Re-Creation

Your fundamental nature is pure, conscious, peaceful, radiant, living and wise, and it is joined in mysterious ways with the ultimate underpinnings of reality, by whatever name we give That.  Although your true nature may be hidden momentarily by stress, and worry, anger and unfulfilled longings, it still continues to exist…. Paradoxically it takes time to become (again) what we really are.                  

                                                                                                     Rick Hanson, Buddha’s Brain, p. 15

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In the cool of the morning

Adam walked in the garden, unconcerned

Knowing only good

Adam (human) is who we really our

Precious souls

Who were born with original blessing

Who have lost contact with our original self

And with the one from whom we came

Our divine nature blunted and crushed

By fear and pain

Hatred and prejudice

Greed and a lust for power

But our divine heritage lurks in our souls

And paradise lost

Can become (at some level)

Paradise found

We can become

Who we already (at our deepest level) are

God’s re-creation