The Seeming

The Seeming

that which seems

are appearances

from perceiving or

 projecting the world:

 the news

the coming election

that caravan..

these paint our canvas

and we..by habit

become the paint..

we are disturbed

as much

seems disturbing:

disturbance adds paint

to our canvas..

the times are cunning

as Shakespeare warns..

might we see through

our deceptive paint...?

("The seeming truth

which cunning times

put on to entrap

the wisest."

William Shakespeare)

The temporary..

Every year we have been
witness to it: how the
world descends
into a rich mash, in order that
it may resume.
And therefore
who would cry out
to the petals on the ground
to stay,
knowing, as we must,
how the vivacity of what was, is married
to the vitality of what will be?
I don’t say
it’s easy, but what
else will do
if the love one claims to have for the world
be true?
So let us go on, cheerfully enough,
this and every crisping day,
though the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.
~ Mary Oliver, “Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness” in A Thousand Mornings

Waves of Light

Waves of Light

You are 'there', I 'here'. Worlds separate us,
Death's angels, the void of space...
Yet I say your name, and waves of Light
Wash to me silently from your Heart.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

Charlie P's Nuggets of Wisdom!

Charlie P's Nuggets of Wisdom!

1000 words he gave us:
4 years of accumulation
keepers..!
These words are about waking
waking to Who I Am:
a new identity that is not new..
with this realized identity
we know we live here and now
only here and now..and when we
venture to there and then
we find suffering as the pull of
grace..advising return...

Thanks, CP..!

CC - I found this in reviewing my keeper files created 4 years ago.  Some of these 25 messages seem to resonate quite well with some of your blogs and some of the subjects we've been kicking about rather recently.  And some are ancient wisdom.
CP

Subject: 25 Messages from God (Source)

Here, in one thousand words, is all that the human race needs to know in order to live the life for which it has yearned and which, despite trying for thousands of years, it has yet to produce. Carry these messages to your world:

1. We are all One. All things are One Thing. There is only One Thing, and all things are part of the One Thing there is. This means that you are Divine. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. You are the unique combination of all three, which comprises the Totality Of You. You are an individuation of Divinity; an expression of God on Earth.

2. There’s enough. It is not necessary to compete for, much less fight over, your resources. All you have to do is share. 

3. There's nothing you have to do. There is much you will do, but nothing you are required to do. God wants nothing, demands nothing, commands nothing.

4. God talks to everyone, all the time. The question is not: To whom does God talk? The question is: Who listens?

5. There are Three Basic Principles of Life: Functionality, Adaptability, and Sustainability.

6. There is no such thing as Right and Wrong, there is only What Works and What Does Not Work, given what it is you are trying to do.

7. In the spiritual sense, there are no victims and no villains in the world, although in the human sense it appears that there surely are. Yet because you are Divine, everything that happens ultimately benefits you.

8. No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.

9. There is no such place as hell, and eternal damnation does not exist.

10. Death does not exist. What you call “death” is merely a process of Re-Identification.

11. There is no such thing as Space and Time, there is only Here and Now.

12. Love is all there is.

13. You are the creator of your own reality, using the Three Tools of Creation: Thought, Word, and Action.

14. Your life has nothing to do with you. It is about everyone whose life you touch and how you touch it.

15. The purpose of your life is to re-create yourself anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are.

16. The moment you declare anything, everything unlike it will come into the space. This is the Law of Opposites, producing a contextual field within which that which you wish to express may be experienced.

17. There is no such thing as Absolute Truth. All truth is subjective. Within this framework there are five levels of truth telling: Tell your truth to yourself about yourself; Tell your truth to yourself about another; Tell your truth about yourself to another; Tell your truth about another to another; Tell your truth to everyone about everything.

18. The human race lives within a precise set of illusions. The Ten Illusions of Humans are Need Exists, Failure Exists, Disunity Exists, Insufficiency Exists, Requirement Exists, Judgment Exists, Condemnation Exists, Conditionality Exists, Superiority Exists, and Ignorance Exists. These illusions are meant to serve humanity, but it must learn how to use them.

19. The Three Core Concepts of Holistic Living are Honesty, Awareness, and Responsibility. Live according to these precepts and self-anger will disappear from your life.

20. Life functions within a Be-Do-Have paradigm. Most people have this backward, imagining that first one must “have” things in order to “do” things, thus to “be” what they wish to be. Reversing this process is the fastest way to experience mastery in living. 

21. There are Three Levels of Awareness: Hope, Faith and Knowing. Spiritual mastery is about living from the third level.

22. There are Five Fallacies about God that create crisis, violence, killing, and war. First, the idea that God needs something. Second, the idea that God can fail to get what He needs. Third, the idea that God has separated you from Him because you have not given Him what He needs. Fourth, the idea that God still needs what He needs so badly that God now requires you, from your separated position, to give it to Him. Fifth, the idea that God will destroy you if you do not meet His requirements.

23. There are also Five Fallacies about Life that likewise create crisis, violence, killing, and war. First, the idea that human beings are separate from each other. Second, the idea that there is not enough of what human beings need to be happy. Third, the idea that in order to get the stuff of which there is not enough, human beings must compete with each other. Fourth, the idea that some human beings are better than other human beings. Fifth, the idea that it is appropriate for human beings to resolve severe differences created by all the other fallacies by killing each other.

24. You think you are being terrorized by other people, but in truth you are being terrorized by your beliefs. Your experience of yourself and your world will shift dramatically if you adopt, collectively, the Five Steps to Peace:

• Permit yourself to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.

• Explore the possibility that there is something you do not fully understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which would change everything.

• Announce that you are willing for new understandings of God and Life to now be brought forth, understandings that could produce a new way of life on this planet.

• Courageously examine these new understandings and, if they align with your personal inner truth and knowing, enlarge your belief system to include them.

• Express your life as a demonstration of your highest beliefs, rather than as a denial of them.

25. Let there be a New Gospel for all the people of Earth: “We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”

Sinking

Sinking

we have a glimpse

an early understanding

of who we are..

the glimpse gained entry

via thoughts and feelings..

with this glimpse

the ego arises

draped as thought 

and feeling

and makes mention

with congratulatory 

exuberance..that we

have at long last

discovered our self..

but in quiet moments

the ego is afraid of

the vast blue sea

which we also have

glimpsed..surrounding 

these thoughts and

feelings..

we have a cultured

ego which has been

living protected for

these..our many years..

but now the sea

threatens our self:

as sea stories 

often end

in sinking...

Mark Twain dreams

Mark Twain dreams

In progress


Thanks, CP, for your thoughts!
CC et al -
        Mark Twain's experience in dreamland is quite interesting, and I can relate a bit, because in my dreams everything seems real and normal, but upon awakening and remembering the dream I always think:  That dream contained an activity that made no sense what so ever in real life.  (I know, some will say every dream has some kind of metaphorical meaning or message)
        I'm certainly hoping the Afterlife is not like the dreamland I experience, 'though we are told there are similarities like..... we can create something at will.
        The line from Shakespeare is meaningful:  "To die, to sleep - to sleep - perhaps to dream:  ay, there's the rub...... for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause"
        Of course, we all relate to dreams; they happen every night.  Do they really have a purpose?  "Of course" so many will say.  I once owned a BMW motorcycle.  Two times I dreamed I wrecked it and died from the crash.  I sold it shortly after the second dream.
CP

Mark Twain:  My Platonic Sweetheart
https://harpers.org/archive/1912/12/my-platonic-sweetheart/

Blog, Consciousness Unbound:  Mark Twain and the World of Dreams
http://consciousnessunbound.blogspot.com/2018/10/mark-twain-and-world-of-dreams.html

“For everything in a dream is more deep and strong and sharp and real than is ever its pale imitation in the unreal life that is ours when we go about awake and clothed with our artificial selves in this vague and dull-tinted artificial world.”  ~Mark Twain

“When we die we shall slough off this cheap intellect and go abroad into dreamland clothed in our real selves . . ..” ~Mark Twain

I

I

This name 

if you haven't noticed

is everyone's name..

To find our identity

all that is needed is to

consider our name..

Why do each of us

have the same name..?

after all..we all seem 

so different..

Does I really mean I..?

We must take notice:

I seems vast

but also seems limited

and located

and moving to and fro

and with this notion

we seem to forget 
our Name..

That's about it..!

(All religions are formed
after someone notices..)

Bhagavan [Ramana Maharshi] said, “In the vision of death, though all the senses were benumbed, the aham sphurana (Self-awareness) was

clearly evident, and so I realised that it was that awareness that we call ‘I’, and not the body. This Self-awareness never decays. It is unrelated to anything. It is Self-luminous. Even if this body is burnt, it will not be affected. Hence, I realised on that very day so clearly that that was ‘I’.”

From: Letters from Ramanashramam

Suri Nagamma

Thanks to Deepak Bee