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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Report for March 30th

Report for March 30th (or 79.5 + 4, according to Betsy Gifford's dating suggestion): holding steady here.
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  1. AnonymousMarch 30, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    Hi Barbara,

    Steve & I are thinking of you every day. We feel so lucky to have gotten to see you & Van last summer. What precious time that was. I have enjoyed the talks we've had. I appreciate your outlook on life and life's experiences. You radiate such positive energy. You are an inspiring woman.

    We love you,

    Hillary, Steve & Chase

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  2. FrankMarch 30, 2011 at 11:08 PM

    As time with my Wednesday evening meditation group comes to a close, I like to end with gratitudes. Today I am grateful for having met you and Van, and having the pleasure of hearing you speak often and freely from your hearts.

    I wish I had words to express the admiration, joy, awe and sheer poetry I feel with these memories of listening. Finding none of my own, I'll quote Ken Wilber:

    Let the world be quiet. Let the heavens and the earth and the seas be still. Let the world be waiting. Let the self-contraction relax into the empty ground of its own awareness, and let it there quietly die. See how Spirit pours through each and every opening in the turmoil, and bestows new splendor on the setting Sun and its glorious Earth and all its radiant inhabitants. See the Kosmos dance in Emptiness; see the play of light in all creatures great and small; see finite worlds sing and rejoice in the play of the very Divine, floating on a Glory that renders each transparent, flooded by a Joy that refuses time or terror, that undoes the madness of the loveless self and buries it in splendor.

    Indeed, indeed: Let the self-contraction relax into the empty ground of its own awareness, and let it there quietly die. See the Kosmos arise in its place, dancing madly and divine, self-luminous and self-liberating, intoxicated by a Light that never dawns nor ceases. See the worlds arise and fall, never caught in time or turmoil, transparent images shimmering in the radiant Abyss. Watch the mountain walk on water, drink the Pacific in a single gulp, blink and a billion universes rise and fall, breathe out and create a Kosmos, breathe in and watch it dissolve.

    Let the ecstasy overflow and outshine the loveless self, driven mad with the torments of its self-embracing ways, hugging mightily samsara's spokes of endless agony, and sing instead triumphantly with St. Catherine, "My being is God, not by simple participation, but by a true transformation of my Being. My me is God!" And let the joy sing with Dame Julian, "See! I am God! See! I am in all things! See! I do all things!" And let the joy shout with Hakuin, "This very body is the Body of Buddha! and this very land the Pure Land!"

    And this Earth becomes a blessed being, and every I becomes a God, and every We becomes God's sincerest worship, and every It becomes God's most gracious temple.

    And comes to rest that Godless search, tormented and tormenting. The knot in the Heart of the Kosmos relaxes to allow its only God, and overflows the Spirit ravished and enraptured by the lost and found Beloved. And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and terror of the brutal days and endless nights where time alone would rule.

    And I --- I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. And the Shining says: To love it all, and love it madly, and always endlessly, and ever fiercely, to love without choice and thus enter the All, to love it mindlessly and thus be the All, embracing the only and radiant Divine: now as Emptiness, now as Form, together and forever, the Godless search undone, and love alone will shine today.

    With Love and Gratitude,
    ---
    Frank (with Leslie)

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