There is nothing out of order!

WOW! There is no where you have to go

to become what you already are!

Wow! There is nothing you need to do

to BE what you already are!

WOW! You ARE that which you are looking for!

So...

Stop running and...

Nothing is Needed!

What is there between you and the core of your being?

You Were Brave in that Holy War

You have done well

In the contest of madness.

You were brave in that holy war.

You have all the honorable wounds

Of one who has tried to find love

Where the Beautiful Bird

Does not drink.

May I speak to you

Like we are close

And locked away together?

Once I found a stray kitten

And I used to soak my fingers

In warm milk;

It came to think I was five mothers

On one hand.

Wayfarer,

Why not rest your tired body?

Lean back and close your eyes.

Come morning

I will kneel by your side and feed you.

I will so gently

Spread open your mouth

And let you taste something of my

Sacred mind and life.

Surely

There is something wrong

With your ideas of

God.

O, surely there is something wrong

With your ideas of

God

If you think

Our Beloved would not be so

Tender.

~"The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the great Sufi Master"

translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Bucky Bodhidarma

Zen emphasizes experiential wisdom in the attainment of enlightenment. Like the Bodhidarma, squirrels come to teach a special transmision outside of scriptures... not founded on words or letters. Through the Zen of Bucky Squirrel, wisdom is passed through the one-to-one direct transmission or experience... squirrel to human. Such lineage continued all the way from the Buddha's time to the present.

The existence of bodhi squirrels was substantiated by the late Paramahansa Yogananda. He told the story below, which I found in Avatar Animals and Yogananda~ http://oaks.nvg.org/misintro.html

Master Squirrel

Once an old hermit lived on a brink by the sea at a place where a mother squirrel fostered her young. The hermit was so fond of this company that he was reborn as a female squirrel so that he too could look after youngs (this has gone too far already).

(Yes, that's what the holy man did, and an avatar squirrel he was, decrees

Yogananda, and vouches for a fairy tale against nearly all odds in so doing.)

Great waves took the holy squirrel's nests and cubs one day she was away looking for eggs and other food for them. She saw that the big sea had taken them, and started to threaten the sea. "Bring me back my children, or I will dry you up with my bushy tail," she said.

The sea gave no particular reply. So the squirrel mother started to dry the ocean by soaking her tail in the sea and letting the water drip off on dry land - again and again. Little did she consider that the water would seep and run down into the sea again. But the sea got so alarmed by the squirrel's determination that it swelled up a huge wave where the cubs were floating, and put them all beside her on the brink - and lo, they were all alive and well again, after being drowned and gone for many days.

Yogananda with squirrel 1924

Is Austin the New India?

Times are a changin'! It used to be you had to go to India to see cows in the streets. Not any more...

I invited a street person to sit with the cow on this busy street in downtown Austin. He is currently without work and told me about hopes for a possible gig as a roady.

Amazing to see the luxuriant decor of the cow in contrast to the poverty of this man. Makes you wonder how it will all shake out! The great thing is that our youth is interested in wholesome alternatives for change!

Here you see young people chanting, drumming, and toning crystal bowls to effect change on Wall Street!

Wow! I like the positive prophecy this young man is communicating with his poster: "THE BEGINNING IS NEAR" !

Here in Austin, Oneness Blessing events are open to everyone. Experience the bliss of knowing it's all part of the perfection of the Universe!

And look what we find at the other end of this same bridge...

Visit www.squirrelplanet.org for the schedule of public blessings and be the change you want to see in the world!