This beautiful poem was written by John Somerville, one of the members of the Awakening Clarity Now community. THE THOUGHT TRAIN The Thought Train, the thought train Rattles the rails as it shakes the plain full of thoughts and oughtas and gotta be gottas Dreamin and schemin and not likin the seemin’ and hurry and […]
This beautiful poem was written by John Somerville, one of the members of the Awakening Clarity Now community. Wonder This blissful unknowing the sweet water flowing into the river I go The river meanders wet water wanders through meadows of wonder and where I don’t know.Yesterday I passed the tree of knowledge of good […]
Are you dreaming? Is that why today feels like watercolors mingling? The past and future like echoing song? Hush: Do not awaken your Self. Don’t stem the streaming colors. Simply remember that you are blissfully asleep. Breathing, softly breathing life into this world. This scintillating swirl of colors is what we are. It is all […]
This Loving this exactly as it is. Heavy as time, light as space. Exquisitely detailed, frightfully rendered. Longing to escape, to a sweeter place. But I cannot escape myself, bittersweet. Nor can I abandon you, always by my side. Caught in Indra’s net, In struggle, we sparkle. In surrender, we shine. And always […]
Birthday? Never If “I” is born Then it is Trevor, John or Lee. A birthday needs a “me” You see? Except when you were born As empty as the dawn Of time. You weren’t here then, As you can’t tell me when You didn’t know On your unbirthday Is frictionless flow. Yes, thinking may arise. […]
Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and […]
Face the west at sunrise and in a hundred years, you’ll never see the sun. Just turn! Christopher Warnock is enrolled in The Living Method Continuing Student Program. He lives in Iowa. I really like this. Fred
Mike Stiler is an artist and Zen teacher in Maine. His website is ridingtheox.com.