Journey Fast Day 11

Being Empty

When we fast we empty. We're offered the process of moving through our habitual thoughts and toxic feelings more rapidly and completely. When we see and feel the heavy thoughts and feelings we can have greater resolution and execution of dropping them. We are stronger in Body/Mind and with that strength and intent we let go of our attachments to anything that is not well for us, our loved ones, and the world. By letting go of the "attached" baggage, we become empty. We have emptied our cup, our vessel, and are ready to be filled with insights and inspirations!

When we're empty we're more open, more aware, more sensitive. We open to the good, the bad, and the ugly. Our awareness heightens our sensitivity to the pain and suffering in the world. With tears falling from our Heart, we empathetically feel the hopelessness, fear, and horror that so many, too many, live day to day. Yet with resolve we pray for total cessation of the pain and suffering for all beings, no matter how impossible it may appear.

We then commit to taking better care of ourselves so that, in turn, we will take better care of all others. "Day by day, in every way, we are better and better", this innately becomes one's mantra. This is our Noble, Divine Spirit, singing out to all beings in all realms!

In Deep Devotion,
Greg Lynn

Journey Fast Day 10

World Peace In Our Lifetime

I left off yesterday with that very intent..:"World Peace In our Lifetime". Our intentions create our reality. The Buddha presented the "Eightfold Noble Path": Right ideas, right resolution, right speech, right behavior, right vocation, right effort, right mindfulness, and right attention. Right Ideas and Resolution are really Right Intent. They are the seeds of which we grow our lives. When we have clear ideas and a strong resolution they send off the life giving energy into our speech, behavior, work, effort and presence of mind.

May we join together in spirit and action, and focus on the intent of World Peace in our Lifetime!

Black Elk, the Lakota medicine man, visioned that the Hoop of Life is torn, and this is the time to mend it, to weave it back to wholeness. May we each be Weavers of Peace and Healing in every step of our individual journeys. More and More of us are focusing our Heart Minds on creating new paradigms that will bring not only Healing in our lifetime, but World Peace...

Regarding the fast...

I find myself even and strong again today. The prayers from so many feed me. Also my daily practices include walking, jumping in the lake, sunning myself, green light meditation, pranayama, skin brushing, Tibetan Rites, water enemas, and muscle exercises. I feel younger and stronger, lighter and brighter, and I am grateful to all angels, devas, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas!

Please consider joining in somehow and open to new paradigms for your own Peace and Wellness.

And if you'd like, please email us with names of folks you'd like us to send prayers out to. pw@peaceweavers.com

In Deep Devotion,

Greg Lynn

May All Beings Be Well and Happy!

Journey Fast Day 9

Revolution of the Heart

For us to bring a great Peace to the World, it feels to me now, that each of us must pick up the cause. Each of us must be leaders in this most worthy of causes. We cannot rely on the old institutions of politicians and politics at the helm. We must encourage a grassroots movement to rise up. A Revolution of the Heart to lead to a true compassionate world.

The focus needs to be on the innocent and the children. Let us turn our loyalties from greed and power to real consideration of all beings.

Let us not turn away from what is calling out to us all. Let us not ignore our human responsibilities. If we just accept the way things are - violence, wars, inequalities, then they will be the legacy our generation passes on to our children and their children to come.

Please...let your best come alive now. Please...start talking with your family and friends of how you can lead the way. Please remember our intentions create our world. Let us join together and intend to create a better world of Peace and Justice and Respect for all.

My "journey fast" continues along. Sometimes strong, sometimes weak. Sometimes up, sometimes down.

But the food that feeds me are my intentions for Wellness and Peace within and Wellness and Peace for the World.

May we keep "All of Our Relations" in mind every day...

and let us have as a collective intention "World Peace in our Lifetime"!

In Deep Devotion,
Greg Lynn

Journey Fast Day 8

Inner Peace, World Peace

The last few days have been full and big for me and the crew here at Thunder Mountain. On this journey there are challenges after challenges. Tiredness at times, doubts and fears. But the intention of Inner Peace and Wellness and World Peace keep me focused and determined. I am doing well.

The world continues to be full of pain and suffering. Conflicts from Libya to Syria to Yemen and Iraq and Afghanistan. Violence in schools, families, and communities. Oppression of races, women and children. Inequality of wealth and power. Pollution of the Earth's riches - the land, the air, the water and seas. Destruction of the rainforests. Billions of animals yearly used, abused, enslaved and slaughtered. And so very much more.

How can we pierce the veils of impossibility? How can we bring the great change that is so needed? How can we change the culture of indulgence and violence? The problems of the world are overwhelming, what real actions can be put into effect that will make a difference?

Obviously there are no easy, simple solutions. It's hard enough to get people to agree upon local issues, let alone global ones. 

Thankfully there are good people doing good work on every level already. There are improvements and changes already occurring, but there is so much more to accomplish. Where do we go from here?

Bhante share with us that "our health is our greatest possession, with it we can serve ourselves and we can serve others". When we practice Body/Mind Peace and Wellness we are more clear and strong. From that clarity and strength we can be more responsive to the needs of our family, communities, nation and "All our Relations". To be empowered by our own Wellness and Peace we send off the strongest of vibrations that encourage others to follow along. Our enlightenment enlightens the world. When we are awake new solutions arise, even for age old problems. Now is the time for us to gather together in Peace and Wellness Circles and support each other to awaken our Fundamental Wholeness and empower one another to bring the changes so needed in the World.

We are putting together a program that folks can attend to learn how to facilitate these circles. Please consider hosting them in your home with your friends and communities.

And make a deeper commitment now to getting more well physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, if not now, when?

In Deep Devotion,

Greg Lynn

May All Beings Be Well and Happy!

Journey Fast - Day 5

This Eternal Moment

The deeper one goes into a fast the more thoughts and feelings we come across, and the more we can let go of the attachment to those thoughts and feelings. Sometimes I see it like a meteor field that I'm passing through. The less I hold on to worry and fear and the more I relax and go with the flow, the sooner I've passed through the apparent difficulties.

Passing through the myriad of doubts, judgments, fears and anxieties, what remains is just this day, just this moment. On this journey fast I pass through all the road blocks. This gives me energy and clarity to be more fully present, which is really a gift. To be energized and clear in this Eternal Moment is relieving and awe inspiring. This Eternal Moment is so spacious that it includes Everything Right Now! It includes everything on our Heavenly Planet; it includes all the Planets and Sun in our Solar System; it includes our whole Milky Way Galaxy, even all the Galaxies! That makes for a pretty big moment! So by letting go of our habit fears that are so small and suffocating, we let go to the Infinite where we can relax, release and feel the relief of one deep breath after another.

Thank you to those that have continued to call or email me to say they too are joining in w/2, 3,or 4 day fasts and other journeys of awakening. My Prayers go right back out to everyone. This is the time of Activation and together we are becoming Lighter and Brighter! May we all activate our deepest dreams and highest visions now for the sake of our Planet and all Beings!

In Deep Devotion,
Greg Lynn

May All Beings be Well and Happy!

Journey Fast - Day 4

The Sweetness of Fasting

Another strong day. Doing my wellness practices daily: Green Light Meditation, Pranayama, Skin Brushing, VAKS, walking, exercising, etc. Also jumped in the lake after morning practice - the air was cold, the wind was strong and I jumped in expecting cold water, but it was warmer than the air! So much for expectant mind!

Fasting is one of the best practices to break through expectant mind. It is a journey into the unknown wilderness. Feeling all the realms more acutely...Spirit is clearer and stronger and prayers go out to all beings. True wellness opens up True Nature.

Here is a poem by Rumi written over 750 years ago about fasting...

Fasting

There is a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness
We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox
is stuffed full of anything, no music comes.
But if brain and belly are burning clean
with fasting, every moment a new song
comes out of the fire.

The fog clears and new energy
makes you run up the steps in front of you.
Be emptier, and cry like reed instruments cry.
Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen.

When you are full of food and drink, an ugly metal
statue sits where your spirit should. When you fast,
good habits gather like friends who want to help.
Fasting is Solomon's ring. Don't give it
to some illusion and lose your power, but even if you have,
if you have lost all will and control,
they come back when you fast, like soldiers appearing
out of ground, pennants flying above them.

A table descends to your tents, Jesus' table.
Expect to see it when you fast, this table spread
with other food, better than the broth of cabbages.
 
Anyone interested in connecting with me, please e-mail me at pw@peaceweavers.com, to my attention.

In Deep Devotion,
Greg Lynn

Journey Fast - Day 3

Loving the Body Temple

For decades I have come to know my Body Temple very well. I respect it, honor it, love it, rebuild it daily with good thoughts, good food, and good liquids. And yet the "journey fast" is an adventure into trusting the Universe even more; in knowing myself even more; in getting in touch with the threads that weave us together as one fabric even more...

I have set off into the unknown to let go of  indulgences and to awaken the consciousness of  Pure Being. To let go of having, of holding onto...just letting go...thought after thought, moment after moment, breath after breath...just being...

Today has gone mostly smoothly. My energy has been even, stamina strong, and thoughts very clear. While fasting all senses are heightened. Colors, textures, sounds, feelings all more profound. This leads to clarity and insights. And the insights lead to liberation and freedom. So by giving up solid food we can end up with a solid Spirit...

In Deep Devotion,
Greg Lynn