Earth Pathways Showcase

Fog drifted across the low moors, making islands of the hills which are already set amongst a land of sea and sky. Islands within islands within islands, it can seem as though everything is separated by the fog of confusion. Looking at it another way, the fog is just a play of air and water. The air and water that connects all life, that flows through all life. With fresh eyes, the landscape reveals itself as complete and whole, including the one who gazes upon it. The seer, the seen and the seeing are one. All one. The fear of separation and loss is simply a kind of fog in the mind. A confusion. The heart is wider than sky, deeper than sea, greater than all the lands in all the worlds. Let the heart see what is real. And perhaps, just perhaps, we might smile gently upon all the rest.

Elemental Play © Vishwam Gurudas Heckert 2023

Silently she sat on the
green mossed log

her daily perch
for morning study.

Her subject today
Grandmother spider’s
golden web

that gathers summer sun
as her teacher gathers herbs.

The web of silk, air and light
a mirror of her own mind.

Morning Study © Vishwam 2020