When he, Wei Wu Wei, says...

Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself -
And there isn't one.

How do you respond?
What is your mind doing right now?
What do you set yourself free from?

Neither this nor that
A perfect in between
A single breath
The simplest stance
The compression of a universe
into one point
The expansion of a universe
into all points
A noun for oneness
An infinite stillness
An experience
of now.


                                                    Martin­ Challis 2014

When i act to heal myself
I act to heal the world

When i act to heal the world
I act to heal myself

Whatever experience you are having
Know that, it too shall pass.

Know that at times it will be okay to be not okay
And that, this too shall pass.

Within every experience
something will be there for you.

It will either touch the truth of who you are
Or it will ask you to look closer to find that truth.

On looking, the truth of who you are will draw closer
With patience, with acceptance, with courage, with love, with practice, you will touch it but not hold it.

Whatever experience you are having,
It too shall pass.

Morning

Soft light

And light sleeping

She sighs and lifts
and sighs and falls


Her breath
the gentleness of day beginning

I sit and watch her

more lovingly
than a child could

music in the magic in the mystery
of softness in the footsteps
that your voice takes
to the place within my heart

brings a secret fascination
for intrigue's imagination
where enchantment chords a yearning
willing obstacles to part

but if the music is discordant
or I'm drowning with the tides
fear is overpowering
for the little one who hides

yet with childish laughter promising
the joy of trusting smiles
I wonder for the soft heart
set free from all denials

I wonder for the joy of things
as they bubble as they soar
and I wonder for the song of love
on the path of evermore

music in the magic in the mystery
of softness in the footsteps
that your voice takes
to the place within my heart

When you are where you are
Just there
And not elsewhere
Not spinning
Or toppling
But steady
Ever steady
In the breath of being
You are
Just now my darling
A universe at it's centre
A wondrous
Infinite now