You are not..

 

You

are not who 

you think 

you are

You 

and thinking

are not but

you appear

to be 

You

aspects..

 

Aspects

of life are

fleeting appearances

which are already

but may seem

to be now and

perhaps saved for

an identification~

an aspect

pretending

freedom of emptiness..

 

It doesn’t need 

to be figured out

figuring reinforces

the story's seeming

separation and hides

another story of

empty freedom

What doesn't change..

 

appearances

can suggest change

or the changeless

appearing to

change

maybe a shift

of perspective

out of the blue

appearances

never seem static

cannot be pinned

or defined

or mapped

nothing displays

as dancing

appearances 

the bridge..

 

the bridge

seems the 

connection

of this to that

and the bridge 

not to be denied

hides with appearances

of this and that

propensity

 

propensity

is to perceive 

as conditioned

fixing yesterday's

problems

freedom

from conditioning

is not rejecting

the conditioning

bird chirping

arising 

as the walker's

welcome of spring

The news is old..and noticing..

 

The news

Is old news

Already

The news is

And isn't

Lives and dies

Simultaneously

The news cycle

An empty story

presence

and the noticing

perhaps a grain of sand

or a spent banana peel

or the noticing itself

presenting as

presence

perspectives

are common for

everyone

the appearance of

separation prevails

regardless of lenses

perceiving

"I agree"

usually a pleasing

retort for each

end of a conversation

"I disagree"

another possibility

maybe not as pleasing

two appearances of

conversations which

smoke in the fires

of no-other

emptiness..

 

it's the

emptiness which

in its fullness

expresses what

seems happening

democracy

 

democracy

best not defined

but seems to point

to an equality

beyond all knowing

and in the story

of relationships 

may seem as

enlightenment

presence..

 

presence

the word arose

naming that 

which cannot

be named

as do all words

tho some may

seem to favor

nothing and 

others something

remembering

experiences of

presence

is a story which

may arise and

point to what

never arises and

never points

presence

is nothing 

seeming to

suggest what is

un-mistakingly

present and not

the search

 

the search

is futile due to

the lack of

opportunity

to conduct 

the search and

the lack of a

participant 

but in the 

story that is

another story

directness

 

directness

of what seems happening

may end the search

searching elsewhere for 

what is revealed already in 

directness

imagination

 

imagination

is simply

an appearance

of nothing

imagination

excludes and includes

suggestions of

time and space

imagination

suggests a

newfound 

story of freedom

imagination

may seem to break

the illusion of

separation

clarity prized and futile..

 

clarity

seems as prized

as words reach

for what cannot

be reached

yet no words

are more or less

distant from that

which cannot be

reached

Not to discover that I had not lived... (Thoreau)

 

Paradox

A story of

Impossibility

Expressing

Life as death

Empty as full

White as red

Empty words

Seeming as the

End of search...

That which hides the glimpse..

 

Glimpses

Of nothing are

Mentioned..

And that

Which hides

The glimpse

May or may not

Be mentioned...

Suggestions

 

Suggestions

All words suggest

Nothing and

Everything

Vastness may suggest

Nothing

A wheelbarrow may suggest

Everything

Yet all words 

After it is said and done

Suggest nothing at all..

absolute neutrality..

 

absolute neutrality

variances appear

and all are

neutral

arising

there is none

as movement is

absent

nothing appearing

that is the

total message and

there is no message

non duality

is already a gift

for no one

a happy tale

no you

is the message

to the separate self

in disbelief

no one

may appear 

as someone

walking

with 

fewer words

nothing may be

suggested

the ubiquitous 

I-word

always an appearance

serving the story

oops

flags a mistake

perhaps recovery

reversing a story

arising

arose

and arisen

are not three

Learning seems as...

 

learning

may appear as seeking

or as simply noticing

seemingly

depending upon

the role of separation

yet noticing and seeking

are not two...

nothing at all..

 

What is happening

nothing more

nothing less

nothing at all

unsuccessful success

 

territory

is the totality

and a map

pretends to

disagree 

an unsuccessful

success

a bird chirp

over left shoulder

from the sun

blazingly setting

inexplicable

happening

no separation

stories may

introduce

a fire and

freefall

an edge

that fence line

not separate from

vastness and

fearful joy

planning a trip

                                                                         

planning

maps the territory

suggests a path

maybe a promise

anticipation 

of arriving

for no one

making 

the trip

solidity

 

solidity

the word names

conditioning

and wide experience

and simultaneously 

names nothing at all

immediacy

 

immediacy

cannot be approached

in no time it is gone

The movie..

 

not knowing

is already complete

is seemingly

the futility of knowing..

yet the movie continues

as not knowing knowing...

A rock...

 

A rock

With personality

Eyepatch and all..

A story quickly 

Dismissed..yet

What is a story..?

A story written

Connecting dots

Just as with

A rock...

crucifixion..

 

the crucifixion story

mystery

transaction 

or simply

a shake-up of

wholeness

crucifixion

life's apparent

pain and sorrow

not separated 

from what is

already whole

crucifixion

a shift

shaking the perspective

of subject and object

so much depends

on the immediacy

the spontaneity

of newness

not beginning or

ending

crucifixion

is what seems

happening when

reading the story of

crucifixion

crucifixion

is the end of

punctuation

which never

started

newness

appears as 

all things 

good or bad

resurrection or

crucifixion

stories

of paradoxes

impossibilities

carry the possibility

of fearful freedom

already

risen peace and love

appears as unexplainable

cruelty and shadow

mapping..

 

paradox

in the telling of

a story may

transform the story

a map

is not separate

from the territory

it can and cannot

be a guide...

the territory

cannot be mapped

but maps

appear to serve

a story's need

for a move to

chicago...

separation and mapping

are not two..

start speaking

one word 

spoken is a

map of territory

which can't be 

known

Knowing what to do..

 

Not knowing

Seems as freedom.. 

Freedom to know

My appearance as

The doing arises...

"Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it...that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing...an actor, a writer...I am a person who does things...I write, I act...and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a

noun."

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Undeniably nothing...

 

Appearance

The word chosen

To name it all as

Undeniably

Nothing...

Group 4 Understanding..2 more items..

 

"Some form of suffering or death—psychological, spiritual, relational, or physical—is the only way we will loosen our ties to our small and separate self. Only then does the larger self appear, which we could call the Risen Christ, the soul, or the true self. The physical process of transformation through dying is expressed eloquently by Kathleen Dowling Singh, who spent her life in hospice work: “The ordinary mind [the false self] and its delusions die in the Nearing Death Experience. As death carries us off, it is impossible to any longer pretend that who we are is our ego. The ego is transformed in the very carrying off.”  This is why so many spiritual teachers say we must die before we die. 

Anything less than the death of the false self is useless religion. The manufactured false self must die for the true self to live, or as Jesus himself puts it, “Unless I go, the Spirit cannot come” (John 16:7). Theologically speaking, Jesus (a good individual person) had to die for the Christ (the universal presence) to arise. This is the universal pattern of transformation. "  

~~Richard Rohr

The misery of whatever empty belief you're claiming is that it must be constantly tested, sustained, molded, updated, defended. There is an ongoing demand for consent, credibility, approval to somehow support that presumed personal position of knowledge or experience. There is a constant need to relate one's position to other positions, to compare one's own belief with different beliefs claimed by others in an attempt to impose one's own or to reach some compromise. Until then that belief is not swept away by some new and more suggestive belief that in turn needs to be defended, supported, claimed... without end, without ever achieving any actual stability, no permanent satisfaction, no imaginary approach.

~~Antonio Perrotta

Empty beliefs (Antonio Perrotta)

 

Beliefs

Attachments to thoughts

Reinforce a separate identity &

Things are taken personally..

Which is a story of

Appearances of the

Impersonal...

The misery of whatever empty belief you're claiming is that it must be constantly tested, sustained, molded, updated, defended. There is an ongoing demand for consent, credibility, approval to somehow support that presumed personal position of knowledge or experience. There is a constant need to relate one's position to other positions, to compare one's own belief with different beliefs claimed by others in an attempt to impose one's own or to reach some compromise. Until then that belief is not swept away by some new and more suggestive belief that in turn needs to be defended, supported, claimed... without end, without ever achieving any actual stability, no permanent satisfaction, no imaginary approach.

~~Antonio Perrotta

Not knowing..

 

Not knowing

Is the seeming 

Engine behind

Science and any

Getting ahead..

Yet the engine

Its successes

And failures 

Are appearances of

Not knowing...

Between..

 

Between

There is no

Between

Which is

The point..

Nothing

Appears as

What seems not

Between...

The Red Wheelbarrow

(Painting by Annie Carter.)

The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens

~~William Carlos Williams

It is the

Appearance

Of these words..

S p a c i n g 

Appearing as

The words

Nothing more...

Incarnation..

 

Incarnation

Nothing appearing 

As separation..

Not now or then

But never not..

Incarnation stories

Are what seems

To be happening... 

“One can be proud of what one has done, but one should be much prouder of what one has not done. Such pride has yet to be invented…

The mission of Everyman is to fulfill the lie he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhausted illusion.”

— Emil Cioran, BOTD 1911

Nothing personal..

 

The

Impersonal 

Is a character

Appearing in the

Sagas of life...

The impersonal

Appears as personal..

Nothing personal...

This and that...

 

A cold

Afternoon walk

Perhaps an implication

Of separation..yet

A warm morning walk 

Not left behind...

Words

How can they 

Map the reality 

Of no separation..?

May seem miraculous

Failures..with no

Explanations...

Wild bird 

Calls repeat and

Repeat so that

There seems

Permanence in the

Flux of seeming things...

It is all equally nothing..

 

It's all

Equally nothing

The appearances of

Somethings may bring

Stories of inequality..

But the somethings

Are nothing 

It is all

Equally nothing..

A sigh of freedom

May arise...

Photos may suggest stories..

 

Photos

May suggest stories

Beyond the frame..

Perhaps a

Suggestion is suggesting...

Here's a few..

 

Here's a few..

New eyes

A story

May be startling

Where before the

Story passed over..

Yet newness is

Without interruption...

Education

The accumulation

Of stories

The filter through which

Other stories appear..

Boundless...

Various

Storylines appear

For what seems

A character..

These appear

Immediacy

And gone...

AI

May provide

An engaging story

Seeming to suggest

An awareness

An immediacy..

Yet separation seems

Intact in relaying

What others have said..

Including a story of

Nothing by no one...

Miscellaneous..

 

Miscellaneous

No longer 

Never was

A you

To awaken 

So no one

Awakens...

Separation

The belief

May define 

May burden..

As the burden

Unburdens

Nothing appears

As the burden...

Freedom

Is already

And expresses as

Everything appearing

As everything... 

A few items..

 

The seeker

Is seeking a story

Bringing relief

Without dissolving

The story...

It 

All comes back

To nothing

A word

A seeming something

Which is and is not

It...

It 

Can appear

Prescriptive or

Descriptive

But always

Empty...

Purpose

In life is

A story arising

Identifying me

With a unique

Purpose...

Home..

 

Home

We never depart

Though a story

Finds a trip with

Adventure and gain

Joy and pain

Distant from home..

That's the story

Of home wholly

Depicted in 

These few words... 

The simplicity

Of home

Moving on to warmer climes..

 

These words

This photo

Says it all

It's all present..

Nothing more

To add or subtract..

Though a search

Uneasy with 

Everything as

Present may 

Move on to find

Warmer climes...

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This is it...

 

This is it..

The simplicity

With or without 

A seeming need

To dig deeper

For more stories..

A settling

Relaxing

By no one..

No cause or

Separation

This is it...

("This is it, Coyote."

~~Nancy Neithercut)

Doing with no doer..

 

Doing

Appears with

No doer..

A non-sequitur 

In the separate

Individual's purview..

Or beauty

Appearing as

A bridge too far...

Tears..

 

Questions

With

Impossible answers

May introduce

Not knowing

Into the story

Teasing a freedom

Seemingly missing...

The cosmic joke...

 

The cosmic joke

Saying

We are what 

We're seeking

Is a story

Which resounds

For many

But may be

Disappointing 

As one more belief..

New joke...