Glowing words~~

 

A collection

of words appear as

a story~

interpretations arise

telling more stories~

The original story

glows unseen in the

rear view mirror but

let's stay on the road

and watch for glowing

words ahead~

The search proceeds~~

A story line~

 

You are silence~

That's 

a story line

involving a 

character 

referenced as "you"

and a suggestion

you and silence

are not two~~

Words

express and suggest~

Suggest wholeness

and separation

simultaneously~

Rendering words

inexplicable~

Nevertheless~~

Biblical quotes~~

 

The Bible

has explosive words

as does Shakespeare

and Walt Whitman~

The words invite use

for new explosive stories~~

"I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than from anything else in the English Language—and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music."

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Lacks one lacks both~~

 

Lacks one 

lacks both~is

Walt Whitman's 

statement of

not two~

Not two

points to the

paradoxical story:

nothing appearing

as two~~

"Lacks one lacks both"

~~Walt Whitman

A surprise may land~~

 

"Me"

the character

in the story is

empty as is 

everything

including the

choices which

bend the story~~

We're

not where

we think we are

and not there

either~~

A

surprise may land

or may not

that all words are

indefinable~

Who woulda thot~~

Nothing

is something~

That's the whole enchilada~~

Wholeness and Separation~~

Wholeness

appears as 

separation~

words may appear 

as dogma

as paradoxical 

as a strange story~

No word fixes

Apparently~~

Wholeness

no definition~

Separation

no definition~

Seeming as

No-definition

appearances

of separation

of wholeness~~

Wholeness

indefinable

presents as

Separation

definable~so

Wholeness is

definable and

not~as is

Separation~~

Invitations~(Self Inquiry)

Self Inquiry

a process

critiqued as denial

of what is sought

and praised as a

path to discard

those hinderances

to a new you~

Both are stories

inviting a resonance

in "recognizing" 

these are stories

appearing empty

and already whole~~

Life as ongoing inquiry

An excerpt from the book Seeing No-Self

Kat (Katrijn) Van Oudheusden

Feb 24

Continue to remind yourself of what you are, even though there is no one to make that happen.

Society continually interacts with you as a separate self, so reminders are needed, often for many years, as the identification with selfing slowly unwinds.

Eventually, reminders are no longer necessary, because no-self is the default.

The seeming act of inquiring disappears, and life becomes ongoing inquiry in the sense of a simple, constant knowing of nondual Awareness even as experience remains dual. I know that I am and that there is no self, even when experience continues as a body-mind.

Whenever we are pulled back into identification with the separate self, sooner or later there is a spontaneous reawakening.

We don’t have to worry, because what has been seen cannot be unseen.

More and more, we will simply know.

More and more, we know ourselves as the sky that we always already were.

This process does itself.

There is nothing for you to make happen.

This is the last excerpt for now. Seeing No-Self will launch next week, on March 3rd.

Please support this work by buying the book and/or gifting it to others, as this will increase its reach: Worldwide on Amazon, from most online booksellers, or via Bookshop.org in the UK and US to support local bookstores. Thank you! 🙏

If this shoe fits~

 

The

character 

plays a role

and may seem to

be independent and

solitary~someone with

choices to make and

successes to realize~

If this shoe fits 

we're already wearing it~

Until the word "seem"

seems explosive~~

Unfolding~

Unfolding 

interpretations

claims and intents

clarity and confusion 

appear to 

confine words~ 

Which cannot be 

confined~~

Back to Eden~

 

Parables

live east of Eden

as destroyers of

the baggage and

passport of

a traveler headed

back to Eden~~

It's not known~

 

It's

not known..

there may be

an urge to find

the known

that is missing~

And the missing

may be found~

Only to find

the missing is

not known~~

Filters~~

Parables 

strip the concepts 

and certainties filtering

what seems there~  

Revealing an unfiltered

and inexplicable

immediacy~~

Filters

of what seems there

provide the stories we tell~~

Walking

and encountering

separate footsteps 

and scenes~

Simply the magic of

what's not~~

I am

melts away

yielding the

empty character

playing a role of

I am melting~

That

over there

may appear empty

as it always has

appeared~~

Advice

to a 

problem solver

might be that

the solution will

be as perfect

as the problem~~

A bridge too far~

You

are not separate~

Said to be radical

and for some

a bridge too far~

You want to 

witness and enjoy

the fruits of earned 

awakening and not

to be told there

is no one to awaken~

A seeming death

on the doorstep~

Keeping the search

alive expecting the

Gold~~

Separation of powers~

Separation

of powers

the document says~

a composed separation

creating  a

caution of balance

and a balm for

the ravages of

conditioned

Separation~~

Persuading a knower..

 

Not knowing

may appear 

as a narrative

persuading a knower 

that there is 

something to know..

Already~~

 

Already~

a word which

appears to point 

to the whole

unknown canvas

of what's already

happening~

The calendar~

 

Birth

and death are

time's measure

in stories that

decorate the

calendar~

The calendar appearing 

dreamlike between~~

Contradictions~~

 

Contradictions

oppositional stories

appear and disappear

as That which may

appear as a multitude of

Contradictions..

What's 

happening is

Not-known

appearing as a

thought

as people

as people thinking

or not thinking

as people thinking

about an overripe banana~

no-end to all This~~

Life appears strange~

 

Life 

appears strange

and happiness may

arise separate

from sorrow 

and not separate

from nothing~~

Let there be shadows~

 

Light

inexplicable light

already appears as

the story

via definable 

shadows~

let there be 

shadows~~

Blurred markings~

 

Blurred

markings and

subtle words

may be aimed to

render nothing

as form but to

discover

separation appears

like ice cream

in all stories~~

Appearance of continuity~

 

Continuity

is assumed~

before and after

framing stories

which appear to

rewrite what is

spontaneously

happening~~

Ambiguity~~

 

The 

word "self" 

is ambiguous~

Separate self? 

Character self? 

No self? 

Functioning self? 

Empty self? 

Each provides its own story

of the appearing self

which is the power of 

ambiguity~ 

apparently~~🥸

By-passing~

 

There 

is no by-passing 

in inclusivity

in totality

in appearance~ 

Everything appears

seemingly equal~  

The relative story 

may appear otherwise

with by-passing

an interesting 

possibility~~

Sense of completeness~~

 

The 

appearing "you" 

may or may not

seek a teacher 

or guru to assist 

in gaining a sense 

of completeness

which seems 

missing~~ 

Unknowably appearing~~

 

Reality 

cannot be defined

but seems obvious~

if a thought arises 

reality includes the thought~

Reality is This

is all inclusive and

unknowably appearing~~ 

emojis...

 

Markings 

of fb entries

with emojis' 

separation

comparison

judgement~

these are

other stories

appearing

and casting

new glows 

new shadows

for no one~~

Red Bowl~

 

Red Bowl~

a name 

is limiting in

stories but

not limiting

when a story is

"recognized"

as empty~~ 

Unknowable~

What

is happening 

is unknowable~

which is another

empty story about

knowing~

but with pause 

the words

may seem  

unknowable

exploding 

unconditional

silence~~ 

Full of two~

 

Life 

and death 

are not two~

light and shadow

autumn leaves

ocean waves

wheelbarrows

and chickens~

emptiness

full of two~~

Seems like peace~~

 

Not~

not two

not one 

not separate

not whole

not life

not death

not other

not these words

not appearance~

seems like the peace 

of no understanding~~

Home~~

 

Home

appears~

it is and

is not

Home~~

Enlightenment

a claimed event

in a story of

someone who

wants to 

stick around~~

Cup of coffee~

 

Nothing

is a cup of coffee

as is everything~~

The

fullness of

nothing 

appears in

stories arising

spontaneously~

there may be 

an appearance

of a writer

but that is

another story~~ 

Appearances

abound and

may present as

an oil rig or

a unicorn~~