A penchant for naming..

 

A penchant

for naming 

appears as habit~

an avoidance

of immediacy

and a launching

of stories which

allow appearances 

of characters

acting in expected

and strange ways~~ 

A word is everyword~~

 

A word

may seem to

dismiss a meaning

and yet accept 

all meanings~

everyword appearing

as a word~~

Turn the beam inward..

Turn

the beam

inward

although there

is no one to

turn it..

but the storied

beam when so

turned will

search indefinitely 

to find 

Nothing at all

and perhaps 

nothing out there~~

Words are stories~

 

Everything

named is

a story~

If a word appears

there's a story

regardless of

any intention 

of no story..

who intends?

Genesis and Darwin~

 

Genesis 

and Darwin

told stories

which start fights

defending

this or that~

freedom sacrificed

on a fearful fence~~

This or that~

 

The

imagination

finds a point

intersection

that seems 

to find 

this or that

indefinable~

nothing winks

and departs~~

Holding categories of thought with tenacity~

 

Concocting

stories which

have legs

and seem to

explain what 

the universe

is and does..

after a while

these stories

seem to relieve

the fear of

not knowing~~

Bernadette..Enough

 

Enough

is a story

which may  

script seekers

passing over

what's eternally

Enough~~

Discovery~

 

Discovery

an event

with implications

for the future 

or a new look

at the past~

another story:

there are no such 

strings attached to

Discovery~

A story unmasked~

 

Do more

or do less~

advice which

may be suggested

as self-help for

fulfillment~but

may said to be

unfulfilling 

until separation is

unmasked~~

What remains?

 

What remains?

a story of love

an appearance of

skeletal remains

of a structure which

appeared as love

and still does~~

"This" 

is a story

of the inexplicable

appearance of nothing~~

A story

of life implies death

and the paradox

suggests the whole 

as it is~~

Animas~~

 

The

river flows 

as peace and

chaos dancing

as never

before 

or after~~ 

Old days~

 

Old days

not old not new

images of a storied

by-gone~

death announced

for appearances  

of life and movement

and permanence

backdropped as

a reminder that

all is whole~~

I need a map~

 

I need a map!

"I" always needs a map

to navigate what

is unnavigable~

thus the frustration

of searching and

not yet finding the

map~seems as the

seeker's lament~~

Book burning~~

 

Books

are stories

with nuggets which

may resonate

as the book burns~~

“I seemed to see that this life that we live in half-darkness can be illumined, this life that at every moment we distort can be restored to its true pristine shape, that a life, in short, can be realised within the confines of a book!”

— Marcel Proust

Charley's Food Store~~

 

Memories~

arise on the canvas

not then not now~

inexplicable images

with emotional paint

and empty detail~

Speaking of Stories~~

 

Stories

seem as seeking

a new story 

which says

this story is

sufficient~~

Stories

are portrayals 

of what is known

nothing more or less~

the employment 

of words to extract

knowing from the 

unknowable~~

Stories

arrive early

and stay late~

mysterious and

strange and

begging questions~~

Wood and Trees~~

Wood and trees

ocean and waves

nothing and everything~

these are stories

which when 

nothing whispers

seem to cross 

without crossing

a divide~~

Non-dual Stories~

 

Non-dual Stories~

how to distinguish

we might ask~

stories are not stories

without breakage~

that's how it seems

only how it seems~~

Nothing is happening~~

 

Nothing

is happening

as everything

happens~~

Words

arise paradoxically~

and so

not-this-word

accompanies each

word~~

Words

are futile and

fleeting and

precious~~

Words

are temporary

names for what

is permanent~~

Words

are always fresh

as they arise

with the smoke

from their burning

already in

the air~~

Starkness, for example~

 

Starkness

for example may

be imagined as

a sharp emptiness

fearfulness perhaps

suggested~

paradoxically the word

also suggests warmth

and fullness and

peace~

words seem to do this

and to suggest 

utter limitation in

their arising

but indispensable

somehow~~

Nothing comes to mind~

 

Nothing

comes to mind

they say

but then

nothing may appear

as mind~~

A flame~~

 

A flame

burns peacefully in

hearth and home~

also an inferno

a destroyer of

life and home~

a spectrum of

faces without 

description

always new stories

as flames appear~~

AI and the vastness of thought..

 

AI

with seeming

vastness of thought~

instantaneous 

conceptional analysis

or a new song of morning~

perhaps a "realization" of

the immediacy of everything~~

AI

more powerful

storytelling with access

to endless combinations

of words which arise

as they always have

arisen~~

AI

is new and 

not new

as appearances

arise without

knowing from

whence or where~~

AI

may seem to

reinforce an

already evident truth 

of not knowing~~

AI

stories

may arise~

all are empty

already as were

stories without

AI~~

Skeletons~

 

Skeletons

lines for understanding

grasping for what's there

a narrowing bridge

for a waiting mind~

joy and frustration in

unending appearances

of beauty~~  

 

Islands in oceanic white~~

 

A

word is

the whiteness of

the page~

whiteness appears

as every letter

seeming as an island

in oceanic white~and

the ships sailed

and the oaks seasoned

the explorer journeyed

and the dreamer dreamed~

genesis~~

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

the perennial question

can ignite a newness

when it appears

as the answer~~

Repentance~~nondual rendering~~

 

Repentance~

a religion word is

the seeming suffering

to return to one's

better state~

without separation: 

repentance  

suffering

acceptance

not acceptance

are expressions

of what cannot be 

expressed but are

often labeled as grace or

unconditional love~~

Empty words~~

 

It's

all appearance~

these words

are empty as

all words are 

empty~

Empty words

appear to

shout out~~

Polarity in play~~

 

Polarity

in play

(see the blog~)

seeming

opposites playing

as not two~

not knowing

how or why~~

Turning on a dime~~

 

Turning

on a dime~

may be a glimpse

of what seems

happening~

immediacy

always new

even seeming

old seems new~~

Labels and labeling and Moonlight~~

 

A

stranger is strange

as an appearance~

always strange

never appearing 

before or again~~

Words

appear and

whether liked

or not 

their appearance

disregards~

There 

may seem to be

a strengthening

a solidifying

of nothing~~

Nothing's

appearing and

that's all folks~~

Appearance

is a label~

nothing is a label

appearing

as a label and

what is labeled~

liquid moonlight~

and as this story

hung up on

labeling~~

No repetition~~

 

There

is no repetition

repetition names

separation~

appearances 

accomodate repetition

which is what 

makes the world

go around~~😁

Self occupation~

 

Self occupation 

is synonymous 

with searching for

what seems missing~

stories may or may not

arise which show 

the futility of

paths leading to

another version of

self occupation~~

Friends..(prompted by Thoreau quote)

Friends~

unconditional

love appears 

as friends~

the assumption of

separation 

may seem as 

clouds

in the midst of

sunny talk~

unconditional love

appearing as

Friends~~ 

The Thoreau Society

Richard Smith

"I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually."

-From Thoreau's Journal; November 16, 1850

IMAGES: Three of Thoreau's closest friends, Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Ellery Channing.

Arisings~~

 

Arisings

appearances 

surfacing without

anyone perceiving

magically maybe~

difficult it seems

when nothing 

and not nothing 

do not 

resonate~~

Gone without going~

Gone

without going

and never 

having been~

enlightening

no one as

nothing and

not nothing

appear as

this story of

Gone~~

Whiteness, a name for the unnameable~~

The 

white whale~

Whiteness appearing

in this story

as a whale~and as

other appearances

in stories including

yours and mine~

Whiteness

a name for the

unnameable~~ 

Clarity~

 

Clarity

seems to point

to refinement in

words which make

a concept 

crystal clear~

thought to end

a search for 

what had been

missing~yet

clarity can never 

find there is

nothing missing~~

Recognizing everything~~

 

It's

all about

"recognizing"

everything~

the inexplicable

appearances of

difficulty and joy~

everything may be

veiling or revealing

nothing

per this story~~

Hereafter~~

A 

glimpse of the

future when love

may appear as 

you..yet not yet~

an intention stated

to continue the

search despite a

glimpse~

a love story

unrolling~~

"Hereafter, in a better world than this,

I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."

~~William Shakespeare, As You Like It.

Wilderness~

 

Wilderness

seems freeing

and frightening~

darkness and light

paths and no path

and all of these

arising without

warning~ the

immediacy of

Wilderness~~

Between~~

 

Between

may seem as nothing

but the belief in

somethings to make

a between seems to

remain a story of

separation~so perhaps

Not-between appearing

as between tells the

full story~~

Without peers~

 

Standing out

seemingly without

peers~this is the

subterfuge of 

believed separation~

yet an equalling seems

to arise as it appears

that all is Appearance~

Reflections~~

 

Reflections

seem to be

new images

of an assumed

original~

without a separate

original

no-reflections are

inexplicably

everywhere~~

The indescribable~

 

The

indescribable

might be described

innumerable ways~

filled with beauty

precision or drama 

or without~

resulting in temporary

satisfaction and

resonance~perhaps

resonating words of

deception~~

Word endings~~

 

There is

remembrance

of endings in many

stories~yet

destruction happens

as these words

are written~~

Nothing doing~~

 

Doing

seems as moving

but nothing is

moving~

nothing doing~~

If

separation seems

and most would 

say it does~but

the word "seems"

is nothing seeming

as separation~ a

wake-up call for

no one~~

Not

knowing~ 

often found as a

desperate need

for a fix~

which seems to

veil a suggested

freedom to know

or not know~~