Showing posts with label meditative state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditative state. Show all posts

Friday, August 1, 2025

Nature Is A Sea Of Green and other stuff

Nature is a Sea of green is a poem I wrote many years ago at the Springwater Center in Springwater, NY just south of Rochester, NY. It was dedicated to someone I knew in the early days of this center after one of our conversations.



Nature Is A Sea Of Green


Nature is a Sea of Green

Surrounding the deck

Of the ship that I sit on

Sailing the valley below

Neither advancing

Nor receding.


Everything vibrates effortlessly.

Everywhere. Nowhere.


Am ‘I’ the I

I think I am?

Memories fade.

Images of self

Deceive me.


One stands apart now

Observing the video

Of self and others playing.

An endless loop.


What remains of the ‘me’

I thought I was is pressed inward.

Shadows dancing

In front of a candle



N.B. The fantastic recording was done years later by Lea Weidig, Love of My Life 


I Am Luminous


This thin shell
Reveals
The treasures
Within

Look past it all
And see the
Source

No separation
Is the key
Unlocking
Mind to mind
Heart to heart
Essence of
Beyond the beyond
In the here
Now

Do not fear
The Light

Dhiyo Yonaha Prachodayat





Self As Magnet


Every human being is seeking the source and must one day come to it.  

We come from Within; we have gone outward and now must return inward 

to rid ourselves of the feeling “Is that all there is.”


We have covered ourselves over with thoughts and passions.  

To throw them off we must concentrate.  

Who is it that goes in and out? Who is it that has thoughts and passions?  

It is the I that I think I am. Who am I?


This is Self-enquiry; cooperating with the force that attracts us.


The Self is like a powerful magnet hidden within us.  

It draws us gradually to Itself.  

When we are near enough it puts an end to our other activities, makes us still  

and then swallows up our individual current thus ending our personality.  

It overwhelms the intellect and floods the whole being.  

We are like iron filings and It is the Self-magnet that is pulling us inwards.  

The process of finding Self is a form of divine magnetism.  

A powerful attraction.