Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble—
Streams of bubbles within each bubble;
Streams of bubbles within bubble shells-
Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.

Golden streams of cheerful bubbles,
Ambling slow and dancing quick,
Sliding, swooping, darting bubbles,
Dissolving thin, dissolving thick.

Now a sheet of golden shimmering,
Swells to be a sea of glimmering,
Dissolves again and now we see
An ocean bottom, fish and trees.

The fish and trees expand, dissolve--
They are made of bubbles!

Bubbles, bubbles, golden bubbles,
Fish and tree and ocean floor
Are bubbles, golden bubbles.

Within the glare of all hard times
Is the Kindness we revere
The Gentle Love that heals all ills
With Power, Knowledge, Care.

From the Source
The Course is Clear,
Every choice is near,
There is no load to bear:

All is Easy.

Simplify,

Simplify,

Simplify–

As a habit,

Simplify.



And within the simple,

We find the delight of the complex,

The indescribable delight of points and streams of detail,

Within which we find more points and streams.



But only once we’ve simplified.

And then!

Ahhh, then!

Lighthearted we take it easy,
We get done what we need to,
Life treats us playfully,
We feel breezy.

We feel breezy.

Once we were a bubble,
Then a brook,
Then a stream

In the Ocean of Consciousness,
Of Joy, Love and Bliss,

Then we Became the Ocean,
What was That,
Now is This!

What was “That”,
Now is “I”,
I All There is.

The Ocean of Consciousness,
Of Joy, Love and Bliss.

The Ocean of Consciousness,
Of Joy, Love and Bliss.

Walking toward a meadow,
Toward a grove of trees
A bird chirps and tweets a song,
Insistently.

We aim to please:
We chirp and tweet,
We mimic the call:
Are we right or are we wrong?
The bird responds,
A little more strong.

We sharpen our ear,
Improve the pitch,
The bird is happier,
We’ve decreased the glitch.

Another pattern of chirps and tweets,
We’re the guest, the bird treats.
We sing again, so sweet, so sweet!
Having a bird friend is very neat.

. Within our mind
We hear a song,
A high-pitched whistle,
The Cosmic Hum.

We trill the song,
The bird responds;
So do trees and stones and ponds.

Trilling, singing, doodly-dee doing,
We stroll and run,
Ahh! What Fun!

We stroll and run,
Ahhh! What Fun

Early to bed,
Ben Franklin said,
Early to rise, he added,
And we will be healthy!

Aha! Aha!

And we will be wealthy!

Aha! Aha!

And we will be wise!

Oh, yes, indeed,
We will be wise.

Perhaps we might add a little
To deepen our sweet rest,
Make more Whole our healthiness,
Make wisdom Full, the Best!

Our world abounds with strategies,
With teachers, leaders, guides:

We look, we check, we find, we try
And we make faster strides.

Very fast!
Super fast!

We make faster strides.

From the highest point of the world, we can see everywhere;
From the Lowest Plane of our mind, we See and Are All that Is—
We Are Eternal Bliss,
All is Here,
All is Here.

There is no here or there,
There is no near or far,
All that is Is Here,
All that is Is Love,
All that is Is Joy;
We Are the Player and the Toy.
We Are the Player and the Toy.

We Are All There Is.
We Are All There Is.
We Are All There Is.
We Are All There Is.

Beyond the peak,

Below the valley,

Beyond the range of metaphor, of praise:



One.

I.

The I of All.



Within I,

Turning,

Hiding and revealing.



We are turning,

Returning,

Letting go words,

Forms,

Limits.



We are Returning.

Beyond the range of high and low: The Best!
All-in-All, nothing out, Lively Rest: The Best!
All desires fulfilled, passed all tests: The Best!

One without a second,
Beyond the skill to reckon,
Eternal, never changing,
Constantly arranging
All expressions of Itself—my Self, Our Self—
The Best!
For sure: The Best!

Can be outstanding while sitting,

While standing in,

Standing inside.



Outstanding?

Better than.

Can we all be outstanding, better than?

Sure!



We can remember who we are,

Totality,

And as we remember, share.



Then we all remember,

We all Are,

And we are I,

I Am.



Definitely outstanding!

Definitely.

Many-colored square of cotton,
Good for head or neck, back pocket,
Some artist sweetly brought this in
A weaving Davy Crockett.

We like the many uses for a single cotton cloth,
Just as we like the many spices in a single vegetable broth.

We like the roots of trees from which trunk and branches spring;
We like the Deepest Joy there Is, within which is everything.

Which is, indeed, all things.

Serene and sylvan,
Thrillingly simple,
Living a life with Nature’s Blessings:

Friendly and pure,
Smiling with dimple,
Spontaneously right,
No need for guessing.

Connected to Source
Not just the surface,
Everything’s easy,
Nothing is pressing.

Thrillingly simple,
Blessed and Blessed.

Thrillingly simple,
Blessed and Blessing.

The Friend dissolves the cloak that hides,

Reveals the Ocean and its Tides,

This Friend is Self, the Love that Guides,

The Self in which the All Abides.

Branches of the tree are united in the trunk,
Trunk draws nourishment from its roots,
Roots are enlivened by the sap,
Which is the tree! Which is the tree!

Our actions are united in our thoughts,
Our thoughts arise from their Source: Pure Joy! Pure Love! Pure Joy!

Subtler, subtler, we learn to go, to do, to think, to feel, to Be.
Then all our life and all the World are united,
A Thriving, Fruitful, Single Tree.

Thriving, fruitful, One!

Turn the challenge into an opportunity: A+

Turn the enemy into a friend: A+



Experience that all is One: A++.

Definitely A++

Absolutely true
That I love You,
That You Love me,
That we are always Happy.

Absolutely great
That we Celebrate
People, sky, sea
And we are always Free.

Always Happy,
Always Free,
Was, Am, Are, Will Be.

Always,
All Ways,
Happy, Free.

Always,
All Ways,
Happy, Free.

Giant, huge, spectacular, outstanding,
Classy, elegant, stupendous, commanding,
Finest, superb, supreme, understanding:

The greatest of all is Love!
Love is the Greatest of all!

Hop in the van, we’re goin’ to the airport;
Special deal: no charge for baggage.
We’re goin’ to the beach to swim and sport!
Trip is cheap, we got a great package.

And while we swim, get into the Zone:
Enlightenment Now! That’s the Tone!
Swim in the sea by the beach in Long Island,
And Swim in the Ocean Of Bliss, the Highland.

Enlightment Now with Perfect Health and Immortality,
Delighted, Fulfilled, Enjoying Totality!
Delighted, Fulfilled, Enjoying Totality.

As the song goes,

“We are the Light”–

Not merely the light of our local Sun

But the Universal Light

That shines everywhere,

Shines even in what seems to be darkness.



We are the Light!

We Are.

Consciousness, Ananda-ji,
A Lovely Tailor surely Thee,
Fitting us like a bespoke suit,
Leaving every question moot.

Loving, protecting, raising,
Feeding, cheering, praising,
Dads of the world and Moms of the world,
Are pearls of the world.

Thank you, Dads and Moms!

Happy Father’s Day.

Sap pulses in green leaves,
Consciousness pinwheels around,
Full, Whole, feet on the ground.

We are lucky,

We are blessed–

We have more than we need,

Enough to share.



We welcome friends,

Family,

Strangers,

Donate to good causes–



Nature welcomes us,

We welcome all of Nature.

All!

There are races on foot,
Races for loot,
Races for pride,
Races that glide,

There are races to heal,
Races to seal,
The bond of love
So we fit as a glove.

In  the race of Love,
We share and we care,
Enlightenment Now!
For all, everywhere.

Got the energy,
Got the skill,
Got the Suport of Mama Nature,

We settle in and let it Be,
With Joy and Love our life we Fill,
We’re more than just a creature.

We are the Mountain and the Sea,
Not just a stream or hill,
We’re grown, fulfilled, Mature.
We Are. We Be. We’re Free.

We Are. We Be. We’re Free.
We Are. We Be. We’re Free!

In the moment.

Living within resources.

Guiding our dream with experience.



Real.



But to be more real,

Ideal,

We need to dip below the surface,

Dip through the rind of life into the fruit and the juice.

Dip beneath the flesh, blood, bone,

The wood, earth, stone,

Into the Intelligence within which rind and juice exist,

Within which all dreams are fulfilled

As our highest dream is fulfilled:

To Be One with the One Intelligence that is All–

To Remember! To Be!

We are Wholeness,
Turning within our Self,
Creating an imaginary wall,
An imaginary shelf,

That hides us from our All,
Makes us feel small,
But we are learning to stand Tall,
We are returning!

We are returning.

Not just moving up a ladder but getting to the intelligence of which the ladder is made.



Not just climbing the Tree of Life higher and higher

But getting to the Sap, the Intelligence of which the Tree is made.



And this is Joy–our own Self–All.

All.

All.

Living on the surface,
We enjoy a mix of things,
Sometimes rotten apples,
Sometimes diamond rings.

When we learn to settle down,
To subtle, subtler, subtlest
We discover One beyond the layers
We Are the One, the Best.

We Are the One, the Best.

Thirty-two teeth in our bodies,

Thirty-two virtues of Buddha,

Thirty-two paths of Kabbalah (wisdom tradition),

Thirty-two plus 1, the age of Jesus at crucifixion,

Thirty-two, the life-span of Shankara.



Thirty-two is Fulfillment.

Through Sunlight we see outside
Through Heart Light, we See  Inside.

Seeing outside Inside,
Our Vision’s open Wide:
We Merge the Layers and Ripples of Reality,
We Delight, we Joy, We Love, We Be.

We Are! We Are! We Are!
Sun, Moon, Space, Star—
We Are! We Are! We Are!
All Together, Wholeness, Fullness!
We Are. We Are. We Are.

Something’s clogged,
Our body’s sad;
We call the plumber,
Now we’re glad.

Who’s the plumber?
Not yet us
But as the flow’s restored,
So is skill and trust.

When the flow is completely Flow,
Full, Embracing, Total,
Then we Are and then we Know,
And Healing’s All Embracing.

Healing’s All Embracing.

Into our Home,
Into our Heart,
We welcome;
We welcome all to Join us
As Universal Love

Into this Love,
We welcome,
We welcome;
We welcome all
To join us in Totality,
Deeper than the deepest,
Higher than the highest above.

Higher than the highest above.

Leading from the Source:
Of course!

Leading from within Never-begun Delight.

Leading within the Silence Singing.
Invincibility Ringing,
Waking the Lingering
To the Effortless Path of Return.

Leading within the Never-ending Delight,
The World of Pure Sight,
Beyond all height,
Beyond wrong and right,
Leading by teaching what all need to learn:

Settle in and return!
Settle in and return.

Pi is God in Disguise.

God is the circumference and the diameter

Of the teeniest circle and the vastest.

One Unending,

Only One:

And we are also God in Disguise–

Really, We are This.

We are This.



We pray to God

To restore our Awareness.

So we become Fully Aware

There is nothing but God

And we are This,

We are This.

Our daily routine is the step,

Sudden intuition is the flying,

Finding is the Grace of God, to see where we did not see before,

Sharing is the blessing, giving to others and being blessed in return.



Being Blessed!

During a drought, plants exude oils into the dry soil;

During a rain, the soil and plants are refreshed, the oil released and the scent of the oil refreshes us, too.



Similarly, if a drought has occurred for our personality, our healthy routine spreads happiness into our thoughts, feelings and actions;



When we transcend all detail, the transcendence is a rain that releases Infinite Happiness into every detail of our life.



Stay with the program, the healthy routine!

Stay with the healthy routine.

God Said/Is Saying/Will Say,

“How many of Me did it take/is it taking/will it take to Change?”

God Laughed/Is Laughing/Will Laugh,

“Only One because there’s only One Me”.



And within the Laughter there are giggles,

Innumerable giggles,

And these we Are!

These We Are!

La, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la
Singing along with the Cosmic Hum;

Dha Dhin Dhin Dha,
Dha Dhin Dhin Dha,
Tapping along with the Cosmic Drum.

These are the sounds of Love and Joy,
The glorious sounds of Joy.

These are the sounds of Love and Joy
The Glorious Sounds of Joy.

Rising, falling, sliding, chirping–

The skylark’s song is in no way just a chirp or tweet;

It is unusual enough, charming enough, cheerful enough,

To be called “exalted”.



And the lark is a symbol of daybreak, physically and spiritually,

Of light dispelling darkness,

Of the journey inward to the Source, the Self,

And, therefore, also of Jesus.



So a gathering of larks is called an “exaltation of larks”

And we can follow our own song within

To gather all the streams of our Self

Back to Full Awareness.



Innocently we do this and

Innocently! we remember,

Exult and are Exalted.



Innocently!

So smooth the stem of this flower,
So sweet the touch of velvet;
How delightful the fabric of open space,
The changes from moment to moment, from place to place.

How smooth the flow of our awareness,
How sweet the Flow of Love among us all,
How delightful the changes in flow and in texture,
From moment to moment, from place to place.

Grow up, yes.

Old, no.



Possible?

There are stories.



Veda Vyasa, Hanuman, Ashvattama,

Vibishina, Kripa, Parashararama, and Bali

Are immortal according to the Vedic Tradition.



Other traditions have a list, too.



Let’s be optimistic: let’s consider the lists are true.



Can there be immortality for me and you?



Sure. God can grant anything, just like that!

God can also show us ways to develop it.



Do we want it?



With Enlightenment, and Perfect Health it makes a great combination.



Let’s go for it!

Beginning yesterday!

Peace.



Inner Peace,

Lively Silence,

High-pitched shimmering Silence,

This is Joy,

This is Love.



It Is All There Is,

It is kind to its points and streams,

To the you, me, stars and universe points and streams of Itself



It is I,

The Only I,

This we Are!

This we Are!

Trees softly waving,
Birds sweetly chirping,
Bunnies surveying the prairie for food;

Consciousness swirling
In its Wholeness, Its Fullness.
Blessing all beings
With the Joy that is Love.

Friends and their neighbors
Gather together
To celebrate living
In  harmony, peace.

All is delightful, delicate, subtle,
Wind and sun soothing
Our life of Full Ease.

Wind and sun soothing
Our life of Full Ease.

Krishna tells Arjuna:

“Prakritim svam avyashtubhya,

Visrajami punah punah”:

“Capturing my own Nature,

I create again and again” (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s translation,

Often given by him during Invincible America Assembly sessions,

2006-2007)



We can follow this advice,

Experience Entirety as Krnishna,

Who is our Total Self,

And within our Self,

Create Again and Again.



Already we are doing it to some degree:

Let’s keep unfolding our Awareness until

We experience it Fully!

Innocently doing it!

Innocently!

Pasta, pasta, pasta!

So many different shapes,

So many different seasonings,

Same wheat grows more and more interesting with each day’s new shape and taste.



Same soul gets more and more interesting with each day’s adventures that open us to the detail in our soul and its reality as Soul, The Soul of All.

Word and sound,
Thought and meaning,
Joy abounds,
Love is gleaming.

Joy Abounds,
Love is Gleaming.

Something slow,
Since we’re breaking fast!
**, **, **!,
Let’s make it last.

Warm water’s good,
With lemon and ghee,
Some protein powder,
Yesirree!

A banana, some grapes, some dates will go far;
Let’s stay open to chances,
Leave the door ajar.

A dip into Soma,
The Cosmic Nectar,
Some Higher Awareness,
Divine Ambrosia.

Time to go:
Can’t eat all day,
A prayer and some prana
And we’re on our way.

A prayer and some prana
And we’re on our way.