Saturday, May 31, 2014

sun falling


sun falling 

on dark and light branches
a black clearing separating
dividing left from right
 poles of the morning green..
these oppositions remind us
that all in each day
even a finely ground mix
has a tree of duality birthmark...

Forgetting


"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:  
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,  60
        Hath had elsewhere its setting,  
          And cometh from afar:  
        Not in entire forgetfulness,  
        And not in utter nakedness,  
But trailing clouds of glory do we come  65
        From God, who is our home:  
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"

(William Wordsworth,
Intimations of 
Immortality...
excerpt)

Friday, May 30, 2014

BE AWARE OF BEING AWARE (Rupert Spira)

















BE AWARE OF BEING AWARE

Everyone is aware but not everyone is aware that they are aware.

Be interested in the experience of ‘Being Aware’ rather than the object or situation that you are aware of.

Having noticed the experience of ‘Being Aware’ or ‘Aware Being’, we may wonder about its nature. 

What is the nature of the Awareness with which we are aware of our experience?

The desire to know the nature of Awareness draws us ever more deeply into the experience of simply ‘Being Aware’ or ‘Awareness Itself’.

In time the desire to know its nature is gradually replaced by the love to simply be knowingly this presence of unlimited Awareness.

This presence shines in each of us as the experience ‘I am’ or ‘I am aware’.

Be aware of being aware.

In this Self-abidance the qualities of peace, happiness and love that are inherent in Aware Being or pure Awareness are gradually revealed.

Perennial Philosophy


Perennial Philosophy    

start with Awareness
aware of itself..

+

separate selves with
Awareness hidden

+

ego
veiling Awareness
forgetting

+

now return 
end as beginning
remembering
recognizing at last
start with Awareness...

Hanging in there


Hanging in there

this the greeting of
the man in a truck
a friendly exchange
friendliness surrounding
we might suppose
his daily oppositions
which again we suppose
are multiples growing
of worldly discomforts
 existence particulars..
yet that greeting
hanging in there:
a possible recognition
of separation and duality
awaiting non-dual rising...

Anita and Leigh


Anita and Leigh

Our friend Leigh
keeps us informed
of your recovery
which we pray
is well underway..
not hearing today
we with expectation
await healing's flow..
Leigh blesses all 
her channel overflows
carrying a community's
love and light
 enveloping this hour
Anita's passing storm...

Division


Division

is what we seem to know
and know until discomfort
at last directs a search
and the search finds division
and expectation of finding
comfort within new division..
momentary comfort is born but
fades as a new search begins..
but finally a teaching Arrives
it arrives when not sought..
we now know that our searches
were to locate the searcher
who could not be found
midst the unending divisions
we had filtered and grasped
on those so many pathways
before...

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Deo


Deo

My cat-sitting adventure
for several days..
Deo's greeting each day
then lap-sitting and tuna
Finally my departure
with a promise of return..
A temporary relationship
solitude with edging
and some dozing
a simplicity interlude...

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Buddha in Glory








Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead. 

Place


Place

The location the place where one stands 
this morning..sitting or standing..sun or
clouds of a new day..interplay of inner
and outer..all in the location of our
Awareness of which we now have 
become aware..the Place has become
created and will be created again only
to reflect an Awareness which has
no place...

Thursday, May 22, 2014

THE GREAT TRANSITION






















Amazon Review:

This is a significant book published in a time of much interest in the topic of
afterlife.  The value of the book lies in Ann Frazier West's consideration of afterlife
from two perspectives:  Her own experiences relating to three personally significant
persons who have made "The Great Transition," and secondly, the relational way
of understanding the elements of consciousness which give all of us the tools for
our own experiential learning and approaches. Simple scientific concepts of
dimensionality and energy (frequencies) point to the interconnectedness of
this-life and after-life.  With these holistic understandings, provided by modern
science and by teachers of consciousness, we (as has Ann) might overlay our unique
stories and participate in a life which discovers new perspectives, and brings more
fulfillment in the hectic present... Highly recommended as an experiential
supplement for those engaged in pursuing the Question..!

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

How might I iterate today


How might I iterate today

The wave of early day
prior to rising with
potentials vague and specific
 expanding our wave..
A liberating Question
might replace the many
constricting plans:
How might I iterate
today..?

Seeds and gaps


Seeds and gaps

Henry David Thoreau
theorized in his time
that all greening grows
from a lowly but
powerful seed..
This strange view
stood to replace
a quantum stand:
Simultaneous new birth..
Enter here our
modern attachment
to evolution truth:
Henry seems then
ahead of his time..
Yet we might pause
Darwin's gaps may
have quantum fillings
and Henry's seed
may have quantum
gaps..!

Headlights


Headlights

An afternoon errand to replace headlights
followed with a visit to Safeway and purchase of
a sole orange and finally a walk of the aisles
with a most decided lack of purpose..
These variations with intention freeing the soul
from stealthy gathering habit..
The orange was not juicy as expected
 Aisles appeared silent with welcome..
Two new headlights 
 a mediocre orange
 a purposeless walk
Yes..strange parts of an
afternoon experience
of release and Whole...

Monday, May 19, 2014

Alpine notes


Alpine notes

A nature excursion
with added intention
grieving the death
hailing his elevation
in Christianity:
 the great Mahler..
a burden accepted
evolution of human
each step and phase
reaching Superman
as Zarathustra spake
on an Alpine climb...

Referring to
Richard Strauss'
Alpine Symphony

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Peaks and Valleys


Peaks and Valleys

Waiting in our valley
for the peak of Now
to show once again..
Another transcendence
to experience very soon..
Then to discover
the peak and valley
name the same Now
and we need only
breathe...

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Fractal Awareness


Fractal Awareness

Named iterations..branches from Roots..
our sensing IS iteration..this truth lies
in the similarities we find and find again..
The similarity of branches speak of Root
and indeed are joyfully Root joined..
So for similarity..now for difference
the creation also iterates as difference..
branching everything new..beauty
and energy..independent and free..
Displays of colors..yet a forgetting brings
  up-rootedness casting life shadows..
Awaiting finally a Root awakening...!



Monday, May 12, 2014

Awakening to Fractals



Awakening to Fractals

STRETCH

May 19th, 2014

The story of Chaos begins in number, specifically in the mathematics and geometry of the fourth dimension. This is the home of Complex numbers and Fractal Geometry. Unlike the other dimensions - the first, second and third dimensions composed of the line, plane and solid - the fourth is the real world in which we live. It is the space time continuum of Man and Nature where there is constant change based on feedback. It is an open system where everything is related to everything else. Prior science and math was concerned with closed systems in the first, second and third dimensions. It emphasized "left brain algebra," and ignored "right brain geometry." Since Einstein, however, we know that even the third dimension - solid bodies - is just a model for reality, it does not really exist. We in fact live in the fourth dimension of the space-time continuum. Since Mandelbrot, we know what the fourth dimension looks like, we know the fractal face of chaos.

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Simulation


An early universe simulation shows dark matter (left) transitioning to gas (right).
Credit: Illustris Collaboration

Simulation

With streaming code
and superfast computing
we can now watch
the amazing evolution
of a galaxy..this is
astronomy without
observation..
With our senses and
telescopic extensions 
we process light from
vast distances..a method
ancient and linear..
But now a method
much more profound:
black energy and light
large and small scale
a simultaneous dance 
embedded in code..
Might the question 
arise: is our code
an image pointing
to a grander Code...?
polarityinplay...

See www.illustris-project.org




From National Geographic:

Everyone loves cartoons, even cosmologists. They just call them simulations.

Now, one of the great triumphs of modern cosmology—our understanding of how the universe evolved its kaleidoscope of stars, worlds, and galaxies—has been visualized in its first realistic simulation:

“Until now, no single simulation was able to reproduce the universe on both large and small scales simultaneously,” Mark Vogelsberger of MIT and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the simulation team, says in a statement. Using a computer program, the team grew the virtual galaxies in simulated time, starting from 12 million years after the big bang (which kicked off about 13.8 billion years ago), they report in a study released this week by the journal Nature.

Named Illustris, the simulation built its universe out of 10 billion tiny cubes stuffed inside a virtual box measuring some 350 million light-years on each side.

Stuffed inside those cubes was simulated cosmological gas, which cooled, compressed, and formed filaments of galaxies that resemble ones seen today. As it evolved, its early cosmos resembled the real one, which is filled with small, energetic galaxies revealed by Hubble Space Telescope observations.

“If this all sounds somewhat complicated, do not be fooled: It is extremely complicated,” University of Maryland astronomer Michael Boylan-Kolchin, says in a commentary accompanying the study.

The simulation still has a way to go, Boylan-Kolchin adds, since it does not produce the biggest of black holes seen in the early universe or the dwarf galaxies that circle the Milky Way today. But thanks to the simulation, he says in the commentary, “creating a realistic virtual Universe of gas, stars, black holes and dark matter is already a reality. ”

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

BOOKS Used and Rare


BOOKS Used and Rare

A bookstore's back door is foreground
of the snowy spring peak in the background..
This juxtaposition gains attention in this new morning
when we remember that there are places.. remote and rare..
both near and far..without visitors..seeming empty.. but just perhaps
contain a secret that would..on this morning..
set us free..

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

VISIONS OF NEW BEING


    

VISIONS OF NEW BEING

A Poetry Reading & Book Signing


You are invited to join poet Robin Izer in exploring what it means to be
on a path of creative and sacred transformation.  Robin will read a
sampling of poems from her newly published book Visions of New Being:
Meditations & Poems.  The writings in this book reflect Robin's growing
understanding and appreciation of Buddhism.  She considers Buddhism a
spiritual path of mindfulness and wisdom practice that does not conflict
with the truth of other spiritual traditions.  A portion of the sales of
Visions of New Being will go to fund the work of non-profit organizations
that support Earth sustainability. 

Friday, May 23, 2014
The Pillar Classroom
202 E Cheyenne Mtn. Blvd. Suite 1
10:00 to 11:30 AM
Cost:  Free

Please join Robin and others for refreshments, discussion, and tips on how
to publish your own creative work.

Robin's book has my Palmer Park photograph
on the cover...!


Monday, May 5, 2014

The dead fledgling


















The dead fledgling

On a sidewalk
a fateful fall..
Over this dead one
two persons meet:
One wishes a disposal
quiet and away
from trafficking feet..
The other with a kick
and quick disregard
of this morning moment's
sudden dark streak..
A brief encounter
two teachers
on her path..
Each holding a mirror
for the other...

but Wait!..


but Wait!..

So it is..whether through Advaita or other
scripture..vital to learn of Consciousness
as unmoving and as unmoved light..simply
Aware of itself..then the reflection in our mirror..
providing light to see out there or in here..
but Wait!..we now see that there is nothing
to see..that we have only named once again:
Consciousness as experienced in our place..
but Wait!..we have no place...!

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Organizations in dysfunction


Organizations in dysfunction

Again and again..a sign of our times..we lack awareness
of how separate members become an organization..
the oft intractable problem is not-knowing:
Who am I..?
Who are they..?
What is it..?
The not-knowing cancer infects..
The need now is for new software..
Software which recognizes in a
simultaneous Eye the uniqueness
in the light of each member..
Each identity is created by 
embedded knowing brightness
which is All in all..
With this known
the Organization resurrects
knowing itself at last
for the first time and
finds new uniqueness
an enlarged creation 
of unchanging Light...

Saturday, May 3, 2014

A similarity


A similarity

Centered radials
uncovered in tree cutting
Hidden universe expanding...

Substitutionary


Substitutionary

An unfavored word
the speaker implied
wishing to replace
with this word: 
participatory..
The question of
responsibility..
Yet allowing each
of these words
to transform
to the other..
Might then
substitutionary
grace become 
an earned gift..?

Reality anew


A perspective shift
from encroaching shadows
to Awareness itself..
This visit to freedom
only letting go
finds Reality anew..

Friday, May 2, 2014

States

















States

In a patch of sundried earth
dark cracks emerge.. forms resembling maps
remembered from schooldays and Google..
Appearance of arbitrary lines depicting 
States newborn..
Our everyday maps also born of the Sun..
the Sun's artistry with rainfall..the points
of assembly of water in place and flow..forms of
unique identities each subdivided patch..
Raising the question of new possibility of finding
an Awareness.. becoming the Sun and seeing
the patches and lines and States anew 
as images projected.. from that projector..
those many miles away...