Be The Sky

We are the boundless sky

Everything else just passes by

Like clouds and clown cars

Hours and shooting stars

Lightning flashes wind an ashes

Thunderclaps and summer camps

We are the everlasting air

Everything else is so fleeting and rare

Like rainbows and volcanoes

Thick fog and sick smog

Morning mists and solar eclipses

We are the beloved earth

From which everything is given birth

From fair flowers to rotting fruits

Rare encounters with inscrutable roots

Leaf, sap, limb, and tree

Compost, dirt, worm debris

Forests, mountains, and rivers

A chorus of a thousand singers

We are the bottomless sea

Where everything swims wild and free

Whales, fish, and seahorses

All surf the same marine forces

Awake or asleep in riptides or ripples

They make and keep their aqua life simple

When steep waves plunge deep in blue foam

Leap brave lunge sleek in your salty sweet home

We are ineffable groundless reality

Everything else has no continuity

Like candle flames and fun and games

Dewdrops at dawn vanish to be reborn

Like laughter and bubbles, water in puddles

Daydreams and ice-cream

Nightmares and cried tears

Whether mirage or fantasy

Montage or insanity

Fairytales or phantoms

Merry tales or tantrums

Don’t be tricked and deluded

Mixed up or colluded

By the magic show of your mind

By a tragic attachment to linear time

Be one clear open sky, a limitless Ventana

Choiceless unhindered with imageless panorama

Unobstructed creativity in uninterrupted infinity

Fulfill your sacred destiny

Live in timeless spontaneity

Respond in action from wisdom

Beyond abstraction and the reaction of systems

See through the cocoon of concepts

Be who you truly are immune to the contexts

When gratitude is taught and found in every breath

The multitude of thought calms down in life and death

– Colin Farish

Be A Light

Be a light so bright

In the blackest night

Have a heart so warm

In the coldest storm

Be sunlight so strong

For injustice gone wrong

Be with love so clear

That hate disappears

Be shinning kindness

That embraces darkness

Be receptive transparent

Perceptive and present

Relaxed and at home

With both the known and unknown

Intuitive and still

Fluid and chill

Spacious from ventilation

Efficacious through meditation

Let new fruits spontaneous

Bloom from roots simultaneous

That nourish all sentient beings

Who flourish in transcendent meaning

With compassion and kindness

In action that reminds us

That love is our nature

Our essence our treasure

Our moment that’s eternal

Our home that’s universal

– Colin Farish

When Is Now

When will we stop and not deny,

the undeniable?

If we take war-like positions against peaceful opposition

We justify the unjustifiable

When will we stop deception of perception?

Attempting to alienate the inalienable?

Accepting cluelessness that propagates,

The utter uselessness of hubris

The ruthlessness to obliterate

All truthfulness in such bitter hate indescribable?

When will we quit attempting to contain the uncontainable?

Or arrogantly mapping to explain the unexplainable?

Or petulantly grasping to attain the unattainable?

Or greedily prepping to obtain the unobtainable?

When will we cease seeking?

For control in plotting

More sewing and rotting

Of gore from foolhardy avarice?

A sick costume party cadaverous

Bloated thick with brutal caprice, thinking we’re kings!

Promoting politics so cruel we police every little thing

The when is now

No then no how

No postponement

Just dethronement

In this naked moment

Trusting our sacred enrollment

Free from traumatic duality

In jubilee of ecstatic reality

One consciousness, many worlds

Beyond the surface of any words

Is concurrent omniscience in silent reverence

Emergent percipience in transcendent benevolence

Lovingkindness compassion

Unfailing wholeness expansion

In boundless oneness

The extraordinary ordinary

A forever song sings all sunrises into dawn

Incorruptible and un-dilutable always here yet gone beyond

In reverie so sublime

Whenever we don’t cling to time

Time as a line with an arrow that pierces

Divided by design, it narrows and eclipses

Pan-dimensional fountaining in infinite creation

Unfolding multiverses in simultaneous regeneration

In quiet stillness in silent choiceless-ness

With unbiassed clearness in vibrant fearlessness

In groundless joyfulness we align with deathlessness

To be in timelessness with loving gratefulness

Allowing the presence of undivided isness

To animate our actions, our skillsets, our passions

In service of the whole our shared creative soul

Befriending and caring first for ourself

Then radiating out everywhere to share all the wealth

With every sentient being

That’s hiding and seeking meaning

We may be lost distraught, caught in incoherent thought

But with courageous, flirtatious, gracious, endearment support

We can nudge, snug, and budge our grudges into love

Embrace the worst and heal it with heart

Replace the cursed to reveal it unmarked

Then our ticklish chrysalises of nonsensical concepts

Crack open all awoken into an ocean of motion

Where waves on the surface no longer hurt us

For our spirit’s resurgence is reborn into service

In beginningless and endless and timeless love

A oneness of isness that’s timeless because

Vast emptiness of mindfulness plays on each breath as love

With enhanced readiness for impermanence in the motionlessness of

A feral mind that spins, both helping and harming,

Until it settles down undefined, first melting, then calming

Assisting when needed in abeyance when unnecessary

Coexisting yet superseded by Himalayas of visionaries

An impersonal joy of immeasurable magnificence

Without discernable noise from our separable belligerence

With one foot on our center

and the other on the turbulent elliptical circumference

Our weight gently shifts non-linear

Into the revenant heart of mystical wonder

Then the churning waves of karmic cacophony

Start turning bravely into cosmic harmony

Music that plays in heaven’s spiral dimensions

Fusing our days, minutes, and seconds into blissful comprehension

– Colin Farish

Our Undivided Heart

What poisons our mind

Tastes sweet for an instant

But that moment in time

Is soon fleeting in the distance

Desire, aversion, and arrogance

Acquiring worsening malevolence

Precedes heartbreak in prisons of mistake

Seeding headaches from the poisons we take

They act like glue to fortify our pride

Subdue our hearts, solidify our minds

They trench a moat of separateness

Around our lonely heart

Erecting a tower of self-centeredness

That cracks and breaks apart

These tragic payback toxins

Are black magic gateway drugs

Why overdose on karma?

And drown in this bad blood?

Spinning indefinitely in limitless misery

On a winding wheel of woe?

A binding ordeal that seems all too real

Will we let it steal our souls?

By opening in flowing motion

Not opposing in controlling revulsion

Awareness like wildfire devours this quagmire

Consuming sludge-thoughts

Exhuming grudge-clots

Torching our rotting splintered part

Then from the ashes we can reenter

Our undivided heart

May every in-breath be our rebirth

May every outbreath be our death

Death to all clinging that ends all suffering

The pendulum of opposites

Slowly swings to rest

It ceases to affect us

With all its stormy stress

With its pleasure and pain

Loss and gain

Praise and blame

Fame and shame

If we keep opening our heart

To the sameness of oneness

In infinite space free from any trace

Of longing and pining

Wronging and strip-mining

Off the fragmented grind of time

While ruthlessly guarding

With no dream of discarding

Our demented self-shrine

Befriend the uninvited

They have a gift to give to you

Distend and be clear-sighted

Clouds lift so love can break through

What’s left is lovingkindness

Compassionate goodness

Nothingness emptiness

Intense all-rightness

Inner light brightness

Without any witness

In an ocean of forgiveness

Insight into clearness

Sublime sacred ordinariness

Words sink into silence

A silent link alliance

With past future and present

All fountaining omnipresent

Heal all at once in this constant state of flux

Flowing music so profound it’s multidimensional

Mind-blowing soundless sound ecstatically incomprehensible!

– Colin Farish

Ordinary Love

With no center there’s no ego

No dissenter incognito

No point of reference

No circumference of preference

No bisecting divisions into disparate parts

No protecting positions that all fall apart

No craving of profound unease

No enslaving of proud boundaries

No attachment, like a floater in our vision

No fragment controller of chaotic acquisition

In the clear light of wisdom

We’re invited into rhythm

We allow the tide of kindness to cast no shadows

We put pride behind us to unmask in the shallows

Diving deep in this precious moment

Leaping away from infectious postponement

Inhaling nowness in present moment attention

Unveiling a lotus of omni-dimensional comprehension

When the dancers of danger are traipsing in duality

We’re a destroyer of these creators of mistaken unreality

We clear our mirror for life’s whole show influx

We don’t interfere as the river of souls flows within us

Then death holds no regrets

For the silt of thought has settled

Down into undisturbed depths

Into a silence beyond bedeviled

We don’t stick our neck in the noose

of thought that’ll steal our prime

It’s kept in check so there’s no excuse

to be caught on the wheel of time

If we hoard wealth like honey

We ignore ourselves for money

To blossom and preen like a displayed orchid

Gossip obscene in a masquerade torpid

With broken thought that’s distorting it

So overwrought and daft we’re ignoring it

Until the hail of age, years, and hours

Makes us vail afraid with fear and cower

From the crushing realization of false separation

A clutching desecration of loss and amputation

Our mind whirs with shards and splinters

of thought siphoning attention

But we don’t stir, discard, or hinder

So we’re not caught tightening in retention

A gentle touch is a mental hush

A loving space, a hugging embrace

Of an ecstatic mother to their prodigal child

Organically recovered after being pathologically defiled

Clinging to illusion by clawing to confusion

Spinning in destitution rather than withdrawing from delusion

We stop cease halt all hankering incoherent

We drop release all fault that’s anchoring our spirit

Our nature is boundlessness 

Spacious and groundlessness

Gracious with endlessness

Amazes us in beginningless

Wakes us in timelessness

With patience in important areas

There’s vibration’s extraordinariness

From creation’s ordinary love

– Colin Farish

On Tilopa's Mountain

The great sage Tilopa

Had few words of advice

May they invoke a

Lifetime of delight

While sitting straight and still

Befitting a state tranquil

“Don’t recall, don’t imagine

Don’t think, don’t meditate

Don’t examine, rest naturally”

Be loosely relaxed without distraction

You’ll see vastness throughout in this non-action

Be free from refuting free from affirming

Free from polluting free from disturbing

No longer rejecting no more adopting,

No hunger and hoping ignoring or doubting

Without attachment

Meditation glows luminous

Without fixation

Creation flows numinous

Inward aggression breeds depression

Outward aggression feeds your pride

Unchecked brutality of subject/object duality

Will stupefy and blind your third eye

You’ll stumble through life to grumble and die

Become dull and bone-dry never to try

One juicy bite of home-grown humble pie

Death will remind you

compulsive clinging is abusive living

Let breath find you

In presence of being an awareness of meaning

In this moment without postponement

And no opponent there is atonement

The closeness of wholeness comes into focus

The stillness of isness that’s already within us

Receptiveness to friendliness in emptiness

Panoramic consciousness is dynamic responsiveness

To a nexus of now, a directness to allow

In an ever-flowing movement of never opposing attunement

The harm of attachment is gone

Your compassionate heart is reborn

In an ocean of openness

In motion and stillness

Expanding in infinite depths

Of understanding in each intimate breath

Wonderous awareness of concurrent realities

Lustrous freshness of emergent totalities

The view from each peak is limitless and unique

In silence there’s alliance with the essence of our presence

In lovingkindness there’s all goodness that reminds us, what’s inside us

– Colin Farish

Meaning is Being

If I reach for it

I can take it

Pleasure I want to grasp

But if I grab it

I regret it

Stuck in pain’s aftermath

Money won’t buy me happiness

Even if I dock my yacht nearby

A life of wealth and flashiness

Won’t stop death’s sudden goodbye

Rocked to sleep in the arms of desire

Only to sink deeper into attachment’s nightmare

If I take and steal my fortune

I may break and die of exhaustion

Unknowing that I’ve been neglectful of

The giving of living the true meaning of love

I may acquire and save vast treasure

But still expire craving past pleasure

A clinging upbringing

Skews a worldview

Being taught at the beginning

To own the best view

It’s giving that gives meaning

Not taking and selfish dreaming

Giving love to oneself and love to all

Befriending all hearts, forgiving their faults

Opening beyond what we thought we knew

Un-centering my part to be whole and breakthrough

The loneliness of separateness

The rigidness of fearfulness

The cold-heartedness of meanness

The solipsism of narcissism

The isolationism of protectionism

The egotism of perfectionism

The dank reductionism of rank racism

Let’s cast that aside, uncross our third eyes

Find peace to abide in, love to synchronize

When we relinquish, unloose, release, and let go

We extinguish, diffuse, our greedy I’s, then we know

That it’s all about stopping, quitting, and halting hubris

Dropping and aborting any struggle to improve this

But when we’re in the murk in a muddle in the dark we’re befuddled

But in the middle, with no jiggle, shines the brilliance of stillness

At the core in the center of thought’s cacophony cyclone

There’s a door that we enter where no pathologies are enthroned

Finding harmony in clarity and emptiness in eternity

Is nothing, sweet nothing, nothing else compares

To an infinity of empathy that’s calm, coherent, and aware

In mystical timeless multi-dimensionality

Ringing in lyrical silence in concurrent universality

Consciousness that’s anonymous

With clairvoyance in commonness

Overflowing in the freedom of no escape

Facing the vile while embracing limitless space

No boundaries no mind no mindscape

No memories no time no blind faith

Just listening to symphonies so sublime

While glistening epiphanies sing rhythm and rhyme

Synchronicity thrives in simplicity

Authenticity survives in vulnerability

We tune in to the out-breath and are zero

Lucidity in equanimity

Availability to serendipity

We find peace in the death of the ego

– Colin Farish

Love's Reservoir

If we fix and cheat our consciousness

with tricks and treats of acquisitiveness

we poison and break our sweet, lonely hearts

When we deny the truth

as a battle cry for a coup

we choose to destroy and not create

we endorse ignorance and embrace hate

white grievance exceptionalism

thinks freedom's torch needs blood to burn

brown, black, yellow, red, and Jew

everyone else's blood but you?

don't give dark thoughts room to swarm

insect clouds blast from blowhard's bullhorns

obscuring our clear sky of open mind

With toxic plots that knot en masse 

that darken our days with flash-bangs and tear gas

they blot out the sun, blinding our gaze, 

with widespread dread from inbred lies 

spoon-fed trumped up meant to colonize 

forked tongues that muddle our head

clashing smashing into deadly bloodshed

the banality of mendacity breeds

misled hotheads seeing red 

they lose the thread of what's sound and true

they misconstrue according to

their misleaders and deluders

in samsaric Deja-vu'

be still, and chill, with the skill of neither pushing nor pulling

ambushing or bullying

let all the mud settle and sink back into the slew

all the belligerent ignorance inside me and you  

unburden your vision un-blot and undo

our pernicious blindness with all its hullabaloo 

let our spirits shine kindness 

with the goodness we once knew 

let the spacious infinity of gracious serenity

surround and unbound our confusion and woe

no more obsequious supplicants 

and devious truculent(s)

vowing to pay homage to some bozo

let that go before we all go extinct

quit being a sucker, duped and hoodwinked

regroup and see we're all the same 

don't be fooled by a corrupt con game

behind all the noise of obstructionist demagogues

and reductionist ideologues 

with their contortionist lapdogs

is the dissolution of duality 

with all its pollution and brutality

let's keep vigilance for the menace of divisiveness

the illusion of separateness 

creates confusion in desperateness

way upstream at our root core and essence

we merge, fuse and meld

in conscious luminescence

all beings in all times

many limbs from the same tree

nerve-endings and sock puppets

of an infinite intelligent mystery

a musical resonance of limitless blessedness 

irrespective of

our shapes, forms, and colors yet heard of

we are music, sweet music, the music of love

all beings in all times

panoramic consciousness

in dynamic mindfulness

vast hearts with vast minds

conjoined entangled, enmeshed, and entwined,

expansive, wholistic, artistic and kind

open-hearted and ready to listen to each other 

our soul sisters and soul brothers

and all creatures on earth mother

in the fullness of being

timeless in silence,

insight lights up minds like stars

an unceasing fountain

from love's reservoir

– Colin Farish