Asheville Sangha

Supporting Non-Duality and Awakening in Asheville and Beyond

© 2011 Howard McQueen

 

Much emphasis is place on personal self-enlightenment.

OK.

Fine.

 

So why is it Thich Nhat Hanh

and the Dalai Lama

believe that Embodied Wisdom

will coalesce,

will manifest

within and across Community?

(and not, this time around, as a singular enlightened Buddha)

 

Give me your hand

 and I’ll give you mine.

Lean into me

 as I lean into you.

Whisper, scream, dream

 and just allow the fever to run it course,

 to mount and crest.

 

Dear friends:

We will, by pulling together,

 manifest heaven on this earth!

 

I am not speaking of perfection,

but of a constant reconnecting and rebalancing.

Being human and remaining connected to our being,

 and sharing all this with those evolving Communitarians

 who are dedicated to organically growing:

-         wise elders,

-         wise counsel

-         focused wisdom

-         rites of passage

-         ways to be seen and heard and to integrate our shadows

 

Rehearsing and practicing all this together,

in the intimate crucible and incubator of community,

with all our recovered modalities,

bring us to the threshold of a universal and collective

christ consciousness,

lived through how we see and treat each other:

-         sometimes as teachers

-         sometimes as students

-         always as rabbis

 

on pilgrimage traveling from community to community,

forming this long procession - Love's Eternal Caravan!

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