© 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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