Time to Awaken

Hello, this is ‘Time to Awaken’
The new James Bond:
I want you stirred and shaken.
Can you feel the quickenin’?
Can you feel the flickerin’?
Deep down in the belly
Turn off the telly
Sorry if you was havin’ a nap
Listen up to what I rap
It’s worth the hear
Break it down to what’s becoming clear ...

Here we go:

We all be learners and teachers
We don't need no preachers
To find the whole
soul
force
Of course!
It is like riding a horse
remaining in the saddle
even when up shit creek without a paddle.

Be yourself
Everyone else is taken
No point fakin
The only person you're foolin is youself
You already got all the wealth
Don't need to search no more
Knocking door to door
Cause its all in the place you was born in
No more stallin'
Listen loudly to the callin'
Why you here?
It ain't nothing to do with fear
That much is clear.

I must confess
my greatest fear was success
Daring to shine bright
Get into the line of sight
Stepping into the spotlight.
I trained for years
To be on stage and hide my fears
In the character of another
Always under cover
Never truly the deeper me
Time to see
Be free
Be

Now
Fear no more
I am sure
I have felt the
Whole
Soul Force
Course
Through my veins
I know what it means to be sane
Living in partnership with my brain
My body and blood
And the un-nameable flood
Of realisation
Be Self
Everyone else is taken

It is time to awaken.

Are you stirred and shakin'?
Are you quakin'?
If not why not?
Take a look around
The world is calling to become profound
The messages loud and clear
Drop the fear
The time is now
The place is here.
It always the occasion
Don't get lost in the alien invasion
Take action
to let go of distraction
Feel the heart
In  the breath of the now
Kaboom kapow
Like a hit on head
Sit up in bed
The nightmare is over
You just found the four leaf clover
Ego move over
I am getting on my horse
The whole
Soul
force of course!

No more fakin'
be Self
everyone else is taken

It's time to
Awaken.

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Are you Ready?

Are you ready?
To let go of this
20,000 year eddy,
which we know is just an undertow.
We be tuning into
The Real Flow
Here Now
You can’t compute
The impact of The Shamabhala Institute.
It’s like taking off
The Mute
On the voice of life,
Stepping onto the
Edge of the knife
A slice
Of how humans might be.

Can you see
What we have done?
What we have begun?

This the form
Which holds the storm.
We feel the creature of
Learning
Burning
Invite the world in
It ain’ no sin
She is turning at 40000 miles an hour,
That’s a fact.
That’s power.
The big bang,
rang,
sang,
Echoing on to the mount
A blast form the past At last!
Too much to count
The years of evolution
The earth, the human
Sufferin’ and compassion
We’re boomin’!
That’s a fusion
Of chaos and confusion
Away from the illusion
Of wealth,
Our revolution is coming with stealth …

Can you see what we have done?
Can you see what we have begun?

Do we dare
To share
The future of how humans might be?
Do we dare to be free
Do I dare to be me?
To be fully human
To love confusion and drop the illusion?
Now we’re bommin’!

Do we dare to step
Into the places we most fear?
Fuck career
and become clear?
To find a community
True to me.
Take of the mute
Bring on the institute.
I’m not being cute
There’s no parachute
We already jumped
out the plane.
Do we dare to become
Sane
Again?
This ain’t about brain
This is about livin’
the future now
Yes is the answer to how.

We movin’, we groovin’
But stop,
Listen to me:

Can you see
What we have done?
What we have begun?

My sisters and brothers from other mothers,
We are the ones
Where the ocean meets the shore,
We are the ones
We have been waiting for.

Composed and read during the 2003 Shambhala Institute Summer Program