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The Awakened Heart
by Sonya Ki Tomlinson → (All Poetry by Sonya Ki Tomlinson)
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Rated "G" by the Author.

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Ecstatic Poetry
Journey of a monk towards the heart of God is like a wide yellow burning desert or a vast frozen tundra companionship of friends and family are absent... delights of the tongue and head are absent... deep longing pangs of a sweet kiss, a hungry caress are absent... This illusory world hangs like beads of sweat off off your brow Repentant tears welling up Do your prayers God will surely help as you track through lost sand dunes scattered skulls, bones and vertebrae The Benevolent One like a kind parent is surely listening perpetually caring... Gongs, bells and cherry blossoms cascade Bow to the Great venerable blue sky drenching you with rain for food Bow to the One who owns all the universes Bow to the Eternal Om Bow to the Lord of Compassion
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Reviewed by Sonya Tomlinson

Reviewed on March 7, 2024

Yes, dear Ron
The world is a mixed bag of joy and sorrow, mostly suffering.

The key which the monk has grasped is that The world with all its enticements, beauty, danger etc is impermanent, is ephemeral, is evanescent like a pipe dream. And The only absolute realness is the immense Cosmic Self which encompasses all of us. Realizing we are that is our ultimate journey.
Sending you
a chalice of peace
and sweet dreams

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

I am too enamored with this wonderful world with all the pleasures and dangers that it poses to be a monk. Why anyone would give up what the world offers for an ascetic life of depriving oneself of everything except worship to something or someone with no real offer except empty promises with no proof.

But there are those who are willing to go through what it takes to become one with their God of choice. Suffering in the hope of being better in the next life.

Ron