the monastic life

in the past when the climate was

pure for seeking 

seeking was much honored

and not put aside or taken casually

those that were renunciates took to the 

path in it's traditional way

which was to don the ochre robes 

and wear the ornaments that spoke 

to the monastic life 

which were varied in their nature 

but very much honored and seen

as marks of a heart that was in the 

contemplative order 

when a monk takes to this life 

he is as a person that

has renounced responsibilities

such as rearing family and working 

in the world 

this type of undertaking has as it's base 

great meaning and purpose 

it is to keep the mind focused on God 

the monastic is to be always disciplined 

in the way of putting the eyes 

on the light in terms of scriptural reading 

and contemplation

he lives in a secluded area because he 

is as an island to himself in a way

as he is the sole being that is responsible 

for his journey

and there is no one else that can walk it for him

he is the one that is the keeper of the faith

and he is the one that is the protector of his silence 

he is the one that is the guard of his kingdom

he is the one that lets enter into his paradise 

seeds of untruth or seeds of great blessings 

that grow in the form of quietude and joy

not any one else plants these seeds 

he is the one that waters the blessings 

or destroys them by looking to the impure thought 

the monastic is not a person of the world 

he is as a soul in love with God 

which means he is in love with the SELF 

that is in his own soul

when there is quietude within his mind 

he finds joy in this 

when there is silence that has no personhood in it 

he finds great sustenance in this 

which steadies him to move on into the 

unshakeable stillness in which no experience 

can touch 

he is like a mystic 

as a sadhu that wanders to the light 

he is the same 

the monastic life has it's purpose that is 

good and pure 

but as this path shows when one can be steady

in stillness while in the world 

this stillness will be very solid 

and not easily moved 

as this is much, much harder ...

but can be done 

and will come to those hearty journeyers 

that are true inside and seek pure life 

this will indeed come 

love the moment

love not the dying appearance 

instead love the moment 

it has no experience in it 

that is to burden you as it wants 

nothing at all 

not even your liberation 

it needs nothing at all

not even your desire or efforts

if you love the moment 

then your mind is not so intrusive 

as it takes a back seat 

and is not the driver any longer 

what is left?

Prime with life
and love
what is there to believe
angels?
what is there to create?
what is there not to know?
what is there left to do?
what is in the fires still to burn?
what is the other way to be?

Can you not know
what you are?
How is this so?

My being rests in the One
How about you?
Are you any different?

to be free

if you are to be free
hold none as enemy or friend
in thy heart
be of equal mind and
do not chase the shadows of youth
and body desires
be of pure spirit
like the ones that
are beautiful and
untainted as the day
the soul came to be

spun by light

holy shiva

he opened the gate to the flow of spirit illustrations and by these illustrations showed

that humanity is never  truly in those dark corridors or has to remain there

but given always a key to unlock the structures

of thinking that cast shadow onto the mind-heart-jewel

he showed, with his appearance of light, a way thru the passages that lead to more empty dreams

with his showing up, a door opened and the messages of hope came where that which is seemingly not right and weighed down could open up and use that experience as a jumping off point to another reality that brings about a different playing out 

he showed, shiva (through the illustrations), that those souls that felt they were shunned, dirty or wrong in action

that there was no such thing as a person that has sinned

if he opens his heart fully to the God-essence 

then that one can breathe in a different air that is cleaner and will filter out the dross in its own time and way that is not understood by that one at all

because that one is in their head and has no idea what truth is or what another reality feels like

they are not cognizant of it   

for the mind sees only thru the lenses of the collected apparitions or conditionings that cast a color onto the consciousness and that one has no seeing clearly of the truth

he showed too, that those ones desiring of light, love and peace can come any time

to those fresh waters and taste of something that rings of ripeness, beauty and heart  

shiva came when she was with Guru and this was opened 

he came 

he wore his clothing of holy righteousness that was spun by light, stillness, wonder, beautiful lifting God-cloth   

on his head, he was crowned with the moon that signifies time and that all in it's own time

not in ego time this is not  at all correct 

he wore the Ganga waters that flow as the rushing clear waters with vigorous energy to cleanse the mental habits, actions, non-harmonious elements so not in alignment with Christ

he came wearing his tiger skin covering that is to signify the burning of the form-mind-energy so very seemingly powerful in the way of being all consuming to the soul 

and so uninterrupted and fearsome sometimes, but that energy dies to Shiva

and he wears it to signify this  not as a conquering, but to show that energy has death in him 

and is not real and lasting whatsoever 

he lives as pure consciousness  

he is decked out in his attire that has emblems of life eternal 

his third eye is awake and is not seeing the world as two, but as one in the way of being 

forever unified with shakti

shiva came, he was decked out in freedom emblems that are to tell you that he lives in all things 

never away from any, not for a moment even, never 

he is eternally in all beings at once without measure 

equal unto all as a single light 

the messages flowed, you know, they do not say what is untrue 

for these call to the soul to say,

please do not be persuaded by desires, thinking, greed, prejudice, pride, appearances but go inward to your being and be in what is called shiva-nature 

the messages cry out to you friends

that you do not need to be in your suffering ways any longer than what you create in your mind

for the light is forever open to your being and is to flood into your 

heart-mind when you allow it 

making time

many rich traditions of the past are becoming diluted 

down to the point where they will one day die out 

this is so very sad 

for those traditions that have at their heart, the honoring 

of spirit and nature are so very rich with wisdom and lessons 

for humanity that could help to alleviate suffering and restore 

balance to the earth and spirit in a way that nothing else can

these traditions treated the earth like a beloved friend

and made from it's soil beautiful bright tools,

pottery, art and so much more that resonate with the song of love, 

joy and connection to all that lives 

these traditions gave back to the earth as a 

way to say thank you for what was given to sustain the life

this feeling of being connected to a greater whole in which all 

live and have at it's core the same heart is very lost now 

drowned out by other voices that speak of something that is not 

clear anymore 

and many actions are now steeped in ways that are so very far away 

from spirit that it is not recognized or felt any more 

it is very sad to see the earth spoiled the way it is and to see 

humanity's actions veer so very far away from God-source 

heartbreaking truly

and yet it is what is happening now 

there is nothing that can truly make changes in this way that 

is now deep in the mental attitudes/actions that we are now seeing 

but to make the journey to the heart 

and the journey to the heart is taken within a mind-set of simplicity,

openness, gratitude, quietude, and what brings the soul/mind peace,

not stirs it up more with questions, worry, doubts, desires etc...

for these will only be fuel for more of the same 

it is hoped that more souls settle down and make time for quietude, 

simplicity, reflection

spending time in nature and cultivating a character based on 

values of honesty, transparency and integrity

for without this foundation in place, the wheel will keep spinning in the direction it is 

and this vibration now is what will continue to be seen, felt, heard and passed on

so,  for those souls desiring of something that rings of heart, freedom, joy 

and are willing to go forward into this,

may you be blessed 

and may you find everlasting peace

another way

hearken friend, 

the doves are flying across the sky 

in a stream of white 

and the eastern star glows so light-filled 

in the heavens 

the play of the world lives on below like 

an illusion that is made of that which 

comes and goes 

and worldly mental ways that have no 

real life in the heart that sings of wonders 

and riches so precious and filled with the 

christ-consciousness 

in this consciousness light is alive, present in 

abundance and without the colored lenses of 

philosophies, mental collections, intellectual 

ways that put men, women and all that live into 

boxes of  this and that...

there is something that sings of another way that is 

so very different from this type of playing out 

that it cannot even compare or be held up against 

anything to understand it like other 

mental types of happenings and playing out 

it lives pristine, completely still, and nothing can ever 

darken it's beautiful clear fountain of wisdom, clarity,

timeless treasure, light, love, harmony... 

just a symphony of all the treasures that live
inside the heart 

it sings of another way that is so very different