Divine Lust
Sandalwood incense caresses the air
in long sweeps and gentle curls, until
time itself is massaged into illumination...
Every motion is a seduction of soul
and the body a scroll for the Mapmaker
to pose and rearrange into new possibilities...
The music that accompanies this play
is a Divine Lust that plucks each string
with a tenderness that is an endless vibration...
Every existent thing is an instrument
for radiance and simple delight, for this
we need only bend into adoration and surrender...
What is your "normal" state of awareness? Is your soul like a pillow resting unused (but pretty) on your sofa? When you slip your feet into your shoes, are you set to work for justice? It seems to me that these are just a few of the essential questions necessary for a meaningful life... What do you think?
If "Divine Lust" is the activation-principle of creation / evolution, is the antennae of your brain in a receptive mode? And if, as Rumi says, the way that we make love is the way the Holy One will be with us: are you ready? If not now, when?
Love expanding into love-without-limits is the only way into the Holy One, the Divine Consciousness, and the "What if? and Why not? before the Big Bang"... Our human loves are the daily practice -- for all love is a mirror of the Divine and a means for the expansion of our self-oriented consciousness into the awakened bliss of "other-oriented consciousness": this is the nexus of mystic-practice: "Love one another as I have loved you" and "Love the One and love your neighbor as your very self"... This is genuine conservatism: we enter into the conservation of this core truth that feeds every social construct: this is also a genuine radicalized liberation: "I am You, You are Me, and We are All Together: One". Privilege, profit, and power, the axis of the modern American "phony conservatism" of the religious and political right, has nothing whatsoever to do with anything genuine at all: it is phony and deceptive through and through...
Love-without-limits is the religion and politics of an expanded and evolutionary consciousness. Since every aspect of illumination and liberation both have "nothing" to do with me, then it necessarily follows that it has absolutely everything to do with "you"! This movement from the small self to the ever-expansive-self is our one essential task in life! The Expanding Self is the vigor of mind, body, and soul fully integrated and alive: not for its personal profit, privilege, or power, but always, always, for the service and liberation of every other. The Expanding Self is the solidarity of mind, body, and soul with every other mind, body, and soul: this is the radical Unity or Oneness Consciousness that knows the virtues of gender and sexual equality, of social justice and economic equality, of racial and ethnic equality, of national and international equality: for as sisters and brothers of the Divine Oneness it is best that we all are worth the very best -- including our Home, this precious blue Planet...
Passion! Ecstasy! And Life as Radiance! Whew! Why not? Doesn't your heart yearn for a new freedom and a new hope that divinity might be possible? But not a "divinity" somewhere "out there", but a divinity alive in your aliveness... Doesn't your heart yearn for a glance-of-mystery? Perhaps it is time to consider gathering in an affinity group: to meet in Sacred Circles and share a deep intimacy... a sacred word from a holy scripture, a poem, a song, a decision to serve, to organize, to build cooperation and liberation in new communities of radical grace... Let your whisperings become urgent... let the Radical Oneness grow increasingly intimate within you... Indulge in play, poetry, music, soil building, growing food, teaching children, making art, and making great sex... Let the spirit capture your meditation and move and turn and caress you like the smoke of incense and the smoke of the Peace Pipe travelling the route of your Sacred Circle... Let the sun tickle all of your skin... Tribe for the Sacred Earth and Mother of the Universe... The New Creation awaits your life...
(To be continued...)
Sandalwood incense caresses the air
in long sweeps and gentle curls, until
time itself is massaged into illumination...
Every motion is a seduction of soul
and the body a scroll for the Mapmaker
to pose and rearrange into new possibilities...
The music that accompanies this play
is a Divine Lust that plucks each string
with a tenderness that is an endless vibration...
Every existent thing is an instrument
for radiance and simple delight, for this
we need only bend into adoration and surrender...
What is your "normal" state of awareness? Is your soul like a pillow resting unused (but pretty) on your sofa? When you slip your feet into your shoes, are you set to work for justice? It seems to me that these are just a few of the essential questions necessary for a meaningful life... What do you think?
If "Divine Lust" is the activation-principle of creation / evolution, is the antennae of your brain in a receptive mode? And if, as Rumi says, the way that we make love is the way the Holy One will be with us: are you ready? If not now, when?
Love expanding into love-without-limits is the only way into the Holy One, the Divine Consciousness, and the "What if? and Why not? before the Big Bang"... Our human loves are the daily practice -- for all love is a mirror of the Divine and a means for the expansion of our self-oriented consciousness into the awakened bliss of "other-oriented consciousness": this is the nexus of mystic-practice: "Love one another as I have loved you" and "Love the One and love your neighbor as your very self"... This is genuine conservatism: we enter into the conservation of this core truth that feeds every social construct: this is also a genuine radicalized liberation: "I am You, You are Me, and We are All Together: One". Privilege, profit, and power, the axis of the modern American "phony conservatism" of the religious and political right, has nothing whatsoever to do with anything genuine at all: it is phony and deceptive through and through...
Love-without-limits is the religion and politics of an expanded and evolutionary consciousness. Since every aspect of illumination and liberation both have "nothing" to do with me, then it necessarily follows that it has absolutely everything to do with "you"! This movement from the small self to the ever-expansive-self is our one essential task in life! The Expanding Self is the vigor of mind, body, and soul fully integrated and alive: not for its personal profit, privilege, or power, but always, always, for the service and liberation of every other. The Expanding Self is the solidarity of mind, body, and soul with every other mind, body, and soul: this is the radical Unity or Oneness Consciousness that knows the virtues of gender and sexual equality, of social justice and economic equality, of racial and ethnic equality, of national and international equality: for as sisters and brothers of the Divine Oneness it is best that we all are worth the very best -- including our Home, this precious blue Planet...
Passion! Ecstasy! And Life as Radiance! Whew! Why not? Doesn't your heart yearn for a new freedom and a new hope that divinity might be possible? But not a "divinity" somewhere "out there", but a divinity alive in your aliveness... Doesn't your heart yearn for a glance-of-mystery? Perhaps it is time to consider gathering in an affinity group: to meet in Sacred Circles and share a deep intimacy... a sacred word from a holy scripture, a poem, a song, a decision to serve, to organize, to build cooperation and liberation in new communities of radical grace... Let your whisperings become urgent... let the Radical Oneness grow increasingly intimate within you... Indulge in play, poetry, music, soil building, growing food, teaching children, making art, and making great sex... Let the spirit capture your meditation and move and turn and caress you like the smoke of incense and the smoke of the Peace Pipe travelling the route of your Sacred Circle... Let the sun tickle all of your skin... Tribe for the Sacred Earth and Mother of the Universe... The New Creation awaits your life...
(To be continued...)