Be courageous enough to meet yourself

 Today

be courageous
be really courageous
allow yourself time and space
to journey beyond time and space
to meet yourself
sitting in your favourite chair
wearing your favourite clothes.

Be courageous enough to meet yourself
be yourself
love yourself.
There is no greater gift than this
no greater blessing than this.
Allow yourself to stop and breathe
to be
just be
with no thought of what comes next
no thought of what is.
Lay down your plans, thinking, schemes
they are the blocks
that stop you meeting yourself.
Release the covers of ignorance
the creator of shade and darkness
let the light shine out.

A daring one looks inward
to meet themselves.
Many are called
few hear the call
fewer still heed the call
knowing it as myself, not other.

Today
be courageous
be really courageous.
Oneness longs to be discovered
acknowledged, known and loved.

© 2 Sep 20

What is meditation?

A conscious non-doing
allowing the universe to speak
instead of our small, narrow mind.
A conscious turning away from
the mundane every day
turning towards unknowing
with a willing and open heart.

Meditation is to be
desire-free, need-free, carefree.
Allowing all ideas of me and mine
to be thrown into the wind
to see how and where and if
they will land.
Meditation is not an action
but a conscious non-action
a giving up of doing to allow being.
Space to see and hear the ideas
of who we think we are
that keep us small and bound
Transcending all ideas
to be who we always are and have been
pure, perfect, free.

© 1 Sep 20

 

#mindfulmonday

 

Why not now?

Why not now?
Why not this moment?
What holds you back from
complete awakening?

Mind, only mind.
Decades of habit and
belief in being human.
The habit of doing
defined by that doing
so compelling, so attractive
so addictive.

We have spent a lifetime
believing that doing human
is the pinnacle of success and happiness.
All experience meanwhile
proving this not to be the case.

Happiness is an internal
not external condition.

Listen to the heart
that knows
dwelling place of truth
reality, freedom.
Listen no more to the
long-winded, repetitive
bluster of the mind
convincing, conniving.
Listen to the silence
in the heart
saying so much.

Stop the outer search
it was only ever within.
Why not now?
Why not this moment?

© 30 Aug 20

Coming home

Coming home
to my best friend
who only greets me with love
no matter how I present myself
who does not see a tired
worn out body needing to
‘get into shape’
and loves this body just as it is
who cares not what I think
of myself
no matter how low my thoughts
can take me
and only greets me as whole
complete and shining
who pays no heed to how little
self-love I offer
and only has a full and open heart.

My best friend
who invites me to stay awhile
in quiet meditation
paying no heed to whether I think
I can or can’t
paying no heed to the ‘quality’
of my meditation
and only says,
just rest.

Coming home
to my best friend
who sees no labels, no conditions
no shortcomings
who knows me only as
pure, prefect and free
who is my mirror
and provides space
to allow me to see
we are One.

©  13 Aug 20

Dear Mind

Dear Mind

please be still.

This incessant movement

jumping from one thing to another

Is so wearing, so fruitless.

Neither you nor I benefit

from this circling waste of energy.

Come home, dear Mind

sit still with me

and rest.

Let’s be silent together

nourished by deep stillness.

Dear Mind

please be quiet.

I choose 

not to believe

all that you say

not to listen to all the

variants you present

not to adhere to your

unceasing way of moving.

I choose to be master, not servant.

Come home, dear Mind

sit still with me

and rest.

Let’s be silent together

nourished by deep stillness.

© 3 Aug 20

How could it be otherwise?

Be brave enough

fearless enough

to let go.

As easy as 

letting a balloon string

slip out of your hand.

Be with the balloon

to discover adventures

possibilities.

Venture into the unknown

to realise its complete familiarity.

None other than myself.

How could it be otherwise?

© 3 Aug 20