Touching the Absolute

Touching the Absolute

Robin's Egg and Pink Flower (Unknown)
~Forest Park, Portland, OR~

Right from the start, situate yourself outside of spiritual progression,
Outside of contemplation,
Outside of seeking,
Outside of skillful speech,
Outside of meditation on the divinities,
Outside of concentration and recitation on the texts.
What is, tell me, the absolute reality
That leaves no room for any doubt whatsoever?
Listen carefully!
Stop becoming attached to this or that,
And, dwelling in your own true absolute nature,
Take pleasure peacefully in the reality of the world.
~Spandakarika, Song of the Sacred Tremor~

This is the 5th day of my raw juice feast and I am feeling the sacred tremoring in my body and in my life. My sense are becoming heightened -- smells, sounds, sights are especially stimulating and sometimes unnerving. This is a rarefied, clarified and refined state of being. What is my intention for the feast? To connect more directly, purely and honestly with my own nature, my essence and my rhythmic self. Who am I really in an undiluted and unpolluted state?

I wonder why I venture from this way of living, this state of being? I wonder why I entertain the numbed fear state in my body and in my life? Why do I want to avoid the embodied life at times? Why do I veer from the ways of being that are the fulfillment of my deepest desire? I believe that, up until now, I have had a limited capacity/ability/willingness (all of the above) to feel and fully experience desire, ecstasy, intimacy, presence and to allow myself to be sustained in this state. Do I deserve it? Can I afford it? Is this real? Am I avoiding? Will I pay for this bliss later? Today, all of these questions dissolved and I let myself be fully present each moment. One moment beautifully cascading into the next with the grace of my own breath. No striving, no seeking, no resisting...allowing, trusting, opening, enjoying the connection with my own nature. In this place I am embodied, in this place I know the sweet taste of oneness, of belonging, of true love.

Today, I let myself be. Experienced Being. Dissolved into Presence.

I took a walk in Forest Park (http://tinyurl.com/27mfbp) this afternoon. Eight days ago I placed water in mason jars at the base of several cloisters (I prefer to think of them that way) of Trillium -- both white and pink. The essence of the Trillium is "true love" -- it is referred to as the "herb of true love." I am making a flower essence that I will bottle and offer to people that are wanting the support of nature and the planet in walking this path of embodied love. Today I checked on the jars, repositioned some and added a new one. When I picked up one of the jars (which three of my teenage girlfriends placed for me) I was amazed at the tremoring vibration of love...clear, powerful, vibrating, singing love that was emanating from the jar. Joyful love, ecstatic love, enduring love. I am thrilled about this project and am grateful for the Divine guidance that introduced me to this idea. (If you are interested in the Essential Love infusion, send me an email.)

Logging off now. Must go finish my apple, beet, carrot, spirulina concoction. I will be sharing more about the Spandakarika -- the sacred tremoring -- and my ongoing practice of presence and embodiment. Until then, my sage advice (giggle) -- is LET GO, LET BE, BE FREE!

Amen. And yes, I do confirm this with the entirety of my being!

RevA

I'll Take the #8 -- iPhoneiPodBlogger Scramble

Pause.
Surrender.
Devote,
Donate yourself to Life.
Drop in.
Be still and know.
I Am.
I am God.
I am Good.
I am all you Desire.
Connect with passion.
Follow your desire
All the way down
Surrender all aspects
Of your self...Self
All aspects of your life
and your living
Place them on the altar
Better yet become an
Altar for God
For the Good
Surrender
Show up
In Full Presence
Moment to Moment
Source Your Life
From....
Truth
Aliveness
Presence
Radiance
Wholeness
Ask yourself...
What would a woman acting in alignment with her worth,
her beauty, her truth, her vision do in this moment, in this situation?
What would a man acting in alignment with his truth, his presence,
is wholeness, his purpose do in this moment, in this situation?
Listen.
Surrender.
Move in the direction of what stirs your heart...
What brings you alive...what makes tremor
Dance
Play
Create
Pray
Make Love
Cook
Laugh
Run
Kiss
Paint
Write
Eat Chocolate
Make More Love
Rendezvous
with your own
Soul's' Delight
and Deliciousness
This is the fulfillment
of Desire...
Present moment
Naked awareness
Moment to moment
Acting on the impulse
to Love
to Live
to Laugh
Become naked to the world
Pulsing inside of you
the Divine Tremor
the Vibration that is
your Essence
The essential Self lives
beyond ideas of
right and wrong
beyond categories of
this and that
We are so much more
Holy
Wholly
than we could have ever imagined
Especially those parts
Those disowned aspects
Surrender them to the altar
Follow them home
All the way home
Claim your wholeness
Love what has appeared unlovable
Pursue that which has seemed impossible
Love yourself, my Love
Love yourself, my Love
Surrender to the Love of God
The active, embodied
here now
cellular
vibratory
calming
electrifying
direct
experience
of Love
of Life
of God
that is knocking on the door
of your heart
of your body
of your mind
of your soul
Open from the inside
You are beauty
Your are truth
You are Love
And I have been searching
for this face
the face of the Beloved
that lives inside of you
that lives inside of me
for my whole life
Come out
Come out
Wherever you are
Whoever you are
Come out
It is time to get busy
God making love to God
This is life
This is this life
This is each moment's invitation
Make love
Make love
Make love
For God's sake
Truly
Madly
MAKE LOVE............
Beloveds, today I give you a permission slip.
You hereby have permission to DESIRE,
to follow your DESIRE, to feel your DESIRE
to MAKE LOVE, brilliant, ecstatic LOVE
to the BEAUTY in each moment.
Free your heart
Free your mind
Free your Soul.
Amen

(written from Naked Heart headquarters (my bed this morning) listening to music on the iPhone, an experiment in altered state blogging)

The Essential

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential
- in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth -
when simply being alive is a gift beyond measure."

~ Parker J Palmer

What is essential?
What is essential for me to write, to know, to be, to do, to heal, to reveal, to live, to share?
What is essential?
I wonder what it would be like to live my life sourced from the essential...from essence, to ask moment to moment, "what is essential now and now...and live the answers to the best of my ability."

What is essential for you right now?

I google essential: vitally necessary, basic and fundamental, all-important, crucial, indispensable, absolutely required, not to be used up or sacrificed, containing essence.

What is vitally necessary, crucial and absolutely required to liberate that which is imprisoned, behind bars, trapped within us at this moment? What is essential to liberate the Love that I am, that we are? What is essential to experience and deeply receive the Love that is seeking me, that is seeking us all?

As I sit here in my chair glancing out at the river and Mount St. Helens, I sense a deep and true prayer surfacing in my heart. I am calling us all home to the Essential...to the Essence, which is God, which is the Sacred Heart, which is the Beloved Community, which is the tenderness and the sweetness of our own Souls.

Let us come home now, to the essential. Let us not wait another moment to return to Love. Let us drop everything and turn and run toward the Beloved...naked with despair, naked with longing, naked with shame, naked with our own darkness, naked with delight, naked...naked...naked...let us come home to the arms of the One Essential, let us hear our Beloved Father and our Beloved Mother whispering to our souls, " beloved one, return again, come unto me." Matthew 11:28

Let us return to the essential. Let us return to speaking the essential into one another's hearts. Let us not belabor our words, let us not hide behind a mask of everyday chit chat and the rote patterns of how are you and what are you up to? Let us open our hearts and pour what is essential on the altar of our lives for others to see. Let us open our hearts and pour our love into one another's hearts like never before.

Let us reveal what is essential. Let us reveal what is essential to our own hearts, to our own souls, and for our own nourishment...what is essential...what I have may just be what is essential for you and what you have may just be what is essential for me.

Let us praise the essential. Let us praise the essential in ourselves, in one another, in our lives, in the world, in the cosmos. Let us watch and taken notice of the essential. Let us speak the words of the essential.

Let us remember, gather together, call together the essential. Let us gather in the essential, come together as the Essential. Let us remember, re-member the essential together.

Let us surrender to the essential, let us offer up our burdens to the essential, let us let go into the essential. Let us burn in the holy fires of the essential. Let us be born again, anew in the essential.

Let me be here, with you all now, as the Essential.
I surrender my love, I surrender my life to the Essential.
My healing is essential, my loving is essential, my written and spoken words are essential, my gathering in community is essential, my loving and being loved is essential, my touching and being touched is essential, my vulnerability is essential, my broken open heart is essential, my playful spirit is essential.

I am essential.
We are the Essential.

Amen.