Many Incarnations

 

We begin as a seed
Absolute potential.

The seed loses itself
Opening to becoming.

Each season of leaves
Is a season of incarnation.

In each season a lesson
In reaching for the Light.

The lessons of each season
Reside in the leaves of fall.

The lessons of each season
Become nutrients for the next.

The rings of each season
Testify to the growth of Spirit.

The yearning for the Light
Is returning to Source.

The mature tree receives
The full Light of Being.

The Light the final lessons
Of residing in communion.

Until that last season
When its Spirit yields.

The fullness of a Divine Self
Returns to the Soils of Being.

Many trees many seasons
Many stories.

Absolute potential returns to
Absolute Being. (CCXXVI)

Labyrinth Opening

I enter
this Cretan labyrinth
to the opening
of my Divine Self.

Close to Center.

In the pelvic basin
of Chakras one through three
I find animal drives.

Command of dominion
in the third Chakra.

Possessive desire
in the second Chakra.

Insatiable hungers
in the first Chakra.

In the tectonic turn
Into the fourth Chakra
I find the opening
to compassion and empathy.

Close to Center.

Entering the sixth Chakra
I am infused
with wordless Transcendence
infused with knowing
joy and peace.

From Center.

Turning onto the
Fifth Chakra
words emerge from
Soul from intuition
Known and spoken.

Entering Center
I am.

I am Present to
this Source of Peace.

I am
As I am.

At Center.

Returning
I speak from
my knowing.

My empathy flows
from Center
from Soul
Into heart and into action.

The nature
of my being
illumines the pelvic basin as

The light of abundance
the flowering propagation
of Presence
the shared dominion of
Unitive Presence.

I turn back
and bow in gratitude
for the Journey of
Being and Becoming.

I have become
what I truly am
fully Human
fully Divine.

Not fallen
just becoming
Center in me
Center from me.

Joy there. (CCXX)

Deep Woods of Spirit

I was called
to the trails.

First walks
were short
probes into
the unknown.

“Come, come”
“Walk deeper,”
they said.

One evening
I went.

I followed
the lead
of my
trusted dog.

Through the
Torri Gate
of Honeysuckle
into a tunnel.

I emerged
into an
open glade.

I saw deeply
and received
the gift
of Presence.

It was like
water
thrown in
my face.

It was
wordless infusion
that I
could not
speak.

But I knew it
in Joy.

The deep woods
of Spirit
called to me
and gifted me
with Presence.

Every step
now reveals
the words
from the book
of infusion.

Many words
many pages
a constant
reveal.

Where I am
what I am.

How to be
upon return
from these
deep woods
of Spirit. (CCXIX)

Incarnate Labyrinth

We walk the labyrinth
into our divine selves.

The animal scales
fall from our eyes.

We see with
Divine eyes
at Center.

We have walked
the labyrinth
as Chakras.

Now we walk
the labyrinth
as this incarnation
as this life.

We are
Kundalini awakening
within us
life after life.

With each incarnation
we ascend the Chakras
learning
becoming.

We become in each
incarnation a
higher expression
of our
Divine Becoming.

In each life
we emerge from
our animal self to
our Divine Self.

It is the Divine
Kundalini Energy
emerging
becoming.

In each life
we journey
higher and
higher.

Like the seasonal tree
we drop the limbs that
no longer serve
our becoming.

Walk the labyrinth
with intent
with attention
with reverence
to your own
Divine Becoming.

Sense from your Being
your own
Becoming.

Knowing at Center
is our Divine Self
is Light
Calling our being
forward. (CCXVIII)

Walking the Labyrinth as Chakras

We walk
the seven circuits
of the Cretan labyrinth
as the seven Chakras.

Entering as the animal self.

The Third Chakra
the Solar Plexus
personal power, control, domination.

The Second Chakra
the Sacral
sensuality, sexuality, lust.

The First Chakra
the Root
sustenance, consumption, glutony.

Becoming the Spiritual self.

The Fourth Chakra
the Heart
opening, compassion, transformation.

The Sixth Chakra
the Brow
Divine vision, intuition, transcendence.

The Fifth Chakra
the Throat
Spiritual connection, expression, communication.

The Seventh Chakra
the Crown
Being in Source
Eternal communion, ecstasy.

At Center
the flow of
Knowing, Joy, Peace.

Returning as Illumined Spiritual Self.

The Throat Chakra propagates
loving touch to
the Sacral Chakra.

The Brow Chakra
opens the well of Being
to the spiritual hungers of an
illumined Root Chakra.

The Heart
imparts Divine wisdom to
the subdued kinetic powers of
the Solar Plexus.

Leaving the labyrinth
we turn back
to Center
and bow in
Gratitude and Humility
for the fullness of a
Realized Self. (CCXVII)

Becoming

The waxing
Moon becoming
light from light.
Light of wisdom’s
slow reveal.
Becoming fullness
illuminating
our path.
Joy in light!
Yet
reflected light
from Source.
Ole Sol
source of light
source of sustenance.
Wisdom of Source
known in
energy of Life.
From Source.
We are
becoming wisdom
becoming fully human
becoming fully Divine
in Light
and Life
Yin
Yang.
Celebrate Becoming! (CCX)

Give Up the Mystery

Give up
the Mystery.

Live into
the fullness of
Divine Being.

Let the
fullness of
Being
Pour into
you.

Live in
full Presence.

Presence
touches you
as the Sun
touches the
tree.

Live.
From mystery
to Presence. (CCXIII)

Allowing

Regardless
our efforts
wisdom
awakening
is about
allowing.

One cannot read
all books
on wisdom.

But in
allowing
one can be
all Wisdom.

The wintering trees
after their
summer’s work
stand in a
winter Sabbath
naked to moonlit
skies receiving
the seeds of wisdom.

We start the walk
fearful of
the dark
but stand with
joy
under this
Infinite Wisdom.

It tells us
of the
Eternal.

Our Source
known in
allowing.

That Light
a Benediction
held in the
wintering limbs. (CCVII)

Infinite Ripples

The labyrinth
defines me.

Going inward
I drop
the scales
from my eyes.

At center
I see
my own
Divine Light.

Returning
I carry
that Light
into daily living.

Looking back
I give thanks.

I see myself
across time.

Infinite ripples
many incarnations
waves of learning
wash upon my shores.

Karmic waves
out from center
learning knowing
becoming.

Infinite becoming
many lives
many waves
many lessons.

All ripples
of my
Eternal self
Radiant from Center. (CCIV)

The Labyrinth Eight-Fold Path

I have been struck
by a way
to walk
the labyrinth.

The observance of
Patanjali’s
Eight-Fold Path of Yoga:

1) Yama: The first path — one’s conduct;
2) Niyama: The second path — kindness, devotion and surrender;
3) Asana: The third path — practice, movement and discipline;
4) Pranayama: The fourth path — breathing;
5) Pratyahara: The fifth path — withdrawal, outside to inside;
6) Dharana: The sixth path — mantric focus;
7) Dhyana: The seventh path — the bloom of silent awareness; and
8) Samadhi: The timeless, placeless stillness at center — the Peace of Transcendence.

We walk
the seven rings
of the Cretan Labyrinth
of Messara.

At center
in stillness
we know
the Divine Self
the Thousand Petaled Lotus.

Returning
we leave
the Minotaur
of self behind.

Then we walk
the Divine
meeting
the Divine
In every face.

Namaste! (CXCIX)