing emptiness
Emptiness birthing manifestation

Die to everything and everything reveals

Never dying the same way
Never discovering the same way
Always new, always old
Always needing breath
Always being breathed
Budha Nature

Travel and Explore

2009-05-13T17:12:00.000-07:00

Travel and explore not according to anyone
Go where no map could take you

To connect the dots, connect your breath

Let your breath build the runway that launches
you into the unknown

Know what is in front of your face without there being a knower
and nothing shall be withheld.
All consciousness is embedded there

There is no place to hide when there is no hider
Only beautiful omnipresent echoes of truth
Music that cannot be heard, seen, touched

Emptiness if fullness, Fullness is emptiness

Take the flower with one hand and let go with the other
One acting, One taste, No duality, One hand clapping
before you were born

When everything is left behind, who is there
left to travel?

What You Already Know

2009-05-13T17:08:00.000-07:00

Say hello
That you already know
That you already know
That you already know
That you already know
So let it go
What you already know
So let it go
What you already know

There are no surprises in what arises
Be in the glow of what you already know
Let it flow and let it go
And let it go
And let it go
There is nothing to know

A Stitch in Time

2009-05-13T17:06:00.000-07:00

Surrender to what is real
That is where unknown wisdom lies
The breath sews the fabric of existence
A stitch in time
Makes me feel fine

Fullness of Mind

2009-05-13T17:01:00.000-07:00

No emergency mind
Full feeling mind
Full being mind
Full sensing mind
Full no mind
Full dying mind
Flawless lens
Spotless mind

Not According to Anyone

2009-05-13T16:55:00.000-07:00

See - not according to anyone
Do - not according to anyone
Exist - not according to anyone
Be - not according to anyone

See for yourself
Do for yourself
According to yourself
Think for yourself
Exist for yourself

do Existence for yourself

Intelligence

2009-05-13T16:47:00.000-07:00

Absolute creative indifference
Absolute what is
No one, nothing is there
Breath and what is - absolute nourishment
One moment - One moment - One moment
Intelligence occurs when there is no one to be intelligent
No self - No object - No self - No object
Orgasm of Being
The deep sleep of waking up

Zen Poem

2009-05-13T16:37:00.000-07:00

True spaciousness, true aliveness, true flow,
True flexibility, true peace, true nothingness, true breath.

Letting go of the one who lets go

Sense the space that takes up no space
The song that has no sound

The infinite that takes up no time
The truth that cannot be thought about
It offers you no choice, no existence, no being, no thought

Rest in its bliss if you can
There is really nothing that is not already there.
The first act of existence has always been there and is the only thing that has ever been there
This courage is your co-creator and friend

Gently wake up

Lightning Strikes

2009-05-13T15:09:00.000-07:00

From the gathering clouds of potentiality
The lightning strike of the present moment
Parts the waters of past and future

It strikes again and again
Yet there is only one strike

Fun to think about while the lightning strikes
Between each thought illuminating such folly

There is no real place where truth is not
There is no real place where self is

Nothing more need be said

Where There is No Place

2009-05-13T15:05:00.000-07:00

Where there is no place
There is nothing to do
There is nothing to not do

There is no sound, and no one not to hear it
God looks into the mirror and
There is nothing on either side

Pure form - pure emptiness
Cannot be seen, touched or thought

What a Relief

2009-05-13T15:01:00.000-07:00

Not to seek at all
Not to think at all
Not to do at all
Not to be at all
Not to try at all
What a relief!

Slide down the mountainside
Feel the fresh air
Deeper, deeper and deeper
Splash into infinity
What fun!
Now only the ocean

Landscape

2009-05-13T14:53:00.000-07:00

Gently touch the landscape of your mind
Rocks, grass, mountains, caves, rivers, glaciers
Who could disturb such beauty

Tall grass dancing and bobbing in the wind
Reveals the invisible force that has moved it
and harmonized it

You came into being before you came into being

Gentle isness breathes its fresh air upon me
Gentle isness waters my ground and allows me to grow

The lovers embrace the duality and
Simultaneously let go into its one perfect freedom

Silence

2009-05-13T14:52:00.000-07:00

In the space of silence
The truth gently offers itself.

Priorities

2009-05-13T14:43:00.000-07:00

Existence comes before feeling
Present comes before past
Truth comes before belief
Breath comes before action
Being comes before mind
Feeling comes before thought
Risking comes before security
Being comes before being

Bring the truth of your existence into the present with your breath

In the waters of radiant honesty and compassion
I bring forth my existence into the world. I allow self and others to meet
To dance the dance of same and different
Security without risk is death

Suddenly it is God himself that takes this divine risk to manifest and know himself in infinite ways

The Flow

2009-05-13T14:35:00.000-07:00

Wait until deliberateness and natural flow become one

Sit until illusion becomes transparent

As we let ourselves be unraveled by the natural flow
We are revealed to ourselves

The greatest of all truths is that there is only the flow

The greatest of all lies is to put it into words

Thought Puppets

2009-05-13T14:25:00.000-07:00

Let each thought see itself in the freshness of its own mirror - wiped clean

By its own self - liberation

Total death - total oblivion

Thoughts are puppets - produced by an ever-silent puppeteer. The puppeteer lets go of the strings in the end but the thought clings to the previous thought and following thoughts - thinking its existence is to be preserved, not really, it's just a puppet doing a dance

No One is Here

2009-05-13T14:20:00.000-07:00

To lay down one's life for one's self
To allow yourself to die into your organism

No longer necessary
A sacrifice of the greatest love

No one is here
No one is here!

Be seen by the trees
Be seen by the mountains

Yet there is nothing to see
There is no one to look at

Stroke of Luck

2009-05-13T14:13:00.000-07:00

Every thought a stroke of luck
No one there to observe
Yet it is seen

Wash Away

2009-05-10T16:35:00.000-07:00

Break open, explode, differentiate
Be.
Metabolize, dismantle, disenthrone, expel
the rancid past.
Stand flush with what was and still is.
Let it die to become re-assimilated.
False emergencies that go rigidified.
my breath flows with experiences.
Scale the Grand Canyon of the past
Let the compassionate river of soul wash it away
wash away, wash away, wash away.
purify, purify, purify

Every Moment

2009-05-04T11:28:00.000-07:00

Every moment is an experiment
Consciousness and creativity together
Consciousness permeating the furthest universe
The future churns with the present
Timelines moving sideways crashing against the shore
Sit on the shoreline basking in what cannot be described
Beings of the future creating the beings of the present
Time transcended itself long ago to join the larger community
An infinite spectrum of spectrums
Smell the perfume of a 17 dimensional Now

Everchanging

2009-05-03T15:04:00.000-07:00

Everchanging Existence
Everchanging Experience
Everchanging Development
Everchanging Contexts
Everchanging Meaning
Everchanging Truth
Everchanging Growth
Everchanging Arising
Everchanging Flow
Everchanging Unchanging

Shedding

2008-06-08T15:27:00.001-07:00

The I that says and thinks "I create my own reality" cannot

The I that wants and thinks to get rid of ego cannot

No identity bathes in the waters of non-duality

You must shed all before entering

Go deep and regain no-self

The I that ignores the involuntary has no real volition

Clarity

2008-06-08T15:24:00.000-07:00

Lightning strikes the very core, nothing happens.

The babbling mind and babbling brook are flowing backward to the sea from which they came.

Listen to the smallest ripple of silence.

There is no clarity without clarity.

There is no mind without no-mind

If you meet your Self on the road, bow as if you were bowing to the whole cosmos.

Not Knowing

2008-06-08T15:22:00.001-07:00

"I could be wrong", the thought-perception that teaches us humility and allows us to marvel at our not knowing

If I truly know nothing then I am truly liberated from right and wrong

What good teachers we are when we teach ourselves nothing

Head in the heavens

2008-06-08T15:07:00.000-07:00

Head in the heavens
feet in the molton core of the earth.
middle at every level
basking in the suchness of it all

The Lens / Mirror of Consciousness

2008-05-08T15:22:00.000-07:00

In consciousness, the lens is is not separate from what is perceived.

A dirty lens creates noise and distortion which in turn can be perceived with distortion.

One cannot see the "flies in one's eyes" correctly because of the "flies in ones eyes".

A clear lens can be likened to the surface of a pond. When the water is quiet and not muddy it reflect or (resonates with) the outside world with little distortion and from many perspectives simultaneously.

Likewise the surface of clear quiet water reflects without distortion.

Breathing and Attention

2008-05-08T15:20:00.001-07:00

Breathing and attention are like brother and sister. Where the breath goes so does the attention. When the breath is shallow, attention is shallow. When the breath is deep, attention can be deep. Breathing is the point where the voluntary meets the involuntary. Every breath is an echo of the original one breath. Let the breath be undivided, then when you fully find the point where reality splits into two; it convulses into one. This point has awaited your attention even before you were born.

Simple Silly Sayings

2008-05-08T15:17:00.000-07:00

What you most fear is what's most near
What you deny will make you lie
And what you resist will always persist
For what you hide will still abide
Your shadow knows beneath your clothes
Hide in a role and lose your soul

When you don’t breathe life takes its leave.
What you don't cry begins to die
What you don't use you’ll surely lose
What you repress will make a mess

So repossess what you repress
Feel Primal Pain’s emotional brain
And make it less when you express

To empty the pot you must practice a lot
And what you should heed is what you need
To move up from survive to be fully alive

Let “what you notice” unfold like a Lotus
Let your life be surprised by what will arise
What you don't taste you’ll surely waste
And meditate don't medicate

For what you allow you can avow
What you face & embrace you can surely erase
What you feel you can surely heal
Go up to your box and open the locks
For what you can be, you will set free

What you think will make a link
But what you conclude will delude
It’s what you don't know that makes you grow

When you’re direct you will connect
Jump in the stream that flows through your meme
When you’re in the flow you can trust what you know
Mind plus Heart makes you act smart

When no-thing is your clothing
Figure-ground is lost and found
There is no “duel” in non-dual
In the eye of the storm “Emptiness is form”,

You want the truth? then let it loose
Get off the hook, shut up and look!
What you see and hear will make it clear
The Suchness of things the whole universe sings

Achieving Balance

2008-05-08T15:16:00.000-07:00

May we be able to achieve balance (homeostasis) between:

Process and Content
Abstinence and Indulgence
Healthy Pleasure and Healthy Discomfort
Work, Rest and Enjoyment
Doing and Being
Contact and Withdrawal
Current Gratification and Deferred Gratification
Narrow Focus and Diffuse Focus
Healthy Creation and Healthy Destruction
Health Shoulds and Healthy Wants
Nourishment from Self and Nourishment from Others
Charge and Discharge
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Heart, Mind and Soul
Healthy Strength and Healthy Weakness

God / illusion

2008-05-08T15:15:00.001-07:00

The very thing we seek is the essence of everything around us

There is no place in the universe which is not the very center of God

Like a child playing with the long veil of illusion, we learn to play hide and seek with reality

Such a fascinating game that, at one time, gently caresses us and loves us until we open our eyes,

and at another, walks us kicking and screaming through the painful primal fires that wake us up

Life itself won't leave us alone, forever beckoning us to see what has always been in front of our face

Unfold yourself to see what God has never seen and has always been

Chant the infinitely long sacred words of true emptiness and existence. This is the sound of God's voice

There is but one voice echoed in an infinite number of ways.

It is said the ear through which we hear God is the same ear through which God hears us

Now….. Just listen!!

The fabric of a young child's game never existed. That which is left, dies and is reborn in every vibration

No one is left

In the mundane is the highest celebration of God's presence

Now enjoy a piece of chocolate!

Catch What Eludes You

2008-05-08T15:12:00.000-07:00

Catch what eludes you.

Move along dimensions you haven't imagined yet.

Loosen the tight helmet of your own conditioning.

Embody the message of your own experience.

Breathe breathing. Feel what you haven't felt yet.

Waves lapping on the lakeshore for no reason, giving birth to each moment

Each a page in the true book of revelation

Feeing Felt

2008-05-08T15:11:00.000-07:00

Feeling Felt

Breath Breathed

Thought thought

Existence existed

Nothingness nothinged

Not this, not that. What a relief!

How Truth Comes Through

2008-05-08T15:10:00.000-07:00

The truth comes from all existence.

How could it be any other way?

It comes through in spite of any book.

It comes through in spite of any belief or religion.

When you grasp it you are misled.

When you think about it you are misled.

The most amazing thing is that we have such tremendous abilities to keep ourselves from seeing it

Consider just to stop doing what keeps you from the truth.

Consider awakening your passion to discover and find out.

Religion, beliefs and books can often be the tools of the sleepwalker. (We all start as sleepwalkers.)

Relying on them, without transcending them

is like stationing yourself at the sign post without moving on down the road in the direction sign is pointing.

It is also like wearing your clothes in the shower.

When you put them aside you get the full shower.

This "shower" washes away that which is not true.

It washes away our own bull shit and the bullshit in the world.

The water reaches the roots of your being.

What is left is a delightful spacious emptiness that cannot be compared.

Get naked.

In this space you can grow fast.

Naked Awareness - Naked Pain

2008-05-08T15:09:00.000-07:00

Let naked awareness touch naked pain

Unlock that which is bound up

The unbearable is bared one writhe at a time

Don't hide from the wounds you don't know you have

Crack open futility and hopelessness to reveal the unfelt

See Yourself

2008-05-08T15:08:00.001-07:00

To see yourself - look at a flower

Every arrow of attention that shoots out sends a twin arrow of attention within

As Emptiness and Form are the same, so are these arrows

These arrows can kill you

Die this moment and your life is returned to you

"Blessed are those who were born before they were born"

Blessed are those who died before they died

Motto

2008-05-08T15:06:00.000-07:00

Highest consciousness

Highest creativity

Highest expression

Highest activity

Highest joy

Deepest shadow work

Deepest feelings

Deepest pain

Deepest release

Deepest ground

Deepest flow

Deepest healing

Deepest truth

Biggest whole

Never lose sight of the whole

Never compromise health

Self-Liberating

2008-05-08T15:04:00.001-07:00

Fall from the tree with shimmering leaves and swaying branches
surrendering existence as you fall
Symphony playing itself
One note, One Taste
Bottomless space liberating itself

Dying to One's Self

2008-05-08T15:00:00.000-07:00

To lay down one's life for one's self
Allow your self to die into your organism

No longer necessary
a sacrifice of the greatest love

No one is here
no one is here!

Reality itself sees

Be seen by the trees
Be seen by the mountains
Yet there is nothing to see
There is no one to look at