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Why Did You Come?

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       You did not come to this planet to worship a pair of sandals or a white robe. You did not come to this planet to be on the left or the right, to be a believer or a non-believer, to be the color "white" or the color "black." You did not come here to get angry at reflections in a mirror or prepare for disasters that never happen. No friend, you came to be astonished by a dust mote. You came to be torn in two by laughter and pain, then made whole again by the tang of a berry on your wild tongue. Why waste another moment arguing for or against when you could slide down this beam of breath, soft as moonlight, into the radiance you are?
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Egg

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It happened so softly you thought it was a robin's egg, tiny, edgeless, blue. But it was the sky in your chest. Photo: Edward Fielding
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Rumi's Field

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"Out beyond right thinking and wrong thinking there's a field, will you meet me there?" Out beyond Israel and Palestine there's a field, will you meet me there? Out beyond Islam and Christianity, Atheism and Religion, Oneness and Twoness there's a field, will you meet me there? Beyond Republican and Democrat, Beyond Whiteness and Blackness, Beyond the Binary and Nonbinary there's a field where wine forgets it was ever a grape, a meadow full of bees with ten thousand fragrances that all become honey. I asked Rumi, "Which path leads there?" He said, "Follow any sweetness through the gate that is always open." I asked, "Where is that gate?" He pointed, and his finger ever so gently pressed the hollow in my sternum, where the heart breathes. Photo: a field near my home, view of Mt. Rainier
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An Understanding Of Meditation

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     Can you turn a Mystery into a technique? Can you turn Grace into 12 steps, or 10 commandments? Can you cool the fire of God into smoldering tablets? According to the accounts in Exodus and Deuteronomy, Moses entered a cloud of unknowing on the mountain, and there, beyond the senses, saw God as uncreated fire. He heard the voice of the almighty but saw no form. "The Lord spoke from the midst of the fire: you heard the sound of the words but saw no form (Deut. 4:12)."  There God revealed the divine name: "I AM." This is real meditation. But when Moses came out of the cloud, the Word of God somehow solidified into stone, on which ten laws were etched.  This is what happens where we step out of the Fire, back into the linear thinking of conceptual mind. It is better to enter the Fire and simply leave your Self there, where you don't need any tablets, any laws. Then the mind, the senses, and the body can emerge into the world again, to perform thei...
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