within this garden...

last evening before sleep a vision appeared 

of a garden with blue flowers 

the hibiscus were blue, large and grew in abundance 

there was a bench where one could sit amongst the 

lovely creation of wonder that mother nature provides 

so gloriously

there, within this garden, that was filled with 

different flowers and greens and earth 

sweet with rich nourishment 

arose a small plastic bubble that floated in 

the air 

within this bubble, a butterfly fluttered with wings of
various shades of blue 

that were patterned in fine blacks as well 

and all the touches of light that shine within these creatures 

that capture our hearts so 

majestic it was (this butterfly), but held within captivity 

and then the bubble that held it, broke open and it

flew out within the freedom of the air 

it flew as if it had found itself finally and could allow 

that which it was inherently to live truly without containers 

or borders or boundaries and all the things that are structured 

as ways to keep light from truly flowing out fully and freely

and then, many plastic bubbles arose floating in the air 

then these containers opened up too and the butterflies flew in the garden 

and travelled beyond it as well 

into the sky 

into the space 

and dissolved as light 

so here is one of the visions that came to this mind's eye 

as they come more and then less 

and come whenever 

but are not so all consuming still

this is the journey here i 

am still within sadhana very much 

and there is still slowing and gaps to mind 

there is an all consuming light and stillness 

there is still mind risings and physical phenomena clearing 

and circling about 

but i am not pulling back from this desire to go on

and leave the mind to fall completely 

i know oh love 

that it feels to you so long when i speak 

it is long indeed this journey 

that abounds to open to those sincere ones 

it is indeed a path of mysterious play that leaves one 

without covers or concealments or anything to cling to that 

will save one except surrender, faith and trust in the heart 

that is God or pure consciousness 

there the mind can relax and leave the rest to be handled by 

the pure intelligent source 

this is what takes place off and on 

and there is also a way that this path wears down the separate persona 

but one must see the conditionings that cause the effect of maya and all that works there 

so strange and confusing when one is lost within it 

and not get pulled into that and lost there 

for there, nothing that is of lasting value can find itself to be as it is 

and shine for all humanity to feel 

as this is the main thing oh seeker and one that is devoted to light 

whether you are truly walking a path or simply living life 

you must know that there is nothing that is different than your own heart 

every face you meet on your journey is nothing but one self

everything is this beauty only 

for we cannot be something other than this 

forever 

forever 

only this light