The Heart Sutra

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, practicing deep prajna paramita,
clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty, transforming all suffering and distress.

Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form.
Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.
Sensation, thought, impulse, consciousness are also like this.

Shariputra, all things are marked by emptiness -
not born, not destroyed,
not stained, not pure,
without gain, without loss.
Therefore in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, thought, impulse, consciousness.
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind.
No color, sound, smell, taste, touch, object of thought.
No realm of sight to no realm of thought.
No ignorance and also no ending of ignorance to no old age and death and also no ending of old age and death.
No suffering, and also no source of suffering, no annihilation, no path.
No wisdom, also no attainment.
Having nothing to attain, Bodhisattvas live prajna paramita with no hindrance in the mind.
No hindrance, thus no fear.
Far beyond delusive thinking, they attain complete Nirvana.
All Buddhas past, present and future live prajna paramita and thus attain anuttara samyak sambodhi.

Therefore, know that prajna paramita is the great mantra, the wisdom mantra, the unsurpassed mantra, the supreme mantra, which completely removes all suffering. This is truth, not deception. Therefore set forth the prajna paramita mantra, set forth this mantra and say:

GATÉ GATÉ PARAGATÉ PARASAMGATÉ BODHI SVAHA

[Beyond, beyond, totally beyond, perfectly beyond: Awakening ....Yes!]

The Dance

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Wings

We float on wings of present awareness in the dance of life and joy...

Thoughts continued

Who would have thunk it? Me as sharp as a flash of light across the dawn sky. Rippling onward unto eternity's edges. I blaze sharply and then in the ever pattern I diminish to a flicker barely seen by fireflies on a warm June night. In this forever whirl, a fingerprint of awesome evolution, I am the breath moving in and out, increasing, diminishing yet shining to the reaches of an exultant being that floats and flows with you and all together. I'm letting go as was destined long ago and flowering in heaven's grasp. May we circle there together in bliss, in oneness, beyond the reach of thoughts.

Sunset Bird

Robert Frost - Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter

The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold,
When shoeing home across the white,
I thought I saw a bird alight.

In summer when I passed the place
I had to stop and lift my face;
A bird with an angelic gift
Was singing in it sweet and swift.

No bird was singing in it now.
A single leaf was on a bough,
And that was all there was to see
In going twice around the tree.

From my advantage on a hill
I judged that such a crystal chill
Was only adding frost to snow
As gilt to gold that wouldn't show.

A brush had left a crooked stroke
Of what was either cloud or smoke
From north to south across the blue;
A piercing little star was through.

Blue Green Jewel

Oh Great Mother,
you who sustains us with all that we need
to experience that which we call life, yet whom
we take for granted.

Oh Great Earth,
you who holds us safe within your belly, far
removed from the empty vacuum of space fields,
Yet whom we take for granted.

Oh Great Planetary Being,
you whom we pretend not to hear, nor feel,
who offers us shelter, life sustaining air and water and food,
who is always right beside us.
Yet whom we take for granted each moment of every day.

Hold us always in your compassionate motherly embrace until
we rise up and awaken from our dream of separateness.

Leap Year Day

In a day which is hidden away in time, emerging like a special bloom every four years, I dedicate this song and images to my hidden friends of the nature realm. To you who like hidden blossoms reveal your perfume only to those who have the merit to acknowledge your presence, whose eyes capture all the beauty and reverence that in our world lies, whose hearts sing with joy in moonlight and sunlight both because you are one with the wind, waves and trees....you know who you are. Peace, love and light always.

LiSA GERRARD : SERENITY AND EMPTY WATER

Below the Surface

Chris Zippel

Circles

I love you all the way to the edge of the universes....and back again. We'll never be apart really only in this dream we think is one life. Until we meet again in other forms for the sake of love...I vow never to forget that.

The Birds!

I wonder what they are doing....

Death: What No One Wishes to Discuss-V

Death: What No One Wishes to Discuss-IV

Death: What No One Wishes to Discuss-III

Death: What No One Wishes to Discuss-II

Death: What No One Wishes to Discuss

TRUTH BE TOLD pt 3

The continuing interview, may it spread the news far and wide, may it stem the comming tide. May all those who see it become the view and enter into the one state.

TRUTH BE TOLD pt 2

Here's more of the previous interview. I do hope these don't "disappear" off the web.

TRUTH BE TOLD

This all makes sense don't you agree? Here follows Project Camelot's interview with Richard Hoagland. (http://www.enterprisemission.com/)

Love Beyond Time

A moment of happiness,

you and I sitting on the veranda,

apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,

and the birds singing.

The stars will be watching us,

and we will show them

what it is to be a thin crescent moon.

You and I unselfed, will be together,

indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.

The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar

as we laugh together, you and I.

In one form upon this earth,

and in another form in a timeless sweet land. ~Rumi~

Starflights

She kissed the flower and fell into his arms, he caught her against his heart and they tumbled together falling up towards the stars...as one they became the new star born from the heart of dark fire.