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No need to explain IT, just shine so that others will know the light of themselves.

new song, Silence of my Heart (Gate', gate')

Hello everyone, I wanted to share a new song with you, Silence of my Heart (Gate', gate').  This song is tangentially inspired by the Buddha's Heart Sutra.  Here are the lyrics and a link to listen to the song as well as purchase the mp3 for .99 cents if you are inspired by it.

Love, Richard

Silence of my Heart (Gate', gate')

I'm gonna listen, listen, in-between my worrying

Listen, listen, to the silence of my heart

I'm gonna listen, la la la listen, in-between all of my thinking

Listen, listen

Spending all these hours in my mental towers

A prisoner to my own mind

I was burdened my yesterdays, and everything was such a haze

And to the present moment I was blind

Gotta take a break before I speak

Gotta take a break before I react

Gotta listen to my heart

I'm gonna listen, listen, in-between my paths of seeking

Listen, listen, to the silence of my heart

I'm gonna listen, la la la listen, to the space in-between the words we're speaking

The words we're speaking

Gotta take a break before I speak, before I react

I'm gonna listen to my heart

Gotta take a break before I leap, before I attack

I'm gonna listen to my heart

Gotta take a break before I break down, yeah before I crack

I'm gonna listen to my heart 

Gaté,

gaté,

paragaté,

parasamgaté.

Bodhi!

Svaha!

I'm gonna listen, listen, to the quiet stillness of the inner-ocean

I'm gonna listen, la la listen

I'm gonna listen, listen, letting love guide my heart in devotion

Listen, listen

Richard Norman Schooping, 2010

In the present IS the present

In the present IS the present. Is that not amazing and just too simple? We are either aware that we are here now, or, we are identifying ourselves in the reflections of our stories. We are either of Heaven or we are in Hell. So yes, stories are fun, just as long as we remember that they are only stories so we don't lose our way.

Have fun with your creativity

Have fun with your creativity 

so that you don't become too structured within it.

Each moment is new and fresh, 

and so should our creative expression now

BE. 

Turn Away

 If we want to experience truth, we turn away from what we think it is. 

We don't realize the present until we stop measuring it.

We cannot even count the grains of sand in a small box because of the sheer multiplicity. So how can we measure all of creation?  Simply, we can't, and only the ego attempts to foolishly do so. This is a clear message from nature to let this be and just enjoy it.  

When we categorize life as parts we don't experience the whole, only the parts. 

We won't realize the present moment until we stop measuring it.

Gratitude is the Architect of Peace

Gratitude is the architect of peace.

Pause before you are about to complain, or while you are complaining

so that the presence of gratitude may be experienced.

A grateful human is an unbound heart.

Mother Earth needs our compassion

Mother Earth needs our compassion. 

We pray for help, waiting and waiting or we can BE the help now. 

Being in the mind there are endless time dimensions.

But God is here now.

We are here now. 

Life is happening now.

Love is here AS us all now. 

What is convincing you that you are not here? 

Examine that. 

It requires no mental story to be compassionate, only a grateful heart. 

Stop giving away your power and BE compassion.