Listen

Listen.
What do you hear?
The sound of breath flowing in and out of lungs
The pulse of heart beating blood throughout the body
The whisper of breeze kissing the ears on morning walk
The tic tic of dog's claws on concrete pavement
In rhythmic dance with muffled thunk of rubber soles
A bird chirps
Insects drone a white noise
Squirrel scrunches leaves

I hear the dew drops balancing on the leaf tips
Trembling now as watery sun reaches higher and gilds the sky
I hear them sparkle as they make the dive to earth in heat of now.

Listen
To the earth turn
Informing awareness
Expanding presence to infinity
Silencing the unruly mind
To stillness.

Just Be

What I thought were sufferings were jewels
What I thought were sharp edges were caressing nudges
What I thought was abandonment was compassionate nurturing
What I thought was the enemy was the teacher
What I thought was ignorance was the lesson
What I thought was darkness was You holding the Light
What I thought was death was Eternal Light
What I thought was the Other was You
What I thought was You was my own Self.

'Don't think', says the Self.
'Just Be'.

Drown In Me

Drown in Me
Drown in Me
Drown in Me

Breathe Me in
Fill your lungs with Me
Give up your struggle
To remain separate from Me

Drown in Me
Drown in Me
Drown in Me

Float free as the cosmic sea in Me
I claim you as My Own

There is no end
There is no end
There is no end

To the ecstasy
Of you and Me

As you

Drown in Me
Drown in Me
Drown in Me.

I Am That

I came out of a meditative sleep
Aware of that familiar state of blissful being
Buzzing, flowing, expanding, loving, ecstatic.

My awareness noticed
I am not the body
I cannot feel the body
I am Lightness and Energy

My intellect said
If I am not the body
Then where are my parameters?

My awareness laughed and said
What parameters?
There are none.

My intellect said
If I have none
Then where do I begin and end?

Again my awareness laughed and said
You don't

My intellect said
If I don't begin or end then
Who am I?
What am I?

My awareness stayed silent
As I experienced the answer
For my Self.

In ecstasy I realize
I am the same as Everything
I flow into all that is and am That
If I have no parameters then
Nothing else does either

There is only this
This that I Am
Is all there is.
I really am...That.
This realization both excites and startles me.

I notice a sudden hunger in the body
I struggle to get up
And have some food
Nature's way of grounding to the earth.
But I just consume my Self
In Holy Communion.
Amen to That.