Andrew Field Coaching & Psychotherapy

11/12/2024

RELATIONSHIP

Something in us ripens
with every turn of the planet,
every trip around the sun,
and with each twirl of the spiral galaxy.
Here we dance with every trivial irreconcilable difference,
and each time we meet the differences,
together in hope, no matter how slender and tenuous,
something in us ripens.

07/12/2024

“The moon mirrored in a dewdrop” by Dogen

To what shall
I compare this life of ours?
Even before I can say
it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop,
it is no more.

15/11/2024

Hatred never ceases by hatred,
But by love alone is healed.
This is the ancient and eternal law.

Siddhartha Gautama
(c563 - 483 BC. aka Buddha Shakyamuni)

13/11/2024

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13/11/2024

In the still of the morning

In the still of the morning the first kiss of consciousness,
first embrace of a renewed love affair, a new day.
Venus, morning star, basks in her glory,
birdsong heralds her arrival, mighty goddess sun, giver of all life and love.
Her first rays warm my eyelids caressing my soul.
Dearest one don’t fall out of love today,
don’t forget this spacious bliss.
Don’t make yourself small, contracted with worry over small things.
Keep your heart big.
Breathe deeply of the divine nutritious atmosphere.
Smile and greet the new day.
Smile and greet each new moment.
Awake and step into peace, joy and limitless love.

12/11/2024

NOW.
In this moment
I am a dream conjured from the mind of a mystery.
Some call this God
so it goes.
This moment, there is mist on a lake,
the scent of jasmine,
the song of a wren,
a kingfisher’s flash,
there, then not.
I collapse, helpless before this splendour.
I revive slowly in peace,
slow enough to notice that
every moment offers itself to awakening, into this magnificent dream.
How I long to dwell there in every moment,
woven with your God,
with immeasurable love.
But there’s no rush,
don’t hurry beloved:
the meeting is not in the diary, the destination is not determined.
Take it moment by beautiful moment,
the vaulted chambers of the loving heart beckon.
Allow silence to lead you there.

12/11/2024

Atisha’s radical teachings for difficult times.
Atisha (Atīśa) c. 982–1054 was a Buddhist religious leader and master.

1. Explore the nature of timeless awareness.
2. Don’t be swayed by outer circumstances.
3. Consider all phenomena to be dreams.
4. Don’t brood over the faults of others.
5. Be grateful to everyone.
6. At all times simply rely on a joyful mind.
7. Don’t expect a standing ovation.

If that all makes sense to you it’s a pretty good place to start.

11/11/2024

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thr' all its regions A dog starvd at his Masters Gate…

09/11/2024

A simple kind and joyful heart,
Divine feminine, grace and mercy,
Agape receives masculine longing.
The alchemy of life perfected.

With only love, care and joy she raises delight.
In service of peace that child roams free, loves and is loved in return,
Until the unbounded light of that love becomes blinding.

At life’s zenith
When light is hardest to extinguish,
Hate kills joy
Believing victory is possible.

Her tears fall on his lifeless body,
Her divine heart refusing that death makes peace and love eternal.

Divine mother, may your heart essence feed my longing,
Swell my love to bursting.
May your alchemy in my heart
Make me a child of peace.

06/11/2024

Simply your kindness,
Glowing Compassion.
Caught in the net of grace
There is no longer me,
Only we.
In this illusory dream
What else matters but this longing for the divine?
Love,
Drawing nearer.
Only love.

11/09/2024

Sunrise yoga
Your kindness.
Compassion.
I am caught in the net of grace.
There is no longer me.
There is simply we.
In this illusory dream
What else matters but this longing for the divine?
Love.
Love.
Only love.