Hari Om and good morning. Three breaths can shed anything we are carrying, and invite in our awareness of here and now, and this is sacred. This is holy. Without Wholeness, wholeness of experience, wholeness of awareness, there is no complete presence of god/spirit/universe as it fully is. To be present with awareness of what is here and now, fully opened, is to be in the presence of the holy.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om. 

Today, as we enter the threshold of the light season into the dark season, and as the veil is thin between the worlds, we welcome in the light. Before we go into dark places, best to bring a light within, and to know who we truly are. So, that even in the darkness, we are unafraid, and unashamed, and know the light, and the dark. Honor who we have thought we were, and who we think we are now, and rest again in the light of who we truly are.

Thank you for joining me on this Journey Home Meditation.

All In Love,

Michael

Hare Om.

Good morning, friends. Today we come together to recognize the sacred-ness of this moment. There is a timeless quality when we can be present with now, and be here in mind, body, and breath. No matter who or what we are encountering, there is not another way that God could be in this very moment. This menas that you and all of your you-ness are exactly how God can be expressed with wholeness. From Wholeness, we know what is Holy. Be present with you and with me and with I at any time and you can glimpse the Holy space of our existence.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hare Om

Oh, the lengths we go to in creating our carefully crafted worlds! We put so much detail into every thing. The things we create to take us from here to there, here to there, here to there; anywhere but here. Today, we use our body vehicles to bring us from THERE to HERE. 

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All Is Love,

Michael

Hari Om.

Some times, at any time really, any moment, we can simply bring awareness into our breath. This shift in our focus from external to internal, is enough to give pause to the constant script that seems to be running in the roles we take up each day. Father, Sister, Friend, Spiritual Adventurer, Vegan, Adversary, Atheist...whichever costume we are donning, and whichever part we are claiming in the play, we can step back, inward, and observe the beautiful theater we have created. This passion play of our lives is a string of moments in which we can become gorgeous expressions of spirit. Taking a few breaths to marvel at ourselves is highly recommended. 10/10, would marvel again. 

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All IS Love,

Michael

Hari Om.

We are forever sitting in the perfection of the moment, and still we tend towards "anything but here, anytime but now" as we live and relive the moments we hid away into our bodies, forever being thrust from emotion to emotion with no understanding as to what we are feeling, and alway stuck in the "why". Take just a moment to feel what is there, waiting to arise; open yourself to the grand gesture of mindful presence now. 

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om.

Today we move into our meditation through stretching and breathing into our bodies. This session allows to go as deeply as we would like, and feel free to pause the session and continue to stay in your meditation for longer, if you want.

Today is Sutra Sunday! We pick up in Ram Dass' Be Here Now brown pages where we left off last time, and get right into number 7-10. Just such a beautiful invitation to undertand our gorgeous sculpting of a perfect reality to achieve precisely what we need in any moment. It is all part of the whole, and that is, itself, a thing of awe. 

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good morning. Today, we take a few moments together to see a tiny picture of death. When we are married to time and space as absolute, everything is dying at any moment. We meted out our lives in counted breaths.

"I have measured out my life in coffee spoons." - T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

This counting away of our breaths is a sure way to fear death as it encroaches, taking us bit by bit. And, what it also happening is we are in the vehicle that is taking us from here to there. That is all. Just going along on the journey from where ever we think we are, to where ever we think we are going, until we arrive at where ever we think think we need to be. It is an amazing dance, and takes every bit of time we get. But, below it all, beneath the time, and beyond the gates of our perceptions, there is a timeless truth that there is no death, not really. There are only wafts of smoke in the air, containing entire places in a scent. This is where we are.

Thank you for joining me on this Journey Home Meditation. Please reach out with comment or questions, suggestions or points to ponder to [email protected] I would truly appreciate the communication with you, and so would others who gather here when we can.

All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good morning. We are back for a special Sutra Sunday!

This past week has been hectic for me, so I have not been able to maintain a regular sharing of this daily practice; so, I thought I should take this time today to go into a bit of a practice and then dig right into Be Here Now, the book we are currently working through in our study of sutras. We hit sections 4 and 5 of the brown pages this week and talk a bit about Aum Mani Padme Hum, the ubiquitious mantra made known by Buddhist practices that translates to "The Jewel in the Lotus". This mantra is an expression of gratitude and an invitation into compassion!

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om.

What if everything were working towards your liberation? What if this is all a part of gaining the experiences you came here to receive? Would that change the way you judged yourself? Would you still see others as happenstance, or could you look into the eyes of all souls and know you are in a vast conspiracy of entanglement? 

Thank you for joing me on this Journey Home Meditation. Reach out at [email protected]

All In Love,

Michael