Posts Tagged "freedom"

Liberate Your Imagination

Liberate Your Imagination

Reading at Koloa and Anara Spa practice 1/18/2012 Let me remind you who you really are: You’re an immortal freedom fighter who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from their suffering. You’re a fun-loving messiah who devoutly wants to help all of your fellow messiahs claim the ecstatic awareness that is their birthright. Try to remember. You’re a vortex of fluidic light...

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This Traveling of Which We Speak

This Traveling of Which We Speak

Reading at Anara practice 10/11/2011 (Thank you to Twi Chi for the finding) BEFORE Before… you cling. You cling to hopes and fears and even people without realizing what you’re doing. The Teacher says: “Pull that straw out of their neck! And out of yours while you’re at it! Stop leaking life force. The Age of Vampires is over! Forget  any notion of enemies. Your only...

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We Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners

We Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners

Reading at  Koloa practice  10/06/2011 Chasing the Day by Jessica Tremp We have not come here to take prisoners, But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy. We have not come into this exquisite world To hold ourselves hostage from love. Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, From anyone likely To put a sharp knife Into...

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The Edge

The Edge

Reading at Anara practice 10/5/2011 Through the disciplined precision of our efforts, we’ll come again and again to our edge-the difficult places beyond which we’ve previously been unable to move.  through the willingness to soften and surrender to what is, we learn that we can gradually move beyond that edge.  It is only through this interplay of hard and soft, of effort and...

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Our Deepest Fear….

Our Deepest Fear….

Reading at Waimea practice 9/24/2011 Our deepest fear is not that We are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure It is is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world, There’s...

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No Difference

No Difference

Reading at Koloa practice 4/25/2011 In the entire ten directions of the Buddha’s universe There is only one way When we see clearly, this is no differences in the teachings. What is there to lose?  What is there to gain? If we gain something , it was there from the beginning, If we lose anything, it is hidden...

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The Natural Freedom of Mind

The Natural Freedom of Mind

Reading at Waimea  practice 04/19/2011 Since the One Mind, pure from the beginning-less beginning and with no need to grasp things other than itself and has nothing to do with an intermediary of with a fixed plan: The individual might as well be happy Since awareness has no objective relationship of any kind, no specific direction or focus The individual might as well love everyone. Since...

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Take No Prisoners

Take No Prisoners

Reading at Anara practice 1/03/2011 Give Me the key after you unlock yourself and I will melt it down into a medal you can wear over your heart so you can keep prison close without bolting yourself in again so I won’t tear every time I watch the door close behind you feel you crouched in that tiny room with bars on the sky pouring cement into your veins Throw off your chains and I will...

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We ARE Waking Up…

We ARE Waking Up…

Reading from Koloa practice 11/01/2010 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.. …. overthrowing the living dead is not enough. Protesting the well-dressed monsters is not enough....

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