DHARMA

The three refuges.... my true self, the truth, & the community of sentient beings that support me. I always thought of Dharma as  "the teachings".  I now know it to be the truth that the Creation is founded on. What is it that I know with complete & utter certainty? I no longer have the slightest doubt. The sword may be sheathed, or carefully placed in its scabbard, or wrapped in the finest silk & kept out of sight but make no mistake there is the finest steel... the purest crystal resting at the origin. I have not yet shrugged off the details of this hectic, chaotic, baffling existence. I push forward with purpose. I know with complete calm & the stillness of fact of the Divinity of the Isness of what Is. This sword is neither weapon nor tool. It is manifestation. It is affirmation. One word. The word.....

YES!

JUXTAPOSITION

The simple & complete nature of poetry is to place two dissimilar objects against each other & to create a third more powerful identity. “The Ace of Swords”… perhaps the one great card in the Tarot deck of the pure power in unity… in the knowing…. the clear use of the rational mind to achieve enlightenment. A simple card but there are elements that seem disparate… hard to reconcile….. the palm frond…. the olive branch… the six drops of gold…. the crown itself…. the blue mountains… the grey sky….. The olive branch is clear to me….the offering of peace… the symbol brought to Noah after the catastrophe of the great Deluge… & the palm frond…. perhaps the branches laid at the feet of the master as he entered the city for the final time… but the six drops of gold… that to me is a mystery…. explained in some arcane text… but not open to easy interpretation. My role as poet… as artist… as mystic... is to unfurl the holy scrolls… to present the code in the sacred text… & then to decode even a sentence or two….. One fact for certain…. we are dealing with great mystery whose meaning we have only just begun to glimpse….. 

SACRED GEOMETRY

The universe is exponentially older than we can imagine. Human consciousness seems so recent. Why is it so hard to envision the possibility that our awareness… even our civilization is infinitely older than we thought? This is obvious…. one look at the pyramids & you know there is an abiding mystery we choose not to see. We are immersed in amnesia. Mathematics/music/astronomy …. these are the keys & chinks & touchstones that let us know that our limited sight is just that… limited. There is good evidence that this age is coming to an end. There were previous ages of awareness… even here on this green blue orb we live on. This is not science fiction. Look at the codes in the hieroglyphics of the people who lived on the Nile thirty five thousand years ago. There are technologies & sciences & abilities  we have merely not been aware of.  I do not hope for some resurrection of these abilities…even if I feel their intimations within myself… it is enough to know they exist. I am dedicated to the Return… to the resurfacing of who we really are. It is underway. Here & Now.

ALIGNMENT

The sword represents the highest order of the intellect... the soul distilled to the essence of clarity... to the purity of certainty... to Truth itself. Who wields it? Do I wield it? I do. It is within my grasp. I use it without claiming it. It is not mine. It comes to me. It comes through me. There is mind & then there is Mind. They are simultaneous. My acceptance is not contingent on the certainty of the absolute. The certainty of the absolute is not contingent on my acceptance. It shines with or without me. It shines. My sole & abiding movement is toward alignment. To make my myopic vision focussed on the vision of the greater clarity of the Source. In my impermanence I surrender to that which is permanent. I would like to say this knowing flows. It feels like the bonds in the hardest crystal known to creation. I am not always in the perfection of alignment but when I am it locks in like the faces & planes of the diamond of verifiable fact.