THE TEACHER’S LAMENT

And even now I wake up in the middle of the night and

Worry darkens my thoughts.

People I love seem so asleep,

The world so crazily besotted with material things,

As if possessions can heal a sorrowful, separate heart.

Catching myself I gently steer

My mind toward love

Reminding myself this is a dream,

That we are all learning,

And everyone will eventually discover,

They are safe and loved both infinitely

And gently by a Soul - they doubt exists.

They can doubt all they want.

But the whole world and all of life

Is formed by their own Souls

Playing a game of hide and seek.

Just for their pleasure and evolution.

How many lifetimes will it take for them to see this?

How much pain are they causing in their futures because

Of their stubbornness now,

When they could receive all the help they need.…

Still they turn away.

MAY I BECOME ABSOLUTELY PEACEFUL ABOUT ALL OF THIS!!!!!!

THE SOLUTION

 Compassion for yourself

What else are you going to do?

-Life gives you such a bad script.

You watch yourself do

The same thing you have done,

Many times.

It led you nowhere then.

It is leading nowhere now.

What else can you do?

Where else can you go?

Run into the arms of self-compassion.

And find peace!

It is ‘trying to do it’

That so gets in the way.

This attitude stands a little apart

And tries to fix

And is always wrong

Like some well-meaning sergeant major

Who does not know how much he does not know.

(He just makes things worse with his machinations.)

The Silence is There

Underneath our dreary emotional complexes -

So full of loud noise and dark distrust,

There exists the Silence within

The Peace within.

It really is there.

When you surrender/accept things as they are,

You feel a glorious hint of it for a while.

(Before the next-in-line-loud and stubborn complex comes up to die

Within the light of the heart.)

The more you accept/surrender,

The bigger the hints of this divine inner Peace

Until finally all those loud obnoxious complexes disappear

And only Silence/Space reigns within.

(It really is there, I promise.)

The spiritual journey is a lot more work than most people realize

(It is not just you who has trouble with it sometimes EVERYONE DOES!!!!)