Just Jean is one woman's life journey with a glimpse contained within these short essays and poems. During each of our life journeys, there are an infinite number of chance meetings that impact our lives forever. These are opportunities to connect deeply to our common humanity, both fearlessly and daringly. Basic goodness is available to us all. There is always a fresh moment waiting in the next breath to press the reset button and begin again.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Energy and Wisdom
My teacher, Irini Rockwell, has been guiding a group of us through a study, practice and application of the Five Wisdom Energies. As energy is ubiquitous, so must wisdom be. You may ask, how can our world rife with conflict, greed, and division, not to mention outright aggression and suppression of rights for humans, animals and even planet Earth herself be an expression of wisdom? The main teaching in this teaching (also known as dharma), is that confusion is the wisdom in an obscured form. Feelings of heaviness and being stuck are wisdom yet to be uncovered. Just as the clouds block the sun, the sun is still shining in the sky above the dense cover.
There are so many ways to apply the teachings of the Five Wisdom Energies in our everyday lives and world. It is a way of understanding ourselves and personalities. It is way of becoming more aware of our emotional lives and ways of communicating. It is a way of relating to others in the myriad of relationships we have.
I will be sharing more information in this format and linking to teachings from Irini on her website, www.FiveWisdomsInstitute.com.
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Monday, July 18, 2022
MERCY HOSPITAL
(Poem written in hospital with blood infection - a storm raging through my entire body - two babies at home with their Papa)
January 23, 2002
A room with a view to my soul
I'm time taken-transported
To another place of being
In my small, cubby hole
Room in this Hospital of Mercy
I lay here - considering my
True Being - the price we pay for Being Human
The cost exacted of us as we
Travel along our life's journey
A Pathway of Healing
I reminisce sweetly of another
place -- a different time
Also institutional in its effect
Lightly colored walls, the sound
of hustle and bustle below on
The street - an ambulance
A siren - a human voice - an emotion
A need vocalized
Others in this lifetime and in other's lifetimes doing the
Best they can to Heal -- to
Be true to our own individual humanity
I hear, I feel, I sense a
Community of poems in
Service to Healing -- going about
Their daily business - their
Keenness, their sensitivity
They touch me, unspeaking
They implore me to heal
My Pain, My Desolation, My Loneliness
To embrace my sorrow and fear
And understand these with
A Heart of Compassion and Tolerance
For mis-takes of my past both
of this life and others
Finally, I feel fluid movement
of healing taking place
My femininity, my womanhood
is made whole at home more - It
is embrace with loving kindess
And all round me - the nurses
This hospital room - my friends,
my family, my mother and grandmother
Encircle me in their love - the presence of a Great Mystery
January 23, 2002
A room with a view to my soul
I'm time taken-transported
To another place of being
In my small, cubby hole
Room in this Hospital of Mercy
I lay here - considering my
True Being - the price we pay for Being Human
The cost exacted of us as we
Travel along our life's journey
A Pathway of Healing
I reminisce sweetly of another
place -- a different time
Also institutional in its effect
Lightly colored walls, the sound
of hustle and bustle below on
The street - an ambulance
A siren - a human voice - an emotion
A need vocalized
Others in this lifetime and in other's lifetimes doing the
Best they can to Heal -- to
Be true to our own individual humanity
I hear, I feel, I sense a
Community of poems in
Service to Healing -- going about
Their daily business - their
Keenness, their sensitivity
They touch me, unspeaking
They implore me to heal
My Pain, My Desolation, My Loneliness
To embrace my sorrow and fear
And understand these with
A Heart of Compassion and Tolerance
For mis-takes of my past both
of this life and others
Finally, I feel fluid movement
of healing taking place
My femininity, my womanhood
is made whole at home more - It
is embrace with loving kindess
And all round me - the nurses
This hospital room - my friends,
my family, my mother and grandmother
Encircle me in their love - the presence of a Great Mystery
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