Six Recognitions of the Lord (Mary Oliver)

Praying

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

~~Mary Oliver, in Thirst



Six Recognitions of the Lord

I know a lot of fancy words.
I tear them from my heart and my tongue.

Then I pray…..

I lounge on the grass, that’s all. So
simple. Then I lie back until I am
inside the cloud that is just above me
but very high, and shaped like a fish.
Or, perhaps not. Then I enter the place
of not-thinking, not-remembering, not-
wanting. When the blue jay cries out his
riddle, in his carping voice, I return.
But I go back, the threshold is always
near. Over and back, over and back. Then
I rise. Maybe I rub my face as though I
have been asleep. But I have not been
asleep. I have been, as I say, inside
the cloud, or, perhaps, the lily floating
on the water. Then I go back to town,
to my own house, my own life, which has
now become brighter and simpler, some-
where I have never been before.

~~Mary Oliver, in Thirst

MO in New Yorker:  What Mary Oliver's Critics Don't Understand
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/what-mary-olivers-critics-dont-understand

Holy Humor Sunday

In humor

the boundaries of belief

are shattered with

explosive expansion

loss of control

and happiness..

Suddenly 

and with others 

 the careless abandon

is a gateway to

the truthfulness

so often concealed

by those boundaries

we assume..!

Happy HHS...!  :)

Thomas the Twin

Thomas the Twin

Thomas brought our attention

to the reality of seeing and touching..

Seeing and touching reveal Knowing

Knowing is finding

our true Self

as beauty and truth

not the self with nail scars

and those misconceptions..

And then Thomas was told

about those in the future

who would Directly

experience beauty and truth

without the intermediate 

seeing and touching...!

The perennial dance

The perennial dance

They wish to marry

after a number of years..

One is Jewish..the other Christian..

The families of each

seem wary and quietly

oppositional..a dearth of

enthusiasm over a 

ceremony of marriage..

Advice could involve

compromise..a common

denominator..

Agreeing to disagree
adjusting the boundaries

as time moves forward..

The words above 

comprise a shadow

over a holy celebration..

Might we now introduce

the perennial dance:

partners in difference

are..temporarily..painting

the Source 

that Oneness experience

of partners in motion..

This..the perennial dance

a discovery in joy...

Using a thorn to remove a thorn

Using a thorn to remove a thorn

All endeavors in life
need a start in Peace..
Peace is our experience
without the 
thoughts and perceptions
which seem convincingly to
 declare an independent world..
Another name is Silence
which all may experience
any time and any place..
That is the start..
Now appear words
 of sameness and difference
which appear to break
the Peace and Silence..
Words bring longing
for that place before
wounding words unfold..
(The cosmic joke:
the place we were is
the place we are..?)
We await the arrival
of life's many teachers:
scripture and nature
neighbors and friends
an evening concert
 a startling dream..
Teachers carry words
words as thorns
to remove the thorns
which hide the place
we long to return..
And finally: all thorns
burn in the glow
of returning Peace... 
~~CC

Meditation is not an activity. It is the cessation of an activity. 

In the final analysis, nothing that is absolutely true can be said of meditation, not even that it is the cessation of an activity, because meditation takes place or, more accurately, is present beyond the mind and the mind therefore, by definition, has no access to it. 

However, in order to understand that meditation is not an activity, we first come to the understanding that it is the cessation of an activity. This understanding is a very efficient tool for undermining the belief that meditation is something that we do. Once we have fully understood that meditation is not an activity, the activity that we previously considered to be meditation will naturally come to an end. At that point, the understanding that meditation is not an activity has fulfilled its purpose and can also be abandoned. 

Once the thorn has removed the thorn, both are thrown away. ~~~Rupert Spira

Also see:  http://www.nevernotpresent.com/satsangs/thorn-remove-thorn/

Lyn

Lyn

Cheerful..

That one word

seems as our Lyn..

Children and teachers

were infected on those

many schooldays..

And his friends

always seemed warmed

by an uplifting cheer..

His face shone brightly

even on those days

when his own pain

called into question

the clear notes we heard..

There must have been

a permanent flame

deep within..which

 always stood ready

to ignite our own flames

filling our lives

with gratitude for his...

by Charlie Coon

the fractal vibration

this formula

you may recognize 

is the classic fractal formula..

the equal sign is not an equal sign

but a symbol pointing two ways..

the intention is an infinite calculation 

and feedback..a vibration really

within the formula which

we might say is one name of

infinite consciousness..

this is mandelbrot's discovery

not an invention but a discovery

of what has always been..

in the '70's the advent of the

digital computer has allowed

the visualization of the patterns of

 path-formulas of infinite variation

which all of us might discover

on the computer we are using

in this moment..

with this preparation

we might consider that our

thoughts and perceptions

are the fractal vibrations

within consciousness and

made of consciousness..

it is the consciousness fractal

appearing as the world

and the itch in our knee

apparently all separated until

we remember that formula of 

 fractal vibration...