Mass Shootings

Mass Shootings

The search for answers

to tragedies deemed 

newly normal  routine..

Violence in our days

in our neighborhoods
with questions arising:
terrorism?
guns?
mental health?
Questions deal with
exceptions to what
real reality is
assumed to be
in sheltered lives..
A return is sought
to simpler days
 happier headlines..
Perhaps
we need look differently
examine our looking
how we perceive
the reality we
are so sure is real..
In our looking
separation is obvious
apparent to all
no need to question
this solid reality..
Alas,our answer hides
ancient wisdom 
pointing to a
persistent mirage...!

STRETCH...December 14th, 2015

STRETCH...

December 14th, 2015

MacKenzie Place: 4:00 to 6:00 PM

(Corner of Fillmore and Union)

Facilitator:  Charlie Coon

No cost

We will continue to explore the nonduality teachings of Rupert Spira...

Paul Cézanne said, “Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn’t it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.”     That statement must be one of the clearest and most profound expressions of the nature and purpose of art in our era.
 ~~Rupert Spira

This excerpt from Rupert's "Nature's Eternity" comes from an amazing website which relates the work of artists to non duality: 

 The Awakened Eye

See:  http://theawakenedeye.com/pages/natures-eternity/

The Real Universe

The Real Universe

The universe

is it finite or infinite..?

If experienced as finite

its independence as form

 is illusion..

What is Real is 

our perceiving or knowing

which is our experience 

of  mere shaping

of infinite Consciousness..

Yielding the Reality that

the universe is made

of Consciousness:

the beginning of

a Revolution...!

Lakeside Advent

Lakeside Advent

From  silent Bethlehem

comes new understanding..

An awareness of our

lives in separation

 longings for return

to home and peace..

From ancient days

from beyond time

the birth of a child

is experienced Now

as simply I am..

A silent recognition

of grace

may arrive with 

longing and searching

or more directly

sitting on a bench

lakeside...

Everything vanishes (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cézanne said, “Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn’t it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.”   That statement must be one of the clearest and most profound expressions of the nature and purpose of art in our era. 

~~Rupert Spira

This excerpt comes from an amazing website:

The Awakened Eye

See:  http://theawakenedeye.com/pages/natures-eternity/

Non dual perception

On nondual perception:

I reasoned that if these two elements – the presence of an object in itself and the consciousness to which it appears – are essential ingredients of every object, there must be a relationship between them. So I began to explore the relationship between consciousness and its object, between that which sees, hears, feels and thinks and that which is seen, heard, felt and thought about. I reasoned that if there is a distinction between the two, there must be some perceivable interface or border between them. I looked for such a border between the subject and its object, but could not find one.

– Rupert Spira

Meeting the Self

Understand that what we most need

and love is our own Self, and that it is not

something far away out of reach.  It is this 

very Self which, here and now, is aware of

these words and whatever else you are

experiencing in this moment.  It is also the

same Self that is experiencing everything

that everybody else and every creature is

experiencing in this moment.

~~Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence