Surrender

Give up

 

Give out

 

Give all

 

What is left

 

Nothing-No Thing

 

Things are transient

 

They come and go

 

But you are still here

 

When everything is gone

 

You start to ask the questions

 

Why am I

 

Who am I

 

Then your journey begins

 

But first Surrender

 

jsh

Sometimes I hear her

Sometimes I hear her
Cries in the wind

Other times I feel her
Calling for me to stop

She is the soul of man
And takes everything I give her

Many times unfit unclean
And against her nature

She radiates unconditional love
Deep from within her core

Moving mountains guiding rivers
Encouraging everything to grow

Yes she is magical
And she is fragile

She is below me
She is above me

She is my protection
And power giver

A sustainer of life
Unknown to many

Unless you are willing to be still
And listen

A harmonious orb flying through space
At a million miles per measure

She has feelings she is alive
And wants the best for her children

 

All she asks is for you to share her wealth
And not squander it

Take what you need
And save the rest for others

Take some time to sit with her
And you will be healed

Om Gaia Shanti Shanti

 

Jsh

A Shaman’s Dream

I have journeyed long
I am exhausted
Finally I see it surrounded by bush
The hidden opening to her
I thrust my head in deep
There is a smell of earth and blood
Her opening is tight and slippery
I become my brother the snake
Inching forward on my belly
Dark and confining the inward journey
Moving forward there is no way back
Long and hard on my belly
Finally I burst through into the womb
An illuminated cave
Vast open space
On the walls the paintings dance
At the center
The sacred fire
I watch my ancestors dance with the spirit guides
They beckon me
Join us in the fire dance
For a long time or no time
I dance
I dance until the flesh drops off my bones
Then into the fire
My Buffalo Father touches me with his feathered scepter
Come with me to the cloud gates
The portal to the cosmos
Taking off his head and placing it over mine
Now see
I see a rolling ocean of buffalo running over plains
of tall waving green grass
I run to the top of the hill
Looking through Father Buffalo

I came from nothing

I came from nothing
To nothing I return

While I think outside
I am inside

Waiting to be known
Waiting to be known

When the eye turns to me
I create the worlds

When the eye turns away
I no longer exist

This is the great mystery

I play with the stars
Boundless energy

Arising and falling
Deep into the void
Which you call space

Liquid light that is cooling
It does not burn

This light is creation
This light charms

This light nurtures
This light heals

It is brighter than your sun
And cooling like your moon

Many know this
Many have yet to know

Falling

Falling backward into tragic beauty

A swirling vortex
A black hole

Falling deeper
Deeper still

Deep rich blackness
Falling

Endlessly falling
Deeper and deeper

It feels like days, months or years
I have fallen past all memories of who I was

In this darkness of falling
There is no need for my sense organs

There is no need for my body
The only sense left is the awareness of falling

Just conscious of falling
Longer deeper wider

Yet I am not afraid
Suddenly appears a small light

It grows larger and brighter
Streaming beams of beautiful light

Warm and radiant
They seem to beckon me

Feeling my limbs and body
I witness the birth of a new sun
Have I been reborn

jsh

The Shining Fish

Just before dawn in an inlet by an azure blue lake
I sat down to meditate
When you are still you can feel the abundance of life
Willows swaying birds calling
Insects buzzing and fluttering
Time for a new day
The water was calm with an occasional ripple
Reminds me of my mind where thoughts drift by
In this moment a fish jumped out of the water
The morning sun catching its water bourn surface
A frozen moment that left a mark
A sign or symbol for me
Since no one was here
What did it mean I pondered
The fish lives in the water surround
Where it feeds lives and breeds
Totally enveloped in its watery environment
And then it had an urge to transcend the water
Once out of the water the sun

The Journey

As I wake from death
The sun opening my heart

The rivers of mind flowing
into the liquid ocean universe

Searching for soul sacrifice
Eternally evolving into the new

Explosions of light penetrating no thought
Nothing wasted

Wordless bliss
Conquering death once again

Another dance with freedom
Body and vessel filled

A thousand eyes looking for something
Never to be found

Only the journey is real
Stay awhile wild-hearted soul

Gaze at a billion tomorrows
Glorious is the sunrise of the souls story

Would you care to ponder it
It matters or not

As it pulls you toward your destiny
As before so now and forever

JSH 03.11.11