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welcome

10/20/2014

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The invitation is to leave it alone. To let life be. To know yourself as being lived.  That is what is happening here. Life is alive as you, through your breath, through your being. Don't look for it elsewhere. It does you and undoes you, over and over again. You are not the doer. Stop claiming that you are, and your relentless despair of knowing you are not, will dissolve. The belief in the doer, in the future, in something rich and magical beyond this place, is what deadens you, and crushes your heart. The belief in something greater than this has held you captive, left you for dead. And yet you fear death. The only death you will ever know is this lifeless longing. Question these beliefs, awaken from them, and live it out loud. Then you will know yourself as boundless life, as freedom, and your body will age and die fully alive, without regret, endlessly beautiful. 
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wavy news

10/1/2014

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when the earth goes all wavy and sublime
and beauty is the only game in town,
everything all moon-glow and juicy,
and veteran lovers drifting into town
riding high and smooth and straight up
fantastic(!)
she feels quite sure
that all is well with the world
(everybody's dancing like there's nobody watching)
birds are flying high and wild and squawking loud
and perpetually-dangerously awesome:
this sky be nobody else's business(!)
the rains come down quick
puddle-jumping puddle-jumpers
hopscotching along on the chalk-marked
sidewalks containing in their broken boundaries
the bravely hungry homeless frightened
onlookers and non-belonging survivors
of innocence longing for a slow gentle gaze

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love it now

9/29/2014

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Here in the clear water
your mind resembles the reflection
the stillness
quiet joy
everywhere around you

Out there in the streets
your mind becomes the bombs landing
the deafening
death scattering flesh
hither and yon

Everywhere is where you are
what you are how you are
looming
hiding
holding it all letting it all float away

so beautiful are you

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easy does it

9/29/2014

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Adrift in this leaky vessel
sea worthy
but small

A clay sieve
the light moves through
holding larger things
within

All the smaller pieces
get through
along with that which flows

Adrift
awash
a modest craft
drowning
and surfacing
again

A cracked pot
the light gets in
that cannot hold the water
back or within

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stealing food

9/29/2014

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Fear and its rabid hunger
Hunger and its pitting fear
wind together
relentlessly
endlessly
wanting

Is this how we speak?

What will sate this appetite?

It is not you
that requires this
eternal filling up
and emptying out

The invisible empty grail
(suspecting that your thirst
is unquenchable)
floats inside its own emptiness
cleans the plate of you
on which it rests.

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asana

9/29/2014

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In the deep kindness of asana
the flow of air
in
out
the gentle touch
of body and breath
entwined
and
dancing together
no one
lagging behind
no one
catching up

here the most loving posture
is you
quiet
awake
alone in the room
here there is only you
discovering yourself
like the first blossoms of laurel
in spring
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

this unfolding movement
arms
hands
fingers
skin
hips
thighs
knees
feet
toes
oh!
more skin!
what lies beneath this?!

this is not a competitive sport
not with your neighbor
on the mat next door
- don't even try showing yourself up
there is no one here watching
and if
just if, there was
only love could wind its way through
the maze of limbs
and
this still breath
this quiet heart

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no escape

9/29/2014

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wrapped snugly
in the blanket
of non-belonging
non-knowing
non-believing
non-escape

freedom still
just a taste on the tongue

as the blanket is torn to shreds
(dust in the windless wind)
all remains tossed into the vast
nothing snug about it
loose and sailing
free-falling
gone

freedom now just
another word
meaningless
still
beautiful

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Spin cycle

9/29/2014

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Feeling like a whirling dervish
turned to stone
a pillar of salt
not moving a hair

grinning out loud
the only prayer that comes
is this!

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You

9/29/2014

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I cannot find you anywhere
walking up and down
the tree-lined streets
there is everything to see
but you.

I imagined that all
your old familiar haunts
had closed down
too empty without you
everyone gone mourning

but moving toward the window
there is only the space
now empty of you
and full of others
living it up
as if you'd never been

I long to knock hard
on the glass
to cry out loud
to scream your name
remind them of your
infinite goodness
fearless loyalty
undying love
infectious laugh
devoted friendship
everything you gave your life to

but knocking doesn't happen
crying doesn't happen
screaming doesn't happen
no one will hear me

there is only this empty space
here
where you and I
have never been.

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Magic Town

9/29/2014

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A parade marched through the town.
Everywhere was music:
LOUD
dancing and singing
brass bands playing
and kettle drums
boom budda boom budda boom.
Multi-colored lanterns
exquisitely bright and beautiful
designed and made
with magical hands
sewing magical threads
onto magical bits of nothing
and oh, those play people
designed to look like others
riding busy bicycles
some with real wheels
some with imaginary ones
how on earth
will we know
which ones can be ridden somewhere
in particular
and which ones are just for fun?
laughing out loud
at their bright beauty
and streams of thinking flow:
Hey, I've got nowhere to go anyway!
I'll take three candy apples
oh, and one with caramel
and that silly hat there
and the electric blue one
the one with the made-up wheels
rainbow crepe-paper and hibiscus
tucked in the spider-web spokes
and ride off up to the moon
like the kid in ET.

--dedicated to Chantelle Rytter, with love and appreciation for your magic

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    The nun Wu Jincang asked the Sixth Patriach Huineng, "I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas i do not quite understand. Please enlighten me."

    The patriarch responded, "I am illiterate. Please read out the characters to me and perhaps I will be able to explain the meaning."

    Said the nun, "You cannot even recognize the characters. How are you able then to understand the meaning?"

    "Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?"


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    Analisa Domenica is a humanist minister and mentor, in private practice as a Doula for living and dying. She offers private mentoring sessions, end-of-life preparation & transition support, bereavement, home death, funeral, and natural burial guidance, and laying-on-of-hands for comfort care and pain release. Analisa joyfully celebrates weddings and memorials, according to your faith or non-faith tradition. She is available to private clients, small groups, and for public education. Find out more about her by clicking here.
     
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