Songs of One Breath

PEACE PRAYER
I pray to the Unity
that becomes Two for love's sake
while remaining One.
O Mother of Eternity, Almighty Father,
Christ Sophia, Rachman i'Rahim,
O Shiva Shakti, El Shaddai,
entwined upon my spine,
O Magdalena, Tower of Myrrh,
Melchizedek of the Parliament
of Starlight pouring
through my vagus nerve:
I breathe in your Love
and breathe out Love to all the earth.
I breathe in your Beauty
and breathe out Beauty to all the earth.
I breathe in your Healing
and breathe out Healing to all the earth.
I breath in your Abundance
and breathe out Abundance to all the earth.
By the authority and grace
of a single exhalation,
I abolish and dissolve every border
drawn by politicians and kings,
priests and ayatollahs,
whose maps live only in the mind.
And by the outrageous invincible audacity
of one humble breath,
I declare that from this New Moon on,
Earth's only boundaries
shall be curves, the round and oval,
tree rings, seeds, globes of toadstool
and mollusk spiral, furrows in loam,
thigh-swollen, bosom-heaved,
tenderly kneaded by gravity,
bathing in undulations of stone.
Rivers, mountains, deserts, shores.
And even these, mostly,
in the prudence of time,
shall be swept away by wind and rain.
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Prayer by Fred Lamotte
Om Shanti
Shalom
Butter Zikr
Shalama Bayta

The world stands out on every side no wider than the heart is wide.
(Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Cast aside the 10,000 things,
And love only one.
Don't go onto another.
Engage your lively awareness
With this one focus –-
One object, one thought, one symbol.
Now go inside.
Find the centre,
The soul, the heart.
Right here,
In the middle of the feeling,
Attend the blossoming—
Attention vast as the sky.
(Radiance Sutras 39)
Aligned with the One are those whose lives radiate from a core of love; they shall see God everywhere (Beatitude No. 6)

Radiance Sutras no.12
There is a current of love energy that flows
Between Earth below and Sun above.
The central channel of your spine is the river bed.
The streaming is a delicate and powerful
As the tingling touch of lovers.
Entering here,
Radiance arches between above and below.
Your whole attention resting in the subtle,
Vibrating in the centre of the spinal column,
Tracing this current between Earth and Sun,
Become magnetism relating all the worlds.
Radiance Sutras no. 24
This body is made of earth and gold,
Sky and stars, rivers and oceans,
Masquerading as muscle and bone.
Every substance is here:
Diamonds and silver, magical elixirs,
Ambrosia that gives visions,
Herbs that nourish and heal.
The foundation of the planet,
Immortal magnetic iron,
Circulating in the blood.
Every element in you loves the others:
Earth loves rain, sky love sun,
Sun loves the space it shines through,
Space loves everyone equally.
In meditation, luxuriate in knowing this deep and simple truth.
Every cell is an organ of sense
Infused with majesty.
Radiance Sutras no.34
The air I am breathing was exhaled in ecstasy
By an ancient sun.
This earth I am standing on
Was born of cosmic fire.
The blood flowing through my veins
Is as salty as the primordial ocean.
The space permeating my body
Is infinite as the space all around.
Above, below, to all sides, within,
The elements of the universe
Are engaged in their ceremony of delight.
This is my religion.
The attraction between suns
Is the same
As the love pulsating in my heart.

Attention between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. Let form fill with breath essence to the top of the head, and there shower as light.
(Radiance Sutras No.8)
Rest the attention easily in the forehead,
In the eye that is made of light.
Cherish the delicate energies glowing there.
Allow intention to enquire upwards, into the
Radiant space above the head.
The small self enters delicious omnipresence.
This it remembers and knows as its truth.
Gradually the luminosity of that truth
Fills the body to overflowing
As it rises through the crown of the head
Into a shower of light.
(Radiance Sutras No.27)
Put attention into the luminous connections
Between the centres of the body,
Where the mind loves to dissolve.
Base of the spine and top of the head.
Genitals and heart.
Heart and throat.
Throat and forehead.
Forehead and crown of the skull.
Enter that glowing net of light
With a focus born of awe,
And even your bones will know enlightenment.

Mutu Qabla Anta Mutu
Experience the substance of the body
And the world
As made up of vibrating particles,
And these particles made up of
Even finer energies.
Drifting more deeply,
Feel into each pulse of energy
As it condenses from infinity
And dissolves back into it
Continuously.
Noticing this, breathe easily
With infinity dancing everywhere.
(Radiance Sutras No. 31 - Lorin Roche)
Be Melting Snow - Wash Yourself of Yourself
Deep Peace of the running wave to you

Songs of One Breath meditation and chant session

Deeper Into the Heart of Love
Radhe Bolo
Only Love is flowing here
Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche No. 50
All around you, in every moment,
The world is offering a feast for your senses.
Songs are playing,
Tasty food is on the table,
Fragrances are in the air,
Colours fill the eyes with light.
You who long for union,
Attend this banquet with loving focus.
The outer and inner worlds
Open to each other.
Oneness of vision, oneness of heart.
Right here in the midst of it all,
Mount that elation, ascend with it,
Become identical with the ecstatic essence
Embracing both worlds.
Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche No. 51
Whenever, wherever you feel carried away,
Rejoicing in every breath,
There, there is your meditation hall.
Cherish these times of absorption –
Rocking the baby in the silence of the night,
Pouring water into a crystal glass,
Tending the logs in a crackling fire,
Sharing a meal with a circle of friends.
Embrace these pleasures and know,
"This is my true body.”
Nowhere is more holy than this.
Right here is the secret pilgrimage.
Live in alertness for such a moment, my Beloved,
As if it were your one meeting with the Creator.

Om Hum So Hum
Alaha Ruhau
Om Nama Shivaya
Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche, p. 102 No. 67
Shining one, whose body flows with power –-
When you are astonished,
Startled or afraid,
And gasp, a shocked inhalation – AH!
Right there, right there,
Sense the vibration of that gasp on your palate.
The shimmer of that sound in the mouth
Evokes a flood of knowing,
A gush of the divine.
Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche, p. 103 No. 68
Listen to the inner sound,
The one that you rode outward
Into this life,
Into this manifestation of yourself.
Savour the sound of h h h a a a . . .,
Softly continuing, resonating through
All the nerves of your body, permeating,
Expanding everywhere.
Know this as the sound of ongoing creation.

Songs of One Breath meditation and chant session

I breathe in the fire of the sun!
This world is alive and I am alive with it!
The fire in my heart is a Beltane fire,
A fire raging with passion and purpose!
Today I honour the sun,
And the movement of the Earth.
The Earth Mother provides,
And the Sky Father encourages
New life on the land.
This is the moment to remember
That even while I practice in solitude
I am a living being,
Interconnected with all life.
I am the tree. I am the river.
I am of the earth,
Growing into fullness,
Supported by the Kindred.
Hail, the fire of Beltane!
(From the Solitary Druid Fellowship's Beltane devotional)
Fires of Love (Beltane)
Embrace the purifying flame,
throw off the cloak of inhibition.
Stoke the good fires of Beltane
and let flames fuel love’s fission.
The sun climbs high to summer glory,
unfolds the leaf and swells the bud,
delivering all of nature’s dowry
and a promise, now misunderstood.
From atom’s heart to human heart
spring passes the vitalising flame
and in each nucleus a spark
sets passion’s ardent torch aflame.
Goodfellow lies with Queen of Mai,
the goddess smiles on merrybegot.
Fires of love join earth and sky,
reaching where men and gods cannot.
(Ian R Thorpe)