Finding Further Peace The 5 Candle Meditation

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Finding Peace within

Challenges even those wise…

To find, within thoughts

The bridge to a better, higher Self.

Inner Peace’s key is, in life...

Balanced living, and full forgiving

Outer, from inner.

Balance... and being kind.

Light a candle in recognition

To have a balanced life

And, will to be kind.

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Gaze into the flame.

Peace is not found only...

Within perfect circumstances or a charmed life

For a well-lived life truly has few conditions

With these two as constants.

Many have found Peace to... just ‘Be’

The found sacred Space within one's own being.

Light a second candle, brother to the first

Smile within yourself, in this the present

Just... ‘be’.

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Continue a growing learning…

Yes, climbing many hills, following curiosity’s

Though save the best: a quiet personal temple

Within one’s own living landscape

Filling that world too, so it remains blessed…

Existing within the outside

Storms of life and living.

Letting only the good in.

For fickle life can be…

Surprising many times in sight, taste, and sound

To find one’s temple under siege.

Light a third candle

The trinity, past, present and future.

Time moves from future to past

One moment to the next, to the next

With each breath passed.

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Yet, look in truth

Underneath this arriving chaos

Woven into everyday life and living...

From peace in that temple space within

Past but present patiently awaits your return

With comfort...

For you, the student returning

Ever free to visit, whenever safer sanctuary is needed.

Light the fourth candle.

Life embracing, in this quiet Temple

See, peace can and does live and breathe

Flickering in gentle, eternal balance…

Be content to stay in this ‘Isness’ of things

To learn higher lessons.

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Light the fifth candle

Outer-space then too, folds in with it’s own mysteries

Providing anything needed to keep balance;

Yay, even from Beyond Understandings

Those things still needed to be learned.

So when the hurricanes of life storm around, as they will

One can just quietly settle

Finding a learned Center, calmed to need

Resting easy, receiving at will

That which comes from beyond understanding

Knowing you as well, in this full balancing.

In this, lies best survival.

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Breathing current life in…

Releasing it all within inner temple airs

Attaching it to deep love, to each its needs.

Then, contemplate...

Fitting all into the balanced weaving's

Using Understandings learned.

Feel healing peace weave warp and weft, balancing all five

Partnering with future breaths...

In readiness, receiving answer.

I rest in my own beingness

In and out, in and out, breath settles all into relaxed quietude

Until peace opens around outside, as well as inside…

Balanced.

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Take quiet self-time, in steady balancing

Surrounding Self with further protections

Like the umbrella they can be

Gently blow out one candle.

Holding away wildest chaos

And harsher imprintings

Resting safely within Family, Nature, Garden.

Gratefully, blow out the second.

Thus enfolding the day’s life and living to prosper

Including, allowed Healing-time…

Mindfully, blow out the third.

Until needed again, ever ready for return

To settle in, not down.

Gently again, blow out the fourth.

See your own candle left as your…

‘I am, always, as Here’

In Self, also, a higher story, also unfolding.

Understand the fifth candle as connected Self.

What a special journey shared.

Ever so gently, softly blow out the fifth candle

Taking in it’s last breath out

To be enclosed in it’s loving home.

bdrusch?09/26/2024