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Some Everyday Poems
About life
I love to walk in the warm rain
barefoot on dirt roads
I love to come home to my house
and crawl into my hammock
I love to walk a jungle road on a hot day
under the canopy of trees
sun rays filtering thru the green
i love many things and sights
i think there is a lot to love
about life
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Bedsheets
Yes!
I confess!
I am in love
With my bedsheets
When they are clean and fresh
It gives me pleasure to touch them
Feeling their quality
Is kind of little luxury
Yeah, I know that sounds weird
But I will not stop to love
My fresh & clean
bedsheets
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Beyond
In my life I try I go
With the ebb and flow
Of things
Darkness and light
Happy times
And sad
That’s the way
The world’s heart is beating
I know, I know
There are other things beyond
Like non-duality
Like the ultimate truth
Like pure consciousness
Lands we have still to discover
Realities still waiting for us
States beyond what is known
And still here
I’ll go for that land
Always I go
What else?
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Floating
do you know this feeling
when you look out over the water
and the surface is glittering
glimmering in intense sunlight
and the breeze from the sea
is just perfect
and you feel like floating
in the warm air of the day
i guess you know this quiet euphoric feeling
or at least you should
and so i float
between the earth and sky
the wide and formless heavens
and the many many things below
where would i want to go?
it is said that the human soul is able
to reflect heaven and to reflect earth
but not both at the same time
i have come to know that
and so i have come to let go, let go the ambitions
the drive to get there or to do something right here
the whole compulsion of the searching and doing
i find that the evolution of form
and the evolution of consciousness
are playing out anyway
while i am just a little speck
on their timeline
and so
i enjoy to float
in the in-between land
full of Love
full of Happiness
fully content
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Lightness of Being. Stillness of Mind. Effortless Flow of Life. Expanding of Consciousness. Becoming of Soul.
Sounds pretty esoteric, right?
But it is not, actually!
Its actually the way life moves and becomes.
Once the personal traumas and dramas have been worked thru, integrated and thus healed.
How we get from the rather limited drama of Person that we all know too well to the limitless realm of Soul …
Thats the road less travelled
Thats the pathless path
There is no real map
Still we all are destined to get there, sooner or later in our evolution
In my experience, it helps to cultivate certain qualities, they make a good launchpad.
Grace is the fuel.
Aspiration
Sincerity
Silence
Peacefulness
Stillness
Mindfulness
Focus
Openness
Surrender
Faith
Equanimity
Concentration
Prayer
Effort
Letting go
Detachment
Humility
Courage
Honesty
Self Observation
Patience
Persistance
Perseverance
Selfmotivation
Disciplin
Ethics
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Birds
Look at the birds
they are just such amazing creatures
look how they fly
how they glide
how they sail on the wind
how they use the currents of air
effortlessly it seems
how they navigate
with subtle shifts
of their wings
i want to learn from them
i wish to fly like them
glide on the currents of life
effortless
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Counting your blessings
A new day is just another chance to count our blessings.
My blessings may seem very different from your blessings
but blessings we have – each of us – a many of them.
We just need to notice.
Its easy to take for granted
things that we have every day.
But they are gifts, really!
Given to us by grace.
the morning walk
the warm sun
the bare feet feeling the sand
the light fresh breeze from the Pacific
all this green!
palm trees swaying gracefully with the wind
the kling-klang music of the bamboo forrest
the full-of-overtones sound of the waves ticking my brainwaves
the friendly greetings of neighbors
the relaxed pace of life here in this land
pelicans and flamingos fishing artfully for breakfast
all this nature, all this goodness
all those gifts to be aware of
with gratitude
Gratitude
Awareness
Love
~~~
Breathing
breathing is so natural,
so close to us,
that we don’t even notice.
most of the time we are not aware
that we even breath,
or how.
and yet breath is so essential to our life,
to be able to keep on living.
and so connected too,
to how we feel.
i would think that it is worth to apply more attention,
a lot more awareness and interest to it.
to explore this most basic function,
of us.
awareness of breath.
breath in,
breath out.
deep and relaxed,
natural,
no hurry, no push.
just to observe it, to give it your close attention, undivided.
to do that for a couple of minutes,
it will make you feel different.
it will make you feel
better,
very good!
the most basic – and important – of meditations.
this is it!!!
it is with you every day 24/7.
no need for meditation cushions.
no need for extra meditation time.
For candles and incense and such.
just a re-minding,
re-focus,
that’s it!
and a smile.
breath in,
breath out.
this wave,
this basic rhythm.
on and on
on and on
on and on
~~~