Directly go

Directly go

here is a message
that will reply to
your shortage of time~~
if you are looking
for fulfillment via
a step-by-step road
and find temporary
uplifts along your way
but your wish is for 
a permanent arrival~~
there is a road by
which you can go 
and find you have 
already arrived~~!
just stop!  and recognize
how all of your roads 
have many destinations 
named: Nowhere~~~!

"When Ramana Maharshi was suddenly overcome by the fear of death, he lay down on the ground and simply asked himself, 'What is the essential nature of myself? What cannot be removed from myself? What happens to awareness when the body dies?' In other words, he spontaneously engaged in the process of self-investigation.

As a compassionate concession to people's difficulties and objections, all the great spiritual and religious traditions have enumerated various disciplines and practices to refine and prepare the mind for its eventual subsidence in its source or essence.
Ramana Maharshi bypassed all these progressive means and went directly from his current experience to the essential nature of his mind, thus resurrecting the Direct Path for our age.
This is the age of the Direct Path."
~ Rupert Spira ~

Freedom and power

Jesus' primary teaching for humanity entails recognition by each of us of our real Identity: a connection with our Source. This recognition transcends all religion, including, of course, Christianity. However, there has been a tragic attachment by some, claiming to be Christians, with the power of the state. This attachment is centuries-old, and leads to a clouding of the available freedom that Jesus pointed to in his primary teaching. Dobson is simply a latter day manifestation of someone with this attachment. What is the value of Jesus' teaching of Identity, and the associated freedom, for Dr. Dobson, and for many others? A question for our time... 


The above in response to Dr. Dobson's report (linked) on his visit to the southern border:
https://drjamesdobson.org/about/july-newsletter-2019?sc=FSCNL0719FB&fbclid=IwAR2PlWvjLwGAWTvfPH-eSF421nxjlLSYvQ3UyJDjTTra-rtNghn52bHygOE

Seeking and Resisting

Seeking and Resisting

when we recognize
these two qualities of
life in separation
we are then ready
to recognize our true
Nature..
without this recognition
life as desperation 
remains our lot
as the desperation prods
the recognition...

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

the simplicity
of drawing attention
to that which lies
between the lines
and words of story
is forgiveness..
nothing more..
the mind is inept
however frantic its
search..as story reigns..
while forgiveness glows
in the gaps...




Mooji...Check in with Yourself
http://online-satsang.com/hp_wordpress/?p=2334

Rupert Spira and Lisa...The Direct Approach to the Light of Pure Knowing (at ending
is a great lesson on Forgiveness!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuudCtLudFc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3c8OjyiBpGVk5_RnRxSV-KezN3BMKerjeC3_G-HHmiq8Y4j9DP3vOEJeM

Thomas Obscured

Thomas Obscured

forgotten 
by our religion
we have avoided
this channel to truth..
it is a direct channel
not impeded by tenets 
and teachings which
veil that which
is obscured..
there is a fear
perhaps
which holds the
veil in place..
a glimpse plus
some courage
and we are pushed..
recognizing Peace...

The Wax of our Being

The Wax of our Being

schedules arise within
time's seeming presence..
placed with  projections
of time's spacial future..

our freedom is at stake
as the schedule separates
and controls..

until we recognize
these thoughts and
projections are all
made of the
Wax of our Being...

Thirst...Mary Oliver

"Thirst" by Mary Oliver

Another morning and I wake with thirst
for the goodness I do not have. I walk
out to the pond and all the way God has
given us such beautiful lessons. Oh Lord,
I was never a quick scholar but sulked
and hunched over my books past the hour
and the bell; grant me, in your mercy,
a little more time. Love for the earth
and love for you are having such a long
conversation in my heart. Who knows what
will finally happen or where I will be sent,
yet already I have given a great many things
away, expecting to be told to pack nothing,
except the prayers which, with this thirst,
I am slowy learning.

— Mary Oliver, Thirst

Thirst..quotes from Goodreads..
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/42104-thirst-poems

Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration...Brain Pickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/12/mary-oliver-upstream-creativity-power-time/

Rupert Spira: God is the Very Self of Each of Us  (Excellent!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWIcYbtsEc&fbclid=IwAR0GRL9XpEG9t2B76xTtQVx3sdhC_XrsT8qwQA-F-BSr5WgKPebhGGT6e7k

Rupert Spira:  Exploration in Non=duality for Painters (Cezanne, and Rupert's bowls to words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_eqE_5CuA

"Suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body. When you put your hand in the fire, you experience pain. The pain is not a mistake, it’s not something that’s wrong. The pain is the intelligence of the body, telling you: take your hand out of the fire. So pain is working on behalf of your wellbeing. Suffering is exactly the same at the level of the mind. It is cooperating with your desire for happiness. It’s telling you, you’ve got your hand in the fire. In this case suffering is telling you: You have mistaken yourself for a seperate limited awareness. Take a look. That’s what suffering is. It’s a wakeup call. It’s saying: You have mistaken yourself for an object, a limited self. Have another look!"
~~Rupert Spira

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Wild Geese
Mary Oliver