Circles of Self
submitted 7-31-05
Circles of
Self, like lakes overlapping at one another's shores, here lies the source
of our problems with each other.
Where does my circle of freedom cease?
Where does your circle of freedom preside?
Ripples of dialogue converge as circles of self interface.
Each nation, each self, a diplomat
negotiating boundaries and personal treaties.
As we mingle waters at each other's shores, do we smoothly exchange our
energies, or do we entangle our energies in conflict over abstract and real
time boundary disputes?
Circles of Self overlapping at each other's shores.
Each house, each self an ambassador
negotiating boundaries and personal treaties.
Do the merging waters of Self battle in turmoil, or do they mingle in
harmony?
Is energy flowing to and fro, from lake to lake, soul to soul, in harmony,
each one replenishing the other? If not, why not?
Energy surging out from center of self, out from center of family.
Energy flowing from neighbor to neighbor, from nation to nation as effects
of doings rush outwardly and around the world.
Sharon Eckardt, Los Osos/Baywood Park, CA
A Different View of Time submitted 3-20-05
Eternally Now, Sharon
A DIFFERENT VIEW OF TIME
Free falling into the future, we create the past.
Falling into the center of Now we create history.
History mandala of completed memories and events
encircles us like the condensed rings of Saturn.
Look around! What do we see?
The walls of a room containing a small box of dancing
multi-colored light consuming all our attention.
The ass of the car ahead of us on the rat race freeway.
Or, the lusty beauty of Life as we follow our dreams?
Gaze out across the terrain to take in the moment.
Sky reaching down to embrace the geometric shapes of Earth, ourselves at the center of focus.
Start with our hands, our feet,
expanding our view outwardly to full circle,
scoping the horizon line of earth ship,
our actions the center of our Now.
Each and every being's actions,
the center of a sea of converging NOWS
exchanging, interacting, reacting.
As we generate thoughts into events,
time is falling in on itself,
expanding outwardly from center of doings.
Expanding outwardly from the center of deeds,
like a ballerina on the tip of a pin, we interact
to the rhythms of the converging energy
transformations of each personal Now.
WOW
Sharon Eckardt, Los Osos/Baywood Park, CA
FREQUENCY of NOW
TRUE NOW and FILTERED NOW
Dragon fly or darting swallow,
a second perceived as a minute
A child, an hour an eternity
An adult at play, a day too short
An adult on a boring job,
an hour agonizes into an eternity?
Time is a hole into which we are continually
falling into the future, filling the void.
The frequencies of the filtered Now of the animal condition varies
depending on our state of biology and mind.
To a zipping acrobatic fly, dodging the executioner's fly swatter, its
perception of time is different than the compressed time sense that a
human experiences.
Falling from a horse, a few seconds seems an eternity.
To a human, surfing a wave, her time sense is expanded like a
decompressing computer file, and time seems to stand still.
If we were to experience True Now, all would be instantaneous, and we
would expand into the Consciousness of the universe.
Our earthly reality would vanish into pure energy abuzz with
Consciousness.
Stonehenge of Radios
Sitting at the center of a mandala of all the radios in the world, all
blaring at the same time, would be a meaningless ear piercing cacophony
In our animal state of being, we're limited to filtered Now
Or are we? WOW
Sharon
Sharon Eckardt, Los Osos/Baywood Park, CA