Concentrating on your “I wants”
Goals are concentrating your efforts on your “I wants.”
:- Doug.
Leading around in circles, Open Space is.
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2013
Another yourself
Another yourself
I am
(For a name tag
For a change
Of heart)
An ourself, together
Are you and you
and I
:- Doug.
Blowing through the trees and Internet
Friend, you are blowing through the trees and grass, the clouds and insects, the birds, houses, and Internet, and me.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1335–Plinking with the drops
Footprints in the Windsm # 1335
A cloudy day
and God is in the grass
among the rain drops
nourishing
us
crawling with the crawlers
swimming with the plankton
lighting easy on our eyes
plinking with the drops
gently on
us
Please pass it on.
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Hold our images as lightly as we can
We must reverence more than we ordinarily do. You are every here. So I seek you when I am already found, where no seeking is needed, but my attending is what needs work. How do I attend to you? You are among us, you are within us, we bow to you within each. Why do I want to see? Why an image?
The image we carry, of a grey haired man on a big chair, with marionette strings in one hand lightning in the other, is in danger of being engraved in our senses. No graven images we are cautioned. So hold our images as lightly as we can—let them fly as we are able.
:- Doug.
Whether we use probate or some other tool….
I don’t care whether we use probate or some other tool: let’s just get the job done.
:- Doug.
An object of my attention, but not a goal
I may have an object of my attention but not a goal. Where I choose to place my attention is more flexible, capable of being superseded as needs arise.
:- Doug.
What’s here? An object of meditation
What’s here? Who’s here? These are the objects of meditation/contemplation.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1334–Softly seeing the world softly
Footprints in the Windsm # 1334
Softly
Seeing the world
SoftlyPeople
Building, driving, repairing
Cars
To go be with one another
To move the world to compassion for
PeopleTowers
For electric wires to carry our
EnergyConstructing
Large houses for working for one
AnotherSoftly
Please pass it on.
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Too big to die? Eaten by our own?
How necessary death is to life. We cannot survive a day without something dying, such as the plants and animals we call our food. The soil is the excrement of worms. This year my garden has lots of worms, so it seems healthy to me. Death and decay are part of the very cycle of life. One corollary to this is anything which grows and grows but has lost the ability to die is a cancer. What do we have that we expect to grow and grow and never die? Businesses and governments. People generally recognize the ill effects of these organisms which seek to take over our lives. What will happen to us when one or more of these does become too big to die? Will we be eaten by our own?
:- Doug.
Tap root of God
How might we converse on a root level with God? What and where is the tap root of God?
:- Doug.
Converse fiercely
We owe it to ourselves at least once in our lifetimes to converse fiercely.
:- Doug.
Can we ever stand outside our thinking and see what it is doing?
Can we ever stand outside our thinking and see what it is doing?
:- Doug.
We can always be more whole
We can always be more happy, and that means more whole. And more sad, and more grieved, and more involved with one another. All this too means more whole.
:- Doug.
Closing and completing
If people are seeking closing and completing, rounding of their togethering, then their relatings need to heal. This is the purpose of forgiving and thanking and blessing and loving: to make whole. This comes about through radical conversing: saying what is at the root of us. Forgiving and thanking et al. are tools for digging to the roots. Digging can be done an inch deep or root deep.
:- Doug.
Conversing’s a sword’s edge
Conversing is a sword’s edge, Excalibur. It cuts deeply, to heal.
:- Doug.
