43. The Universe is Breathing Me

I am not so much breathing

as the Universe seems to Be,

breathing me.

I don’t have to attempt to will it,

the Cosmic Christ’s outpouring fills it.

Thus, to be breathed is grace,

it is a gift that’s given free.

The universal offsetting

balance is also grace

always yin, always yang,

humans breathing, breathing trees.

Take a moment, watch yourself be breathed.

In and out

breath’s unrelenting tide.

Makes you wonder what is the point

of consciousness’ breath-less ride.?

It will not remain us forever clinging

to personas, to egos, to separate ‘I’s.

But in Being breathed… as a grace.

like Eckhart says, we’re “One With Life”.*

As we consciously perceive the Universe breath,

we form a relationship with Spirit.

And join the dance…

of Just What Is.

Realizing not in our thoughts

but in loving awareness,**

we are fulfilled.

*Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose..

**Ram Dass, mantra (1931-2019)

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42. Humorous Diversity

Have you ever contemplated Earth’s cosmic birth?

I mean really, really think about it?

Consider all the crazy things,

on their own that

just grow up and out of it.

How in the Cosmos…

in the mind melting immensity?

Did We grow Earth

filled with such a humorous diversity.

Take an example like any

old nature show on the tele.

Or better yet take a field trip

stroll through an

Appalachian wooded valley.

Or how about the example

of tropical birds.

With their crazy shapes,

crazy colors,

crazy dances for their girls.

Or how… somehow inevitably

natural shapes end up in curls.

From the mosses to the mountains,

to the sprouting up of men.

It’s a reminder it is all One.

We grew from Earth’s soil

since who knows when.

Earth is not filled

with diverse enemies.

It’s filled with humor.

Filled with friends.

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41. The Threshing Floor

I just saw an image…

somewhere inside my brain.

It was a large stone inside a circle,

a whipping post for the releasing of grain.

A hulk of stone was positioned just at the center.

Like a saddle horn for the threshing of wheat,

purposed to test resolve,

of grains that strong and grains that weak.

I’m not exactly sure? Just why I saw it?

What this image was intended to convey?

All I can think is that it was an analogy.

Like a parable… for the meaning of these days.

Somewhere along the way to today,

we decided the point of life

was to live like kings.

Demanding, more comfort, more pleasures, more things.

What have these recent times been

but a threshing floor?

Freeing humanity’s seed

from Our bondage

from attachments,

unconscious desires

and cults of more.

It seems humanity is being flailed

in order to free Us,

from scarcity-consciousness

and endless economic-wars.

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40. The Sam’s Wholesale Church

It seems like a lot of people

have stopped going to church.

Instead on Sunday’s

they all go to Sam’s…

Piling in there in all

shapes, colors, and sizes,

pouring out of trucks,

classic-cars, and minivans.

…If our ‘God’…

is from what we derive our meaning.

Then bulk consuming

and material-goods competing

is now what draws in the

congregants streaming.

As we crowd-fund

plastic water bottle pollution.

And keep the masses satiated

and sleepily producing.

But this exponential producing

seems to me to be end times inducing.

Because ‘meaning’ is now sought in ‘stuff’.

Stuff emerging from merciless

environmental abusing.

As separate-ego’s bow…

bow down before the gods of consuming.

What is the future

we are growing from this now?

What is the consciousness grown

from material goods

as the object of our bows?

The world’s foundations sure seem to be

getting pretty shaky.

Meaning is disappearing

as quickly as

rotisserie-chickens lately.

Because our Sunday sermons

now come from the sample lady.

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39. Transcending the Temporal

Fill your lungs.

Breathe in deep.

To your belly, breath is a reminder you are still here.

Still experiencing, this side of death’s sleep.

Presence to this present moment

always births understandings never fears.

In actuality fear too often is imagined,

the ego whispering otherness in our ears.

Into black mirrors our culture casts spells

weaving myths that our plans keep us well.

Yet, each moment is a fractal of potential.

When we join into the now’s dance.

Let go of the mud you’re dressed in it’s a rental.

Your “I” my “me” is not the point it’s a trance.

The eternal stretches out as life’s crossroads.

Good and evil, Just What Is, manifests the I AM.

Christ Consciousness is the path of loving awareness.

Kenotic exchange not protections and plans.

While ego consciousness bows down

before the idol of protections.

Tribalizes opposing ideologies

and calls them elections.

While corporations sell colored plastic

and pills for erections,

more comfort, more couture, more confections…

Thus, humanity drifts off

dreaming of temporal distractions.

But one day,

I believe we’ll wake up to Oneness. To Purpose.

Human consciousness

will unclench,

will breathe,

will one day,

transcend waring ego’s

and divided factions.

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38. A Practice

Join me in contemplating

the mystical words

“Let there Be”… they are heavy.

God, pouring out of an infinite levee.

Into a donut bubble of spinning energy –

we call the Universe.

But did ‘Cosmic-Karma’

or ‘Divine-Will’ pour in first?

Which concept get the credit

of first mover?

Where did we come from?

Form within the heart of life’s Ruler?

Or does that not matter at all?

In the midst of the Human-Being’s great fall.

By the present moment

we just refuse to be held.

We’re too busy creating

then habituating hell.

So, let’s join in a practice

just now wherever you are.

Sit up straight on the couch.

Or pull over your car.

Come back to the peace…

that is this very moment,

relax eyes,

relax tension,

relax breath.

Feel Spirit in the wind

that fills your belly

then fills your chest.

Be here and be now in this moment

from in presence while “One, With, Life”.*

And practice asking of your thoughts

is this thought even true?.?. **

The answer often

ends the tyranny of our fears.

The practice of present moments

lived freely

unites ‘Life’

through "new eyes and new ears."***

* Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.

** Byron Katie, “The Work”.

***Ezekiel 12:2

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37. Everything is True

Everything… is true.

Well, I guess I did it again.

Start out with a statement shocking

just to circle back to it at the end.

Well, everything is true.

Truth can’t be contained in just one view.

And the way I learned to find it

was to become willing to undo.

If it is…

its ultimate origin is God.

That’s true of every-thing

from joy to suffering, humans to sod.

God is truth

is not limited to either perspects pole.

Our source cannot be contained,

but contains all that is inside the Whole.

Jesus, taught to worship in Spirit and in truth.

But it does not sound like Spirit

defending idolized-positions claw and tooth.

What is truth?

But ‘Just What Is’.

If it is… it is true.

So don’t let yourself be reduced,

identity captive to current views.

Defended group positions

and biases justify how egos feel.

But the All-Yes is all sides

and waits to meet us as the Real.

So yep, everything is true.

Every-thing spins from Creation’s force.

So I’ll meet you in the present moment

where we abide in the vine…*

Love’s, Truth’s Source.

* Jesus of Nazareth, John 15:4-5

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36. Our Destiny

Be quiet. Pay attention.

Without thinking notice breathing.

Maybe even watch,

as it changes how you’re seeing.

Damnations

begot Nations,

who begot divides of our creation.

Christ-consciousness will eventually

beget a unification of our species.

But the question of our time remains ,

how long will we wallow

in the ego’s feces?

To the point of Life! Existence!

we act, as if we’re blind.

We will be evolving toward a Divine destiny.

When presence transcends unconsciousness

and mankind is freed from our

conditioned self-seeking ‘mind.’

Or right there – should my syntax have

again been the word ‘ego’?

Or maybe right there used ‘separate-self’?

Because our separate-successes and separate-protections

have humanity on the verge of mass insurrections.

Have we all just given in?

To social media and being mean?

Do we just so love our shackles,

chained in hypnosis to the more-machine?

Or could conscious breathing teach us Being?

Ontological Oneness is Our destiny

separation the-dream.

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35. Attachment

Strings come with things.

And things come with strings.

Why do they draw me so?

Yet to Be…

is God in living

where the deer

and turkey go.

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34. This Game We Keep Playing

The wages of ‘otherness’, we don’t yet know.

But our shared future no longer comes slow.

Collectively what we are Becoming,

is how God falls

into form

like the snow.

God’s self-emptying love.

Living-water. The Cosmic-sea.

Evolving in and as, You and Me.

And currently ego-consciousness

is driving this planet to its knees.

Multiplying suffering and injustice by the little threes.

Trash… may end up the legacy left behind of Earth’s trees.

We all know the adage - “sex-sells”

But I think the powerful would now disagree.

Otherness sells better than sex.

The selling of pride and protections has all the grease.

Yet somehow, in the inevitability of Love

I still believe.

One day we will all take a knee.

But on earth, right now we’re all losing.

Because this game we keep playing is not free.

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