sleeping awake

time changing maya
streaming thoughts through consciousness
stop by sleeping awake

Wish

Is
Stillness moving through
Forever temporary momentary eternity.
Reality resisting acceptance,
Creates chaotic order.
Bubble forming separated self,
An illusion.
In loving evil, light is
Extinguishing darkness.
Desireless motivation of obedience to unchanging
Wish transforms me.
I am joyously suffering victorious
Surrender.
Same direction returning, infinite
Circle is completed.
Everything living death now, annihilating
Nothing.
Is one.


Baba Jacob
8/3/98

How to Love God

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.

If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear
ones, we love God.

If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we
are loving God.

If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to
help others, we are loving God.

If we suffer in the suffering of others and feel happy in the
happiness of others, we are loving God.

If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think of
ourselves more fortunate than many, many others, we are loving God.

If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as
His Will, we are loving God.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and
worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are
loving God.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for
God, knowing that the goal of life is to love God, and find Him as
our own Self.

-- Avatar Meher Baba

Math Rap-Poem

I am a teacher walkin’, facilitator talkin’
King of my classroom, just a Math-man stalkin’
Teaching math like a firecracker, quick is my fuse
The real answers are solutions to the numbers you choose
X or Y‘re just symbols, they don’t really matters
They give the same solution once you've determined the patterns
Our learning of Math will never die…just multiply…
Numbers! (6 times)

I’m to set the goal, fool…my expectation high, cool

I am teachin’ you persistence, dividin’ all resistance
Any quotient we find, we turn on our mind
Math is beautiful and beautiful is math
Apathy is a dream, hard work is the path
Growing numbers…exponential, your calculations of all
With your numbers behind you, a mathematician stands tall
Tell me what is the pattern, what shapes do you find
Open up to the possible, don't become be blind
Let us all subtract; we can all make a difference...
Math is my sect, guess my religion…
Numbers! (6 times)

You wants some more?....Well here is the score!

My rules are quite simple, they sum up to five
I add consistent consequences so the class becomes alive
My game is knowledge, my taxonomy high
I show lots of emotion to encourage kids to try
Committed to my mission which is totally right
If you are in my class, then you are in my sight
By using correct numbers, your answers will tap....
Because calculation is my favorite rap….
Numbers! (6 times)

One more thing that I gotta say...

So I teach like a giant, calculator defiant
You say it is hard, I say you can find it!
Achievement is the mantra, it is all that I care
You’re a star on the wall with work beyond compare
As you reach new heights and fly with the wind
Your love for Math will most certainly begin
Now it is time, so let me define
What Math is, do not cross the line
It's all about patterns that we feel with our senses
We start by counting and then create number sentences
Don’t try to act lazy, your tired eyes do not faze me
When you succeed like a life-long learner, it will not amaze me
Because our numbers…our life, with them you will pass...
So study up hard so you can take my Physics class!…
Numbers! (6 times)

Sitting in a room

A kink in my neck tells me
To surrender to the acceptance
of my denial of my true self
Hiding in the shadows of illusion.

The wind flowing over my face
Marking time in waves
Splashing on the rocks
Of my form temporal.

Music playing the beat in my brain
With sharp spears of sound
Giving my thoughts sleep
And filling the void eternal with song.

( Summer 1997)

love

temporal feeling
Love is not a come and gone
nor a sometimes friend

physical paining
Love is not wounding my heart
by perceived absence

turbulence and calm
Love allows these to ride in
its constant being

an ocean of life
Love fills and is filled formless
a suffrage of truth

dust

crushing me to dust
His Love sets me free to float
the wind of His Will

meditate

first pilates train
early morning meditate
finish with yoga

goodnight

goodnight katy, good-
night kylen, goodnight mommy,
and goodnight Baba

water

brewing only green tea
fizzy drink, coffee be gone
drinking clean water

divine wine

new road traveled sober
only divine wine will touch
these longing heart lips

work hard

work hard all day long
no more TV, games to waste
actions sing love God

poison smokes

poison smokes no more
lungs are beginning to heal
breathe clean air only

sugar

sugar, wheat refine
no longer in body mine
eat sugar divine

morning

new pattern forming
wake up four in the morning
love Meher soaring