Travel lightly~

 

Travel

lightly~

advised when

burdens are found as

heavy and masking

what is already

nothing at all~~

lone figure~

 

A

lone figure

in an old photo

an apparent life

now gone~

not knowing 

arises as this

lone figure 

which invites

imagination to

write a life

never lived~~

A call~

 

A call

scriptures mention

as from a Source

to proceed with

courage and 

promised strength~

and these stories

may prompt action

in new stories~

but is not a call

not to go forth

but to find that

this is already home~~

October's message~~

 

October's message~

a seeming end

of a story of green

summer ending in 

glamorous explosion~

green and fresh

busyness ending in a

celebration of  the

appearance of death~

that's the story 

a perennial story~

a story composed

as not knowing~~

Love is not~~

 

Love

is not a thing

and there are

no things~

Love

is not

yet appears~~

Simultaneity~~

 

Simultaneity

implies time

and conjures a

story of 

all at once~

perhaps a peek

at the eternal

appearing as

Simultaneity~~

Paradox~

 

Without

paradox 

dancing 

as opposites

linear stories

fill the room~

linearity finds

something missing

and a search 

is underway~~ 

Ultimately~~

 

What's

worth noting

seems to be

that words used

to end the search

may well extend

the search~~

Ultimately

there is nothing~

and if nothing

resonates

(for no one)

what-is may

seem already

miraculous

or ordinary~~

Nothing makes truthful all that is said..

 

Nothing

negates what 

appears and

makes truthful

all that is said~~

The Sun appears in story and song~

 

The Sun

appears in

story and song

with a constant

never changing

countenance but

hidden by moods 

mild and furious

in weather's dressings~

a permanent visage

in temporary duds

a perfect picture of

what seems to be~~

Photos are appearances~~

 

Photos 

are appearances

already not seen

gone with the wind

on a windless day~

inexplicable stories

which

never were true~~

My Pencil Life~(Andy Coon, 13 years old!)

 

Appearances are Appearances~~

 

Appearances

are all at once

everything appearing~

this appearance and that

wide or narrow focus

whatever differences

appearances are

Appearances~~

No other~

 

No other

defies experience

is inexplicable

disregarded~

except seemingly

when "recognized"

by no one at all

as unconditional grace~~

Grace is~~

 

Grace

   is

a "recognition"

   of

the nothingness

   of

everything

   by

no one at all~~

Images~

Images

are simply

nothing appearing

for no one~

an amazing story

which is also

nothing appearing

for no one~~

No kings~

 

No kings

no glorified self

no hierarchy

no separation

already~

Stillness moves~

 

Stillness moves

paradoxically said

as grammarly notion

where separation seems~

stillness is unknown

appearing though

as movement

separately noticed and

crowned as life

hiding and revealing

Stillness~~

No Compromise

 

No compromise~

compromise is an

appearance of

nothing as are

all activities~

with and within

 nothing 

there is simply

No compromise~~

Autumnal Tints..

Death

in autumn

colors in their beauty

falling without fear

without grief

simply ending the

story of the summer's

green outgrowth~

similarity cries out~~

Autumnal Tints in Concord.

"It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay themselves down and turn to mould!—painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us living. So they troop to their last resting place, light and frisky. They put on no weeds, but merrily they go scampering over the earth, selecting the spot, choosing a lot, ordering no iron fence, whispering all through the woods about it,—some choosing the spot where the bodies of men are mouldering beneath, and meeting them half-way. How many flutterings before they rest quietly in their graves! They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high! They teach us how to die."

-From "Autumnal Tints" by Henry Thoreau; 1862.

Too many words~

 

Too many words

or too few~

relating to

expressions of

This~

futile they are

as all expressions

are already This~~

Unpredictable

and predictable

neither and both

may refer to

This imagined

as unknown~

Absurdity~

 

Absurdity

tries and mostly

fails to

tear open the

grip of 

linearity

of separation

as the

overwhelmingly

favorite perspective~

the perspective of

the suffering

seeker~~

A tale that cannot be told~

 

The end

of separation is

a tale often told~

but it is a tale

that cannot be told~

the end of separation

eliminates the teller~

but the tale is told

anyway

by no one~~

Stillness~

 

Stillness

appears as each

noisy hour with its

stories of struggle

and of cheer~

Deja vu

 

Never

is there a

deja vu~though 

stories tell of

finding duplication of

past happenings~

this is the

first and last

happening

as it is~

yet

deja vu

sticks with

the story

which is also

as it is~~

Call me Whiteness~

 

Call me Whiteness~

whiteness arising

with Ahab's death~

death of attachment

to things separate

similar are ours~

these are nothing but

Whiteness expressed~~