From “Poems From the Book of Life”

by Jacki Elphinstone

DIVINE SIMPLICITY

Way of Divine Simplicity

Three in One, One in Three.

Wisdom is Beauty, Beauty is Truth,

Three in One, One in Three.

Know one and you know the other.

Know there is no other

And you Know the One

ANNIHILATION  BY LOVE

Standing in the Sacred Fire

The ego is well and truly irradiated.

It can kick and scream during the annihalation -

Shades of sati.

Or lie there quietly and enjoy it –

Light of the tantric ecstatic.

You know when you’re done,

Your aura starts to go a nice golden colour!

THE BULLS-EYE OF YOUR HEART

Streams of benediction

Enter the quiet places of the heart

Nestling there like fledglings about to hatch.

Streams of loving kindness

Flowing to every corner of need

Speeding through the ethers

To meet the bulls-eye of your heart

The moments I most love and treasure

Are the experiences of essential love

Felt as waves of inexpressible bliss

For I am like some crazy giant turtle

Gliding through the oceans of time and space

Destined to arrive at the Distant Shore

In little or no time at all.

ZEN GARDEN

This morning I awoke

Realising, feeling, deep gratitude,

For the extraordinary Beauty of Life

In the spaces between and amidst

The messy detail.

Nothing to be said,

Nothing to be done.

A Zen Garden in a jungle –

The jungle is a Zen Garden!

East meets West

And something wild and wonderful and new

Emerges from their fusing and blending.

A New Day is dawning!

AMRITA

In the matrix of Space

At points of geometric significance,

Exists a lattice work of collection points.

Drops of spiritual nectar there form,

Like tear drops in the Eye of Deity,

Or drops of Divine Perspiration

Secreted from the pores of God’s skin.

I saw a saint once collecting those drops

Then dispensing Amrita

To a seeker thirsting after Eternal Love.

CREATING (1)

The intent to create

Establishes a fiery vortex

A spiral cyclic whorl

Drawing particles into service.

The attentive Eye highlights

The elements which serve the Higher Purpose

Forging fiery links,

Synchronicities of sound and light and texture

Meeting the requirements of the Grand Design.

CREATING (2)

Thought impresses itself on Substance

Substance densifies the closer it becomes to matter.

The subtle senses detect

A thought  just beginning to take form,

Part way through its journey towards manifestation.

Nearing journey’s end,

The astral pulls it into the view of the mind’s eye.

Desire taking form –

Be careful what you wish for!

PRATYAHARA

Attention withdraws

From the details of the world of becoming

In order to enter the Realm of Being.

For those who Know,

Abstraction is the key.

Spirit rising with every inhalation

Ego dissolving with every exhalation.

The Trinity provides

The stable pattern and structure

Through which the Work can proceed.

SUSHUMNA

Central channel

Shaft of light

Attention focussed inward and upward

Yet simultaneously outward and through.

Central focus encompassing all peripheral points

A visual sweep embracing all.

Universes within,

Universes without,

… Infinite Space …

Time unfolding as a sequence of events

No force applied to make things happen

Silent Will being your greatest ally

In the quest for Peace,

Which is no longer a journey but a given.

Be a channel

Find the stream that allows you to fly

Rise on that beam into the Universal  Mind Sky!

PRESENCE

In a timeless moment of Presence

In the Ocean of Space

Beyond the shores of earth

Celestial harmonies sound forth from distant stars.

The Great Musician sounds His Note

A symphony of grace and incalculable beauty.

In a circle of interrelated Cosmic Lives

One star sings to other stars

Exquisite nightingales of the Universal Sky.

The conversation reaches a crescendo

A cascade of sound and joyous chorale

As the Witness becomes Messenger

For the Gods at play.

THE FRAGRANCE OF BEING

Come warm yourselves by His Hearth.

I want you to experience the Fire of His Love

For there is an all consuming fire at work in this Universe

Which immolates all separate thoughts

In single minded contemplation of His Splendour

And fills you with the bliss of the Fiery Lord

Who rules over all beings with sacrifice and devotion.

The Fragrance of that Being

Is a timeless Presence in Space.

The Will which guides the Presence

Draws all atoms to the Centre of Life.

Feel every cell in  your body permeated by this Fire

Let every nerve sinew and tendon revel in its Peace.

The scintillation of a precious stone and

The circumnambulation of the fiery spheres

Are all manifestations of That Being’s Great Love,

Who exists in perfect harmony and remains,

Present until the Day Be With Us.

Copyright 2006:  “Poems from the Book of Life” Jacki Elphinstone