Words of Power: Abode of the Great Peace

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Abode of the Great Peace

Salvador Dali - Oasis (1946)

Fortunate to be alive in this universe, fortunate to be in human form, with all the profound responsibility and potentiality that this mirror image of the divine matrix brings with it.

Fortunate to have heard of the abode of great peace, somewhere along the road. Fortunate to have found that place and entered therein.

Fortunate enough to have come upon it again and again, and to eventually return to it at will. Or so it seemed.

Fortunate, in due time, to have moved into that abode, and have dwelled within the great peace, coming and going of my own free will. Or so it seemed.

Fortunate enough to discover that there is no coming, no going, no inside, no outside, no peace, no not peace.

Fortunate to discover that the great dance is the great peace, and that the great peace is the great dance.

Fortunate to live long enough to tell you this.

The abode of great peace dwells within you, and you dwell within it.

You are the great peace and you move within the great dance. You are the great dance and you move within the great peace.

"Meditate on peace"? OK. But better to meditate IN, OF and FROM peace. "Visualize peace"? OK, but better to RADIATE peace.

Selah!

-- Richard Power

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About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.