Asheville Sangha

Supporting Non-Duality and Awakening in Asheville and Beyond

Version 2.1 | 9.24.2010

© 2010 Howard McQueen


If we are to evolve,

we must uncover and embody the consciousness of inner peace,

we must find our own “eye in the storm”.


As the perceptual duration between cause and effect collapses,

as the destructive patriarchical power over others erodes,

the old, unsustainable ways of our culture are failing and falling away.


This places cataclysmic stress on our belief structures,

on what we have become accustomed to bring us security and comfort.

What is not yet transparent to us is that our internal operating system has become

compromised and corrupted by the very ways we have turned and looked away,

have sanctioned and even supported ways of living that are not symbiotic,

not in any true sustainable way.


So, we are left, in what feels more and more like the 11th hour,

like the house is on fire, like there is a lack of safety and security,

nearly everywhere we turn.


As much as we would like to say it ain’t so,

so it is for a growing advance guard of us -

challenged with awakening,

with weaning ourselves from the seemingly scarce resources of aging currency,

the propped up and declining economy,

the increasingly polluted human ecology,

for such a long time, based upon fear, anger, greed and exclusionary practices.


It is time to awaken the radical,

the deeper courage

the evolutionary spirit held within our DNA

and step up the pace to wean ourselves from these worn out, unsustainable ways.


There are still many, many caught in deep fear and resistance,

clutching to the inbred ignorance,

flailing about, thinking they are drowning,

and capable of taking others down with them.


There is a fierceness brewing as well

ready to claim and be the embodiment of love,

to do what it takes to demonstrate unity,

love over fear

connection over separation.


For this to happen one human being at a time,

we must all teach, and accept the teachings

that we are the eye of the storm,

not the storm,

that destruction is inevitable,

that resurrection of the sacred

requires that we challenge everything

and do whatever it takes to bring forward

our transformation and evolution.



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