Glowing words~~

 

A collection

of words appear as

a story~

interpretations arise

telling more stories~

The original story

glows unseen in the

rear view mirror but

let's stay on the road

and watch for glowing

words ahead~

The search proceeds~~

A story line~

 

You are silence~

That's 

a story line

involving a 

character 

referenced as "you"

and a suggestion

you and silence

are not two~~

Words

express and suggest~

Suggest wholeness

and separation

simultaneously~

Rendering words

inexplicable~

Nevertheless~~

Biblical quotes~~

 

The Bible

has explosive words

as does Shakespeare

and Walt Whitman~

The words invite use

for new explosive stories~~

"I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than from anything else in the English Language—and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music."

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Lacks one lacks both~~

 

Lacks one 

lacks both~is

Walt Whitman's 

statement of

not two~

Not two

points to the

paradoxical story:

nothing appearing

as two~~

"Lacks one lacks both"

~~Walt Whitman

A surprise may land~~

 

"Me"

the character

in the story is

empty as is 

everything

including the

choices which

bend the story~~

We're

not where

we think we are

and not there

either~~

A

surprise may land

or may not

that all words are

indefinable~

Who woulda thot~~

Nothing

is something~

That's the whole enchilada~~

Wholeness and Separation~~

Wholeness

appears as 

separation~

words may appear 

as dogma

as paradoxical 

as a strange story~

No word fixes

Apparently~~

Wholeness

no definition~

Separation

no definition~

Seeming as

No-definition

appearances

of separation

of wholeness~~

Wholeness

indefinable

presents as

Separation

definable~so

Wholeness is

definable and

not~as is

Separation~~

Invitations~(Self Inquiry)

Self Inquiry

a process

critiqued as denial

of what is sought

and praised as a

path to discard

those hinderances

to a new you~

Both are stories

inviting a resonance

in "recognizing" 

these are stories

appearing empty

and already whole~~

Life as ongoing inquiry

An excerpt from the book Seeing No-Self

Kat (Katrijn) Van Oudheusden

Feb 24

Continue to remind yourself of what you are, even though there is no one to make that happen.

Society continually interacts with you as a separate self, so reminders are needed, often for many years, as the identification with selfing slowly unwinds.

Eventually, reminders are no longer necessary, because no-self is the default.

The seeming act of inquiring disappears, and life becomes ongoing inquiry in the sense of a simple, constant knowing of nondual Awareness even as experience remains dual. I know that I am and that there is no self, even when experience continues as a body-mind.

Whenever we are pulled back into identification with the separate self, sooner or later there is a spontaneous reawakening.

We don’t have to worry, because what has been seen cannot be unseen.

More and more, we will simply know.

More and more, we know ourselves as the sky that we always already were.

This process does itself.

There is nothing for you to make happen.

This is the last excerpt for now. Seeing No-Self will launch next week, on March 3rd.

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