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Creamsicle Meditation

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            No more pilgrimage to Machu Picchu. No more chugging droplets of rainbow poison from the spine of an Amazonian frog. No need for a selfie in front of the Great Pyramid or standing with your Druid clan under Glastonbury Tor. If you want to meet Mary Magdalene, you don't have to enter the Grotte de Sainte-Baume, or stroll the beaches of Provence searching for her Gospel in an ancient jar. She is waiting for you in your chest, between rising and falling, flowing out and in. Why fly to the ashram in Bangalore? You'll only meet ten thousand other selves, waving flash-lit iPhones, chanting electric bhajans, worshiping a robe, a beard and a pair of sandals. These journeys are over. That quest was a dream. Now it's time Not To Begin. Stay right here and give yourself a cosmic re-set. Imagine an old-fashioned Creamsicle. Close your eyes, taste it, and say, “Mmmmmmm…” No doing, just slurping...
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Sukkot

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If you want to bless the earth, practice listening. There is another heart beating inside your heart, a rhythmic silence calling, "Don't even answer, just breathe love." Your sabbath prayer a pulse of stillness, twin-syllable name of the Friend. Lovers meet here in the secret chamber of your darkest sweetest blood. Build a hut of vines. Let the garden of your body spring from loam into golden bewilderment. Image: Persian Miniature by Bahman Farshchian
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The Vertical Dimension Of Now (Video)

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The present moment is not the tick of a clock, a disappearing point of horizontal time. The present moment is an ocean with a deep vertical dimension you can probe in meditation as you descend from the mind into the heart. The image here is Doré's illustration of Danté's Paradiso, as the poet gazes into the empyrean of the present moment, and beholds the lineaments of a human form within the divine Formless.
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