Tom Flebotte:
CLASS OF 1972
Cary High SchoolClass of 1972
Cary, NC
Tom's Story
I am you and you are this:
Breathe in deep peace. Breathe. Breathe. Sign and release. Sigh and release. Smile gently and deeply. Breathe. Breathe. There is peace is knowing this¿.. in being this: We work with what we are in order to become something else. Our starting point is what we are, right now, right here. There is no other starting point. So allow yourself the inner freedom of knowing that whatever you are right now, is your key to liberation. It is therefore the wise act that you accept yourself fully. This does not mean that you excuse yourself for your unskillfullness. But yet, accept yourself. Embrace yourself fully with a mother¿s embrace. Happiness and progress begins with full self acceptance. Embrace yourself with unconditional LOVE. We begin here, right now, in this embrace, with what we are and nothing else. To begin with something else is clearly falsehood for that something else is not you. Begin now then, begin this moment and begin each and every moment with a heartfelt, heart centered embrace of yourself. Freedom rings in the moments of self LOVE. Let it be your inward mother embracing you, holding you. There is no discontentment in being what you are in this moment. It is who you are. It is where you are on your journey. By accepting yourself through a deep abiding forgiveness you have started the Journey to bliss anew.
I pray:
I am not this material body. I am not this etheric body. I am not this body of thoughts and emotions¿reactions only are they. I AM that which knows these things! I AM the Self conscious of Itself.
I AM the source of the conjugated verb ¿to Be¿. I AM, YOU ARE, HE IS, SHE IS, IT IS, YOU ARE, WE ARE, THEY ARE.¿ I AM all of these things. There is nothing that I want¿everything that I could want I already have. There is nothing that I seek¿everything that there is to find is already in me. There is nothing that I reject since I hold everything as the One Journey in God. There is nothing to do since I am already Being everything. There is no place to go where I am not already there. I have arrived to every destination before I set out. The quest, the Path, the Journey, the Goal, the Attainment---all of these things are me. This is who I Am is. I indwell in this deep, profound and eternal Peace and LOVE.
I Too Know God
A flower whispered,
¿Oh friends don¿t pick me.
I have yet to open my arms
To Sri Bee
And scent the passing wind
With my color.
I have not yet
Danced with the rain
Nor caught the morning dew
In my opened bosom.
Oh don¿t pick me.
The swollen moon has yet to see my radiance at midnight
And hear my duet with Brother Nightingale.
I have yet to lay bare my petals
To Mother and give thanks
Or travel my one way bow fully down
To enter the earth with my spirit
And let the wind and rain wash my senses
Into Her.
Oh, don¿t pick me.
For I
Have a Heart
And can know Love,
¿Like you.
* Written on 29 December 2007 *
RiverMind
I.
Seekers seek; moved by loss.
Happiness is desired; driven by sadness.
Light is cherished; fear of dark.
Mother¿s breasts hold...Expand for more
the cream formed of cause and effect.
Seemingly forever we are suckled in The Valley of Two Mounts.
Creation, dissolution-- on and on.
On and on.
Every moment contains its opposite.
The cause, its effect-- the same moment.
Every opposite again regains its opposite.
All is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection.
Back and forth again.
On and on.
On and on.
Who can speak of Tao?
Even Tao can not speak of Tao.
I do not seek; there is no loss.
I am not happy; there is no sadness.
I hold no light, there is no dark.
Nothing creates, nothing dissolves.
There is no result of action.
There is no actor.
There is no non-actor.
There is only flow.
And there is only stillness.
There is only non-flow.
And there is only movement.
II.
Every where is without a center.
Every where is every place.
No place is every where.
There is neither here nor there.
Nowhere is there the where.
No thing is bounded by any thing.
Every this is everything.
Everything is every that.
There is no this, there is no that.
I am no where.
I am no thing.
I am being not no where, not no thing.
I am not being every where as every thing.
Every thing every where I am being.
*******
Everything everywhere I am being.
I am everywhere being everything.
Being everything I am everywhere.
Everywhere I am being everything.
And in every no thing I am being,
And in every no where I am being,
Not.
*******
III.
High above,
A pungent, deep green, dew tipped pine needle
Penetrates the mist.
Far below,
A jittery squirrel covetously carries away a giant acorn.
In between,
Autumn¿s last oak leaf releases,
Caressing the wind along its way
Into the clouds.
The Southfork River flows.
It flows.
Without self directed action,
It flows.
Just
Flows.
Flowing
On and on
and on
and on.
and on¿
Madly in Love
Ah ha!
Just before you had a chance to return my heart
To my ravaged breast,
I awakened earlier than usual my bashful Beloved
And pretended to still be asleep while peeking.
Your tender, longing, outstretched hand trembled as you reset my heart;
You began to withdraw,
But hesitated,
And I felt you return to caress it
One more time.
Beholding that brief glimpse of your beautiful, precious face,
So close to mine,
I was sure I was dead.
But as you whispered your name sweetly into me
Cosmic breath--white fire,
Inflated my newfondled heart
Into the seventh dimension
And took its orbit around your tremendous, loving eyes.
There is no other place to be
Than in the vision of the One
So crazily in love with me.
22 October 2007
Manzanita Hermitage
As always,
right now,
creation is forming 99 million Universes per second. Does this make you feel small and unimportant?
Can it be possible that we so insignificant?
Hardly!
All at once we are everything--everywhere.
We are very, very big.
It¿s All true!!
It¿s All about AllAtOnceidness!!
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