Teach to be Taught

Lessons. They are everywhere. Usually in the most ordinary of places. Mostly when you think you are doing the teaching. I have 2 wonderful children. And from the start they have continually heightened my creativity, expanded my love and forever are teaching me. They unknowingly are showing me that no matter how young or small the being, they contain an infinite pocket of lessons as does everything....if we are willing to 'see' them. With Mothers day around the corner; a day where we are sent out to show our appreciation for our mothers, our mother figures, for our greatest teachers in life, I will continue with my inner practice of savoring my teachers dressed in childrens' clothing. For every piece of advice and knowledge I give them they present me with many more. They unwittingly gift me with the continual ability to change, adapt, grow, to not just say the words and teach the lessons, but to LIVE them. To be more than just words spilling out into empty space, but to BE the idea, lesson, advice, the learning, the adventure: To BE more than just the pages in a book but to BE the book, contents and all. My blessings reaffirm for me, that to be an effective mum, healer, teacher, Being, we must BE the practice we preach. To BE the space in which we know we are limitless. Yes, I started with the notion that I would be the teacher, and I have graciously grown into the student.

 One Earth. :)

A Night Sky

Night Sky A black sky has come, always present looming just beyond the reaches of sight until ready. Could be said that it is ominous, cold... dark... clinging to the skin much like gum on hot pavement. But..... There it is. A hint... Just enough to make my eyes question it's existence. Each moment revealing a wee bit more. Yes, it's the light. The light whispering of moments gone by. History not to be found anywhere else. Suddenly the realization dawns. I am so small, so intimately a minuscule spec of sand on the beach of life But they also remind me how necessary the specs are. Each one a twinkle of hope, a mesmerizing glance of light on it's way. Each one together producing a picture of life full of magic and light. Collectively bringing an understanding no words will ever convey. Proof that even in a space enmeshed in shadow, there will forever be light. Guiding and constant. Sending a continual stream of love, if only we would choose to feel it. Know it. One Earth. <3

Choices and Awakening

Choices.
They shape our experience. These experiences collect to form a cohesion of one thoughtful experience to be played and expanded over and over again in a multitude of different ways. No two experiences are the same for no set of choices are the same. It is beautifully symbiotic, colourful and monochromatic all at once.
It then becomes ridiculous to think that Awakening should all look the same. Awakening is a journey of SELF discovery. A discovery of the paradoxical - We are individual - We are one.
We know this and yet due to our fabulous individuality we search and wander to explore a space that resides within us. But there again are the choices. No right or wrong, just choices to add to a collective experience. Another chapter to add to the library of life.
What ever the choice, the goal is the same - To Awaken.
There is no set rule, belief, study, lifestyle to determine whether you Awaken or not, it is simply by the choices YOU choose to make and when you get there you will know.
How?
Well it will be so ridiculously plain and so ordinary that we are left with what I like to call a "Duh" moment. Now I am not saying that the workings of the universe is simple, nor am I saying that it's not. It is so intrinsically complicated AND simple it lends itself to an oxymoron. Complicated in the that the variables are endless. No two people will ever have the exact same experience (choices) or the same point of Awakening no matter the similarities of their paths and choices. Simple in that the end result of Awakening is the same. Complete connectedness. Nothing to do, say, feel or be, just nothing....which of course is everything!
A knowingness that says we are free to reach and stretch for the answers in whatever fashion suits us, but it also says we already have them...not all of them of course, just a drop.
Awakening is now.
Does this lend to say that there aren't lessons around the corner or new discoveries? Not at all, there is just a freedom of peace that accompanies them. It is all still very necessary.
One firing neuron in the brain is no less instrumental in the shaping of the infinite as one exploding star in space.
Every choice is exactly that, a choice. No right or wrong, no judgement.  It all adds to the garden of life that is watered by the wonder of the universe.
Miraculously Simple, Ordinarily Complicated.


One Earth.

It's NOW

Enlightenment. 

What is enlightenment?

A thought?

Absence of thought?

Feeling?

 Absence of feeling?

Enhanced feeling?

Nothing?

 Everything?

What is it?! How can you know if you have obtained it if you don’t know what ‘IT’ is?

But how we search! Classes, courses, teachers Gurus, Crystals, books, shamans, journeying, spirit, fasting, suffering, and the list goes on. We search the ends of the world seeking the seemingly unattainable, following instructions to the letter.

Or do we?

Of all I have read, learned, heard, witnessed, none of these hold the key. At least not the whole key. All are nothing more than tools. Like a good luck charm that we place all our faith and hope in. A tactile means to identify our physical nature. Feeling that somehow we have been punished and dropped into a maze and left  to fend for ourselves and if we dot our I’s and cross all our T’s then and only then will Enlightenment and Salvation will be ours simply is not the truth.

No. I don’t feel it’s that way at all. I do feel that we are afraid of our own wisdom. We go on in a haze feeling not good enough, that only a select few could ever obtain Enlightenment. Drilled into our subconscious that it must take years of searching, suffering and education before at last we should feel entitled to Enlightenment, because NOW we have earned it.

How ultimately silly of us to feel we are less than perfect, still so obsessed with the outside.

For me….well, enlightenment doesn’t mean having all the answers. It is not necessarily having a still mind. It’s not all of a sudden feeling above all, special, or any of that.

For me it is being able to ‘see’ the minutest aspect of something and at the same time one can also see the big picture.

Like standing on the sun and seeing all the planets, comets, and moons and viewing all the activity and yet looking past and seeing the vast sea of nothing. You can see the nothingness of space and feel the everything it creates. You can feel connected and removed all at the same time, and at that moment you know you will never look at things in the same way again. You can look at anything and see, FEEL, the universe. Intellectually you may be unable to verbalize or explain or understand, but you just know on a soul level that there is a purpose to the dance, every dance. You just know the emptiness, nothingness, everythingness, and fullness. The oxymoron of it all finally makes sense and you can then enjoy the experience of NOW.

And really, isn’t what all the teachings tell us? That all there is is NOW. Yesterday is gone, it happened but it doesn’t really matter. What matters is what we are doing NOW, what we are feeling NOW, how we view things NOW. It is not what we WILL feel or do we don’t live in tomorrow. It is not what we HAVE felt or done, because that is done. The experience adds to the collective consciousness and is relevant, but what it is, the ultimate experience, is RIGHT NOW. Everything is happening NOW, in this moment, so if it doesn’t feel like it aligns then you do the work INSIDE …NOW.

NOW exists on every level and there is no beginning nor is there an end.

WE ARE NOW, therefore we too exist on every level. We truly are everything, everyone, during every time. When we are able to finally accept this then we can release the judgment of self and others and just experience. We are Nothing involved in creating the Everything.

In short, to me Enlightenment is NOW.

One Earth.

Sand Dunes

I visited down my body’s distant rocky shore,

Across the sand dunes of time and the oceans of space.

The rains opened to free the shadows hidden,

A crack in the crust, barely visible, set forth dreams.

The innocence rose bloomed in echoes

How beautiful her voice,

So majestic the breaths of change, a silken touch

Lemon yellow careens to light the soul

A peaceful lens to show the way.

Now more sand than rocks touch my feet.

One Earth.

Oneness

A pondered light
A breath of silence
A myriad of flashes
cascade down the path

A thousand stars
An array of darkness
A dimple of colour
refreshes the night

A whisper of truth
An honest foray
A tingle of magic
stimulates the play

It's beyond the senses
that a soul is revealed

It is beyond emotion
that Love is revered

It's beyond comprehension
that infinity resides

It is beyond contemplation
that Oneness coincides


One Earth.

Life

Life is experience.
An event in a moment of time.
Molded from a love incomprehensible to mortal consciousness.
Never the less it is here. We are here. Love is here
To experience it in all it's colour,
on every strand of cosmic paths and directions
Life is Love in motion.
Experiencing all in every way possible.
We need only to recognize this and then flow  willingly to it's understanding depths.
Love never divides.
It is only our Ego trying to formulate a hold in a world free from restrictions,
that tries desperately to find flaw and imperfections.
Life is conjured by Love.
Free, unrestricted and bountiful Love will take you to places you forgot existed.
Experience
Life
Love


One Earth.