http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ Collection of Thoughts Topic: Mountain Contemplations... en Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:12:23 +0000 http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25231 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:07:53 +0000 Star 25231@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>heaven forbid...</p> <p>heaven forbid we might have to actually rethink how we care...<br /> the old ways have worked so marvelously, children are starving everywhere...<br /> not only for food and clean water...but many for compassion as such...<br /> while we preoccupy ourselves with the ultimate 'out of touch'...<br /> we claim that all is illusion...all suffering of form isn't real...<br /> we meditate in our experience of bliss...and numb ourselves to 'feel'...<br /> the state of the world and humanity...no longer our concern...<br /> we rather enjoy our ultimate bliss...compassion ceases to burn...<br /> if the ultimate is truly compassion...how else is it expressed?<br /> than through this very human form...compassion wears as dress?<br /> when will we get beyond this thinking...the ultimate beyond the mind?<br /> compassion is the ultimate...dancing humanity through space and time...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25191 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:57:07 +0000 Star 25191@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>compassion's breaking heart...</p> <p>compassion broke its own heart...<br /> burst out in infinite being...<br /> longing so to show itself...<br /> its own heart through its freeing...<br /> eventually it formed the stars...<br /> they danced in time and space...<br /> till their heart then exploded...<br /> and humanity took its place...<br /> compassion now it burns within...<br /> our infinite heart and mind...<br /> it leads us onward to complete...<br /> compassion...in space and time...<br /> these words of mine are simple...<br /> with message to impart...<br /> connected to all being...<br /> compassion's...breaking heart...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25177 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:05:04 +0000 Star 25177@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>how beautiful is the day...</p> <p>how beautiful is the day...<br /> the sky is wearing blue...<br /> the wind is kicking up her leaves...<br /> the air a soothing cool...<br /> the light falls like a blanket...<br /> transparent; illuminating space...<br /> the tree it bends its branches...<br /> as the ground claims its own place...<br /> although the limbs are bare of dress...<br /> in spots the grass shines green...<br /> the view outside my window...<br /> where the path of time is seen...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25176 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:28:25 +0000 Star 25176@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>the 100th post! you have won a gift! can you guess what it is? LOL...</p> <p>be filled with your own inner joy...always, star... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25154 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:56:09 +0000 gankyil 25154@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>“One Hundredth Post”</p> <p>One Hundred times<br /> The reach for you<br /> Lay wait in silent house<br /> Baton instrument divine<br /> Thunder pulsing heart<br /> Conduct Masses’ trumpeting<br /> Ascending violent storm<br /> Resounding in harmonic voice<br /> Mine ours yours </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25137 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:36:58 +0000 Star 25137@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>how else can the absolute express...<br /> its compassion and itself...<br /> what good is taking awareness...<br /> and putting it on a shelf?<br /> it gave itself, arms and legs...<br /> a body, mind, and voice...<br /> with lungs to sing and ears to hear...<br /> its ownself to rejoice...<br /> humanity needs awareness...<br /> awareness is what it is...<br /> to learn to live as human...<br /> as truth...compassionate bliss...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25136 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:27:44 +0000 Star 25136@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>lingering in dreamstate...<br /> is another way to escape...<br /> wake up and dance this human dance...<br /> break free from your own trance...<br /> accepting all just as it is...<br /> as open potential to be...<br /> awareness dances in this moment...<br /> awake and dancing free...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25135 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:23:27 +0000 Star 25135@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>blissfilled reality...</p> <p>there is a you and me...<br /> transient in form...<br /> the energy of you and me...<br /> originality born...<br /> awareness births its passion...<br /> through...in...humanity...<br /> interconnected web of life...<br /> awareness...energy...<br /> all occurance of moment...<br /> is real as real can be...<br /> awareness dancing human...<br /> in blissfilled reality...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25134 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:58:13 +0000 gankyil 25134@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>“Original Poem”<br /> -or-<br /> “turn dream on”</p> <p>What is originality<br /> if “all” we know is “one”?<br /> With out the “you or me” there<br /> this doesn’t seem much fun.</p> <p>Is this not what science tries to prove,<br /> and seers can’t neglect,<br /> the fact that all’s not what it seems?<br /> Ignore it? What the heck.</p> <p>Make no mistake: The blissfulness<br /> of knowing won’t remain<br /> as long as what was witnessed<br /> knows “occurrence” as its name.</p> <p>So, this originality<br /> is, too, not what it seems,<br /> the bubbling of perspective,<br /> the gracefulness of dream. </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25133 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:53:50 +0000 Star 25133@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>ideas of love...</p> <p>our own ideas of love...<br /> can lull us back to sleep...<br /> clarity of awareness...<br /> only...can bring relief...<br /> we live our life in boxes...<br /> of what we think true love is...<br /> blinded to true nature...<br /> compassions precious gift...<br /> free from all illusion...<br /> compassion then is free...<br /> to fill the corners of the earth...<br /> and all humanity...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25132 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:26:17 +0000 Star 25132@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>love has many faces....<br /> it cares not how its seen...<br /> whether its accepted...<br /> or considered mean...<br /> sentimental hogwash...<br /> love has a job to do...<br /> unveiling true compassion...<br /> without a me or you...<br /> the hatefulness of love as truth...<br /> necessarily reveals...<br /> compassion of humanity...<br /> wisdom finally feels...<br /> beyond deluded pettiness...<br /> compassion is awake...<br /> waiting to be recognized...<br /> and kiss its only face...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25131 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:10:37 +0000 Star 25131@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>love has many faces...</p> <p>love has many faces...<br /> in its duality...<br /> love is judged unkindly...<br /> by a you or me...<br /> the love that takes the sword of truth...<br /> to slice illusion free...<br /> a gift of awareness...precious...<br /> allowing true nature to be...<br /> compassion sometimes feels so cold...<br /> when uprooting conditioned belief...<br /> love has many faces...<br /> where compassion finds relief...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25130 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:55:51 +0000 Star 25130@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>compassions face...</p> <p>the greatest gift that one can give...<br /> is wisdoms moment of truth...<br /> awareness expressed in freedom...<br /> clarity knowing into do...<br /> compassion in its glory...<br /> reveals responsibility...<br /> sometimes the hatefulness of love...<br /> wisdoms gift in reality...<br /> sometimes to give is to withhold...<br /> compassion...true in grace...<br /> the wisdom of awareness...<br /> discerning compassions face...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/4#post-25129 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:14:26 +0000 gankyil 25129@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>Time is for the taking<br /> to give and give and give<br /> and give and give<br /> and give and give<br /> and give and give and give... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25128 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:25:14 +0000 Star 25128@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>sparks to flame...(for chad)...</p> <p>sometimes a fire is needed...<br /> giving sparks to flame...<br /> it gets our head out of our ass...<br /> and keeps us from insane...<br /> at first there might be anger...<br /> but anger drives us on...<br /> underneath there's courage...<br /> and willingness is born...<br /> to look at things differently...<br /> to open up our mind...<br /> embrace waiting potential...<br /> leave self-doubt far behind...<br /> may fires be lit within us...<br /> and all that we believe...<br /> may we re-examine...<br /> truth of now will set us free...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25127 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:12:40 +0000 Star 25127@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>vehicle of awareness...</p> <p>vehicle of awareness...<br /> precious...human...being...<br /> through this very journey...<br /> awareness knows its freeing...<br /> oh miracle of precious life...<br /> allowing nature true...<br /> to dance upon its light of day...<br /> and know itself anew...<br /> compassion of humanity...<br /> to thine ownself be true...<br /> seeing all of being...<br /> knowing is to do...<br /> not trapped by nonattachment...<br /> attachment cannot hold...<br /> precious...all humanity...<br /> awareness...its own soul...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25126 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:55:06 +0000 Star 25126@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>precious life...</p> <p>to know the joy of living...<br /> the innocence of child...<br /> playing in a nearby brook...<br /> or running through the wild...<br /> to smell the smell of jasmine...<br /> or dance with bliss as one...<br /> or lying still in fields of lillies...<br /> feeling the warmth of sun...<br /> playing in the rain...<br /> knowing all the while...<br /> a rainbow will appear...<br /> and bring me quick a smile...<br /> this precious life is such a gift...<br /> true nature to realize...<br /> and all the gifts of mother earth...<br /> her wonder and surprise...<br /> let me not take for granted...<br /> this body, mind, and voice...<br /> my very life as human...<br /> allows awareness to rejoice...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25125 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:27:06 +0000 gankyil 25125@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>"Lifetime (nothing special)"</p> <p>Thank you for the death of me.<br /> Truly, I am grateful.<br /> The children that were hiding<br /> in that little cove behind the pile<br /> who sought refuge in my arms,<br /> did they survive you?<br /> Will I meet them in this lifetime?</p> <p>Though I never saw your face,<br /> I knew you were descending<br /> from that earthen path<br /> between the walls of tenements,<br /> infected with the concept of death.<br /> Do you remember?<br /> Will I meet you in this lifetime?</p> <p>Essence of pure fire, absent of its common heat, filled my knowledge.<br /> Seeing with my eyes and eyes of one observing from the palace looking down as I<br /> stood returning upward gaze, I knew a watcher. And though I did not turn to you<br /> I knew all directions and compassion and forgiveness as your bullet pierced my neck slowly, slowly, slowly releasing form from mind I dwelt abiding.<br /> To the observer from the palace:<br /> Will I meet you in this life time?</p> <p>I can not calculate for sure<br /> the hour or the day,<br /> when “peaceful liberation”,<br /> yours, thrust upon my nation.<br /> 13+45; 58 years it has now been,<br /> and what of your family now in 2008?<br /> Will I meet them in this lifetime?</p> <p>I’d like to thank those you knew<br /> and honor them as well.<br /> You must have recounted the undoing tale<br /> of slaughter to someone. Didn’t you,<br /> or did insanity overwhelm?<br /> Will I meet them in this lifetime?</p> <p>In shattering, and snuffing out, you scattered<br /> more than country across a globe, across bardos.<br /> Look deep into the irony and see how truly good you’ve made it.<br /> I awoke again at 24: I do, I say, I know.<br /> Did you think it was the end of me,<br /> my friends, life, and family?<br /> Will I meet them in this lifetime?</p> <p>A fortunate atrocity; great sowing;<br /> turning tides of sea.<br /> It must have been just hell,<br /> and even if you killed awake<br /> I forgive you, Brother.<br /> Don’t drift in doubt.<br /> May you meet you, knowing bardo not, abiding. </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25114 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:58:05 +0000 Star 25114@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>evolutions soul...</p> <p>coming back, from the ground of being...<br /> to own all that we are...<br /> awakening to human...feeling...<br /> the very dust of star...<br /> seeing over the horizon...<br /> the humanity of earth...<br /> the meaning of compassion...<br /> in space and time give birth...<br /> dancing now as human...<br /> compassion know thyself...<br /> the absolute now relative...<br /> is deeply known and felt...<br /> journey of awakening...<br /> body, mind, and voice...<br /> universe to earth to human...<br /> compassion now rejoice...<br /> no longer isolated...<br /> integrated whole...<br /> the absolute and relative...<br /> evolutions soul...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25103 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:43:37 +0000 gankyil 25103@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>Seer’s Sorrow</p> <p>I eat what’s there before me,<br /> So full of all that is,<br /> And enter conjured dwellings:<br /> I blunder.</p> <p>Letting go that which was eaten<br /> In an “Ahhh…” the stench is known,<br /> Grateful it is mine, seemingly, alone:<br /> I wonder.</p> <p>With that, hunger finds me<br /> And off I go again<br /> To find new satiation:<br /> I offer.</p> <p>All the while abiding,<br /> Asleep as though awake,<br /> Depending on real eyes to see:<br /> I slumber.</p> <p>And when openness finds them<br /> Illumination blinds them<br /> Dissolving in placidity:<br /> For you, away with me. </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25078 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:37:34 +0000 Star 25078@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>may agreement be realized within the wisdom of awareness...for benefit of all sentient beings... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25074 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:02:57 +0000 gankyil 25074@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>"Agreement"</p> <p>Agreement can’t be reached with no one there to know.<br /> To seek of it is folly, just putting on for show.<br /> “It is!” is just desire differentiating kind.<br /> If agreement is sought after, let it go and lose your mind.</p> <p>g </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25065 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:46:26 +0000 Star 25065@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>clarity of awareness...</p> <p>when awareness is open...there's clarity...<br /> compassion can act in grace...<br /> as it opens itself...and embraces...<br /> the all of its own human face...<br /> in authentic spirituality...<br /> true wisdom of ignorance is born...<br /> now it can see beyond to free...<br /> a vision beyond what is torn...<br /> may humanity evolve its compassion...<br /> beyond what it holds as belief...<br /> may awareness continue to open...<br /> where clarity can know true relief...<br /> StarLight Dancing... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25064 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:09:48 +0000 Star 25064@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>oohhh...now that is a very powerful glimpse you had there g...lol</p> <p>total wisdom speaking...</p> <p>always, star... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25063 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:04:07 +0000 gankyil 25063@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>…glimpse gives way to striving,<br /> striving gives way to skillful means,<br /> skillful means gives way to glimpse,<br /> and on as One resolves... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25013 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:57:29 +0000 gankyil 25013@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>;) </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25007 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:33:56 +0000 Star 25007@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>hey g...as you so eloquently alluded to...confusion is a state that a star is in right before it gives birth to creation...</p> <p>it is also the state we often find ourselves in...right before amazing clarity...lol</p> <p>much joy...always, star... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-25003 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:20:42 +0000 gankyil 25003@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>hey fin n star,</p> <p>“...it has the physicists dumbfounded...lol...” LOL Such a beautiful condition to find themselves in. </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-24993 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:00:29 +0000 Star 24993@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>hey g...i have been reading up on parallel universes...it has the physicists dumbfounded...lol...the magic of the real...awesome!</p> <p>much love and joy to you both...always, star... </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1064/page/3#post-24986 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:15:25 +0000 fin 24986@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>gankyll, beautiful : ) </p>