Lesson 21 & 22.

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Lesson 21.

 

All appearance is a false memory

introduced as therapy

to reproach an unforgiven world.

Past regrets. A former anger

hid within its slow fuse.

Prior passions and distrust.

All an attack about to happen again.

 

Such upsets are meaningless

There is only present context

and they know none of it.

Just the resurrection of remorseless prayers

to fallen idols.

 

To regard is to care for.

This is the Respect of seeing.

Have a transpiring regard

for the view from your window.

 

Make it

a window you open in this present instant,

not another rehearsal of blind rage,

hid behind a curtain of respectability.

 

The ghosts of anger and regret

are persistent,

and they will never see differently.

Release those junkyard dogs forever.

The habit of heart-ease,

is addictive also.

Make Love your divine habit.

 

Life is an eternal expression of Love.

Each particle of manifestation holds within it,

unified infinity.

 

All of God is in every atom.

Every part of the Universe,

is the whole of creation expressed as one.

 

All expressions of God are miraculous.

They are the voice of Unity and intent.

Listen for these subtle directions

on how to see the heart of yourself in perception.

Be recalled to the Self of all creation.

 

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Lesson 22.

 

 

Today is not the vengeance of yesterday.

It is the forgiveness.

It need not be just another

ordinary field of conflict.

Let it be,

and it will become your Buddha field.

 

The ego’s carousel

is this orbit of anger.

The spiral of pain unwound.

Just release all past regrets

from here.

Attack and defense are blows

from the same hand.

It is only yours.

Vengeance come to those who would seek it.

 

Here in this moment

is a sign post.

Here a turnabout.

A choice to step

beyond all vicious circles.

 

One thought and you are light.

You end the carnival of fear,

here and now.

One step,

and you come to the garden of Love.

 

love

 

eric

 

 

 

 

Copyright 2002. Eric Ashford.