brilliant blue sky shines

brilliant blue sky shines
swirls of clouds rearranging
wind, a constant peace

oboe and strings play
in the next room fill with natural
goodness, permeating

oatmeal left on stove
since breakfast time thickens to
a soft cinnamon cookie

trees fall, music plays
whether of not anyone hears
trust, and all love comes

we were placed on the planet
to act from kindness and allowing
grass grows fine on it's own

people who push and coerce
have not begun to look within
where their treasures shine

then, and only then
can they view another soul
without trying to change them

one's purpose need not be lofty
to merge with living spirit in flight
simply live simply by day, and by night



Kate Lamberg
Copyright September 2o 2010

*coolness and breezes replaced by warm cloudiness*

The coolness and breezes of today have subsided. The sky is darkening, as if it was after sunset. It is an hour before the real sunset. We won't witness the sun going down, as the sky is one huge grey-white cloud mass. The air is heavy damp, and weighs a ton on my spirits.
I rarely get lonely, even though I spend most of my waking hours alone.

Tonight I practiced on piano, my "Healing Sounds"..pieces that I will be playing at my gig on August 26th. Each piece keeps morphing, with seemingly a life all of it's own. An overall calm has graced me and the keys simultaneously tonight. For so long I have felt a continual plateau;tonight I can honestly say, I have noticed my musical growth. I am taking risks, within the structure of each piece. I am feeling each song emanating more from my heart and less from my mind. This is immensely satisfying. A living joy.
Will sleep well in my knowing that I did my very best today. Supporting others in their struggles, and giving myself the time to create. Nourishment abounds! Om shanti shanti shanti. Blessings!
~Good night, Rosha Kate

Staying peaceful in a hostile world.

There are so many things we could focus on to be reminded of darkness, negativity, and hostility. The inverse is also true. There are very few signposts to remind us of lightness, positivity and peacefulness.

My suggestion today is to go within. Whatever one practices,to go into it more deeply and with more passion than ever before. This world needs the meditators, yogis, and peaceful warriors more because the world's natural balance has been upset.
How has the imbalance been created? By wrong thinking, wrong actions. For blaming others, as a cop-out for taking responsibility for their own imbalances.

Go within. The riches of inner peace, joy, and equilibrium are waiting for you to greet them. It doesn't matter what the practice is. The intent to do no harm; to be kind, giving, and compassionate must be our mantra now and always. Not just to balance the world toppling over, but for our own inner peace and karmic destiny.

Begin today!

Autumn Sits

For Zen Mountain Monastery,
In loving memory of Daido.



Autumn sits:
I relate to nothingness
Water flows past my sight,
All heaven quakes.

The leaves turn
Musty smell, orange
Color. Crumbs of
Appendages, waver.

I walk and think
Of nothing, giving way
To something,
Thank starsoul.

Why do birds fly
Unflinching, un-
Questioningly, just fly?
Look up in grace,
Down in humbleness.

We reach for fortunes:
Becoming the riches,
Get sick;so try
To make sense of space.

Eyes closed, deepening,
Foraging, with not a wink.
Great doubt, so
Great awakening!



Kathryn Lamberg
October 18, 1984
Mt. Tremper

Machu Pichu

Stone walls:
Ancient hewn stones
Hold strength, shed joy.

Sunlight glints
And dances through spaces.
The breath between the voice.

Spaces inbetween stones,
The rest inside the song;
Appreciate the form
By knowing formlessness.


Kathryn Lamberg

                     Kate walks the   labrynth, at avalon park/stonybrook, long island~

WE WAKE

We wake
Neath the same
Morning sky.

We rise
To the same
Hard wood floor.

We dance
To the same tune,
Neath the same moon.

We sing
In the same
Wordless whirling.

We fight
With the same slashes:
Relinquished, forgotten.

We let wild, make tame
In the same style,
The same sweet game.

The holy way
Of the Tao
Tells us why,

Common creations,
Creative exaltations
Are born, bred, and returned

To the earth,
Nourishing the soil,
Blossoms, beings grow

With the fair fertllity
Only Goddess knows.

We wake.



Kathryn Lamberg

Solo Retreat

The retreat for inner peace was canceled, due to a lack of response. I am sure the busy quality of this holiday time contributed to noone signing up.
I decided upon waking up this morning to have a solo retreat.
This would be beneficial for two reasons. First, it would create the kind of quiet,vibrant, peaceful vibrations, the Center for Natural Healing stands for. Actually the full name for the center is, Tadasan, Center for Natural Healing.
Tadasan means mountain in sanskrit. The pose in yoga, is simply standing up, connecting to the earth below one's feet, and the sky above. It is deceptively more difficult than what it appears to be. I chose Tadasan to be apart of my center's name to resonate the spirit of groundedness and balance in this changing world.
The second reason for my solo retreat is to help balance and raise my energy fields, so I can both inspire and teach others from a place of greater sensitivity, receptivity and compassion. One teaches what one is;one is what one teaches.

This Saturday morning will be spent in solitude:meditation, gentle yoga, a quiet walk in nature, and playing my babygrand piano, with the intent to create more serenity within and without.

May peace, harmony and happiness be enjoyed by all!