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Loesch mir die Augen aus

Paul Reynolds — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:50:46 +0000

Reading at Koloa Hong Wan JI 04/08/2010

Life Stages in Beauty by Linaji

Extinguish both my eyes: I see you still;
Slam shut my ears: I can still hear you talking;
Without my mouth I can implore your will
And without my feet: towards you I keep on walking.
Break off my arms: I shall hold you tight;
My heart will yet embrace you all the same.
Suppress my heart: my brain knows no deterrent;
And if at last you set my brain aflame
I carry you still on my bloodstream’s current.

—Rilke

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Smells of Good Food

Paul Reynolds — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:26:19 +0000

Reading at Waimea practice 09/26/09

Truth never frightens.

I remember once walking out in the winter
to greet my father as he returned from work.

He was a little late that night
and I waited by a street corner near our house.

The cold can enliven thanks, my wool coat
became a sacred robe, how happy I felt to be alive.

I waited in a world of magic,
smells of good food,

the street lamps, the smoke coming from chimneys,
the candles burning in windows,
the snow.

Angels feasted, as I did, on existence and God kept saying
“Have more of what I made.”

I saw him coming. We ran into each other’s arms
and he lifted me as he so often had—
twirled me through the air,
his hands beneath
my arms.

That is what the Truth does:

lifts and lets us
fly.

—St. Catherine of Siena

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The Lords Prayer; a Direct Translation

Paul Reynolds — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:05:23 +0000

Reading at Waimea practice 09 /26/09

A Translation of “Our Father” directly from the Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke) into English (rather than from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English)

O Cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration!
Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your Presence can abide.
Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission.

Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire.
Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish.

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us, as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.

Do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true purpose, but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.

For you are the ground and the fruitful vision, the birth, power and fulfillment,
as all is gathered and made whole once again.

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A Good Read

Paul Reynolds — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:47:16 +0000

Reading at Koloa, Bodhi Tree and Waimea 06/15,16,17/09

The mirror reveals
A very unique notebook
A cherished volume
That I have chosen to journal in
Today

Skin is the delicate parchment
Organs, bone, joint and sinew
The bindings and spine

Each cell,
Chapters.

War and Peace are but cliff notes
In comparison
Bible, Koran, Kaballah
Only echo its holiness

I need not think to
Turn the page
For the entry is already
Transcribing, recording
Jotting down every nuance
Never forgetting to
Scrawl in the margins a highlight,
An insight

And no editing is ever required
It is all there
All in perfect syntax and meter

It knows no time
To sit and scribble a few notes
For it opens and records
Through
Past, Present and future
As fluidly
As the ink
In my veins

Impossible to
Forget this book,
or leave it on my night stand
Where I think I do my best work
In those meditative states before sleep
And full awakening
Although it is there too.

I look in the mirror
As pages turn
A scar,
A tear
A wrinkle
Embeds itself on the well worn
Cover
A soft patina
A glow
That lets one know
This volume is well loved

Ancestry
Experience
Premonition
Relationships

All dancing across the pages

The bard sits in silence
A little jealous that
His eloquence
Was never able to quite capture
This in words

Sneak a peak
Read the last chapter
To see how it
All ends

What is
Found?

Just
Beginnings

—Paul Reynolds

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What is faith??

Paul Reynolds — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:44:11 +0000

While standing in line waiting for some herbal patches to be administered to my back for the Qigong version of allergy relief I was caught up in a conversation with a gentleman who attended and we fell into conversation on Qigong, health ,longevity, death and all those questions that we have such a great time trying to answer.

This gentleman related to me the story of his grandfather who had passed just recently at the age of 95 and we marveled of course on that milestone and agreed that “Well he’s lived a pretty long life – probably no regrets and as he lived such a long time we surmised it was because he had such a wholistic/positive look on “all of it”

“Grandfather was a golfer well into his later years” said my friend “And he would often say of those years; ” You know I can’t see the hole anymore, I just know it’s there…..”

Are we playing this game with the faith, that inner-knowing- that the ‘hole’ (whole) is always there, always in receptive mode, and we are always letting go (hopefully joyously) to an unknown. As Joseph Campbell said “We are in a free-fall into future – we don’t know where wwe are going” Turning the fall into a voluntary act … a shift in perspective…”

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