Anchored Harmony and Tonalities
Opening up
Aimed for so long
Dreamed and wished
Plus feared avoided
When finally now
Manifesting as is
Whatever’s clear
Open to express
In full freedom
To observe
Divine spirit
Listening to
What it tells
The river of life
All love in reality
Living interwoven
In all and every way
To explore here now
Courageously touch
The heart of hearts
The brilliant light
A sound eternal
Ever on and on
In gratitude.
Swirling vorteces
Concepts are guidelines for reference
But then there is reality that is real
What we do with our existence
No matter how tentative, it just is
Detachment and love at the core
Everything is possible but only one
The single thing which actually is
The miracle of this very moment
Present here and now in love.
“Moment after moment we have to find our own way. Some idea of perfection, or some perfect way which is set up by someone else, is not the true way for us.
Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way. This is the mystery. When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.” — Q1
“Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere. … Forget all about some particular teaching; … [do] not ask which is good or bad. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment, in every existence. That is the true teaching.” — Q2
— Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki, Q1: p. 136, Q2: p. 161
A room that is free of time —
He just removed all the clocks.
So what can be the point of this
When next door watches tick?
Still, that room remains beyond
Outside of measuring any time
Here the infinite is undivided
While all life flows in cycles
Day and night, sun and moon
Moments, eternities all whole.
Humans synchronizing time
A metronome’s fixed rhythm
As life flows flexible and free
Reality establishes the pace.
References are no essence
Merely tools for one to use
Then to pass on and let go.
Thus the room’s free of time.
Check next door as needed
To exist within and without.
One single step, all at once.
From a living spiritual master who did not want to be named on this website:
“The real joy of living is in being courageous enough, for instance, to go out on the street…”
“If you are inspired with an inner knowingness that what you are doing is right, you just carry on and do it.”
And about the distinction between the material life and the spiritual, he pointed out that divine spirit, “as you go further, … actually weaves the two together so smoothly that there is no difference. It is all the spiritual life.”
An ideal is essential
To pursue and manifest
As possible here and now.
However let’s not forget
It’s an ideal, that it is.
Human reality differs:
Shortcomings, stumbles
They are an integral part
Inextricable from being
Here in this outer world
Of duality and matter
Positive and negative
And all the contrasts
Helping and enabling
One to be motivated
To reach beyond it all.
Exemplified by an ideal
Manifested in the flow
Humans may master
Also teach their way
That they found to be
A working one and only
They practice and pursue
As ideal in the flow
Of life and love
Divine as can be
But still human too
Aiming for the ideal
The very love of God.
Essential: 1) absolutely necessary; extremely important. 2) in medicine: with no known external stimulus or cause; idiopathic: relating to or denoting a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. — Q1
Ideal: a person or thing regarded as perfect; a standard or principle to be aimed at. — Q2
An ideal is a principle or value that an entity actively pursues as a goal and holds above other concerns perceived as being less meaningful. — Q3
— Q1 and Q2 from Google word definitions, Q3 from Wikipedia,
One thing leads to the next.
Let go and open the door
For the old to go out a way
And the new to come on in.
There may be a moment
When the old has gone
And the new’s not yet in
A rest point in eternity
To relish all in silence.
Maybe there is no need
For something new at all
After the old was let go
And freedom took over
Live the present moment
As it is — was — and will be
Without old, without new
Just here and now, as it is
Navigating the flow of life
And love does carry it all
No thought nor image
But reality all by itself
Divine inside and out.
Infinite cannot be counted
Stop measuring and enjoy
It is what it is and you are
I am that I am, have been
And continue to be, soul
No more and also no less
Welcome the celebration!
“Goodness is … not merely a norm, but something alive: It is a gesture of relationship. The good, when it is transformed and comes alive, is love.
For the mystical experience, therefore, being embedded in an encompassing spirit, the ‘great life’, is not being bound by law — the principle of the good — but being embraced by a loving being. … Under cold law, the good is ‘the right thing’: We may follow it and obey it; we may recognize it or even manipulate it. But to a being in whom the good is the relational gesture of love, we are able to surrender in the heart. In this, spirit and human face … each other in a friendly and loving way.”
— Kontexte des Segens, I Ging: Das Buch der Wandlungen, Thomas Primas, vom “grossen Leben” und seinem Sinn
