peace

Alone…

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lets peace in the door

it weaves around chair legs

rises like incense smoke

softens sharp edges

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Alone

lets silence illumine each room

filtered from skylights

it glows iridescent in darkness

pulsing sparks of light

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Alone leaves no one for fixing

loose faucet, gas leak

broken step, poison ivy

the handyman moved away

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Alone is uncut lawn, untrimmed edges

a house that accuses

a yard that demands

an ant trail in the workroom

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Alone

despite it all, is a river

peacefully flowing

silently glowing, a breath

from once upon a time

Compassion

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Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop a genuine concern for his or her problems.  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

–His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Wisdom of Compassion, p. 1

This Door

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This door leads to No Body.

It leads to Never Mind,

Forever Mind.

The cool blue light that pulses

and the tiny black seed in the golden circle.

Where peace is a kind horse to ride,

rocking, gentle,

through the surging and resting surf.

And then it all dissolves

into soft gray feathered space.

She comes then,

the warm shadow of a cat,

curls up around you and in you

and settles in your lap.

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Meditation

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Fold the legs under.

Place hands on thighs.

Wiggle fingers.

Get a tissue.

Smooth the blanket.

Find the loose cuticle

on the thumb.

Pick at it.

NAMAH

Move numb foot.

Shift the legs.

Smooth the blanket.

Find another rough cuticle.

Notice dry hands.

Get lotion

right now?

Scratch itchy neck.

SHIVAYA

Straighten the back.

Relax the shoulders.

Breathe in six.

Exhale eight.

Repeat.

Slowly

the body fades.

Hands at peace.

OM

Then set definite periods for prayer; set definite periods for meditation. Know the difference between each. Prayer, in short, is appealing to the divine within self, the divine from without self, and meditation is keeping still in body, in mind, in heart, listening, listening to the voice of thy Maker.

-Edgar Cayce reading 5368-1