Haiku Ellipses...Invitation...Response...

FLOATING TRIANGLES floating triangles surrounded by colored dots revealing the face dots create lines that make up triangles, that make up the star in the center of which is a face...our face, their face, nature's face, G's face...all are there hiding at center...distracted by the colorful dots and triangles of life, sometimes it's hard to catch a glimpse of the face at the center, to be aware of the awareness that makes it possible to see the face, to contemplate the face of all faces. how many triangles are in your life... people, issues, challenges, problems, things you need to do, beliefs, habits, titles, roles, beauties, things...STOP the outward gaze and look inward to see your own face in meditation...contemplate the face...see others in your face, nature in your face, the universe in your face, G in your face...

4 SENTINALS the 4 sentinals standing guard around the fire of light, life, and love the 4 directions each have their own sentinal that guards the inner fire...the north sentinal protects the fire from the winds and snow that could snuff out the fire and still let in some air that the fire requires to continue to flame...the southern sentinal allows warmth from the south and protects from fierce heat that might overtake the fire...the east sentinal protects from too many new things, like 100's of seeds wanting to take root, letting in only those that the fire can support with light, life, and love...and the west sentinal protects from the darkness of death, and allowing some needed pruning of plants that grow in the fire's light...for light, life, and love to flourish, they need protection and support. how are you protecting your well-being, guarding your time to nourish your mind, body, and spirit...and how well are you protecting your loved ones so that they may flourish, and ...

UP & DOWN double-headed tree growing upwards and downwards knows no gravity trees grow in two directions...up and down...this curious double headed tree knows no gravity, no soil, growing in both directions, suspended in mid air...dreamlike from our central trunk, we can grow upwards and downwards, stretching toward the sky and also downwards into the ground (in this case an airy "ground"). for any idea you might meditate on, take the idea in 2 directions, metaphorically up and down...see where it leads...which direction yields more fruit for the well-being of all...  

ENFOLDED sitting at center  enfolded by pink ovals waiting for green life from the ovules in the hidden part of the ovary, moving outward through the enfolded pink ovals toward the sticky pink branching stigma that attracts, awaits, and captures the anther-produced pollen born on the filaments of the stamen...all a process designed to create and nurture new life... the wonderous process of creating new life from male and female parts of a flower mirrors the birthing of new ideas in the mind what hidden ideas in the unconscious are making their way up through the enfolded ovals in the flower of your mind...can you identify what attracts other ideas into this protected and hidden area...how will you know when the two forces meet and new life is born...what is the accompanying sensation(s) that accompanu new birth...do you feel...a quiver, a flash of warmth, goose bumps, tingles, something else...pay attention to the body's messages that signal new life forming...nurture the environme...

2 CIRCLES from the 2 circles touching and overlapping reality births from the 2 comes the many, from male and female comes new life, from thesis and antithesis comes synthesis...the touching and overlap seems to facilitate new birth(s) at the intersection of the circles, the vortex, the vesica piscis, the mandorla (almond), the portal of new life... consider 2  vital ideas/parts of yourself...meditate on how the parts/ideas overlap, interrelate, connect...open...look/sense the portal of new life emerging...what implications does this have for being and doing?   

FEELERS 1 human being sending feelers everywhere cosmic perception there are a multitude of ways to FEEL...we have the sensory organs to feel touch with skin, sound with ears, sight with eyes, smell with nose, and taste with tongue, AND we also have our sense of intuition from heart and gut which modern science tells us have their own kind of brains...all surrounded by AWARENESS, that magical universal essence of beingness that inhabits our bodies and lives eternally...other traditions/systems identify organs and chakras as places of awareness...whatever their origin, we can send our awareness in and out from our body to feel everywhere imaginable...this is cosmic perception. begin with the 5 senses and see feel each in turn...stretch out your feelers inside (to all of your organs and glands...as many parts of the body as you can) and outside of you, to your immediate and greater surroundings, and even farther using your intuition and imagination...HOW MUCH CAN YOU FEEL? how far can yo...

SQUIGGLES & SCRIBBLES squiggles & scribbles weaving, tangling, waving rushed & hurried mind many small actions on my to do list are squiggles, others seem like half-baked scribbles...together they weave, tangle, wave in and out, creating a chaotic mess...signs of a rushed and hurried mind...Eknath Easwaran, a spiritual teacher at the Blue Mountain Center for Meditation, was fond of saying (paraphrasing), a fast mind is sick, a slow mind sound, and a still mind divine... i often find myself running around, accomplishing many small tasks on my to do list, and then looking back at the end of the day feeling harried from the hurry, wondering where is my focus, what have i really accomplished...is my day just a series of squiggles and scribbles...a "mess"...the result of a rushed, hurried, and fast mind?  yes, some days are like that...at these times, i need to ground to the earth in nature, breath slowly through the nose until i feel calmer, actively appreciate the gi...

SWIRLING swirling in and out twirling rainbow of colors snakish love-making to swirl, twirl, and make love...in and out...rainbow of colors, snaking, intertwining...the love-making need not be (but certainly can be!) physical...the swirl and twirl, the in and out can be reflective of the creative process, the snake like intertwining of ideas touching, embracing, blending to birth something new. Tony Buzan's idea of the "mind map" places one idea at the center of a page and connects other ideas to the central one with a curved colored line denoted by a single word atop the line...then other branches (levels) of the map are connected to these secondary lines/words, adding further detail, again with curved color lines that have a single representative word... meditate on a topic of central concern to you and then create a mind map of swirling, twirling, snakish colors...see what creative ideas emerge from the love-making of ideas.

1 SUNCHOKE from the 1 sunchoke multi-layered leaves spout free to make the berries notice the seeds of the center of the sunchoke resemble the fruit of the berries, and that between the two are multi-layered leaves sprouting free...from our core we branch out our leaves, ideally free flowing, that in time, produce the berries that then become seeds again. what seeds can you intentionally plant today, and how will you cultivate them in the coming days to ensure the best support to bring them to fruition, and when they fruit, who will you share them with?

ENERGY BODY energy body stimulate all of the oints tingly orgasm in Sundari's book, Liberation into orgasm: Through pleasure beyond pleasure , she makes the case that any pleasure can become orgasmic, and in doing so, the pleasure broadens our perspective of orgasm, from the narrow confines of sexuality to embrace all of life...this is compatible with the image of stimulating all of the points in our energy body, activating a body wide tingly orgasm without reference to specific genetalia pleasure.  as a practice, intentionally, mindfully engage in little bodily pleasures by FEELING into them...for example, steam on the face from a coffe pot or tea kettle...the warmth of spray from a shower followed by the refeshing stimulation of turning the temperature to cool/cold (like being under a waterfall)...tingling sensations of sun on bare skin...a mild breeze playing in one's hair...the sound of a violin, cello, guitar, flute, sax, and/or drums reverberating inside the body...the rh...