Reading at Koloa practice – 3/12/2010
I just got ‘em
And I’m feelin’ kinda loose,
Been stretching to the maximum
And pumpin’ out that juice.
Tadasana, virasana
I nearly blew a fuse
Oh let me tell you baby
I got the chaturanga blues.
The Chaturanga Blues
We have not come here to take prisoners
Reading at Koloa practice 03/12/2010
We have not come here to take prisoners,
But to surrender ever more deeply
To freedom and joy.
Let Go
Reading at Anara SPA 03/08/2010
Let go of that which is gone.
Let go of that which is lost.
Let go of that which is not yet happening.
What has happened in the past and what will
happen in the future exist only in your mind.
What is happening now is the infinite caress of the universe.
We ARE waking up…
Reading from Waimea practice 03/06/2010
We are waking up.
As heaven and earth come together, as the dream-time and daytime merge, we register the shockingly exhilarating fact that we are in charge of creating a New Earth. Not in some distant time or faraway place, but right here and right now..
The Time Will Come…
Reading and Anara SPA practice – 03/01/2010
Breathe by Linaji
The time will come
When,
With elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other’s welcome,
And say, sit here, Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine, Give bread, Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has loved you
All you life, whom you ignored for another
Who knows you by heart.
Take down the letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit feast on your life.
— Derek Walcott
Forgotten Family
Reading at Koloa Hong Wan JI practice 03/01/2010
As I descend into basement shadows, I am washed in red.
Smoothness is not a choice on the earthly plane.
As light reveals, so also shadows are spawned.
Sleeping Beauty
Reading at Waimea practice 03/02/2010
I'll be your shelter - by Lee Wilde
I look forward to the moment beauty is my own
conceived easily like yellow dipped trees,
a lazy dog the afternoon pillow of a lover’s chest
when beauty is memorized and not a plea
taken at the face value of Hollywood
I Want Both of Us
Reading at Koloa practice March 1, 2010
I Want Both of Us
Desert Moon for 2 by Linaj
To start talking about this great love
As if you, I and the Sun were all married
And living in a tiny room,
Helping each other to cook,
Do the wash,
Weave and sew
Care for our beautiful
Animals.
We all leave each morning
To labor on the earth’s field.
No one does not lift a great pack.
I want both of us to start singing like two
Traveling minstrels
About this extraordinary existence
We share,
As if
You, I, and God were all married
And living in
A tiny
Room.
— Hafiz
Rise in Love
Reading at Waimea 02/23/2010
The stars are the eyes of Existence watching our every move,
hanging upon the rise & fall of our laughter,
becoming ecstatic with us in our deepest prayers
weeping tears of Light when they see us cry.
So let’s kiss the Moment with enough vehemence & passion
to inspire the whole Universe to rise as In-Love with the One, as we are.
We have been playing this game of strip-tease with God since before the Moon was born, wearing these costumes of skin so we could know the explosion of being undressed & becoming One.
Tired of Speaking Sweetly
Reading at the Waimea practice – 02/23/2010
Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.
