Let Go of Time

Let go of the past,
Let go of the future,
Welcome.

My Hopes

I am down here in Dallas participating in developing a five year strategic plan for our Dallas market team. Yesterday we were asked what some of our hopes were. My answers:

One hope I have for the world: Understanding among all people.

One hope I have for my family: Abounding happiness.

One hope I have for myself: Be fearless.

Yeah Baby!

Moon on the Water

Moon on the water
Guides my early morning flight.
Wing obstructs my view.

Resurrection Faith

I believe that we die and can be reborn hundreds of times each day.
I believe that we die and can remain dead for years.
Courage to find joy is the difference.
Teachers are the difference.
Seeing Wonder is the difference.
Standing for Peace is the difference.
Being present, fearless and with love in our hearts is the difference.

Anniversaries

Today would have been my parents' 63rd wedding anniversary. They made it to their 59th in this life. I honor their life together by saying thank you for the world that they made better, for giving me life, giving my children life and for breaking a sad Irish tradition of drinking too much and fucking up lives - they had great lives!



Today is also the anniversary of the destruction of the One Ring that led to the downfall of so many in LOTR through greed and misuse of power. In memory I ask, What is the One Ring in our world today? Greed and power are certainly fucking up the world now, sadly screwing working folk and poor folks in this country and throughout the world; and fucking up the earth as we speak. What will it take to get those in power to see the brutality of their way? If only we had a ring to throw into the fire. Meanwhile, speaking truth must be our anniversary flag.

When an action is without love does it have value?

I read an obituary in The Economist on the plane yesterday, of Baba Amte. He was born into well-off family in India but became a follower of Gandhi which led to his becoming a champion of India's lepers and outcastes. He died on February 9th at the age of 93.

His story is amazing for this - he chose to make love the meaning of his life. By accident he touched a leper one day and drew back in fear. This shaped his life. "He was outraged at the fear he felt ... Where the was fear, he told himself, there was no love; and when an action was not done it love, it had no value."

I'm not called to live on an ashram (yet, Bobbi) but I am called by Baba Amte's commitment to loving action. Today.

Offering Goodness

We talked at the Zendog yesterday about humans acting out of fear and constriction rather than out of confidence in the goodness we have to offer and the unending expansiveness that is our true nature.

Offering our goodness to others is a seed for both the giver and the one who receives; a seed that when watered with confidence in our true nature grows into greater goodness for both. In this case, unending means unending.

Fearlessness supports presence which supports love, which is none other than the offering of goodness that exists anyway - it's just joyful to realize it.

Late Winter Embers

Late winter embers
warm my feet; ready now.
My heart looks back.

Give a loose to your soul

In the poem, Two Tramps in Mud Time, Robert Frost writes,

"The blows that a life of self-control
Spares to strike for the common good,
That day, giving a loose to my soul,
I spent on the unimportant wood."



While reading the poem today I fell in love with that line, "giving a loose to my soul." The protagonist moved beyond his life of work, of attainment, of self-control, even though done for the common good, and gave himself permission to just chop wood; the chopping really no less important, and no more, than his other work.


Where is the opportunity in your life today to give a loose to your soul?

One response

Time is.