Paint me more than this— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
and you may paint me God
that beneath the sun
with two ma’s
I stood at Rajneeshpuram
and waited for the Master.
gallagher
08 jul 83 – Rajneeshpuram
Archive for the ‘Places’ Category
1983-07-08
Friday, July 8th, 19831983-07-27 Order
Wednesday, July 27th, 1983Order— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
I constantly want to put my life into ‘order’.
Regular sleeping, eating, rising, exercising, meditating.
All these to improve my skill at being here now,
all these to focus awareness into my life.
But these are only half-way measures
these are posing to become the pose,
attempts to shortcut to the pervading awareness
but limiting of that which I’d be aware.
But it’s in these rooms and moments, chaotic,
where the white noise of change never sleeps,
that I will find myself ‘aware’
unoposed … untried … unstopped….
gallagher
27 jul 83 – Irvine, CA
1983-07-27 Awake
Wednesday, July 27th, 1983
Awake
Awareness; so easy to conceive, so hard to maintain
and each time I let it slip I know
sooner or later that I've lost it
when I awake, adrift, again.
No formula will do it, only doing it will.
As the knife hones to the sharpening stone,
so I must go into it ... ever into it
leaving all thoughts of 'it' behind.
Food, sleep, exercise, work, loving and seeing
are but a few names of the places I've slept.
Bhagwan, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Mohammad
are but a few names of those
who have called us to awake.
Here I write to make tangible the meditation
but this paper and ink are not it.
Here I am awake and want to stay so
a baby Buddha crawling towards the light.
gallagher
27 july 83 - Irvine, CA
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —