True Beings' Creative Flow...

Posted on Dec 13th, 2009 by

Underneath our world...
That we meticulously describe...

Is something we don’t understand...
No matter how we try...

A knowing flowing undisturbed...
Not molded into view...

Pure creative energy...
Awaiting...me and you...

Can we bypass all our own
Judgmental interpretations?

Touching that moment of being...
As no certain destination?

Does that moment come already
Shaped by senses given?

Evolved from stardust...through the ages...
Ancient being, living?

Experiencing tremendous sorrow
So depths of joy are known...

Claiming the best of being...
Dancing in light that’s all its own...

Out of the night of darkness...
Comes the day of creations dawn...

Out of evolutions birth pains...
Comes the hope of mornings song...

Can it be that ancient ways of languaging
Get in our way?

Preventing us from reaching humanities
Potential for light of day...

We cling to old ways of knowing...
Even when nothing seems to change...

The problems humans continue to face
Seemingly always stay the same...

We pray and preach this love and light
As we sit back and wait...

Hoping our oysters turn to pearls
And heaven opens up her gate...

We have the keys of change within
Our very hands...we hold...

Understanding and using them wisely...
We yet have come to know...

May we lay aside unworkable ways...
Everything, we think we know...

Finding real solutions
From true beings' creative flow...

Starlight Dancing...with my muze...thnx to neverness for allowing me to showcase his wonderful artwork along side my poetry...

Access: Public What do you think? Print views (19)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, interpretations, creative, flow, being, pure, true, knowing, solutions

Free of Interpretations...

Posted on Dec 11th, 2009 by

starlight

My life hangs in the balance...

Of my own interpretations...

Whether I feel joy or sorrow...

In a moment of times duration...

Sometimes I am fortunate...

To live and breathe joys dream...

The taste of suffering sometimes escapes...

Evades my lips it seems...

Then there are those moments...

When my life is filled with pain...

Why this should be true...

Science nor Religion can really explain...

It seems that I have no control...

Over where my life will go...

Which loved ones I’ll lose next...

No one ever knows...

Is feeling pain a human thing?

Or something I’m conditioned to do?

Does compassion always lead to pain,

Traveling along the same avenues?

Can there be another way of being?

Another way to know?

Beyond my interpretations...

That continue to limit me so...

Is it possible to see things differently?

Is there potentially a better way to be?

Besides trapped by my interpretations...

Am I humanly capable of being free?

Starlight Dancing...with my muze...thnx neverness for allowing me to adorn my poetry with your magnificent artwork...

Access: Public 2 Comments Print views (44)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, interpretations, sorrow, joy, being, free, moment, human, trapped

Am I Free...TSK wk 8...

Posted on Dec 11th, 2009 by

starlight

I’ve spent a lot of time convincing myself that I am free, or trying to be free, and even more time freeing myself from things that I have been a slave to. Today I am free of religious control and manipulation as well as free of my previous enslavement to drugs and alcohol. However, it seems there is always one more thing to be free of.

My individual conditioning guaranteed that I became indoctrinated to some way of thinking, whether it be religious or scientific (it is always a mixture of both no matter how much we claim otherwise), and these beliefs further shaped me in the world that I was born into. The culture I was raised in as well filled me with it’s own beliefs and stories, many times going against the very core of beliefs that my religion insisted upon as true. I have my own history with my family and the community I was raised in, and then there is my Country and the many ways I am conditioned to be a ‘good’ American.

Going a little deeper, my very DNA seems to dictate whether or not I will be prone to certain diseases and even whether I am male or female, which in and of itself has its own set of rules and implications. The roles that are typically given to male and female, although challenged, are still betrayed by their history of stereotypical bindings.

So, no matter what I believe or don’t believe, if I am being honest, I still find myself in the middle of a world given, where I have little to no control, even if at times it seems otherwise. The only place or time where there is an exception to this rule, is when I am experiencing being in the moment...this is the only place that I can honestly attest to experiencing ‘being free’...

It would seem that at the very best, I can change the way I think about things...at the very worst...how I think can swallow me whole...

Even when everything seems to be going great, someone can enter door number 3 and breathe on you and you end up sick for several months, and even afterward, your energy levels are not right and it feels as if you are climbing up a mountain that never ends...and your oxygen tank has run out...you are left with only two ‘known’ options: 1) pray or meditate to or in the powers that be, that you no longer really believe are separate from you and have any relevance in an individual or entity ‘kind’ of way, but hey what could it hurt? or 2) research every option that science offers to cure whatever it is that you have, always at the mercy of science and what it knows or what can be known through it.

Usually, we do a combination of both...but it is obvious that our ways of knowing are limited...sometimes we seem very powerful, and other times not...sometimes the joy is so beautiful it breaks my heart wide open, and sometimes the sorrow is so crushing it devastates and weighs me down, in my tracks...

Access: Public 2 Comments Print views (28)

Tagged with: TSK Essay, inquiry, self, world, given, structures, conditioning, free, moment, tsk

Tapestry Unwind...

Posted on Dec 6th, 2009 by

starlight

Oh memories of days gone by...

That won’t let you be free...

Hovering like a dark storm cloud...

Refusing life to breathe...

Ironically they may not be...

Just what they pretend...

Retracing them a different way...

Allows for them to bend...

Memories so frozen...

Now melting into free...

Allowing for such freedom...

Opens myriad possibility...

One memory can shut you down...

Or open up your mind...

To endless views and timeless being...

Tapestry unwind...

Starlight Dancing...

Access: Public 10 Comments Print views (138)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, memories, retrace, differently, freedom, possibility, open, being, free

Forgetting to Remember...TSK wk 6 & 7...

Posted on Dec 3rd, 2009 by

starlight

This week we began to look more closely at how our memories are structured, and how they invariably force themselves out of our past and into our present, framing within our lives a sense of sameness and frustration that we cannot seem to escape. Our lives are given to us. Our self has been created. We are a self in our world. Our memories intrude upon our present, creating and confining our self and it’s world and limiting both along with any supposed future we may have. Packaged and presented day after day, our memories build upon themselves with not much changing that we can control from one moment to the next. Seems that we would have to forget to remember if we are to have any chance of changing our self or the world we find ourselves in.

How reliable is our memory? While I can easily remember the way home, and might not have to think twice about how to get there, iow, the journey home seems to be spontaneous, I can arrive there without thinking much about how I am getting there, I might not remember what a certain house on a certain street looks like although I possibly have seen it hundreds of times, I still will probably not be able to describe it in detail with any accuracy.

What about childhood memories? Are we more apt to remember something b/c we have been told a story over and over again? I have had a memory of being in my baby bed when it was struck by lightening for years. Was it because I had heard my Mother tell the story so many times that it became real? Or did it actually happen to me? Funny thing is, a few years back, I was retelling the story, and my Mother all of a sudden, declared, “that was Kathy not you that that happened to.” Kathy is my oldest sister. So, I have no idea if the memory is real, or if the memory is a story I heard so many times that it became real in my mind.

Also, frequently, I have just known something was correct. I mean, I would have bet my life that such and such happened a certain way, only to find out that it did not. My memory of said event was crystal clear. There was no doubt in my mind. Then when my mistaken memory was pointed out and verified as inaccurate, and the actual memory was recounted, I then remembered it correctly with the exact same certainty that I had previously mistakenly remembered it.

So, again I ask...

How accurate is memory?

Memories shape our lives. Many times, in unhealthy ways. The more we remember the memory, or enact it within awareness, we reinforce it. If it is a painful memory, then we reinforce that pain, carrying it from past to present, identifying ourselves over and over again with it, we limit our lives by the memories we continue to bring forth from our past into our present. Many of these memories, may not even be accurate. Just like the stories we have learned to take as solid, these memories dictate our future before our future even arrives. And so we are stuck. It is as if we keep hitting rewind on the video cam...We cannot escape our past because we continually relive it whether it is real or not, it has become solid, and we are unable to find our way out, or break free of the structures we have created for ourselves in our worlds...

Starlight Dancing...

PRACTICE NOTES TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fall Session - "Self in Question"
September 27th - December 13, 2009
Davidu
1.  The Self In Question - TSK Week 1
2.  The Self In Question - TSK weeks 2-3
3. Motivation for Knowing - TSK weeks 5-7
starlight
1.  The Queen and 'I' - TSK 1
2.  Tyranny of I's...TSK wk 3
3.  Binding Through Identity...TSK wk 4...
4.  A World Given...tsk wk 5...
Balder

Access: Public 14 Comments Print views (120)

Tagged with: TSK Essay, inquiry, self, world, given, structures, memory, accurate, knowing, tsk

When There's Only Silence...

Posted on Nov 27th, 2009 by

starlight

The halls are empty...

The rooms are quiet...

There’s no one to disturb...

No one will know if you do or don’t...

No voices to be heard...

The little ones have all gone home...

To bother you never again...

Don’t you wish you’d caught a glimpse...

Of what really could of been?

The silence it is deafening...

What I’d give for some noise...

You see when there’s only silence...

There is never any joy...

Starlight Dancing...

Access: Public 12 Comments Print views (153)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, empty, silence, voices, heard, noise, joy

A Soft Place to Fall...

Posted on Nov 27th, 2009 by

starlight

I promise you, no matter what,

That there will always be snow...

A beautiful blanket of glistening white...

Tied up in a sparkling bow...

While it might be cold and distant...

Frozen solid, sometimes, up the wall...

Each snowflake will always be special...

Together offering, a soft place to fall...

Starlight Dancing...

Access: Public 5 Comments Print views (28)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, snow, beautiful, blanket, glistening, cold, distant, frozen, fall

Recovering Memories...

Posted on Nov 26th, 2009 by

starlight

Like a buried treasure...

Recovered memories...

Painful trips into the past...

Will also set you free...

Memories of yesterday...

That hold the pain of now...

The sword of truth must cut away...

For only truth knows how...

Bringing them to light of day...

Is often bitter sweet...

It takes a real brave warrior...

To attempt this feat...

All the while keeping composure...

Loved ones are very close by...

Dealing with the shadows...

Finding solitude to cry...

Going home is wonder-filled...

Such Joy is in their smiles...

Finding buried treasure...

Recovering memories, so worthwhile...

Starlight Dancing...thnx Tai for allowing me to use this beautiful photograph...

Access: Public 2 Comments Print views (22)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, recovered, memories, painful, free, truth, light, shadows, treasure

Shadows Disappear When They Are Done...

Posted on Nov 26th, 2009 by

starlight

You’re, much stronger than you know...

Though no ones told you so...

You have the strength within...

This moment to begin...

Believing in yourself...

Not in someone else...

You must walk your way...

Along your light of day...

You must brave your night...

Your own candle light...

Some times the wind blows strong...

You are left alone...

To face your truths head on...

Shadows disappear when they are done...

Starlight Dancing...

Access: Public 2 Comments Print views (14)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, strength, within, you, believing, face, truths, shadows, done

Story of Me...

Posted on Nov 26th, 2009 by

starlight

I walked down endless roads...

With really no place else to go...

Some people took me in and offered

The only love I’d know...

Always with a price tag...

So expensive it would be...

Always with its bars...

And ever keeping me from free...

I paid a price with guilt...

An endless cycle and a trap...

Lost inside my torment...

Ever shamed without a map...

You cannot imagine...

All the pain I have endured...

Death would’ve been a blessing...

But my voice remained unheard...

I don’t know why I have been spared...

I should’ve died many times...

Life was always tragic...

Death would have been kind...

But here I am...I wonder why...

I have no reason you see...

A life without a purpose...

That is the story of me...

Starlight Dancing...

Access: Public What do you think? Print views (13)

Tagged with: poetry, tsk, inquiry, memories, painful, love, hurt, suffering, guilt, shame

Showing 1 - 10 of 916 Results

Search

Browse Posts

Tag Browser

Archives

True Beings' Creative Flow...

Free of Interpretations...

Am I Free...TSK wk 8...

Tapestry Unwind...

Forgetting to Remember...TSK wk 6 & 7...

When There's Only Silence...

A Soft Place to Fall...

Recovering Memories...

Shadows Disappear When They Are Done...

Story of Me...

Gaia Community

Explore

Inspire

The Gaiam Network

Favorite Quotes