Poetics
Love In and Of Itself
by admin on May.08, 2011, under Poetics, The I-Peace Project
Love in and of itself can never cause suffering.
All suffering related to what we think love is
arises from our projections and attachments to an object of attraction.
This is actually the opposite of love,
for love is a state of being in which we transcend the awareness of separate objects
and recognize our oneness with all that is;
a state devoid of projection and attachment
for there is nothing outside of us to project on or attach to.
Kosmic Surf
by admin on Apr.16, 2010, under Drawings, Lived Inquiry, Poetics, The Divine Guidance Project
molecules swimming
in the atomic sea
particles becoming waves
waves becoming particles
table top ripples
from the hit
of my liquid fist
SOUND
echoing
turning into thought
into dream
into action
into matter
into nothing that matters
FEAR
dissolving
in an ocean
of connectedness
LOVE
undulating
in the Kosmic Surf
the future,
a one-eyed monster
wanting to be feed
the past,
a shadow
cast ahead
and now,
is…
NOW
riding the waves
Kosmic surfing
going with the flow
nothing else needed
to Know.
- MAK
Image: Particle Wave by me (MAK)
What is Love?
by admin on Mar.15, 2010, under Poetics, The I-Peace Project
I have traveled far to ask,
“What is Love?”
A Buddhist Monk once showed me that
Love is a compassionate heart;
A Christian Saint once showed me that
Love is a forgiving heart;
A Muslim Sheik once showed me that
Love is a devoted heart;
A Taoist Sage once showed me that
Love is a heart that accepts all things as they are;
A Jewish Prophet once showed me that
Love is a heart that sees the one within the many;
A Native American Shaman once showed me that
Love is a heart that feels the interconnectedness of all things;
A Hindu Holy Man once showed me that
Love is, when all that is not love ceases to be.
I have traveled far to ask,
“What is Love?”
And I have seen the many faces of Love,
and I have felt the many ways of Love,
and I have touched the heart of Love itself
and learned that
Love truly is all these things.
- MAK
From One Face: A Collection of Interfaith Prayers and Poems
*Image by: Daniel B. Holeman
Gravity Waves
by admin on Feb.08, 2008, under Original Gravity, Poetics
The Seeker
by admin on Nov.25, 2007, under Lived Inquiry, Original Gravity, Poetics, The Divine Guidance Project
Artist and Title Unknown? The true seeking of knowledge and wisdom
requires whole person, or embodied learning,
as well as a deep commitment to
a life of lived inquiry,
in which every experience
is taken as a lesson to learn.
A Tear
by admin on Oct.10, 2006, under Drawings, Poetics
I look, I listen.
The words I’ve written
tell me more than I’d ever wished to know.
Days grow longer…
thoughts dwell, expand, explode – implode…on overload.
I see air swirling in circles around my hand,
tiny particles of violet light
caress my canvased skin.
A humming in my brain
echoes down
deep dark caverns of parts untouched.
In response, my temples pound pain
– shooting nerves never ending.
The veins in my eyes bulge and swell
then suddenly…
I shed a tiny tear.
A tear
salty and sweet
to the taste of my tongue,
A tear
more real than any thought
I’ve ever touched.
- Mark Allan Kaplan
*Published in J. Campbell (Ed.) (1983).Our western world’s greatest poems. Sacramento, California: World of Poetry Press.
Cosmic Dance
by admin on Nov.07, 2004, under Lived Inquiry, Original Gravity, Poetics, The Divine Guidance Project
Renewal by Csuri
When I integrate
the different levels
of my inner and outer life,
I enter into a glorious and miraculous
cosmic dance,
in harmony with
all that is within
and all that is without,
from the tiniest atom
to the greatest
expanse of the universe,
I am held and impelled
by an original gravity,
a force of ancient origin
and of a continually
unfolding newness,
unique and original,
and together,
you and I
and all of creation
are balanced,
integrated,
and complete,
at home
in orbit
around the sphere
of all being-ness.
