curtains

curtains

the curtain torn

is the light exposed..

as centurions all

we carry dark curtains

concealing our light..

exposure might come

with shock and awe

or right now

in a quiet pause...

(ref:  Matthew 27)

What is Dark Matter?

dark matter makes up the difference
say scientists in their determinations
of the extra mass needed to keep
the universe accelerating..
there is a dark matter signature
which has been applied
and has become an assumption
until now..!
one galaxy in their observation has
elected not to play..
and a paradox stands in the way
of their comfortable assumption..
perhaps we need to ask:
what is dark matter..?
we might speculate:
dark matter is not matter
but a field..an infinite field
which molds itself from time to time
to appear as a galaxy in motion
to the scientist observing
and startled by dark matter disguises...!


"Paradoxically, the absence of dark matter in this particular stellar conglomerate also suggests that dark matter does, in fact, exist."  Check out this link:      
(Thanks, CP!!)
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/dark-matter-galaxy-gravity-dragonfly-physics-space-science/

FB comment by Bernardo Kastrup:

"In theories proposing alternatives to dark matter, such as modifications to our understanding of gravity, whatever is mimicking the dark matter signature is not something that can be turned on or off—it should always be there. So, van Dokkum says, “by not detecting the dark matter, we actually prove it’s real.”"

The Centurion's Path

The Centurion's Path

The centurion noticed..

terror opened the curtain

the curtain which covered

the knowing of his own

true self..

A rock splitting event

or tomb opening

to a new openness

directly experienced

on this terrifying day...
~~CC

Matthew 27:50-53

50 Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last.  51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53 After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many. 54 Now when the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

Anne Cubbage

Pastor, Broadmoor Community Church UCC

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you might notice 

the following blank lines

in which several words 

are now deleted..
perhaps..

or words
 in this space

were never written 
perhaps..

nevertheless
the space

expresses the only

surety we can know..
it indefinitely flows
and enlarges into
wide margins we notice..

the space has retained 
the secret of words

which did or did

not play..

and the words

if they played
day or night  

 played as space

eternally white...

Exile

1. EXILE is closely experienced as discomfort of a separated mind a wish for home.. a feeling of restriction a curtailment of freedom which is lifted with momentary arrivings but reinstated as shadow as exile resumes.. exile is "quiet desperation" * an expression of dissatisfaction of the present and continued searching  for echoes of happiness... CC *Henry David Thoreau Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.  James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American writer.

peregrination

per·e·gri·na·tion

ˌperəɡrəˈnāSH(ə)n/

noun

a journey, especially a long or meandering one.

1. 
   

   Peregrination all who meander are not lost says the bumper sticker.. this linearity lacking might it recognize that the destination is here and now.. that the journey occurs within regardless of the seeming passing colors...?

palm branches

palm branches

a temporary vision

of vibrant green

nature's eternity glimpsed

in palm branches

covering our path..

 soon to wilt and decay

but for now

a suggestion of grace..

 roadsigns pointing

apparently..to expected

new birth...

Twilight

Twilight

is that no-time

between time of sun

and time of darkness..

a gateway

momentarily cleared

for a glimpse

of the eternal..

not day and not night

but a joy grasping

inflicted by the

dark colorings of

one light...

the dance

in considering 

polarity as movement

as dance

consciousness is 

the infinite field

of the dance..

and more:

consciousness is

the dance as the

dance appears

and not the dance

as the dance 

disappears...

Knowing-Space

Knowing-Space

A direct experience 

Of a space-like reality

In which thoughts-perceptions
Appear and disappear..
The Knowing-Space
Colors and un-colors
 In endless variety
With seeming borders
And locations pretending
An utter independence..
Thought is using these words
In a convincing way
Until we recognize
Once again
The Knowing-Space...

a gift of march wind

a gift of march wind

a sensing of biting chill

bringing a wish to constrict

to preserve and withdraw

into a warmer self..

this is reaction of the finite

to that outward discomfort

a gift of march wind..?

yet we know 

of the temporary nature

of this walk and chill..

time and calendar 

bring images of spring

these temporary thoughts 

which come and go..

now remembering now

a conscious i am

experiencing that

not coming and going

a gift of march wind...

Substance

Substance

in progress

https://cac.org/the-substance-of-god-2018-03-13/

the wound

the wound

somehow

is allowed to fester

in our life today..

festering from belief

in our grasping

material master..

we search for salve

to relieve and restore

a happy face..

and after many

fruitless searches

we discover that the

 wound is searching

all the while

it is made of 

the salve...

Effort

Effort

is apparently required

to accomplish and survive..

And the question:

is there happiness in effort..

happiness is 

resting in being

and recognizing being

as one's true nature..

a further recognition

 apparently

must be considered:

effort is really

being in action...

Stephen Hawking and "knowledge"

His legacy is large

as he leaves his 

life-sustaining technology

behind..

He leaves behind also

this quote:

"The greatest enemy of

knowledge is not ignorance,

it is the illusion of knowledge."

Knowledge 

often masquerades

as wholeness

claiming more than

its limited span..

Knowledge as thought

appears in our Self

is made of our Self

but cannot know

our infinite Self...

Our Thanks, Stephen Hawking...

The Copenhagen Interpretation

The Copenhagen Interpretation

A theory apparently with legs

leaning upon a collapse..

Perhaps a collapse within

consciousness and made of

consciousness

which brings about the

"I" thought

of the finite mind..

Unfocused to focused

and the appearance of

those created details...

7 Pointers

7 Pointers

In this Lenten time

the Christian tradition

provides 7 signs in

the Gospel of John..

These point to the 

Perennial truth of Identity

the "I" of each of us

regardless of religion or not..

The Perennial truth is

simply the recognition of

oneself not separated

as world culture insists..

That's it..!

Nothing more..!
CC

Placebo

Placebo

is a play of illusion

as a mirage in the desert

placebos pose as medicine

light poses as water..

no-thing says some-thing..!
Both placebo and real pill
are vibrations in and of
consciousness..
Schrodinger's cat
comes to mind:
at once dead and alive..

Placebo is an agent
of evolution:
Mind emerging as 
that from which
all is made...!

Presence

There is only Presence

a rich oneness

which is our identity

 standing and witnessing

and creating of itself 

life's many separations..

Paths of separation

of resisting and seeking

seem to veil our identity

allowing only brief tastes

of the Presence we crave

and words fail to disclose..

But the thrills on life's paths

present a window

which when cleansed

illumines our way home...

Here/Now

location location location

to never locate location..

and when is location not found..?

not then..not now..

Arrival:

Here/Now...!

Spontaneous graces and forces..(after Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Spontaneous graces and forces (after Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Our journeys are such
that experiences of Sunday mornings
of yoga workouts..of meditation or prayer
or of riding our waves of joy
are times elevated..and other times
seem as the waiting rooms of life..
And more..the dependence on writings
of those considered most wise..provide
a temporary balm for our cloudy days..
Forgotten is the spontaneity and the equality
found at the core of all experience..
Yet..when remembered..Sundays and workouts
meditations and books..and all we do
are born anew:
Awakening that which we are..forgetting
for the moment
that which we do...
~~CC


We go to famous books for our examples of character, just as we send to England for shrubs which grow as well in our own door-yards and cow-pastures. Life is always rich, and spontaneous graces and forces elevate it in every domestic circle, which are overlooked while we are reading something less excellent in old authors. From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know, all round the world. And I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open. There is power enough in them to move the world; and it is not any sterility or defect in ethics, but our negligence of these fine monitors, of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low...

When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world. I answer: Other world! There is no other world. God is one and omnipresent; here or nowhere is the whole fact. The one miracle which God works evermore is in Nature, and imparting himself to the mind. When we ask simply, "What is true in thought? what is just in action?" it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind, and all personal preferences, and all requiring of wonders, are profane.

 ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Sovereignty of Ethics.

Interconnection

Interconnection

This oft' used word

occurs most often in

separation's context

rendering duality as

the reality assumed..

A thought arises and

ranges to science and

the shrinking globe..

Thought decides from

a pluralistic window

a relative truth:

interconnection 

seems quite true..

But..doubt arises

over the intuition that

thoughts come and go

and so very likely

this thought 

will soon depart..

This unhappy scenario

awaits absolute knowing

that interconnection

must be derived

from an experienced

Wholeness...

The Perennial Tradition

per·en·ni·al

pəˈrenēəl/

adjective

1. 1. 

   lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring.

   
   

   "his perennial distrust of the media"

   
   

   synonyms:

   abiding, enduring, lasting, everlasting, perpetual, eternal, continuing, unending, unceasing, never-ending, endless, undying, ceaseless, persisting, permanent, constant, continual, unfailing, unchanging, never-changing "the perennial fascination with crime"

   • 
     
   • 
     

noun

1. 1. 

   a perennial plant.

   
   

   
   

   The Perennial Tradition
   

   
   

   is the recognition of appearances

   appearances of the street corner

   the mountains and the fields

   and the far-flung galaxies..

   the recognition of appearances

   as appearances..not as solid objects 

   or more subtle objects

   existing in their apartness..

   the recognition is the 

   awakening of awareness..available

   now and always to all..

   the recognition is perennial

   and has founded religions

   and sciences and other knowings

   but has been veiled by the insistence

   of other than appearance...

   
   

Overlooking our Identity

Overlooking our Identity 

This is the activity

in which each of us

engage..

Overlooking our Identity

as expanse and expanding

confining it to a

constraining cluster of

perceptions and thoughts..

Until!:

we notice the caging

and the confinement

sounding freedom's call...

I am doing

I am doing

Consciousness shapes and acts

and becomes I..the doer..

I complete my doing

and my doing recedes 

and returns..I rest 

as Consciousness..

The Winter’s Tale

4.4.143-146

Florizel

Each your doing,
So singular in each particular,
Crowns what you are doing, in the present deeds,
That all your acts are queens.

Consciousness-only is..

Consciousness-only is..

Of vital importance

in this our time's moment..

To realize 

with living transparency 

the only-ness

of Consciousness..

Separation dissolves

in the realizing

and is superseded now

with uncaused joy...

Plunging out into a sunny March morning

Plunging out into a
sunny March morning

An outward plunge
into natural vistas
of rock and piñon..
Taking along understanding
the beyond understanding
as the lens through which
the rock and pinion
retort of their
reflected wholeness..
A glow of equality
in the midst of 
life's storms and joys...