The true task of spiritual life
is not found in faraway places
or unusual states of consciousness.
It is here in the present.
It asks of us a welcoming spirit
to greet all that life presents to us
with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart.
We can bow to both beauty and suffering,
to our entanglements and confusion,
to our [...]
PEOPLE GET INTO A HEAVY-DUTY sin and guilt trip, feeling
that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something
bad and they are being punished. That’s not the idea at all. The idea
of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to
open your heart. To the degree that you didn’t understand [...]
In No Strange Land
The kingdom of God is within you
O world invisible, we view thee,
O world intangible, we touch thee,
O world unknowable, we know thee,
Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!
Does the fish soar to find the ocean,
The eagle plunge to find the air–
That we ask of the stars in motion
If they have rumor of thee there?
Not where [...]
In the modern Western world, people are materially rich but spiritually poor. We
live in large homes but have very little space inside our hearts and minds.
Quantity is valued more than quality. Life is busy, over-stimulating and out of
balance. At its core, the Chi Revolution is about how we can recalim our inner
lives and achieve balance [...]
True surrender discovered by conscious obedience is
a position of power, never of weakness. It involves an
informed recognition and admission, ordinarily gained
only through years of spiritual work, that as powerful,
independent and highly functional as we may be, we are
still living under the unremitting dictate of of egoic
domination. This recognition, in the [...]
Continue reading about true essence and authentic spontaneity
I have added a number of poems from Hydeh Aubon
on to the Allspirit website. You can read them here:
http://allspirit.co.uk/hydeh-aubon.html
My Spring
Yes, there is someplace
a deep place,
a lonely place.
Unreachable, unexplainable,
and mysterious in me that
longs for you.
When the air feels still
and a cool soothing breeze
suddenly brushes my face,
I know, in my heart, that
you [...]
Sequoia
When you stand before a colossal wall
of reddish brown
a mass of tree bigger than any you’ve ever seen-
bigger than any living thing,
bigger than houses,
far bigger than ourselves,
It becomes more than
an experience of human and tree.
When you listen to the wind curl through rounded
needle clusters and gaze up 100 feet
to the lowest branch,
awestruck eyes [...]
Virtual Poetry Readings
For fans of Silent Lotus,
he’s featured this week at http://www.virtualpoetryreading.com/ with his tranquil reading of “Feel The Peace.”
Come on by and listen to the collection of poets and upload one of your own!
Thanks
Buddah Moskowitz
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If a way to the better there be,
it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
~Thomas Hardy
So the person who has eaten his shadow spreads
calmness, and shows more grief than anger. If
the ancients were right that darkness contains
intelligence and nourishment and even information,
then the person who has eaten some of his or her
shadow is [...]
