How long?

How long?

This is a question of 
Self-Inquiry
Time as thought
a mind presses
the question
 impatience laden
enduring waiting
and longing..
With a final sigh
of exhaustion 
 the mind fades
at last
into the Grace
now absorbing
the illusive time...

Psalm 13  (NRSV)

Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

To the leader. A Psalm of David.

1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?

    How long will you hide your face from me?

2 How long must I bear pain in my soul,

    and have sorrow in my heart all day long?

   How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God!

    Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

4 and my enemy will say, “I have prevailed”;

    my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

5 But I trusted in your steadfast love;

    my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

6 I will sing to the Lord,

    because he has dealt bountifully with me.

"Sooner or later the question of 'Who am I' will have to be faced. All [practice] that leads to this question is good. For, by itself, nothing else is fully effective since Self-knowledge comes only through Self-Inquiry. Other methods purify the mind and help it to see its own limits. When the mind comes to the end of its resources, and stands baffled before the unanswerable question, then a Higher Power takes charge of the mind and the Self stands revealed as the real, the wonderful." 

— Ramana Maharshi (Non-duality Sage, 1879-1950)

Robotic transparency

Robotic transparency 

Transparency is the benefactor

of the robotic replacement

of those work lines which

are most heavy and opaque..

This freedom birthing 

of the human mind

freeing to find the 

natural transparency 

which has always been

although not recognized

its transcendent state...

Many economists and technologists believe the world is on the brink of a new industrial revolution, in which advances in the field of artificial intelligence will obsolete human labor at an unforgiving pace. Two Oxford researchers recently analyzed the skills required for more than 700 different occupations to determine how many of them would be susceptible to automation in the near future, and the news was not good: They concluded that machines are likely to take over 47 percent of today’s jobs within a few decades. (The Atlantic)

Background of Stillness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee14Sz9NTXg

Self luminous

Self luminous

An experience

of self-luminosity 

is identical with

I am..

Might we be

simply Aware

and find our

Yes

in response to

the availability

always of

this limitless

and luminous

experience..?

Best Kept Secret

Best Kept Secret

Retaining dual visions

culture's philosophy 

overlooks simplicity

and the power of each of us

to know that we know..

Know that we know

before the cultural blanket

tells us that knowing

requires what is known..

So we ask ourselves

if we know only ourselves

Here and Now..?

Is the I Am of scripture

our most rooted

living experience..?

Is this the secret

best kept by the

centuries..?

Ascend a mountain

Va’etchanan in a Nutshell
Deuteronomy 3:23–7:11

Moses tells the people of Israel how he implored G‑d to allow him to enter the Land of Israel, but G‑d refused, instructing him instead to ascend a mountain and see the Promised Land. (Chabad.org)












That is why they have never understood us. We are counter-intuitive to them. "Why," they moan, "are you looking for G-d in those strange places? Don't you know G-d is to be found in the universal, in the heavenly, in those matters so general as to encompass all mankind? What is your obsession with the minutiae of material ritual and physical objects?"

But this is us. They search for G-d up on high. We find G-d in the woolen strings hanging from our clothes, in the light of a wax candle and a cup of wine, in the sound of children's voices reading His Torah, in the crunch and swallow of a matzah on Passover night. (Tzvi Freeman)

THAT

The written word

wears limitation

it seems to delineate

this from THAT..

Thus separation rises

and claims a center

casting a shadow

over THAT..

Our remedy

seems as this:

each word in

its limiting claim

lives in polarity

a mid frequency

mid high and low..

Its edges are softened

possibilities reign

relationships spring..

And reaching high

we experience 

word annihilation

leaving only THAT...