"The Wisdom of the Heart" poetry by Ym

  Artist Karen Gillis Taylor

Wisdom of the Heart

I believe in the wisdom of my heart.

When I listen to the voice within ~
   the wisdom of my heart...
I hear the whisper of love
  and the song that begs me to dance.
I hear the cry that calls me to compassion
  and the moan that is humanity's pain.

When I listen to the voice within ~
   the wisdom of my heart...
I hear the laughter of child-like innocence
  and the hum that breathes as peace within.
I hear the growl as it warns of discontent
  and the roar that is the strength in my life.

When I listen to the voice within ~
   the wisdom of my heart...
I hear the whimper that says "I am hungry"
  and the twitter that lights me with excitement.
I hear the yawn that says "I am tired"
  and the screams that release my anguish.

When I listen to the voice within ~
   the wisdom of my heart...
I hear the sigh that reflects the cleansing breath
  and the "ahhhh" a hymn that is my Beloved's embrace.
I hear the OM that vibrates ONENESS
  and the silence that graces my connection to ALL.

I listen to my heart ~ in all its many voices.
What I want to know I trust to find there.
ALL answers lie within.

AHO!    AMEN!    OMTATSAT!

Yeshe ma
January 26, 2011
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images borrowed from awesomely talented friends
THE FAIR USE ACT

The Early Days by Ym

So many times I spend precious moments of my life “thinking too much”.  There is a need in me to be of service in the world and at the same time I have spent much of my life looking for the goodness and the gift that chronic illness and waiting and wanting to have the energy to do “BIGGER and BETTER” fits in all of this.  

I was born, what some people might call, a “ sensitive”.  I cannot remember a time when I did not want to do all I could to ease the suffering of those around me.  I do not recall a time that my heart did not ache for any person or animal that was hurt or in need.  I continually brought home strays and spent my time helping them to grow better, to give them the love I knew everyone Being deserved.  As I grew older, I did the same for people - often times giving a home to the homeless until they could move on - or being the safe house for teens when my daughters were young - or inviting the s to spend their last days on this earth in my home - or adopting those pets that were sure to meet an undesirable end.  I continually reached out to give and to Be the very thing I ached for most in my life...  Love.

In retrospect I was bright, beautiful, loving, creative, intelligent and amazing and I lived with a cloud over me that poured down the belief “I am not enough”.   I spent hours climbing trees with my faithful pets waiting below as I sat and relished the calm quiet and connectedness I felt when I was there all but invisible and able to view the world.  I dreamed of having and Being a source of connectedness to all those who were sad, hungry, tired, hurt and in need.  I built sacred sanctuaries in my mind - “healing sanctuaries”.  My heart could hold them all.  I knew it.  This began my journey.  I was 7 when I made a conscious decision to serve humankind in the best ways I could.  The path from there was filled with enormous down-falls, illnesses, addictions, violence, abuse and instances where death or continuing to live was the choice and when death would certainly have been the easier road.  This journey has also been filled with opportunity, wisdom, faith, hope, light, beauty, divinity and laughter.  The sojourn I call my life was a continual desire to know that “I was finally enough”.  Each and every step has been an education in learning to LOVE myself in the same way I was capable of LOVE’ing others...

My family of origin was fertile ground for learning...  I was a surprise in my parents life.  Born when my mother was 44, my siblings were much older than me.  My sister over 20 years older and the brothers in-between 10, 15 and 18 years older.  My parents were tired and although I know I  was loved very much, life was not easy.  My father had developed quite an addiction to alcohol.  He was angry, aggressive, sick and depressed.  I was frightened of him and worked to find places of solitude where I didn’t have to dodge physical assault.  Places where I didn’t have to wonder if the man who made me stop making noise of any kind after 5 in the evening would make it through dinner without choking on his food or crying through the entire meal.  My siblings had a relationship with their father that was filled with memories of the good ole days - when there was money and laughter and good times.  It was difficult for them to understand my fear, my pain, or my sorrow...  I came along with a heart and a disposition and a desire for LOVE and freedom that was not fathomable in their lives.

I never look at my past as something that held me back.  In fact, every hard hit was an opportunity to come out the other side knowing myself and the way I operate more fully and finding a deeper love and forgiveness for myself and all those things I wasn’t able to accomplish at the time I was attempting to stay alive...

(to be continued...)

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Article from "Tantra Spirituality"

This article complete with some great links was taken from the FB Notes of the page Tantra Spirituality...  I just really like what they do...

    ‎"In truth everything in life is about that dance. When the rain goes onto the parched earth, that's tantra in a sense, that's creation, that's merging. When the wind blows through trees, that's merging. Everything in life is always dancing with the polarities, with the interchangeable energies. And so expanding your un...derstanding of sex beyond the body can open up a world where you're truly living in a very ecstatic state. And then you just become a dancer in that dance. And it doesn't even matter how it turns out, it's the joy of dancing that allows your heart to celebrate every day."

This is the Tantra definition of our sexuality:
The return to absolute innocence, absolute oneness

Together by sharing these words We Can Make a Difference some-where some-how to Some-one


 

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi

This is the FB Censored version
To save FB the embarrassment we have put the open minded version here
http://www.mytantrabook.co/frontpage.htm


A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."  --  Albert Einstein



Together We Can Make a Difference ... We can Share


Tantra simply "the celebration of life in the present moment"

 What is this sex energy? Why is it such a powerful disturbance in our lives? Why does it pervade our entire beings? Why do our lives revolve around it, even to the end? What is the source of this urge?...

 

I wish you sensefull moments,and blissfull Tantric experiences

 

We are beings of pleasure. Yet, we live in a sex-and-pleasure-negative culture. Most of us are very fragmented and wounded around sexuality. We often have a very limited experience which leaves us feeling deeply unsatisfied. We know that there has to be more to sex and we want more

 Spiritual Sex is closely related to spirituality in several ways. In its negative aspects of lust, degradation and rape, it appears as the antithesis of spirituality, However, in its positive aspects our sexuality can open our heart to love,repair sexual traumas,enable us to have experiences similar to meditative states... and mystical bliss,,,and most importantly,,complete unity with our partners or ourselves

"Put away your pointless taboos and restrictions on sexual energy – rather help others to truly understand its wonder, and to channel it properly."
Donald Walsh

 The Tantra attitude about sex is that sex is not a need. It is a cosmic experience, it is an experience of meditation. It is an instinctual return to our ultimate reality, one of the highest forms of meditation. Man and woman had their first luminous glimpse of Unity during the experience of intercourse.

 
Only in the moments of coitus did man realize that it was possible to feel such profound love, to experience such illuminating bliss. that in the moments of climax the mind becomes empty of thoughts. All thoughts drain out at that moment. And this emptiness of mind, this void, this vacuum, this freezing of the mind, is the cause of the shower of divine joy.
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This is the Tantra definition of our sexuality: The return to absolute innocence, absolute oneness

please go here and click ”like” this page,,, share the knowledge
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=175822689113227


Sex is also termed the small death In that single moment you don't know who you are. In that single moment you are pure energy vibrating, pulsating. With no center to it, with no "ego" in it.In that single moment of orgasmic space you lose all boundaries, separation. You become vast, huge. You are no more separate from the other. That's why there is so much joy -- although often the moment is very small


 

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying,
who empty the self and have only clear being there.
~Rumi

  

In a Tantra coitus you can remain for hours. That moment, once you know the art of remaining in it, can surround you twenty-four hours. Tantra transforms sex. It is a kind of melting with the woman or with the man, it is a kind of relaxation into each other's being. And it is meditative, because there is no ego, no thought stirs. And time stops. This is a glimpse of God/Unity. Tantra is the natural way to God, the normal way to "God". The object is to become so completely instinctual, so mindless, that we merge with ultimate nature -- that the woman disappears and becomes a door for the ultimate, the man disappears and becomes a door for the ultimate
Osho+


 

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~Albert Einstein

Let go, step out of the prison of societies conditioning,,,
This is the FB Censored version
  
To save FB the embarrassment we have put the open minded version here
http://www.mytantrabook.co/frontpage.htm
  
  
  

 

The fact that we can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." -- Dr. Leo Buscaglia

The difference in Normal Sex and tantric Sex
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=148759731837092

 
For those beginning their Tantric journey i you look here for Tantric Excersises
 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tantra/152337934801591
  
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=164246373621761&id=100001593141519



NakedNess plus the link to the  uncensored version
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=154432324603166
 
Nakedness and Temples
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=148531168526615
  

 The Awakening~~
 http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=148825228497209

  
 Tantra does not split you
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&note_id=151245701588495



Meeting a Tantric Partner
 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_164175720269335&ap=1

  
Excersises for Tantric/Sacred Love Making
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tantra/152337934801591?ref=sgm


  Ask any  questions
  
Together by sharing these words We Can Make a Difference some-where some-how to Some-one 

 Let Peace and Peace and Peace be Every Where
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tantra/152337934801591

Dance - Poetry by Ym

~~~~~~~~ Dance ~~~~~~~~


Dance
Swim
through waves of sound
Vibrate With the Beat -
Drink in the Rhythm

Feel your Heart - Alive
Twirl and Twirl and Twirl
and Stop...
and Breathe...
Divine Sweet Breath

Jump - Reach to the Stars
Pray
Scream and Leap and Cry
and Stop...
and Breathe...
Laugh Out Loud

Feel
Ache and Want and Desire
Shout Out in Rage
Touch Your Own Shadow
Grieve
Shake and Spin and Sweat

Imagine and Create and Conceive
Your Are A Goddess!
Dream
Sing Out to the Universe
Femifest - Femisfest - Femifest

Sweat More - Get Wet - Get Hot
Howl
Explode in the Passion
Visualize, Believe, Trust
You Are An Angel -
This Is Your Life

Fly
Stop and Walk
and Listen to Your Heart
Breathe - Cherish the breath
It Nourishes You

Give Thanks
Treasure Your Pulse
Rest - Breathe - Renew
You Are Pure Love
Be

~~Yeshe ma
August 2001


this image was borrowed from a fb friend...

"Choice" an Affirmation...

I see the greatness in You...

I witness your beauty.

I support your dreams.

I hold You and them in my heart and prayers.

I choose ~

~ the Grace of Divinity

~ the Gentleness of Peace

~ Respect for my fellow Human BEings    

~ to live each moment in Presence

~ to grow my Creativity

~ to live Life Ecstatic

~ to live in Health

~ to act in Kindness and with Compassion

~ to use Open Communication

~ the Dignity of Personal Responsibility

~ Freedom

~ the Truth of my Soul

I choose the delight of  LOVE over fear...

I Give Thanks for the option to Choose!!!

I GIVE THANKS  I GIVE THANKS  I GIVE THANKS

I bow deeply to Thee, my Inner Source... to the Goddess/God within!

I ask you for guidance to walk the path of service to Humankind...

Surround me and those I LOVE in Your Protective Light.

AHO ~ AUM ~ AMEN ~ OM TATSAT

~Yeshe ma

07 JUL 2007

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Spirit of the Street

Spirit of the Street

I was fourteen then...  I had just left home.  I was a bright and sensitive child but my heart was breaking in each day that I lived with my parents.  I loved them both very much.  It pained me to see my father -  to live through his drunken outbursts - to have to stop talking or making noise of any sort after 5 in the evening - to hear him threaten to hurt me my brother or my mother - to hide when the threats became real - to watch each evening at dinner when he would choke on his food and my mother would stick her fingers down his throat to save him -  to pick him up when he fell...  I couldn’t stay to help my mother take care of him and join her in her prayer that things would change.  

We lived in a decent size mid-western state across the Mississippi river from St. Louis and over a town or two...  Before the age of 13, and while I questioned what in the world adults were all about, I found what I looked at as love and acceptance from adults other than my parents.   Before I even knew that I was in a dangerous situation, I had a needle in my arm... and at 14, I was now a spirit of the streets.  I had to learn to get by...  there was always a place to stay, there were lots of times when in order to get high with you - people would turn you on - and you could end up there for days at a time.  I finally found a group of people who lived in a very dangerous part of town.  I was given drugs at every opportunity and I,  in turn, did the laundry, the dishes, the housework and became the sole property of one of the men in the house.  He was extremely possessive, aggressive and angry.  I tried to go back home once but he caught me and beat me badly.  He told me he would kill me if I ever tried to go home again.  I believed him.  He brought me to a house where he locked me in a closet.  He left me their - drugged - especially when he would be gone for hours.  There were many instances of life/death in my life on a daily basis - gunfights; being left with gun-toting  glue sniffers as collateral for a drug deal, using needles that half of the party had already used.  I was physically traded to another man who kept me in a room with mattresses on the floor...  I was fed what we then called downers, tuinal & seconal, and sold sexually at their whim.  I have little memory of what happened in that house.  It is all an awful blur.

One thing I didn’t lose was a belief that there was something bigger than all of us out there and this Supreme Being had a watch over me.  I mean after all, I was still living and that was a miracle.  Enter into my life, a couple of angels.  They came to this house in the form of women who cared.  I begged them to get me out.  I knew I would die if I stayed any longer.  They took me out of that house that day and to a safe house.  At this house I finally slept a peaceful sleep.   By the third morning I woke up hungry and feeling like I had been hit by a truck - the bruises and cuts that had covered my body were beginning to heal and  fade.  I had taken the first step back (with a little help from some angels).

The week following  I called the nearest rehab counselor, someone I had gotten to know in the past several years.  I begged him to send me away, somewhere I could get better...  I went to one of the first live-in therapeutic houses in the US for people under 18.  I went through the program (from cleaning toilets to managing the food and money for the 14 person domicile).  It took six months... after then I trained to become a therapist there.  I never looked back...   

I centered my life from those days in therapy on that spirit inside.  That energy that brought me joy and peace within.  My life since those days has been a continual journey toward wholeness.  A life filled with many ups and downs but always a genuine belief that the bad stuff was an opportunity to find the good in life; to see people with compassion, forgiveness and understanding; to LOVE myself no matter what I was going through.  Today I work listening and coaching others to find the will to live and the divinity in each moment that we are alive.  I wouldn’t trade this gift of LOVE for my fellow humans Being for having had an easy life.  I would never trade it for the LOVE I have found in each and every day.  I have been blessed.

Diana Lovejoy (Pen Name)