Uniqueness..
We are pleased to find
Nature's suggestions of
Hidden unities..
A unity thus found might
Disclose our Self
Enclosing and making
Of our Self that which
Seems different and Other..
Gifting us to behold the
Infinite Beauty of
Uniqueness...
Uniqueness..
We are pleased to find
Nature's suggestions of
Hidden unities..
A unity thus found might
Disclose our Self
Enclosing and making
Of our Self that which
Seems different and Other..
Gifting us to behold the
Infinite Beauty of
Uniqueness...
Excerpt from a meeting with Meher Baba:
Consciousness playing “Hide and Seek”
“I definitely know from my living experience that God [consciousness] is the one and only reality, and that all else is illusion. All that you see and hear at this moment—in this hall, our being in each other's presence, these explanations which I give and you hear, and even my incarnation - all this is a dream. Every night you go to sleep and have different kinds of dreams, yet every morning you wake up to experience anew the same old dream that you have been dreaming since your birth into your present life in illusion. You will say, “Baba, we are wide awake; we actually see you sitting before us; we can and do follow what you are explaining to us.” But you will admit that you would say the same thing to me if, in a dream, you found that you were near me and heard me telling you that all you felt, saw and heard was a dream. As long as you do not wake up from a dream, you are dream-bound to feel it to be stark reality. A dream becomes a dream only when you wake up; only then do you tell others that the life you lived in the dream was just a dream. Good or bad, happy or unhappy, in reality the dream is then recognized as having been absolutely nothing. Therefore I repeat that, although you are now sitting before me and hearing me, you are not really awake. You are actually sleeping and dreaming. I say this because I am simultaneously awake in the real sense and yet dreaming—with one and all—the dreams which all dream. “All your pleasures and difficulties, your feelings of happiness and misery, your presence here and your listening to these explanations, are all nothing but a vacant dream on your part and mine. There is this one difference: I also consciously know the dream to be a dream, while you feel that you are awake….”
~ Meher Baba~
The ultimate religion is Self-realization—it is an unbroken and fearless state of being.
NISARGADATTA
WHY THE FREE REMAIN
Since the fall of Conscious Awareness into the belief in separation and the dream universe(s) that manifested from that illusion, there have always been beacons of Light [the SELF in dream bodies] radiating Truth ‘into’ the dream … usually in obscurity. Some few have come forward visibly to ‘point’ to the illusion of ‘who you are NOT’ and from this, countless belief systems unfolded, diluted by their follower’s remaining conditioning … nevertheless, shining a little Truth into the darkness of the Grand Dream.
In this moment there are many who are approaching the threshold of Freedom and all of humanity benefits from the ‘knowing’ that emanates naturally from their emptiness. Those few who are completely ‘without’ conditioning and who remain in a physical dream body, ‘influence’ the Awareness of the slumbering God-SELF of humanity more than the entire affect of 7.5 billion well meaning sleeping beings.
Such is the limitless Love the SELF extends ‘to’ IT SELF.
Disturbances..
There are these
We know..and they present
Opportunities for separation
To assert once more..to
Claim our self..
Yet..on second glance..
These might Lighten our
Attention toward That
In which they swim..
Springing gratitude
For a discovery again
Of infinite worth...
Stillness shaping..
The energy of life
Shaping the Stillness
Which we are..
The appeal of shaping
Standing out from Stillness
Is apparent life..
Not recognizing our departure
From Stillness demands our
Shape to start searching
Zigzaging..until a new
Discovery of our point of
Departure..or not..
All the above..All of it..
Is Stillness shaping...
Immunization..
Perhaps
It is knowing and acceptance
Of a small dose of what seemed
External..as a trigger to realize
All that seems external is
Temporary cloaking with
A Cloak made of raw Self...
Nothing//Everything..
This is the duality..the
Separation..which serves
To occupy those searching
For meaning..in what seems..
We search and stumble and
Search more to fill that
Interminable gap..
A lifetime of searching..?
Apparently the Truth eludes..
Until a calm or stormy day
Arrives..and Nothing
Introduces Itself as
Everything...
Wholeness Happening..
When the shift..which
Is not a shift..(comes)
It is our simple recognition:
Wholeness is what has
Always been happening..
This is a (shift) from a
Herd immunity..made of
Varieties and boundaries
Which have fixed our days...
(Responding to a Facebook friend..)
First there were two of us
Then there was a third
When we asked a few
Questions..such as
Where did we come from?
(Not yet: Who am I..)
So..now there are three
You and me and the
One out there..a trio..
Separation still reigns..
And we wait forever..
Until...
You created god/non- duality to fill the graveyard of your life
........ what a fucking sham......what are you going to do about that?
break it down
No mercy shown
Watch her cry
Same old story
Watching forever
Waiting forever
Forever
Watching love grow
Forever watching love grow
Wheels turning
Break it down
Forever
Watching love grow
Towards this time
Watching forever.
It's got to be this time
Forever watching love grow
Love grow
~~a FB Friend
"...I would describe the self as a kind of mental image, an idea, a mirage, or an intermittent thought that claims ownership and authorship before or after the fact: I was thinking, I went shopping, I made a decision, It happened to me. The actuality is an ownerless, authorless happening of the whole. In truth, we are no-thing and everything. And yet, we can’t deny that we are also appearing as a particular, unique individual with a personality, preferences, opinions, interests, aversions, likes and dislikes. But we can come to see that ALL of this is a choiceless happening, a movement of the totality, and that even what seems most personal is really not personal at all.
We can still use personal pronouns and tell our life story, but it is all held much more lightly."
~~Joan Tollifson
The Chooser..
It may seem fundamental
That we have choices..
Limited perhaps by the
Choices of others..and
Many external things..
But when we recognize
The above as spoken by
The separate self (ego?)
Separation seems rampant
In the limitations and
The externalities..so
Back Away we must to
Discover the limited mind
Only seems to choose after
The choice is Made...
Fall in love with the void.
The emptiness of the now which makes everything possible, which has room for everything possible, which has room for everything. Fall in love with the infinite mirror, with the I AM. Everything else, feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, are the packaging, the box. The emptiness is the diamond inside, transparent, luminous, rare, priceless, but ever present.
Francis Lucille
Nothing Being Everything..
This key formulation
Which is not a formulation
Brings our finite minds
To the edge of Recognition
Of the extant of Oneness
The very Vastness of
Being..and invites our
Participation..forevermore
Not as a person..but as the
Freedom and Joy of
Nothing Being Everything...!
(Thanks to Tony Parsons..)
AI..
As in Artificial Intelligence..
Replicates the so-called
Separate self..
Machine autonomy
Approximates..closer and
Closer..our own body/mind..
Making and driving our cars
Delivers precision and safety..
But is there this hesitation:
The attraction of AI
(Making exile more comfortable)
Delays discovery of
Who we are...?
The Owl..
The poet speaks
Of unspeakable horror
A rabbit's scream in
The owl's clutches..
What to say..?..let's say
There is No-thing exterior..
Yet we suffer the rabbit
As we do..our perceptions
Of war..division..plague..
Yet..All is within and
No-thing exterior...
When the owl is less than exquisitely swift and perfect, the scream of the rabbit is terrible. But the scream of the owl, which is not of pain and hopelessness and the fear of being plucked out of the world, but of the sheer rollicking glory of the death-bringer, is more terrible still. When I hear it resounding through the woods, and then the five black pellets of its song dropping like stones into the air, I know I am standing at the edge of the mystery, in which terror is naturally and abundantly part of life, part of even the most becalmed, intelligent, sunny life — as, for example, my own. The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too. There is only one world.
~~Mary Oliver, Owls and other Fantasies...
It will be provided
At the time and place
It is needed..
This is the miracle
Which is not
A miracle..but
Simply the Understanding:
The need is dissolved in
Abundance..recognized in
Everything...
Beliefs
Lend significance..
Especially when it
Is Recognized
A belief is readymade
To dissolve in the
Knowing of our Self...
Start with Grace
As All in All..
Then we know
Perhaps for the
Very first time:
"Do not judge"
Is a Knowing of
Grace..as the
Admonition itself
Resides as Grace...
Focus..
That on which
We focus
Expands..
And..in focusing
On our Self
Focus ignites
And burns in the
Fire of Self...
“When there is a storm of challenging circumstances raging around you, do you know where to take refuge?”
At this time many people across the globe are being challenged, whether by the specter of Covid-19, by racial tension, by political turmoil, or by natural disaster. These are challenging times and they are complicated times. Yet the message that I offer, and the message that my teacher offered to me and his teacher offered before him, is simple: There is a precious space of refuge within every living being, no matter the times we are living in or our individual circumstances. Regardless of all that may be swirling like a storm, externally or internally, there is a wellspring of pristine silence within you that remains unmoving and unaffected whatever the events.
Pure, conscious silence is peace. Pure silence is love. Silence is who you are. Silence is awareness, aware of itself as awareness. This silent awareness is what your body has appeared in, what the events of your life have appeared in, what everything around you is appearing in. Throughout it all, this silence remains at peace, filled with love and conscious of itself, whether you are consciously aware of it or not.
This silence is not a lack of anything. It is not a silence that denies events in the present or past. It is not a silence that represses the truth that must be spoken. It is a silence filled with so much of itself that there is nothing else, and nothing separate from it. I celebrate this silence in each of you, and I recommend it as the point of discovery, a point of inquiry. No matter what is occurring in your life, in your mind, in your emotions, your body, or your environment, you are free to inquire, has this pure silence really gone anywhere?
Rather than questioning where current events are headed, how bad is it going to get, and how it will affect you, you can instead—at least in this moment—give your attention to the silent core of your being. Give your questions to this silence. That silent core remains unmoving and unaffected by it all. Silence is your refuge—your refuge from the storm.
~~Gangaji
The Energy Shift
As we are Aware of our Self
Living in but not of the world..
We apparently retain splashes of
Our separation conditioning..
A renewal arrives with
Remembering..our original
Energy shift..allowing a
Fiery cleansing..restoring our
Concealed Joy...
Labor Day
A day recalling
Past doing and achieving..
And demanding of decency..
Working and supporting
Abundance speaking..
Ideal colorings bringing
Nostalgic happiness..
Enter the pandemic
With stirrings and fear..
Yet..perhaps pointing to
Our unknown Livelihood:
Abundance unbounded...
The Great Secret..
That's it..!
This simplicity..
Complexity bypassed
Or allowed to rest..
The search ended
No more spiritual
Solutions or conclusions..
I Am..
That's it..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6Arc_DQjU
~~Rupert Spira..The Great Secret..
Fear of death
Is the fear wrought by
The separation belief
Gripping our lives..
Death ends separation
But in the meantime
A life fearful of death
Confines..and energizes..
Energizing the passions
To find avoidance..that is
Until..the bedrock belief
Is burned in the fire of
Recognition...
Lenses
The lenses we use
Delineate and separate..
Let us imagine:
Our lenses
As vital for our vision
Without which..blurring
And uncertainty
Become our world..
Losing our lenses would
Likely bring fears untold..
Yet..might the blurring
Turn our attention
Inward..so to know
Who we Are..and the
Fleeting nature of all
Which seems outside...?
Fundamentalism
Appears as a
Bedrock of restraint
In our religions..
Cages of beliefs
Freezing the mind
Shading the Source..
Yet..fundamentalism
When uncovered and
Stands in the fire of
Many perilous pages
Reveals the Key to
Identity and Freedom...
A New Era..
A sudden Recognition
Experiencing of Permanence
Seems occurring
In these days of chaos
Anxiety and pain..
The externals we carried
Conditioning our lives are
Absent or do not satisfy..
Some have questioned
Others have surrendered
Heralding a new Peace..
Recognizing
A New Era...
"As the apparent story of human life on earth seems to move into a new era, it is interesting that a unique and surprising perception of the human condition has also simultaneously arisen.
When human beings appeared on earth they were like any other animal but with the addition of a more complex and sophisticated brain. This brain developed in such a way that part of it assumed that the world it inhabited was a separate subject object reality which it saw as possibly threatening its own survival. Consequently it constructed a centre, a self conscious identity, as a further investment in its survival and a possible influence in manipulating what it presumed to be a dualistic reality. This is apparently contracted energy arising in boundless energy.
Hence the sense of I, the self, the me, was born, together with the belief that it was real as was everything else that was happening. Out of this experience of separation arose a need to understand and to know the meaning and purpose of life.
Inevitably, this demand for guidance or meaning attracted a multitude of responses in the form of religions, philosophies, teachings and disciplines which could feed this personal, insatiable hunger.
Within all of this dualistic communication there was also an attempt to investigate the possibility of an impersonal explanation for existence which could be seen from a singular or so-called “non-dual” perspective. This kind of communication seems to have originated in the East with Advaita Vedanta, Lao Tzu, Long Chempa, Huong Po, Zen Buddhism and in the West, Christian mysticism.
However, all of these communications, without fail, directed their message towards personal choice and supported them with personal advice and teachings or processes intended to lead the follower along a path towards transformation. It was as though so-called non-duality was still seen as a state or a “something” that could be acquired and personally experienced.
More recently there have arisen some contemporary communications based on scientific and psychological evidence, logic and reason. They are abundant with complex and convoluted explanations, often accompanied by a set of contemporary commandments. All of this is directed to the self and confined to the limitations of a dualistic perspective, just like everything that went before.
However, it seems that a unique and radical communication has appeared very recently. Because it recognizes the concept of self as illusory and the idea of seeking as futile, it offers nothing of any use or value to the apparent seeking energy. All of the dualistic story of the person which is believed to be real and to have meaning and purpose, is only the appearance of nothing. There is no-one and nothing left but the singular immediacy of nothing apparently happening.
This seems to be the only revelation of unconditional love which engenders a resonance whilst also being unknowable."
Tony Parsons
I Am..
For those of the Jesus
Persuasion:
What is the simple experience..?
Shared Perennially
With all traditions..
We jump to the words
Which qualify the two above..
Until we realize these two
Are the gateway to discover our
True Identity:
I Am...