November 22, 2007
Hello Friends, I just returned from five days visiting a dear friend and her family. She is not doing well. Though very challenging from a spiritual and emotional perspective I am reminded of the famous Ram Das story. At some point after he left Harvard he was in the middle of a six month retreat with an order of Tibetan Buddhist Monks when his father became gravely ill. When the news reached him he wet to the monks who assumed he would stay and then tend to his father. Much to their surprise he immediately left and began the oddyssey of caring for his father in the last year of his life. In retrospect he says that the growth he experienced juast being with his father for that year was more important than any book, teacher or spiritual practice he was ever engaged in. My experience was certainly transformational. Being in such a parallel universe provides immediate perspective about what's important. I am pleased to send the following two poems as my holiday offering. One is about waking up, the other about change. May this holiday bless you with the gift of being truly awake, and the ability to chose your future and the changes you desire for yourself, your loved ones and the human species in this time of challenge. Peace, Stewart Stewart L. Levine, Esq., Resolutionary Author: Getting to Resolution The Book of Agreement The Cycle of Resolution in The Change Handbook NEW: Collaboration 2.0 www.happyabout.info/collaboration2.0.php 510-777-1166 510-814-1010 cell If you knew the secret history of those you would like to punish you would find a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm, all your hostility
AWAKENING All of a sudden, the slate is wiped clean Whatever is present is gone like a dream Whatever was gripping and had you in chains Has let go and released, no longer remains The joy that you relish is waiting for you Just step into each moment, let go of the blue The sanctified blessings that you have earned Please cherish their presence, for oh how you've yearned Gone are the demons and chattering mind All of the insane has been left behind Somehow you've arisen, awakened in love You have been blessed by god's high above The noble inheritance that is yours is real The bearing you carry please let it reveal Step into the now now, let it quench your thirst No need to be second, you have earned your first All of your wishes have all come true The gift of your giving comes back to you No need to be striving, it's already done Hold onto your presence, you have just begun CHANGE Nothing is static that is truly alive The fact that we grow is a sign that we thrive All we need do is think things are clear Then while we blink, our attention has shifted gears The complacent among us likes things to remain They resist the changes that life force sustains But stars shift and winds blow, and cells rearrange And suddenly our “bedrock” all seems so strange What does this teach us, what does this say What are the voices, that describe this play Look for the answers, inside your own soul Look for the teachers that help you grow old Trust your own voices, measure your energy Do not forget questing, that broke you free So when you return to familiar space When you cirlce around and revisit a place Remember that tho it might appear quite the same Your soul, it has shifted, with no one to blame So as you ride the current, and you ride the tide Remember your godhead, trust the counsel inside
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