20.. “…Ah, so. How can I help?”

The combined mantras

“…Ah, so.”* And “How can I help?”**

this morning fell heavy on my heart.

Contemplating stars from a hammock on the patio,

time spent with the Cosmos is becoming a lost art.

Gravity fools us that we’re looking up and not out.

But in reality, we are looking off from Earth’s side.

Is Anyone out there hearing our shouts?

Humanity’s drowning in all the ways we divide.

Meditating outside, just before first light.

You realize if we could see every star clear,

they would fill up the whole of our sight.

Looking off from the side of this sphere,

makes me wonder

what’s the meaning of Our Being here?

Stars, fill the sky as pin holes on a backlit canopy,

but Infinity is infinite in both directions.

And egoic-appetites will remain, our collective fantasy,

until we surrender to the present moment’s connections.

Allow those mantras to become an aura, a belt.

And meet moments with “…Ah, so. How can I help?”

*Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769) a paraphrasing.

**Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) a paraphrasing.

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