i send this to the beautiful soul named giulia this morning en then i realised i felt like sharing it with many beloved ones. a poem that was read at the conference in washington, by drew dillinger. as i’m still in the process of writing up my notes and impressions from the conference, i give you this taste:<\/p>\n
let’s meet
\nat the confluence
\nwhere you flow into me
\nand one breath
\nswirls between our lungs<\/p>\n
let’s meet
\nat the confluence
\nwhere you flow into me
\nand one breath
\nswirls between our lungs<\/p>\n
for one instant
\nto dwell in the presence of the galaxies
\nfor one instant
\nto live in the truth of the heart
\nthe poet says this entire traveling cosmos is
\n“the secret One slowly growing a body”<\/p>\n
two eagles are mating-
\nclasping each other’s claws
\nand turning cartwheels in the sky
\ngrasses are blooming
\ngrandfathers dying
\nconsciousness blinking on and off
\nall of this is happening at once
\nall of this, vibrating into existence
\nout of nothingness<\/p>\n
every particle
\nfoaming into existence
\ntranscribing the ineffable<\/p>\n
arising and passing away
\narising and passing away
\n23 trillion times per second
\nwhen Buddha saw that<\/i>,
\nhe smiled<\/p>\n
16 million tons of rain are falling every second
\non the planet
\nan ocean
\nperpetually falling
\nand every drop
\nis your body
\nevery motion, every feather, every thought
\nis your body
\ntime
\nis your body,
\nand the infinite
\ncurled inside like
\ninvisible rainbows folded into light<\/p>\n
every word of every tongue is love
\ntelling a story to her own ears<\/p>\n
let our lives be incense
\nburning
\nlike a hymn to the sacred
\nbody of the universe
\nmy religion is rain
\nmy religion is stone
\nmy religion reveals itself to me in
\nsweaty epiphanies<\/p>\n
every leaf, every river
\nevery animal,
\nyour body
\nevery creature trapped in the gears
\nof corporate nightmares
\nevery species made extinct
\nwas once
\nyour body<\/p>\n
10 million people are dreaming
\nthat they’re flying
\njunipers and violents are blossoming
\nstars exploding and being born
\ngod
\nis having
\nd\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 vue
\nI am one
\nelaborate
\ncrush
\nwe cry petals
\nas the void
\nis singing<\/p>\n
you are the dark
\nthat holds the stars
\nin intimate
\ndistance<\/p>\n
that spun the whirling
\nwhirling
\nworld
\ninto existence<\/p>\n
let’s meet
\nat the confluence
\nwhere you flow into me
\nand one breath
\nswirls between our lungs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
i send this to the beautiful soul named giulia this morning en then i realised i felt like sharing it with many beloved ones. a poem that was read at the conference in washington, by drew dillinger. as i’m still in the process of writing up my notes and impressions from the conference, i give … Continue reading “hymn to the sacred body of the universe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}