Writing

There are times when I don't feel like writing - yet there is no time when I don't wish to be a writer. So I write. Everyday. Even just a few words act as kindling to a larger fire of inspiration that burns in an unseen realm known only to the Muse. I write to please her. To feed to fire. And wait for another day when inspiration burns the page.

Peace,
Eric

Bob's Hill

Bob's Hill - a 1745 foot climb on the Catoctin Trail in Frederick Maryland. It's the hill of meditation - run 10 steps, walk 20, breathe, run, walk....endless. Eventually - we get to the top of every hill. Keep stepping. Walk when you have to. And breathe.

Peace,
Eric

Vipassana

As if once surrendered of
self and will....the breath has now taken
me...leading further within then
ever before.
I am choice less - given fully to a
moments notice -
if only for the moments
lasting.   

Free

Just sitting...just breathing...just watching. So simple...and yet worlds are opened. Again we come to layers - we are conditioned in beliefs that keep us far away from our essential self. From birth we are told name and age and given education in the ways of doing. The art of simply being is lost along with our identity of a self beyond ego. Meditation is undoing - it's a lessening of the bonds that chain us to a illusionary world. It's Samsara - the world of birth and death and suffering in between. Meditation is the key that frees us from these chains.
All we have to do is sit.
And breathe.
And watch.

Peace,
Eric

Simply Be

We are layers of fabrication...undone only in the
course of breath and patience.
The self of our belief no more then a
prop of thought and ego.
Watch the self unfold in a single
moment of pure
awareness -
We are less than what we thought and
more then we have dreamed.

Watch the breath....and simply be.

Peace,
Eric

Follow The Breath

Simply follow the breath...an expansion of allowance...breathing in...and then a letting go...breathing out. Soon there comes a pure awareness. Thoughts become clouds of lessening weight....drifting...leaving no trace in the wake of their passing. And then no thought...perhaps a moment...only being....breath still and calm. There is peace.

Follow the breath.


Peace,
Eric

Thank You

There's a lot that I want - and little that I need. Finding the balance to this is an important aspect to living. Most importantly is learning to be happy with what we have. It's that happiness, a gratefulness in all that comes our way that actually clears the path for more god to come into our lives. German mystic Meister Eckhart stated that -"if the only prayer we ever said was thank you, it would be enough."
On that note - thank you to all who stop by hear.

Peace,
Eric