Welcoming the Spirits

Hush…

Be still, and listen.

 

Not just to my voice,

Not just to these words…

Listen to the myriad voices of this moment,

To the many subtle sounds and movements.

 

The space around us is seething

With energy and vibration…

Can you feel it?

The very air we breathe is teeming with life!

 

Who can fathom the tapestry of the multiverse,

The layers upon layers?

Who can know the infinite ways

The One Creator moves and breathes?

Who can say what unseen forces

Are gathered here among us?

 

So hush… be still, and listen.

Do you hear the music of the spheres?

Can you hear the angels singing?

 

Mother Earth is waking up

And the whole Cosmos is rejoicing,

Like birds announce the rising sun!

 

Welcome, Spirits!

If you come in peace, if you come in Love,

We are One.

Welcome home.

 

~ Ben

Back to Basics

Empty your boat, bhikku!

 

Forget your history,

Forget all you’ve learned and studied -

Do you think you can reach the mountaintop

With that library strapped to your back?

 

There is nothing that you need to carry -

You are being carried.

 

You can never grasp the Dharma

With all your reason and cleverness.

The cosmic laws are written

So that a child could understand.

 

Quit trying so hard.

Go back to basics.

Be simple. Be silent.

Be empty.

 

Embrace each moment from your inner stillness.

Lay down your plans and expectations

And remove the mind from the equation.

 

Feel these currents of energy

Shifting and surging;

Just flow with it.

 

Dance with Tao.

Ride the razor’s edge of Now -

You are already home.

 

~ Ben

Redemption

I have felt the most ordinary moment

Suddenly swell and expand

With cosmic significance;

 

I sense that somehow

The whole balance of Fate

Can be swayed by

A casual choice…

 

I have seen a common man

Take on a halo of golden Light,

And with a single selfless act

Shake the Earth to its foundation!

 

Sometimes destiny comes to us

Disguised as routine;

Often we’re too busy to notice.

 

Every day,

In countless different ways

That seem so small and insignificant,

Life offers us the same old choice:

 

Fear or Love?

 

And in that moment of Truth

The gears of time grind to a halt,

And all the heavens watch

With bated breath;

 

As though the Gods themselves

Are somehow counting on us

For redemption…

 

~ Ben

Update

Hello again, dear friends. It has been another long break for me from the world of WordPress. I hope that the time has been kind to you, that you all are happy and well and that your writing is flowing freer than ever, on fire with Spirit, Truth and Love.

The winds of change are blowing within and all around me these days…

I have moved in to a new place, with my beloved; so she and I are going through the somewhat chaotic process of cleaning and fixing up our lovely old house and unpacking, organizing and combining our belongings (and our lives).

I am preparing for full-time fatherhood, as the American judicial machine is processing my custody case in its slow and painstaking way. I am doing everything in my power to get my son out of some unstable circumstances and provide him with a peaceful and loving home.

I have been intensely focused on music for some time now; studying, practicing, playing, exploring, learning and growing… Music has been my therapy, my meditation, my joy and inspiration, my friend and counselor. But I feel myself emerging from one phase and entering another, and part of that shift involves placing my primary focus once more on my writing.

I have an opportunity to write for an exciting new online magazine, set to launch next month (more details to come). Embracing this opportunity has guided my studies, my contemplations and my writings in a very specific direction, a field rich with possibilities for personal and collective transformation. There are profound shifts happening within me as I ride this wave and allow it all to unfold.

I am frequently reminded of these words of wisdom from Thoreau: “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

While I am devoting more time and energy to writing, but I’m not sure how much of that material will make it to this blog. I will continue to share my poetry here on ‘The Sacred Art of Language,’ and I have a few new pieces from recent weeks to share with you. I hope that you receive them in the Spirit with which they were written.

And I will keep you posted as things unfold, and let you know where you can find my newer writings – I hope that you will follow me on that journey.

Much Love to One & All!

~ Ben

Revolution

How long will we live confined

By imaginary lines

Designed to divide us?

A mental prison programmed inside us

By the culture, the TV

The school, the church

We’ve forgotten our oneness

With Mother Earth

Gaia, Shakti

Kali Ma!

The Spirit livin

Within us all…

 

We need to look within and re-design

The software of the subconscious mind

And consciously redefine

What is sane and what is real

Strip away the lies and reveal

Our true history and ancestry

Our identity, our sovereignty

Forget the guilt, fear and shame

And remember who we are

And why we came

So we can re-claim what’s rightfully ours

Our rights, our land

Our freedom and power!

 

We need a revolution

In our state of mind

To activate and realize

The full potential of humankind

The sacred code that we hold inside

Kundalini, awake! arise!

Do your spiral dance and climb

Up the spine through the seven shrines

And re-align us with the

Source Divine!

 

Call it Allah, JHVH

Or simply

OM…

The Word, the essence

The primal hum…

The pulse, the rhythm

The tribal drum

The heartbeat, the breath

The vibration that unites us

All as One

One people, one tribe

One Love!

 

We’re tuning in to the 5th dimension

You can call it the rapture

Call it ascension

This is bigger than the Constitution

It’s the dissolution of mass delusion

It’s the next leap in evolution

Now is the time

We are the ones

The revolution has begun!

Can’t stop an idea whose time has come

Can’t stop an idea whose time has come

 

~ Ben

2012 – The Awakening (Part 8)

This will be my final post in this series. When I posted Part 1 on January 1st of this year, I had so many topics and ideas burning in my brain, that it could have easily filled 20+ posts. As the months went by, my enthusiasm waned a bit, and my interests, my time and energy were directed elsewhere. But I would still like to say a few words to end the series properly, and maybe provide some semblance of closure.

So the year 2012 is drawing to an end, the much anticipated date of 12/21/2012 has come and gone… and here we are. What has happened? What, if anything, has changed? Was it all just a bunch of hype?

Well the world didn’t end, that’s for sure - there was no meteor impact, no alien invasion, no tidal waves, no apocalypse, no Rapture. And there was no drastic shift in consciousness, no spontaneous Awakening or Ascension of the human species. Here in KC the sun was shining, the workers were working, the shoppers were shopping and life went on as usual – the solstice was a pretty normal day. And so was the next day, and the next…

But all around the world, record numbers of people came together with their hearts, minds and intentions focused on Love, Light, enlightenment and evolution. In homes and in churches, in temples, ashrams and yoga studios, and outside under the wide open sky, people everywhere were praying, and holding a collective vision of a New Age of peace on Earth.

We didn’t all simultaneously leap into a new state of consciousness with the flip of a switch, but the kind of intention and group focus that we witnessed on 12/21 has tremendous power. You can be sure that the effects are rippling out through space and time in ways that we do not comprehend.

Just because we didn’t change dimensions, doesn’t mean we didn’t change direction.

I know that change in direction will become increasingly clear as the days go by. Evolution is not instantaneous. The eternal Now is always transforming and renewing itself, and that transformation is from within, outward. What we have concieved within, as a dream and a vision, is shaping and forming and birthing itself and will in due time blossom into manifestation…

The inner growth and transformation of individuals has never been so profound and so widespread. The massive unrest we are witnessing around the world shows that society too is changing and transforming. Advances in science, computers, information and communication are rapidly converging on the point known as the ‘technological singularity.’ The road ahead is new territory and things are getting very interesting…

We are in metamorphosis, my friends!

For me, 12/21/2012 will always be a symbol of the New Dream: the day that humankind collectively stated our intention to live in Light, Love and Peace. The course is chosen, the way is clear. Hold the vision, keep the faith, and walk the path. Live, laugh, love, evolve!

Thanks for reading. Merry Christmas everybody! Hope you had a wonderful time with your loved ones, and I wish you all a blessed and happy New Year!

~ Ben

 

Go back to Part 7: http://sacredlanguage.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/2012-the-awakening-part-7/

Free Fall

Have you ever been in love? I mean really, deeply, head-over-heels in love – so absorbed and lost in your lover that you can’t sleep, you forget to eat, you can’t focus on work or have a conversation, you can’t even think about anything else?

If you have, then you have tasted one of the most awesome and profound experiences a human being can ever have. If you haven’t, then nothing I can say or write can convey to you even a fraction of that mystery…

A lover lost in love knows what it means to surrender – to be completely open, absolutely vulnerable, and totally abandoned to something greater than oneself. We call it “falling in love,” and rightly so… to abandon yourself to love can feel like flinging yourself off of a cliff!

The God experience is like that. The mystic falls in love with Nature, with the universe, with the whole of Creation and everything in it… so absorbed in the Beloved that all else is forgotten.

That experience is what we all crave! We long to fall in love with the Divine, and every love affair we have is just another way of reaching out to reconnect with the Infinite, to feel that eternal wholeness and completion. God is the lover that hides inside all of your lovers…

Intimacy with another can be a gateway to mystic union, to the Cosmic Love that annihilates all sense of self and other. If you are in a romantic relationship, don’t hold back! You cannot know the depths of love while playing it safe, being cool and detached. Give in and open up in total surrender. Be radically vulnerable and trusting. Abandon yourself to love! This is the only way to find out what life and love really have to offer.

And if you find that you cannot enter into this kind of surrender with your current partner, keep looking.

Sex (honest, consensual, responsible sex) can be one of the most profound experiences of Oneness. As you give and receive pleasure, as you and your partner are moaning and sweating, lost in the throes of ecstasy – that is the bliss of the Divine! That is the dance of Krishna and Radhe. That is love, loving! Look deep into the eyes of your beloved and you will see none other than your own Holy Self.

And if you do not have a lover, the chances are you have a friend, a parent, a brother or sister, a son or a daughter – even a pet – someone whom you love very dearly. This too is intimacy. This too can be a doorway to Divine Love. Whenever we care for another, we enter into the heart of God. And when we embrace that connection and give in to it completely, then we are surrendered in love, and we dissolve…

There are countless ways to enter the inner chamber. Maybe you feel the Presence when you are alone in Nature, hiking through the hills and forests… or when you are totally absorbed in chanting your mantra, your prayer beads sliding gracefully through your fingers… when you are out in your community, engaged in loving service and charitable work… when your paint brush is dancing over the canvas, your soul expressing itself in vibrant color… or when holding your most cherished instrument, and melting into the endless beauty of sound and music…

So many have tasted the Divine in all of these flavors and more. I encourage each of you, my dear friends and readers, to find your gateway, your passion, your path. All love is God’s love. So whatever it is you love – be it meditation, music, art, sex, nature, gardening, community service, raising a family – embrace it, explore it, abandon yourself to it!

Don’t hold back, don’t play it safe – surrender to your passion. Find the path that takes you beyond yourself, and follow it to the end and beyond!

Allow yourself to fall in love with God, with mystery, with Life itself. Let go into the endless free fall of existence… and dissolve.

~ Ben