Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Variations..


 











Appearances

Are nothing

Appearing..

These words

Are a story

Which can 

Light up the

Sky...


No..

No you or me

No other

No free will

No (insert)..

No..appears to

End separation.. 

Ignoring is

Illusory

Naked 

Separation

So the story goes...💥💃


No separation

Makes no sense..




Stormy blue...


 








Stormy

Calm..

Nonsensical 

Yet with 

No-separation

The seeming

Paradox rings

True...

Friday, July 19, 2024

The Bible

 













The Bible

Filled with words

Of joys and mayhem

Prescription and

Description..

Narratives expressing

The wholeness of

Empty words...

Is and isn't...

 













No-separation

Expresses that

No and separation

Are not two...💥


Isn't

(Is not)

Is and not

Are not two...😎


It is all

The presence of

Absence...😉

Jesus...

 













Jesus'

Dark story

Is used to

Portray an

Imaginative savoir 

Of all mankind..

A story of

Wholeness

Broken into

A pedestaled

Character and

Bridging the

Separation with

Listed beliefs..

Yet..all of this

As a narrative

Is a reflection of

Love...


Jesus

Seems as a

Favored character

In parables

Of life and death...


The gospels

May appear

As a character

Named Jesus

Offering hope

In life's struggles..

Or as a character

Knowing that

He and we

Are equally 

Characters and 

Totally free...


"Jesus was not a Christian. He is not the founder of Christianity. Jesus never encouraged people to worship him. Christianity is a religion created later, mostly by Paul and later church councils, in the name of Jesus, and is much different from the truth that Jesus taught and lived. 

Were Jesus alive today, he would not be a Christian. 

Jesus is still one of best-kept secrets because his truth has been grossly distorted by those who claim to speak for him. There is a religion-free Jesus who belongs to all of humankind. Christianity does not own or have first rights to Jesus. His truth has universal significance. 

It's a mistake to make Jesus a religious figure or front man for Christianity. You have to disentangle Jesus from what you heard at church to find the truth he said would set you free."

~ Jim Palmer


A story of 1776..

 









There is a story

A story of 1776

Mighty struggles

And what is called

Progress..with limits..

A seeming

Course of events

Rising as memory..

And senses of

Helplessness and

Of hope to

Avoid an ending..

All nothing 

Appearing as this

Flag-draped  story...


Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Life and death..












Life and death

Seem separate

But also may seem

Simultaneous and

Timeless..

Understood and

Beyond understanding..

Life may seem 

As searching

For a resonance with

Such a canvas of

Life and death...


Monday, July 15, 2024

Only being...

 



"There is only being. There is just being. There’s nothing else. There’s nobody that’s running that. There’s no destiny, there’s no God, there’s no plan, there’s no script, there’s nowhere to go because there is only timeless being. Being is totally whole just being. And it is alive and fleshy and sexy and juicy and immediately this; it’s not some concept about ‘there’s no-one here’. It’s not some concept about ‘there’s nowhere to go’. It is the aliveness that’s in that body right now. There is pure beingness, pure aliveness. That’s it. End of story." ~ Tony Parsons

Friday, July 12, 2024

Expressions...

 













No separation 

Is not describable

Unknown..

But all appearances

Are appearances of

No separation...


Wednesday, July 10, 2024

This word: This..




 








This 

Already is 

And isn't..

Whatever is said

Of this is already

This..

Which may seem

Too much for 

This word..

A seeming which

Is already

This...


Monday, July 8, 2024

Variations...

 











A source

Appears only

In the story..


Arisings

Empty and full

A timeless

Flow..


Just

What seems

To be arising..

Undefined

Not explainable

A timeless flow

Of Freedom

For no one...

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Energy...

 













Energy

A word appearing

For that of which

Everything appears..

Seems as a + and -

A dance of these..

Compression and 

Not..perhaps

Resonant and not..

An explanation..?

A process..?

Perhaps

A resonating word

With baggage..which

Is only this...


Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The brain..more than a story?















The brain

Arises as the

Name for 

Bounded

Neuronal circuits 

Appearing

Behind the eyes..

A storied object

Seemingly powerful

Indeed..power

Pouring from 

An illusion

Of separation...




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Too much for this word..??

 
















This..

Gets much wear

Seemingly because

No better word

Arises..and any

Word arising

Would be already 

This..

This is all

Appearances of

Nothing..perhaps

This is not it...

Nothing appears as separation and knowing..


 











Nothing 

Appears as separation

And knowing..

Time for

Subject and object

Arises..

May seem magic

And resonant..

Already this...

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Truth.. (Jed McKenna)

 









Truth..

Truth can't be

Known..yet

Truth may appear

As knowing with

The accompanying

This and that...


Jed McKenna :

"No belief is true, so truthwise, there is exactly zero difference between any two beliefs. Newton’s third law of motion is exactly as true as alien overlords in secret moon bases. 1+1=2 is exactly as true as 2+2=5. Immaculate conception is exactly as true as the four noble truths. Any book of religion is exactly as true as any book of science."

Saturday, June 29, 2024

the spices of life..


 










the spices

of life are

life itself..

seeming

oppositions 

simultaneously

rise and fade..

a new day

arising

is not new

as the night

is not past...

Enjoy..!!

 













Welcoming

Arises

No rights or wrongs

That's it..

A story of freedom..

Enjoy..!

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Belief, and not, are already This...

 













I may seem as a

Center..

Conventional

Separate..yet

I appear

Whether believed

Separate or not..

And the kicker:

It matters not...

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

For Bernadette..

 











Bernadette

For you..!!

There is no

Separate individual

But appearances of

Emptiness..

Fleeting and 

Disappearing 

Appearances of

Beautiful

Individuals who

Never were..


Not then and not now..

 









A familiar

Roadway suggesting

Stories associated

With a past

And a boyhood

Character in what

Seems happening

Not then and 

Not now...


Monday, June 24, 2024

Whole not quite in reach..

 










Two paths

A seeming reality

Unquestioned

Settled

And seemingly it...

Yet unease arising

Feeling like a 

Hole with the whole

Not quite in reach..

A nagging doubt

Beautifully

Not separate from 

This...


Sunday, June 23, 2024

No separate namer..

 











Naming..

Appearances of

Names applied

By no separate

Namer..

Happens and not...

Nothing forgotten..

 













Utterly simple..

Everything is 

Nothing..

Apparently

Nothing forgotten

May be unease

Simply happening..


Saturday, June 22, 2024

That and This...











That..

What about that..?

All the stories

Of knowing 

Wishing to know

Interpreting

Finding meaning

Seem to be that..

What about this..?

This is that...💥

Friday, June 21, 2024

The desire for something..




 








Dissimilarity

Seems to command

The landscape..

Convincing 

Unquestioned..

And

The desire for 

Something hangs on..

Happening and not 

And OK...


Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Maps..!!


 








Nothing

Is everywhere

And

Everywhere is

Nothing..

Nothing 

Has innumerable

Geographical 

Appearances

Named maps...

Being quiet...


 












“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgemental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.”
― Sophia Dembling
(Book: The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World https://amzn.to/3K5qqgJ)

Individual and Character...


 









Individual

And character..

Two names

Used by those

Wishing to

Explain what

Cannot be

Explained..

Individual as

Separation..and

Character as

Wholeness..yet

These seeming 2

Are not 2...

Monday, June 17, 2024

Past times..

 

















The nostalgia
For past times
Is a story
Bringing melancholy
With comparisons..
An unease with
The present and
A wish to return
To a place that
Never was...

Light and dark are not..

 













Light

And dark

Are not separated

Both seem but

Are not..

That's a story

Begging to know

More about

Are not..which

Alas..is not...

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Luis..A Star...

 













The Luis story..

He was a net Star

A tennis master..

A family hero

A life of love..

Serving up amazing

Skills..calm yet

Fierce..a net warrior..

A love game with

Family and friends..

His Stardom 

Remains..aglow

In our hearts...

~~Charlie Coon (Golf buddy!)


https://www.frenchfunerals.com/obituaries/luis-cuadra




Homecoming arising...

 











When

I appear

As a character

There may seem

A homecoming

Arising...




Saturday, June 15, 2024

Quantum Appearances of Nothing...

 













Quantum 

Appearances

Of Separation

Of Nothing..


Quantization:  Energy comes in discrete packets called quanta. This means that light, for example, can behave like a particle (photon) instead of a smooth wave. 

Energy might appear discretely as packets..The appearance of separation..


Wave-particle duality:  Light and matter can exhibit properties of both particles and waves. This challenges our classical understanding of the world where things are either a particle or a wave.

Particles and waves may be a simultaneous appearance..


Uncertainty principle: It is impossible to know both the momentum and position of a particle with perfect precision. The more precisely you know one, the less precisely you can know the other. This fuzziness arises from the inherent nature of the quantum world.

Not-knowing appears as knowing..It is all not-knowing..


Superposition: A quantum system can exist in multiple states simultaneously until it is measured. This means a particle could be in two places at once, which is mind-boggling but has been experimentally verified. 

Measurement is mapping.  The territory is vast, an infinite field of simultaneous states..


Entanglement:  Two quantum particles can become linked in a way that their fates are correlated, no matter how far apart they are.  If you measure one particle, you instantly know the state of the other, even if they are separated by vast distances. This spooky connection has no classical explanation.

Simply, no-separation..


Appearances of Nothing...


Friday, June 14, 2024

When something appears as nothing..















When

Something

Appears as

Nothing

There seems

A gearshift..

A shift to

No gear at all...


The dance...

 



Photo 

by Solveig Larsen







The

Dance is a 

Brief story of

Nothing at all

Amazingly

Or not

Appearing to

Dance...

Road rage...(Nadia-Bolz Weber)..

 











Terrible mercy

It is terrible

Seemingly for

Those saddled

With Limits

Unworthiness

Comparisons..

Forgiveness 

Appears as terrible

In separation's stories...


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Thursday, June 13, 2024

Jesus..the placeholder..

 













All 

Good literature

Invites the reader

To be a character..

Perhaps this coaxing

Can shift the

Reader to the character

They have always been..

Literary characters

Are placeholders...


The artist..(Henry Miller)


 











There 

Seems to be 

A certainty

A permanence

In everything..

A conveyance

A gift 

Of the writer

Of the artist...



"What irony to inform the artist what is wrong with his work--as if that mattered! The artist speaks out of his inner certainty, and no matter how far astray he may seem to go, no matter how wild, how erratic his words, he is always a thousand times more right, more true, than those who presume to judge him. If he is an artist. As for the rest, those who call themselves artists, they do not matter."

-- Henry Miller

Monday, June 10, 2024

Birdsong miracles...


 











Birdsongs

On a roadside

Complaining of

The setting sun..

The miracle of

Those birds

Their song 

This story...

Basic stuff...

 













No self

No separate I

Nothing is it..

Said to be

Basic stuff

Of non duality

So

Nothing appears

As I the actor

The character..

That's about it

Which may be

Sufficient...

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Free will..yes and no..

 













Free will

Some say yes

Others no..yet

Free will

May appear

In what seems

Happening..

As may those 

Saying

Yes and no..

Such are stories 

Prompted by

Questions of

Free will...


1942

 









1942

Not then

Not now

An appearance..

The end of the

Illusion of

Time and space

Beholding

The beauty of 

The illusion..

Not then

Not now

Not...

Friday, June 7, 2024

Questions of separation...


 









Nothing

Appears

As seeming separation

Without question..

Questions are

Appearances of

Said separation...


Thursday, June 6, 2024

Use of pronouns..

 














Pronouns..

The pesky

Pronoun reeks

Of separation

Until it is a

Found as a

Character

On stage...

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

A signpost..

 














This

Is nothing

Says a signpost..

Ending the search

Or not..either story

Is already 

This...

The dream of Meaning...

 













There is

No meaning

Yet meaning 

Appears..

Meaning is 

Dreamed

Storied and

Synonymous 

With apparent

Separation...