Climb up a ladder to reach the sky.
Try ladders of different heights.
See if the sky looks any closer
from a higher ladder.
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100 Acorns
It's been 44 years since my book of conceptual instructions, GRAPEFRUIT was first published in 1964.
On 15 June 1968, John Lennon & I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events'.
In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 ACORNS.
Starting on the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008, I will publish here an 'Acorn' every day for 100 days.
After each day of sharing the instructions, you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you.
I'm just planting the seeds.
Have fun.
Love, yoko
June 2008
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28 comments:
too far to reach
yet to be proven wrong
we attend our love for love
over so gently and strong
Climbing is fun. Keep on climbing Yoko. :)
Feel the energy from the sky
feel the energy from the ground
anymous alias Jan C Zygoth
A spiral of ladders,
different heights,
creating a stairway,
to Heaven.
I reach the top,
of the first
ladder.
Moving across,
one foot on,
between worlds.
Looking up,
Down,
all around.
Distances the same,
up and down,
down and up.
Ladder of existence,
rungs of life,
heart beat.
What if we reached it from the smallest ladder?
What if we could already touch it while standing on the ground?
I love the sky;
I love the blue;
My love is always with you.
I'm so high with love;
I'm already in the sky;
Looking down upon you.
Maybe I need a ladder to climb down to you; I'm sure I would fall all the way back to you.
THE LOVE-IN COUPLE
Andrew & Christine
We're always in the sky except whatever part is touching the ground - the bottom of our feet, our backs if we are laying down, etc. Climbing a ladder keeps us in the same sky but we see it from a different perspective, a different point of view. We can look at a situation we are in with someone else, then look at that same situation from the other person's point of view and see if we feel differently about that situation we are in. We might have compassion for that other person who is in the situation with us.
i approach my roofline, on the ladder the akebia vine covers more sky yet the blue is closer...life is a paradox, no?
Will reach somewhere if I keep climbing? Will I find a giant there like Jack who climbed his Beanstalk?
I wonder what my giant will be like?
:)
Thanks, Yoko. I love your acorns.
I closed my eyes during my imagining.
The earth is farther away, below, but is the sky closer?
My ladders tend to vanish in keeping witth the progress of my ascent.
Is this the essence of the human being? To struggle to ascend to the heights of the gods....to commit deicide, that enslaving and transcending transgression by which the human is surpassed not in order for her to assume the divine but for her to destroy it....and create something new out of the remnants of human nature.
Aristophanes' speech from the Symposium? Sisyphus and his stone? Us and our ladders? hehehehe.
I stand on the top of a high hill overlooking the plains.
I have three ladders of differing height.It is a beautiful day with nice clouds, a bright sun and deep blue filling in the gaps.
I climb up the short one: My view is limited though I can see plainly the area just around me. The sky is removed from me though its presence is felt above me.
I climb the middle size one: My view is now enlarged to take in a wider area and the sky becomes somehow closer. I see further off than before and the plain is resolving itself more clearly to my eyes.
I climb the highest ladder: I am now far above the ground and as I arrest my fear of the height I become calmed by the feeling of being a part of the sky in seeing down upon a verdant land stretching out before me in all directions and though I cannot touch the sky my hand raised above me appears to grasp at the very heavens. I look at my hand and feel the ether which is all around me. I breath deeply, closing my eyes and see myself floating higher and higher, soaring as if with wings.
The vision is a quiet voice to my soul, guiding and leading me forward.
Thanks Carol in the Sky, and thanks Yoko!
A ladder ...
THE ladder,- is always here.
Jacob's ladder?
Angels going up and down?
Finding a place to rest,
taking some time,
or even a dream,
DOES lift us up.
A higher ladder
doesn't matter.
-o-o-o-
Comment:
I do not try to make poems.
I am no poet, and have never been one.
I am no English native speaker.
Matter of fact is
that
Lady Ono, is giving an impulse,
I feel and wait and watch,
what this input does to my soul,
and that's just the way
I react on it*,
without any exaggerations or cramps
to do something specific.
-o-o-o-
* question, discuss, report
Reach the sky? I am the sky, and every time I breath it fills me, my body, my lungs. I could fly!! It surrounds me, it fills me, we are one, the sky and I.
I use an escelastor! ;)
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I don't know about you..but....my head is always in the clouds. :) I'm Sorry! I had to say it! Well, it seems to me, the higher you go on a ladder the more larger the sky looks. Very refreshing! I'd rather look up than down. Down is scary. Up is nice. I can just disappear into the sky. My soul will fly as my feet stay upon the ground..
I imagine my spirit flys every day, every night. Flying to the kingdom of heaven. I visit and dance with my dead loved ones. Yearning for the dead but also for freedom...(what am I saying? The soul/spirit IS Free ! That's why it's able to Fly !) We are all able to reach the sky; whether on ground or on ladder. Always able to fly. It doesn't matter where we are or what we are doing. I think that I live in the sky and don't even know it! Believing is power. I constantly remind myself of this! Something, another world perhaps, dwells either in or beyond the sky. I'm determined to find out the truth when my life comes to it's close.
"THUS" who is my enemy.RNA
I am back!
Been staring at moving highways for three whole days.
There WAS a sky above it though, and me, and us all -- a beautiful blue BIG SKY (I was in Montana the whole time).
I thought about this site, and all the looking-up we're doing.
No matter what, I dont think it ever gets closer, its as if we are allready part of it.
The higher I climb the further away home looks, nothing looks closer as I look upwards it is always just out of reach.
On Saturday June 21 I found my friend Dan strapping ladders together in the middle of the patio. A plastic chair was tied to the top of the second ladder, maybe 30 feet at the highest point.
He wanted one person to jump on a teetertotter board in order to flip a second, smaller person high into the air to land on the plastic chair.
I think it was to get a glimpse of the world from a precarious point of view.
No, it doesn't. :)
I always try to remember, "we are of the sky more so than of the ground," it's a thought so beautifully articulated and inspiring to me. Thank you to all the comments posted here -- so much to consider as I tend to my acorns. Love to all -
there is the sky and there is the
blue...is this the deep sea or just high above?
We all just love but... we really share?
I love this. It makes me wonder, if I truly climb a ladder, will I be any better off.. What do you have to sacrifice for that taller ladder? Will you still be able to breathe correctly?
there is no need for ladders
jump
feel your flight
are you of the sky
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