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..
Reading and Anara SPA practice – 03/01/2010
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 [...]
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.
Reading at Waimea practice 03/02/2010
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
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 [...]
Reading at Anara Spa 2/04/2010
…. I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which [...]
Just for now, without asking how, let yourself
sink into stillness.
Just for now, lay down
the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders.
Reading at Koloa practice 01/18/2010
“I once had a garden
filled with flowers
that only grew on dark thoughts
but they need constant attention
& one day I decided
I had better things
to do.”
—Brian Andreas
Reading at Waimea practice 01/12/2010
This Chapter is closed now
Not one word more
Until we meet some day
and the voices rising
to the window
take wing and fly
