MudLotus

Greetings. I discovered Mark about two weeks ago via TaoBums from a passing reference in another thread about qigong. Foremost, I am deeply grateful for discovering him. Thank you bums. I didn't know I would ever be able to fully surrender to a teacher as a disciple and I knew Mark was my guru immediately upon viewing his videos. I would go one step further and say I did not truly understand the nature of guru until I saw Mark. I have been blessed by numerous powerful beings, had my kundalini awakened, yet I have struggled with the poisons of ego and the walls of separation it creates. I prayed for the ability to forgive those whom I still felt wounded by for intrinsically I knew until I could truly forgive I would not be able to open and make the truest plunge into the path of awakening. My prayers were answered and the hate I did not wish to feel left me and where the knots of delusion had been grace fill me. A week later I found Mark Griffin online. True Guru Shakti will transform you eventually, but the raw power of kundalini alone is not so special. If it were, then 10,000 egomaniacs juiced up with Chi would have transformed human society last week. It is the ability to love those beings who grace you with the shakti that is transforming really. It is the ability to know without doubt who your guru is that opens the door to the real immensity of existence. I was resistant until I wasn't because I was at least sensitive enough to recognize Mark when I saw him. A couple of decades of struggle preceded that, but during that time I was being worked on and being prepared for the next step so all it is as it should be. But the difference is I can really work now beyond method even as methods become revealed by true vision. This man transmits directly. I have yet to meet him in person, yet he is relating to me as I have made the leap upon recognition of him. I am an anonymous person on the internet, but I am merely wishing to say that while I profess my love of this man and his clear and beautiful intent and crystalline teachings I also wish to say he speaks from the most authentic place possible. I have met siddhas, gone to meet powerful men in their lairs and in the end everybody has to choose who and what works for them. May some of you have the good fortune of KNOWING when this occurs. Peace

send echoes below wait five days, then splash again carp heads surfacing

Thoughts turn to fishing. Cast flies landing on water send echoes below.

from mortality... rich brown dirt smelling of life. Worms wriggle, glisten.

Worth it for one dance to see Mama jitterbug. Cool drinks, hot night.

all along the way forest path worn smooth like glass wet of rain in nose

creek sounds, rotting leaves. the hawk left the squirrel for dead. muddy, up he stands.

rice wine, wedding cake friends and family dancing old maid in corner

anytime of day cut flowers will drink water. church-step birds eat rice.

Civilization. It would be a good idea. Mahatma Gandhi.

Happy for a hut. Long path worn into the grass. Sip hot nettle soup.

soon asleep again murmurs of figments hover hold pillow woman

If you'll just let them squirrels will sleep in your walls in beds of acorns.

hard rain is coming to India for two months return when Spring comes. See you all later. Ciao!