Not knowing...

 

Not knowing~

structures and stories

eagerly replace and

relieve the fearsome

emptiness implied

by not knowing~

A cheer for this choice~

 

Neutrality

seems broken with

corruption or honesty~

yet both are appearances

naturally equal~

another appearance

is a choice for honesty

and cheers for this choice~

where is freedom in

these contradictions?

perhaps in all of the

stories emptied

along with this one~~

In and not of~

 

Words

appear and may

seem to avoid

the snares of

separation~

impossibility

appearing as a

thing of beauty~~

Undiscovered

country~

a search for it

through paths of

immense variety~

but any discoveries

leave the undiscovered

Undiscovered

the searcher's lament~~ 

In

and not of~

and

in

and of

the world~

characters

appear in these

apparent roles

walking on stage

knowing or not

of their stage

presence~~

Call me Ishmael~

Call me Ishmael

as I relate a narrative

of an unfolding search

for what is named

Whiteness~painfully

blocked by a Captain's

vengeance~

a story of death 

of my own blockage

and perhaps yours

in this fragmented

dreamland~~

Ishmael~

(not his name)

witnessed a

vestige of separation

die in a wall

of whiteness~

an epiphany from

a story unfolding

of a search for 

peace which was

blocked by 

vengeance for a whale~~

Hope should be in the air~

Renewal~

seasons and

morning are the

repetitions which

suggest that hope

is in the air~

hopelessness

appearing as hope~~

Chosen~~

 

Chosen

people and such

suggest a divine

choice dividing

what cannot be 

divided~

scriptural stories

justifying what a

wishlist might wish~~

Memories displeasing~

 

Memories

of what never

happened mark

a displeasure in 

what had happened~ 

a displeasure 

seeming as what's

happening~~

Death appears that way~

 

Success

is what is sought

on every corner

and a series of

cornered successes

justifies life as it is~

death sometimes

appears that way~~

Dialogue~~

 

Dialogue~

money and position

count for nothing~

the other side says

jump in and participate

you've one life to live~

nothing speaks in

these ways~~

Circumstances unraveled~

 

Circumstances~

there are none

except as appear~

that short story

may be a shock

with a rising 

realization that

nothing appears

as it already is~~

Nothing to find..

 

Yes

there is nothing to find

no thing at all

however

there may be a finding

that nothing can and

cannot be found...

Whatever appears~

Whatever appears

has already appeared

including the reporting

and interpreting

of what appears~

nothing appears

that way~~

Playing dice..

 

Dice

is a game for two

and appearances

always show up as two

but might we say that

the appearances

are quantum 

appearing as a game

of dice?~~

Discernment~

 

Discernment

seems as an

assumption of space

providing the separation

for discernment to work~

however without the

space to work 

somehow discernment

finds a way~and a

magic measuring gets

underway~~

The character~

 

"I"

not a separate I

but a character 

emptily participating

as the inexplicable and

empty this~

so I am a character

whether or not

it appears that way~~

Paths are the gold~~

 

Paths

are the impossible

connections of A to B

projections with no one

projecting~

is it a wonder that

paths are already 

the gold that is sought~~

Appearances and resonances~

 

Appearances 

are already

nothing appearing

whether this

story resonates

or not~~

Whiteness of the Whale~

 

Whiteness of the Whale

(a chapter in Moby Dick)~

whiteness is nothing's void which may appear

lovely or terrifying~or simply as the white

known by convention~~but the whiteness itself

is not describable except as appearances of a 

whale which had severed Ahab's leg and sparked 

his revenge~or as Ahab's and our own deaths 

of the attachments we own~~such are storied 

appearances of Whiteness~~

Whiteness

inexplicably

appears as 

each of the

characters

the whale

Melville

and the book

itself~~

Making perfect sense~

 

It's

all nonsense

real and unreal

empty and full~

yet the appearance

may make

perfect sense~

Time~

 

Time

frames and breaks

the story

without which

no story is told~

evidence based

in time is

produced to

persuade 

a story to be

true or false~

new ingredients

new stories~~

Once it dawns~

 

Once

it dawns 

for no one that 

all words are

empty

reading values

may be

amazingly altered~

amazingly..?~~

Uncompromising~~

 

Uncompromising~

a story that claims

it is a story

and everything is~

such may resonate

and found to be

Uncompromising~~

AI~~~

 

AI

two letters

which seem to

enlighten and frighten~

a worry about 

deepfakes which

seem more and more

to match the deepfakes

already arriving in

tales of separation~~

Oppositions~

 

Oppositions

are insistent

that the other side

is there and opposing~

knowing depends on

nothing so appearing~~

Interpretations~

 

Interpretation~

springs from

dissatisfaction with

appearance and

a wish to elucidate~

yet appearance is

already complete

without need

for further 

Appearance~~

Questions~

 

Questions

seem never absent

begging for

new stories 

seeking for what

does not appear~

storytelling is 

job security~~

Seasons~~

 

Seasons

are the beautiful

evidence of 

no separation's

inexplicable

appearances~~

Suggestions~~

 

Suggestions

may seem to describe

the innocence from

which they arise~

waves of suggestions

build and dress up 

the separate me~

other suggestions

may seem to undress 

and reveal what is

already innocent~

Suggestions~~

Words are empty..

Idols

of oppression

upheld by belief

are the words

both of derangement

and of exhilaration~

these words empty

may seem a resonating

breakup of 

Idols~~

A confrontation a bold directness with the tyranny of words reveals the fragility of their power. When disarmed of meaning, words and thoughts are exposed as mere fabrications, devoid of inherent authority. Yet, certain words—“consciousness,” “awareness,” “I am,” “self,” “nothingness” “nothing” “no-me” “self or no self” even the word “this” —are imbued with a pseudo-sacred status, upheld by belief, hope, and faith.

These terms, if left unchallenged, become not tools of liberation but idols of oppression. They form the foundation of cult-like structures, where blind adherence to language erects empires of fanaticism and control.

Grand statements like “Nothing being Everything” ‘Aware of Awareness” “I am that” “It is all Consciousness or Awareness” are pointless pointers if not directly realized. Words, thoughts, and beliefs becomes another carrot that leads a rabbit hole of more words thoughts, and beliefs.

What if all blinders are removed, exposing these words for what they are: dangling carrots, sacred cows, and false idols? In this exposure, the ultimate liberation emerges—not through the worship of words, but through their absolute relinquishment.

---Emerson, from his Instagram page at:

https://www.instagram.com/emerson.nonduality

Still words~

 

Still 

photos

suggest movement

and story

and memory~

as do words 

on a page~

but both words

and photos

are never other than

Still~

Movement ~~

 

Nothing

does not move

neither does

everything

thus no movement~

but we know

there is movement

must be magic

appearances~

(a story using

non duality

lingo)~ 

Madness~

Madness~

wrought from the

inexplicability of

seeming separation~

and  futile searching

for a fulfilling

explanation~

some set of words

rewarded from a

satisfying diligence

yielding at last~

Madness~~

Inexplicable~

 

Inexplicable~

some words are

used as inexplicable~

although the word

itself may seem 

perfectly explicable~~

Generations~

 

A

sound of silence

expresses wholeness~

remembrances of a

generation past

may be a silent

expression~

A

sound of silence~~

Appearances~

 

No

appears as

Yes~

0

appears as

1~

The quantum

non-dual

inexplicability

and not even~~

Desolation and shadow~

 

Everything

appearing as desolation

and shadow may be

inexplicably

a resonating freedom of 

what seems happening~~

I wish to fit in~

 

I wish

to fit in

somewhere

anywhere~

others fit in

not wishing

as do I~

wholeness may

appear as confining 

wishes~~

a character frets and struts~~

 

A character

frets and struts

an hour upon the stage

and is heard no more~

these words may herald 

a joyful resonance in

a discovery of  

nothing at all~~

(leaning on 

Macbeth, the

tragedy)

 

No~~

 

No~

a word much in use

in postings which 

narrate emptiness 

in the appearances

of things~

a dark word

lively and full~

No appearing as 

separation~~

Roles of characters~

A

character's role 

may be named 

personal or impersonal 

and each may appear as 

what seems happening~

the personal role is

one of seeking to fill

a gap by ridding

those feelings of 

incompletion~

the impersonal~ ? 

there are 

not two roles

and not even one~~

A lone swallowtail~~

A lone

yellow swallowtail

loops in and away

to be seen no more~

the memory lingers

as a brief mention

of the flitting beauty

of everything

not seen~~

The last bastion~

The

last bastion

on the path

of a person's

search for

fulfillment

may seem

frightening:

not to wash 

away with

the dishwater~~

Connections~~

 

Connections

are appearances

of distance and time

prompting observers

and storytellers

to add themselves and

their presentations

as appending

appearances~

connecting stories~~