Breathing Love Deeply into my Being

I revisited the post ‘Stow Lake’ from the 18^th.  Eleven days ago, feeling a fresh heartache, I wrote that I was “breathing love deeply into my being, and I don’t think I’m going to stop soon.”  Love was an organic, healing reaction that arose from that moment of much sadness, almost seeming to creep out of my pores.    

But the moment shifts so quickly.  Business with other things – from MA to Occupy – meant that I did stop soon.  It has also meant that I have not been tending to my heart and heartache and the image of her in my heart.  It’s so easy to let the energy disperse, to make myself busy, to forget what the true work is, especially if such forgetfulness means to forget sadness and other forms of hurt.  Forgetting,covering things up, dispersing energy - is not so beautiful. I would like to stay in this place of loneliness a little longer, and to go a little deeper. 

And to continue to breath love deeply into my being. 

Breath is not the only avenue: may I practice in such a way that my every action facilitates love in my being, and in being-in-general. 

In the morning, may my first thoughts be of love and thankfulness for my first waking breaths.  May I realize how sacred and powerful they are.  Even before rising from bed, may I breath love deeply into my body and calmly pay homage to the miracle of a new day.  Standing, may I notice my feet on the ground, the air on my skin, the quality of energy throughout my body, behind my eyes, in my thoughts.   And may I let love flow into all that I notice.  Noticing the sounds of the world, may I love those sounds, and allow them to become gates of love.  Noticing my sight, may I allow the way I see and all that I see to fill my being with love.    

May I breath love deeply into my being.  May I think love deeply into my being.  May I feel love deeply into my being.  May I see love deeply into my being.  May I hear love deeply into my being.  All being is Buddha-being, all being is dharma-gate being.  Dharma gates are boundless gates of love; I vow to enter them.  Buddhas way is an unsurpassable love; I vow to become it.  Contemplating the precepts, may I focus on how each facilitates a calm and loving energy that supports all being.  And over time, through the progress of my path and the deepening of my love, may I learn to help others love as deeply as can be done.