the think hole

 

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“the think hole”

 

thoughts swirl and drip

like some kind

of melty creamy whip

a sugary slight of mind trick

sweet and sticky

 

cognitive tongue tip

lazily licks and laps

expressive lip

the verge of the edge

of the I don’t know

 

and so I think into

 

sweet rabbit hole

magic made

as thoughts

swirl

drip and sink

ethereal into ink

Meditation Experience: Giving is Receiving

 

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This concept is not anything out of the ordinary but I had a lovely experience at my Ananda Mandala group meditation last night and I feel compelled to share.

At some point or another, most of us have been exposed to the idea that “to give is to receive” or as in the King James version of Acts 20:35, “…It is more blessed to give than to receive.” As we journey along on our spiritual paths, the meaning of this seems to become even clearer. Maybe at first we think of it as karma…and then a little further along the path, we come to recognize the value of service because it makes us feel good.

Last night, I had a profound moment of more fully embodying this truth as I experienced a Knowing that to give IS to receive because of our unity and also that it is not some long awaited reward to come to us at some other time when we are being acknowledged for our generosity. Instead, it is instantaneous. (time schime) We receive the moment we give. We just can’t perceive the vast implications of this immediate unfolding. It felt like its ripples impacted the multiverse as well as our past and future lifetimes in ways that we cannot even begin to truly fathom. It was an incredibly beautiful experience; one that defies being explained with mere words which, after all, are just symbols of symbols. Degrees of separation cannot begin to hope to describe that which is inseparable. This is why I have so much poetry. Poems seem to be just a teeny tiny bit closer to the ineffable.

I am so grateful for this experience. I feel as if this is something that I intellectually could have expressed before the meditation but that now it fills me with a joyous knowing.

Have you had any profound meditation experiences? I would love to hear about them.

becoming

 

"Water Whisper"

“becoming”

 

vision

 

beauty wells

swells then

spills

 

i weep oceans of awe

remembering what is

one noteworthy song

sustained truth, still

silence washing

me away in

waves of gratitude

 

motionless

i sit in the sun becoming

the sand

salt

and sea