Dharma

Trials and blessings

You call me out
say — this will not do,
is not enough.
I’ll show you that
you still have stuff
to work through
and work on
- I’ll show you.

Patience builds a fire

I cover myself in a cloak.

Crouching down, head bowed,
my world becomes a cave.
I turn inside and light a fire
in the darkness -

Be awakening

Wake up and be
A thousand-armed tree
Standing as the living spirit
Of awakening in this world

And keep the light
Of that fire
At your heart
That it might soften and grow
And acquire an intensity
That is…

This is the path of concentration

The path to concentration 
is beset on all sides
by the temptation
of distraction

The longing to be elsewhere
or everywhere or nowhere
robs here and now of
what it has…

FREE HARD CORE

Did I tell you already?

That I was driving along
a country road around
the corner from me and
I saw a sign that said

Ever better

It’s hard to say
When something stands
Just out of reach
Forever

A rich tree of goodness
Fertile fingers sink into the soil
A ribbon that wants to wind around
And bind two souls
A long sunset that sings…

Ending

why wait any longer?
why hold onto anything else

to be that one
that is able

to stay nowhere but here

who is above drama
who is beneath struggle

To be here

There is a place
I know
where I let go.

And there is nowhere
I know
that feels more like home.

Vertigo

What is there to see?

The well is too deep.

When I turn the light
of my mind towards
the deepest feeling 
of a long drop falling
then I only see myself
and the surface tension
of my dark reflection.

Gratitude

The relief
of allowing
the truth
that I am not the one
making all of this happen
that I am and always have been
part of a web
of friends and neighbours and strangers
that I do not have to know
everything
that I can say ‘I do not know’
that all the harshness
and the struggle
and the pain
was hung on a lie
that…