Defense is the first act of war. Byron Katie
Roger Keye's poem "Hokusai Says"
Hokusai is a Japanese artistHokusai says look carefully,He says pay attention, notice.He says keep looking, stay curious.He says there is no end to seeing....He says everything is alive---Shells, buildings, people, fishMountains, trees. Wood is alive.Water is alive.Everything has its own life.Everything lives inside us.He says live with the world inside you...It matters that you care.It matters that you feel.It matters that you notice.It matters that life lives through you.....Look, feel, let life take you by the hand.Let life live through you.We are spirit playing with human form and learning how to manage that human form.
It is our sacred mission to fully embody the human form, to fully feel the emotions....
...to touch and be touched...to take pleasure in everything we can experience with our senses....not to label as good and bad, right and wrong...
...to be in our hearts and to let our hearts be pierced by life.
To explore life with the mind is to explore suffering. Abuse by others is short lived. The suffering we create for ourselves by repeating it in our minds lasts as long as we choose to sit in the suffering of that. This is not why we are here in human form. We are spirit, we are creator. We are love beings not suffering beings.
It is time to wake up and listen to the song our heart has been singing all along.
Let's stop our wars. Our war with our body. Our war with those we judge (including ourselves). Our war with the ego.
