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ONLY ORIGINAL SILENCE  "....uttered in silence"    April 30, 2019         "...blessing of discord."     "words....turn into silence.

4/30/2019

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ONLY ORIGINAL SILENCE
DESCRIBES THIS CONDITION
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“THIS TOUCH WHERE ‘I’ DISAPPEARS”*
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4:49 AM-4/30/19

 
*arif k
https://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/
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When souls meet each other,
what truth they can exchange!
It is uttered in silence,
yet always surely reaches its goal.


An Indian poet says,
'Pearl-shell, what gives you your precious contents?
Silence; for years my lips were closed.'

  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IV/IV_34.htm

     Bowl of Saki, April 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php
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You must go in quest of yourself, 
and you will find yourself again only 
in the simple and forgotten things. 
Why not go into the forest for a time, 
literally? Sometimes a tree tells you
more than can be read in books
.

~ C.G. Jung 

Bibliography:
– ‘Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul’ – by Claire Dunne – (Watkins Publishing)
– ‘The Earth has a Soul: C.G.Jung on Nature, Technology and Modern Life’ – by C.G. Jung and Meredith Sabini – (North Atlantic Books)

Website:
– Carl Gustav Jung (Wikipedia)
Corinne’s websites: 500px & Galerie photographique 
Corinne's Photograph is on this post link below... with Jung quote...:
:
https://thedawnwithin.com/2019/04/30/the-forgotten-things/
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​"This quiet center,
in which you do nothing,
will remain with you,
giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing
on which you are sent."

 
(T.18.VII.8.3) (ACIM OE T.18.VIII.70)
In other words, we bring the peace to every situation.
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To rest in God is to be in His flow and allow Him to lead the way.
To rest in God is to find our center of peace, if only for a moment,
where we release the external world.
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To rest in God is to know the constancy of the Self
we are and know the changing, seeking, and striving self is an illusion.
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To rest in God is to know we are eternally safe in His loving arms.​
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Today, let us find this place of respite within
and know that in spite of any experiences of stress and turmoil,
the truth is that we are at home,
we are safe,
and we are whole.
When we don't experience this,
we are actually listening to the ego.

Excerpt from:

https://files.constantcontact.com/e46e0407001/7e35535c-4c58-45fd-b595-cd31f9fae9a1.pdf  ​​
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6:31 AM "Sunrise"
Above and Below
​Earlier Sunrise Beach Photos from this morning
According to Man-Made Calculations
Sunrise was at 6:31 AM this morning

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Heading back to Sanctarii Abode as huge rain is on a rapid approach....





AFTERNOON
THE BLESSING OF DISCORD
JOHN MCINTOSH

Disease is never somehow ‘defeated’.
Disease is no more real than the mind that manifested it.
Nothing shows up in your personal experience
that ‘you’ [not YOU] did not project into it.

It is NOT created because only that which is eternal is a True creation …
it is only an additional ‘scene
’ written into your play of life
– just as story.

The body/mind are both a part of these projections
as are the world, the planets, galaxies and universe(s) …
all holographic and very believable stories
YOU as the sleeping God-SELF You Are have made up
​ and stepped into to experience.
When illness shows up in your body,
from a hang-nail to a cancer
it is a ‘projection’ only
​ [usually below the radar of your awareness]
… an amalgam of thoughts co-mingled
with a ‘stew’ of your own unique conditioning
[attachments, expectations and identifications]
and designed to get your ‘attention’
so that you will turn within
and look at and feel what conditioning
is ready to be transformed
[returned to nothing-ness].
​ Few, as yet ‘get’ this
and instead deal with the illness
with a band-aid approach treatment – ‘out there’
rather than inside.
This merely shifts the energy
to reappear elsewhere in your experience
or terminates this particular temporary body you are wearing.

It has NOT ‘gone’ anywhere and ‘
will’ come again
​ ‘somehow’ until it is transformed.
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Everything in your world experience
is a gentle to a shocking ‘tug’ on your ‘attention’
to pull you inside and WILL NOT leave
until you are fully aware of the God You Are.

​This is the enormous blessing of discord.


https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/the-blessing-of-discord
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Rest seems like a nice contrast to overwhelment,
but enthusiasm is always chosen over rest.
The only thing that ever makes you tired
or bogs you down
is resistance.

http://abrahamquotes.com/2019/04/daily-quote-june-10-2017/  ​
Overwhelment is about you
not being up to speed
with what you told the Universe that you want.
The Universe is yielding to you.
​ You’re just not ready to receive it right now.


http://abrahamquotes.com/2019/04/daily-quote-june-9-2017/
The surest sign of spiritual progress
is a total lack of concern about progress. 
There is an utter absence of anxiety
about anything like liberation
and a sort of hollowness in one's being,
a kind of looseness and involuntary surrender
to whatever might happen.

Rasmesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
April 30
The original and eternal state of ours
can no more be described than can the state of deep sleep. 
What spills over into the description
is the sense of peace and contentment, 
but the state itself cannot be defined. 
Beyond merely pointing at it,
words can only turn into silence.


Rasmesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
April 29
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Do everything like it is the last thing you do.
There is nothing to hold back,
​ nothing to save for later.

Sadhguru
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LAID BARE  DENUDED   "What IS, simply IS."    "This giving up..."                         MILESTONE     April 29, 2019

4/29/2019

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Early Morning Note
This entire predawn morning has been very rainy...
NOW...at Sunise Time, all rain has stopped and entire sky VERY dark..
Roosters Crowing from all directions--banana tree at my window dripping with rain drops from so much rain..
Mother Ocean's lull cannot be heard right now with human ears.
The annual Visitation of Flocks of Black Pigeons are swarming in the gardenlot on Pigeon Plumb Tree

http://www.eattheweeds.com/coccoloba-diversifolia-seagrape-sibling-2/
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SO...no walk to sunrise beach this morning
All Sunrise Photos from ARCHIVES
​April 25, 2015

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LAID BARE
DENUDED
NAKED GRACE
< 
NO BATTLES
PHOBIAS OR PANIC
< 
CESSATION OF ALL UNEASE
 &
CHOKING ENTANGLEMENTS
>∞<
THE BREATH THAT BREATHES
THE WIND THAT WHISPERS
THE BIRD THAT GLIDES
THE SMILE THAT SMILES
∞
ALWAYS AND BEFORE/AFTER FOREVER…
AS ALL THAT IS
AH! MA'RIFA*
*
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4:16 AM-4/29/19**
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*In Sufism, ma'rifa (Arabic: معرفة‎, translit. ma‘rifah, lit. 'knowledge')
describes the mystical intuitive knowledge of spiritual truth
reached through ecstatic experiences,
 rather than revealed or rationally acquired.

A seeker of ma'rifa is called
'arif, "the one who knows"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27rifa
...........................................
**When the above Morning Whisper Wrote,
we had absolutely NO CONSCIOUS MEMORY

of the Ma/rifa/arif.k Understanding
OR
 ALL the below quotes chosen PRIOR to this morning
​(..for today's Sharing)
during the last few days...
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​YOU ARE THIS
Part - 3
John McIntosh


When you are ‘Aware’ you have always been Self Realized
[since it is your ever-present Reality]
… IT will have no significance, nor will it be ‘known’ at all.
All labels constructed by the sleeping God-SELF You Are – dissolve,
along with their many meanings.
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The concept of ‘problems’ also disappears
since there is no attachment to consequences …
What IS, simply IS.
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The many reactions emanating from ‘fear’ no longer have life –
Peace, in all circumstances IS.
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Concepts such as sympathy and pity
have also faded into nothing-ness
because the belief in victim-hood
has departed along with separation.
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These have been replaced
with an all-encompassing compassion
for those who still suffer in the world of dreams.
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While the state of Pure Conscious Awareness
may often seem passive and indifferent,
that one knows that everything playing
on the screen of consciousness
‘is’ ONE ‘as’ them
and the Peace, Joy and Love they Are
experiences no separation.
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The vast contrasts apparent throughout humanity,
the world and the universe have melted
into the seamless essence of Beauty
to the one who is Aware of Truth.
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Nor can the endless swirling chaos
of drama within the dream
touch the one who sees
​the Infinite Harmony in diversity.

YOU ARE THIS.


​https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/you-are-this-part-3
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AFTERNOON
Eric Baret - Transmission


The heart is yearning to be open. 
When a heart meets an open heart, 
when a match approaches a lighted match, 
it rejoices in unity, in the flame; 
There is no longer a match. 
This is called transmission. 
But nothing is transmitted. 
No one transmits, no one receives; 
There is heart-to-heart transmission. 
There is only one heart.


http://www.bhairava.ws/ 

http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/04/eric-baret-transmission.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29
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This Giving Up
Rumi

Can you find another market like this?
Where, with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Where, for one seed you get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath, the divine wind?

You have been fearful of being absorbed
in the ground, or drawn up by the air.

Now your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean, where it came from.

This giving up is not a repenting.
It is a deep honoring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly for God's sake.

Don't postpone it. Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder, and become yours.

~ Rumi
translation by Coleman Barks

http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-giving-up.htm
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Heading back to The Sanctarii Abode with Treasure of Coarse Pink Sand for the grandchildren....


​
​See Read More Below
Gathering "rare" low tide coarse sand at Remembrance Rock
Additional Afternoon Photos

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NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE TOUCH      "Become the sky"   4/28/19       "..don't allow yourself to be confused by people."                                         "....the freedom of madness."

4/28/2019

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 REALIZED ORIGINAL ONENESS
JUST IS
​<

OFFERING ONLY A TOUCH
THAT CAN NEVER DIE*
 
THE TOUCH OF A NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE ONE
HAS ALWAYS BEEN
ALWAYS IS
ALWAYS WILL BE

∞
IT IS THE CORE OF ALL
IT IS
 &
THAT IS

=
​
THAT WHICH CANNOT CHANGE**
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4:42 AM-4/28/19
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*i have no thing to offer you, 
but this touch, where i disappear.

arif k
https://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/

**Rather than focus on what needs changing
Turn the attention to what cannot change.

Wu Hsin
Solving Yourself
Aug 19

Also shared here at end of this post:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/invisible-space-arrogance-of-belonging-august-19-2018
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"The spider taketh hold with her hands,
and is in kings' palaces"
 - Proverbs 30:28

See this page for More
re: this Synchronistic Biblical Message of the Spider

https://www.onlythebible.com/Bible-Gems/Wisdom-of-the-Spider.html
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The New Rule
Rumi


It's the old rule that drunks have to argue
and get into fights.
The lover is just as bad. he falls into a hole.
But down in that hole he finds something shining,
worth more than any amount of money or power.
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Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street.
I took it as a sign to start singing,
falling up into the bowl of sky.
The bowl breaks.
​ Everywhere is falling everywhere.
Nothing else to do.
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Here's the new rule: break the wineglass,
and fall toward the glassblower's breath.

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
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Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side.
Die, and be quiet.

​ Quietness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.
The speechless full moon
comes out now.
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"I used to want buyers for my words.
Now I wish someone would buy me away from words.

I've made a lot of charmingly profound images,
scenes with Abraham, and Abraham's father, Azar,
who was also famous for icons.

I'm so tired of what I've been doing.

Then one image without form came,
and I quit.
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​Look for someone else to tend the shop.
I'm out of the image-making business.

Finally I know the freedom
of madness.
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A random image arrives. I scream,
"Get out!" It disintegrates.

Only love.
Only the holder the flag fits into, and wind.
​No flag. "

~  Rumi

​http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-rule.html
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​AFTERNOON
​If you want to perceive and understand objectively,
just don't allow yourself
to be confused by people. 

Detach from whatever
you find inside or outside yourself -
detach from religion, tradition, and society,
and only then will you attain liberation.
​
When you're not entangled in things,
you pass through freely...


Lin Chi
Buddhis
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All explanations are myths
whose truth-value we assign subjectively. 
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They are true only
insofar as we say that they are true. 
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They are stories we conjure up and tell ourselves
in order to make sense of the disconnected,
context-free phantasmagoria of present perception. 
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It makes no sense to proclaim any explanation
for the present to be objectively true...


Bernardo Kastrup
Philosopher
More Than Allegory

Above  in the color font from

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/perspective-carse-lin-chi-kastrup-bailey.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29
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Put thoughts to rest.
The real being, with no status,
is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

If you want to be free,
get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,
but is lively and buoyant.
​It responds with versatile facility, but its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it you become further from it,
when you seek it you turn away from it all the more.
Just put thoughts to rest and don't seek outwardly anymore.
When things come up, then give them your attention;
just trust what is functional in you at present,
and you have nothing to be concerned about.
If you want to perceive and understand objectively,
just don't allow yourself to be confused by people. 
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Detach from whatever you find inside or outside yourself –
detach from religion, tradition, and society,
and only then will you attain liberation.
When you are not entangled in things,
​ you pass through freely to autonomy.



—Lin Chi
​
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/put-thoughts-to-rest.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
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Oh soul-
You worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less-
why do you worry?
You are in truth-
the soul,
of the soul,
of the soul.
~Rumi
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UNSPEAKABLE  UNTHINKABLE             April 27, 2019

4/27/2019

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AH!
ALL IS ONLY A FLEETING GLIMPSE
OF
SHIFTING SANDS
OR
A RAINDROP BECOMING OCEAN

∞
THE UNSPEAKABLE
UNTHINKABLE
INNER CORE ALONE REMAINS

∞

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5:10 AM-4/27/19
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​Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche - The Song of the Vajra

Unborn,
Yet continuing without interruption,
Neither coming nor going, omnipresent,
Supreme Dharma,
Immutable space, beyond definition,
Spontaneously, self-liberating.
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Perfect state without any obstruction,
Existent from the very beginning,
Self created, without location,
With nothing negative to reject,
And nothing positive to accept,
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Infinite expanse, all pervading,
Immense, and limitless, unbound,
With nothing even to dissolve
Or from which to be liberated.
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​Present beyond Space and Time,
Existent from the beginning,
Immense dimension of inner space,
The radiance of clarity is like the sun and the moon,
Self perfected,
As indestructible as the Vajra,...
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​...As stable as a mountain,
As pure as a lotus,
Strong as a lion,
Incomparable bliss
Beyond all limits;
Illumination,
Equanimity,
Peak of the Dharma,
Light of the Universe,
Perfect since the very beginning.


From "The Song of the Vajra", An Oral Commentary by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
read more here
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A mystic is content with nothing
less than to touch the Truth in
its most universal purity.

~~ Ivan Granger
Poetry Chaikhana


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​AFTERNOON
Walk The Earth In Silence

Walk the Earth in Silence,
in the stillness of Being,
communing, listening,
hearing, sensing, feeling.
​Walk the Earth in Silence
of unassuming, open,
receptive, awareness;
leaving only a trace
of a footstep here and there.
​Walk the Earth in Silence
from the stillness of the Heart;
standing at the still-point,
in the hush of the Mystery...
Speak the language of Silence,
Heart to Heart,
whispered wordlessly
in the silent Rhythm...

December 2010

Above in this color font from
each page of

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/
The whole point of life is to live NOW
in this present moment,
always. 

If one makes a fetish
​of improving condition in the future,

one lives neither in the apparent present
nor in the illusory future.

Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
July 25

In above photos, self-timer is clicking every THREE SECONDS....
note how quickly that breaker appeared in the NOW moment seemingly without warning....
​...and disappeared just as suddenly....
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ALL IS AS IT IS    "...nothing to believe."  "..the timeless divine."                           "A wild woman..."        April 26, 2019

4/26/2019

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“DIE & BE QUIET
LIVE IN SILENCE”
*
ALL THINKING >< FEAR-BASED ILLUSION
∞
BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS
AKASHA TAO CORE AWARENESS SUFFICETH 
**
∞
ENOUGH OF MAN-MADE  ILLUSIONS IS ENOUGH
AND YET
ALL IS AS IT IS...
WITH OR WITHOUT
​AN ILLUSORY ME NAMING IT

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*This silence, this moment, every moment, 
if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. 
There's nothing to believe.
 Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.
 Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 
'Be more silent.' 
Die and be quiet.
 Quietness is the surest sign that you've died.
 Your old life was a frantic running from silence. 
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. 

Live in silence.

Rumi

**
Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
John 14. Ruth 2.
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The Sanctuary of Silence - 
Dada Gavand & Angeles Arrien


You cannot meet God through the mind,
nor experience the timeless through time.
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Thought cannot touch the transient.
Only with freedom from thought
and from mental cravings and ambitions
does the energy become
whole, tranquil and pure.
Such inner purity and humility
will invite the hidden divinity.
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The pure consolidated energy
with its silence and fullness within,
awaits in readiness to meet the divine,
to experience that which is beyond the mind.
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There across the region of time
beyond the frontiers of the mind,
within the sanctuary of silence,
resides the supreme intelligence,
the timeless divine.

Dada Gavand
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I trust the Mystery. 
I trust what comes in silence
and what comes in nature
where there's no diversion.
I think the lack of stimulation
allows us to hear and
experience a deeper river
​ that's constant, still,vibrant,
and real.

Angeles Arrien


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​AFTERNOON
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​​I've been walking the acre
of my soul.
It's been so long.
And over there,
the hill I used to sit on.
I'd watch the stars
reflect in the river
when it was tired of
running.
I wonder what the view
is now.

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But it takes at least a day
to get there
and another to sit still
in the grass
and another to wait for
the stars to come out
and another
for the river to tire.
Sure, life keeps
taking us away.
But the only time
I'm free of fear is when I drink
from that river.


~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/26/29455/
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A wild woman is strong and sensitive.
She protects the innocent,
and defends those who can’t defend themselves.
She loves with her whole heart,
and never with half of her heart.
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But do not mistake her kindness for weakness.
That kind of ignorance will leave you
in her trail of magic dust.
Every… single… time.
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Where does this wild woman exist, you ask?
She is everywhere.
She is the unassuming woman at the book store
radiating a quiet confidence you can’t help but notice.
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She is the otherworldly,
offbeat lady at the park dancing barefoot
and alone to music only she can hear.
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She is the sweet but spunky goddess
offering you a warm meal
and a safe place to rest your head
when you’ve lost your way.
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She is the quirky,
tell-it-like-it-is free spirit
with a rare and everlasting fascination for life.
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She is the friend who listens to you
with her undivided attention.
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​She is the keeper of secrets she will never spill.
She is the one who got away.
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Above all, she is magic.
​
~Zella Sage

https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/26/29455/​
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TOUCHSTONE OF SILENT CORE      "..the wind of listening."     "Die and be quiet."   "... miracles...are normal."     April 25, 2019

4/25/2019

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TOUCHSTONE
OF
SILENT ORIGINAL CORE
 USURPS ALL
PETRIFYING/PUTREFYING EXCESS
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5:06 AM-4/25/19
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Sama - Rumi
What is deep listening?

Sama is a greeting from the secret ones inside the heart,
a letter.  The branches of your "intelligence" grow
new leaves in
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwrz9AAAGhH/
The body reaches a peace.
Rooster sound comes, reminding you of your love
for dawn.  The reed flute and thin singer's lips:
the knack of how spirit breathes into us
becomes as simple and ordinary as
eating and drinking.
Listen, and feel the beauty of the
unsayable...
​
​Give more of your life to this listening.
As brightness is to time, so are you to
the one who talks to the deep ear in
your chest.
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand
ears when that one steps near and begins to speak.

Rumi
Excerpt from - The Glance
Coleman Barks version
via The Beauty We Love
~
Sama is the quality of calmness and tranquility
of the mind...It is deep listening as a way
of connecting with the Divine


https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/sama-rumi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29
This silence, this moment, every moment,
if it's genuinely inside you,
brings what you need
There's nothing to believe.
Only when I stopped believing in myself
did I come into this beauty.
​
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Sit quietly,
and listen for a voice that will say,
'Be more silent.'
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Die and be quiet.
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Quietness is the surest sign that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
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​Live in silence.
Rumi
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AFTERNOON
With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

Rumi
 All religions, all this singing, one song.
The differences are just illusion and vanity.
The sun’s light looks a little different
on this wall than it does on that wall,
and a lot different on this other one,
but it’s still one light.

Rumi
Close the door of words
that the window of your heart may open.
To see what cannot be seen
turn your eyes inward
and listen, in silence.

~ Rumi
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whomever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
​EVERYTHING IS HANDLED
JOHN MCINTOSH
​

The false self cannot conceive
of LIFE taking care of everything.
It believes something must be done,
effort must be exerted,
agendas, activities, actions, plans, schemes
must be exercised so that results will ensue,
and it will be cared for
… and hopefully it will thrive and enjoy itself and have wonderful experiences.
This is the lament of the personal identity
which is due to its belief that it is basically alone,
a victim of circumstances
in a dog-eat-dog world.
And yet in the Stillness of your True Reality
EVERYTHING is handled Perfectly
if this personal ‘you’ stays out of the way.

This ‘is’ occurring anyway
but the false self produces endless detours
through its interference,
always laden with struggle, pain, frustration
and the feeling that is has
​ ‘some’ degree of control ...
… it has NONE,
no control over anything whatsoever because,
“of itself it is nothing”.
There is no need at all to tell the God-SELF
what you ‘think’ you need
or ‘how’ to provide it for you.
Whatever is Perfect for your highest good
[which is always and only your return HOME],
is happening with every breath
and there ‘is’ nothing you can do
to interfere with this.
Rest in this ‘knowing’
and watch LIFE perform
what you may now think of
as miracles and yet …
... are normal.


https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/everything-is-handled
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If you want to live, die in Love.
~ Rumi
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The soul lives there in the silent Breath.
~ Rumi
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BLACK HOLE < SOULUTIONS ARISE    "...the most subtle trap..."      "...deepest silence echoes from the eternal."    April 24, 2019

4/24/2019

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FALL INTO THE BLACK HOLE
THAT IS
PURE SILENCE OF ORIGINAL CREATON
THE CORE OF ALL
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FROM THAT QUIET DEPTH
SOULUTIONS ARISE
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5:55 AM-4/24/19
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We must become so alone,
so utterly alone,
that we withdraw into our innermost self.
It is a way of bitter suffering.
 But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone,
for we find that our innermost self is the spirit,
that it is God, the indivisible.   .....
.....And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world,
yet undisturbed by its multiplicity,
for our innermost soul
​ we know ourselves to be one with all being.

— Hermann Hesse
The Deepest Silence
​ - John Roger Barrie


 
The eloquence of the deepest silence echoes from the eternal.
Originating there and reverberating
through the ripples of time and space.
  It bursts forth in shimmering waves, forming light
and color, shadow, and dimension. 
But it remains unchanged.

Never affected by the slightest permutation of outer phenomenon,
silence interweaves the temporal
​ but is forever untouched by it.
Ever abiding within and without,
overlaid with the mutable
patchwork garment we know as the visible universe,
silence forms
the woof and warp of all things seen and unseen. 
Yet at any instant
it is immanent and accessible. 

To the mystic,
silence is the ground,
the core of reality. 
​
All else relates to and emanates from it. 
​
The deeper elements in all religions point to this silence. 
It is God,
it is Buddha; it is Allah. 
But, to paraphrase Lao Tzu,
to name it is to elude its essence. 
It can only be experienced.
How can we not experience that which always
envelops and permeates us? 
Merely affirming its existence will not garner for us
its experiential realization. 
It is spiritual practice [like meditation]
that provides us with the means to fine tune our faculties
so that we perceive it for ourselves. 

Such practice enables us, in due course,
to experience a blistering,
conscious realization of silence
​that
suffuses the core of our being.
By embarking on the spiritual path,
an aspirant is attempting to encounter silence firsthand. 
This is the quintessential journey in life - the inner sojourn. 
​ It is returning to a source long ago forgotten
but often glimpsed unawares. 
​
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Recapturing that which flitters on the
periphery of awareness is the goal of the mystic.

  The mystic consciously dives into silence, at first unfelt. 
With repeated practice it becomes
a living, palpable Presence
filled with immeasurable
vitality and boundless,
nondual continuity. 

But what causes this
gradual revelation?
First we need to discover why we do not experience silence.
The simplest answer is that we are habituated to noise.
  We are addicted to novelty, sensation, to ourselves. 
Fuss and commotion,
mental chattering and outer stimulation
occupy our minds from
dawn to dusk. 
​
The twentieth-century Japanese Zen master Nan-in
rightly noted that we are overflowing
with our own ideas and opinions.
  When one is clattering away
on a keyboard sixteen hours every day,
the capacious pockets of silence are kept well at bay.
  We thereby deafen ourselves to the
underlying silence we would 
otherwise clearly hear.
​
By intentionally quieting our restless minds
and calling a temporary
halt to the random noise
- inner and outer -
to which we are subject,
we create an environment conducive to
the manifestation of silence.
Welling up from within,
this silence subtly engulfs us,
drowning out
all the noise of existence.
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​When constantly engaged at the forefront of our minds,
our awareness restlessly flutters about
from thought to thought,
sensation to  sensation,
thus pushing out silence. 
​


(...continuing this AFTERNOON ...)







​AFTERNOON
The effort required to break
through the surface waves of the mind
forges an inward path
 to the deepest levels of silence.
  When deliberately sustained....
this inner drilling displaces the obfuscatory debris
that clutters the mind
 with a matrix of noise.
When all mental ruminations are at last 
exhausted, genuine silence emerges.
 
But, many prefer the comfort of noise,
the bustling of crowds,
the constant engagement of
new thoughts and interesting repartee.
To embrace silence means splicing off
a certain arena of the familiar and venturing
into uncharted territories. 
While one may fruitfully participate
in communal spiritual activities,
quite often the deeper stages of this voyage
are undertaken
by oneself.
To keep the mind occupied with external concerns
is to point the inner compass in an outward direction.
  This is the most subtle trap
to which the feeble mind continually succumbs.
​ 
For to interact constantly with the objects of the senses
is to eclipse entirely the realm of silence,
which is first experienced within. 
When repeatedly accessed,
​ the decibel level of true silence will deafen
the resolute mystic. 
​
Every elusive yet all pervading,
silence is known by those who take the leap. 
The adventuresome hiker seeks areas untrampled
by the masses. 

The successful inner voyager treks to the precipice,
and then, having encountered  the Unknowable,
brazenly discards map and
compass and boldly treads onward. 
​
The yearning heart echoes the
cry that seized the Psalmist:

"Be still and know that I am God."

John Roger Barrie
Excerpt from 

Parabola
via - 
No Mind's Land
​
https://parabola.org/2018/09/26/the-deepest-silence-by-john-roger-barrie/
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Silence is the language of God, 
all else is poor translation.

Rumi
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ETERNAL AWARENESS   "I am a whisper in water."  April 23, 2019

4/23/2019

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MORE OF THE SAME FOR THIS DAY
...FOR THIS MOMENT...
AS IT’S ALWAYS THIS MOMENT
IN ETERNAL AWARENESS
OF SILENCE BEFORE SOUND...
..THE BREATH THAT BREATHES ALL
​<
EVEN THAT WITHOUT LUNGS

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just seeing this below Whisper & Quotes in Weebly SavedDrafts file for OceanSpeaks
5:35 AM 4/23/19
(Timely due to yesterday’s HUGE MILESTONE at Remembrance Rock
See yesterday's Oceanspeak for 4/22/19)

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/poof-of-the-unreal-a-point-of-stillness-april-22-2019

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All Below in this color font from
12/5/18

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/breath-of-awe-get-mud-between-your-toes-12518

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​
PARALYZING REPEATS OF YESTERDAYS OCCUR
< 
TRUTH OF BEING IS OUT OF SIGHT
WITHOUT GOING DEEPER
∞
THE GREAT BREATHER’S 
BREATH OF AWE
AS A WAY OF LIFE
KEEPS ONE SOURCED IN ORIGINAL BEING
EFFORTLESS EASE OF RED SEA PARTING WITHOUT WAVER
ELIMINATES ALL PILLARS OF SALT IN ALL OF LIFE

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Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen.
The soul has been given its own ears
 to hear things mind does not understand.

- Rumi

https://somathread.ning.com/videos/birds-on-the-wires-musical
I'm a whisper in water.
― Bjork   
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Just reading the below:   today's (12/5/18) arrival via e-mail...(9:05 AM)
SYNCHRONISTIC with the AWE & JOY we are NOW experiencing.....
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
 Sometimes you live moments that are like blessings from heaven.
Preciously keep your impressions of these moments,
and know that true happiness lies in constant attention to beautiful things,
in your sensitivity to everything divine.
 
**************
When you feel that spirit and light have visited you,
do not be careless;
do not allow these impressions to be erased immediately
by thoughts of something else.​
 
Reflect on them for a long moment
so that they penetrate deeply within you.
They will thus leave their trace on your soul forever,
and this trace will never cease to inspire you.
 
Make a habit of this:
instead of always allowing your negative states,
your disappointments and animosities
to weigh you down,
instead of feeding and reinforcing them,
put them aside and concentrate
on all the things in your life that are good,
​ pure and filled with light. 

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/blessings-of-heaven-learn-to-hold-onto-them_2018-12-05
 
All Above in this color font from
12/5/18

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/breath-of-awe-get-mud-between-your-toes-12518
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Also this OceanSpeak is Synchronistic

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/beyond-resurrection-take-a-step-without-feet-stop-the-words-now-come-gently-dearest-one-123118
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AFTERNOON

TRUE PRESENCE - FREE - PART - 2
JOHN MCINTOSH
When one becomes stabilized in the Awakened God-SELF,
their daily life experience is usually withdrawn
from the cacophony of the full-blown dream most call life.
The conditioning that sculpts the world appearance
and its litany of stories is a wild
roller-coaster drama after drama.
This is because it is embraced
in the stranglehold of separation
inevitably seeding endless opportunities for chaos,
conflict and finger-pointing as each sleeper
looks fruitlessly ‘out there’
for the cause behind the imbalance
they find around every corner.

This is the ceaseless underlying ‘noise’
of the dream world,
which emits a sticky toxicity
that is painful to the Free
and often physically debilitating.
Generally, this means they have very few friends
and virtually no social life other than that
which is oriented to expressing the Light of Truth in some way.
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Since they have no attachments,
expectations or identifications [conditioning],
the world dream has no ‘pull’ on their attention.
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Besides basic bodily requirements,
only insofar as their actual activities
direct dreamers ‘inward’
toward the God they ‘are’,
do they venture out into the great illusion.

Most of their day therefore is spent in Silence ‘within’,
melted into the ONE-ness
they have rediscovered
as their
True Presence.
​
John McIntosh
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/true-presence-free-part-2
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Close these eyes to open the other.
​Let the center brighten your sight.

Rumi
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See Read More Below
Additional Afternoon Photos
Sensing/Being The Vast Silence
​Even as the horses came by....

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POOF OF THE UNREAL  "A point of stillness..."  "KHAMOSH!!!!!...."          "...silence prevails."            MILESTONE        April 22, 2019

4/22/2019

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POOF OF THE UNREAL
 
ALL FORMER
FEAR, DREAD & PANIC POSSESSIONS
…THAT BLACK VOID
DOWNWARD VORTEXING
 HOLE IN CORE…*
INVITES MERGING
IN/OF/AS
IMMORTAL CORE**
< 
LIFE LIVED
VIA
BREATH AS TOUCHSTONE
(IF NECESSARY)
< 
WORDLESS SPEECH
&
SPEECHLESS WORDS
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4:59 AM-4/22/19
*“The Snake was only a stick”

**SLEEP =  Return to Immortal Core
(these *  ** notes are next: below first photos)
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*  ".. the vivid imagination creates the presence of the snake in a rope and the imagination is so strong that a person can die from an imaginary snake bite. Thus wrongly perceived situations may result in physical or psychological reaction -- an imagination of a frightened mind.”
http://creative.sulekha.com/the-snake-in-a-rope_625942_blog
 
http://www.1netcentral.com/articles/the-snake-rope-essential-buddhist-teaching/
** In Sleep article below
SLEEP = ("POOF") Return to Immortal Core

SLEEP 
Why it is necessary for our survival

 From the moment we fall asleep our soul moves away from our physical body
and goes to join the universal Soul.
During the body's rest, an entire process of cleansing and purification takes place.
Subtle ties known as the 'silver cord'
keep the soul connected to the physical body
when it leaves it.

On its return,
the soul finds the house swept,
cleaned and washed,
and it can take up its work again. 

If the soul did not leave the body in this way,
we would die from poisoning and asphyxiation,
because the work of cleansing could not be done.

You may wonder where these toxins and poisons come from.
They are produced quite simply because life is a combustion.
All the physical, emotional and mental activities we know as 'life' give off forces,
but they also leave behind impurities
which take a while to be eliminated.

So it is necessary for the soul to withdraw from the body
so the cleansing can take place.
Sleep is the solution that cosmic Intelligence has found
so that we can continue to live. 


Omraam Mikhael Aivanho
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/sleep-why-it-is-necessary-for-our-survival_2019-04-22​
Longing has its own secret, future destination,
and its own seasonal emergence from within,
a ripening from the core,
a seed growing in our own bodies;
it is as if we are put into relationship with
an enormous distance inside us
leading back to some unknown origin
with its own secret timing
indifferent to our wills,
and gifted at the same time
with an intimate sense of proximity,
to a lover, to a future,
to a transformation,
to a life
we want for ourselves,
and to the beauty of
the sky and the ground
that surrounds us.
The foundational instinct that we are here
essentially to risk ourselves in the world,
that we are a form of invitation to others and to otherness,
that we are meant to hazard ourselves for the right thing,
for the right woman or the right man,
for a son or a daughter,
for the right work or for a gift given against all the odds.
In longing we move and are moving
from a known but abstracted elsewhere,
to a beautiful, about to be reached, someone,
​something or somewhere we want to call our own.
Reality met on its own terms
demands absolute presence,
and absolute giving away,
an ability to live on equal terms
with the fleeting and the eternal,
the hardly touchable and the fully possible,
a full bodily appearance and disappearance,
a rested giving in and giving up;
another identity braver,
more generous and more here
than the one looking hungrily
for the easy,
unearned answer.

~David Whyte
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/22/29424/
​TRANSFORMING ANCIENT PATTERNS
John McIntosh

The seemingly endless rays
[individual separated beings]
of the ONE we ‘are’,
when immersed in the delusion of separation,
take on a kaleidoscope of unique conditioning.

When one sleeps and dreams behind this veil,
they are subject to the dream of reincarnation
and in those many dream lives,
they ‘relive’ the conditioning over and over again
until a dreamer begins to AWAKEN
​from their long slumber.
​
That one may choose to enter a dysfunctional lineage
that emphasizes a particular manifestation of conditioning
such as ‘abuse’ … with its many branches.

​ While the extended family of this specific tree
engages in and fosters this belief/habit
the ‘awakening one’ becomes a source of Light
that begins to ‘dilute’
this toxic energy ‘for the entire group’ of sleepers
​ living out their karmic dream in this way.
These Light sources are often labeled
the ‘black sheep’ of the family and may be ‘outcast’ in some way,
but their growing Awareness is weakening the dysfunctional pattern.

This makes it possible for ‘many’ to be released from this uninterrupted cycle. While there ‘are’ no ‘others’ in Truth …
the dream of separation is very convincing,
and this is one aspect of the
Infinite Divine Love
​ You Are drawing IT SELF Home.
Those who are fully Realized
often ‘take on’ an entire planet of imbalanced energy
to help reduce its ancient ‘hold’
​over the many who sleep in painful dreams.


https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/transforming-ancient-patterns
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AFTERNOON
Tsu Ma was free.
Attached to nothing,
He roamed,
He explored.
Never becoming, 
Only being.
He was like the wind,
Ungraspable, uncontainable.

Wu Hsin
One can speak about
Silent or chattering mind.
But who speaks about the source of mind,
What resides behind the mind?
Silent mind or chattering mind are conditions.
​Wu Hsin speaks only of the Unconditioned.

Wu Hsin

People need words until
Direct experience speaks louder.
Then, silence prevails.
It is for this reason that
Wu Hsin writes.

Wu Hsin
​Sam Fu used to think that he thought.
Upon investigation, he discovered that
Thoughts arise in the expanse of awareness and that
There is no thinker thinking.
Sam Fu now watches the show as
A spectator in the audience.
He may laugh.
He may cry.
He carries on his normal activities.
Yet never forgets That which facilitates and is
The support of these activities.

Wu Hsin
Understanding is not birthed by
A mental process any more than
Blue sky is created by
A clearing in the clouds.
Wu Hsin
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The Guest - Kabir
The god that man has imagined in his own image, the god
that man made according to his own wishes, the god that is
nothing but the projection of man's mind and desires; that
god is certainly dead.  That god never really existed.
The untrue MUST cease for the truth to be.

You have to become more conscious of your Consciousness.
You have to become more aware of your Awareness.
A point of stillness comes where you are simply aware of
your [inner] Awareness...


When Awareness [the Core Being] is the only content of your
awareness, that is the moment when The Guest is found...
Above are
Brief excerpts from the link below...
.

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-guest-kabir.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29
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ALSO SEE ENTIRE WRITING/POST IN READ MORE
​BELOW
WITH
ADDITIONAL AFTERNOON PHOTOS
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SILENCE BEFORE SOUND   "A quiet mind...."   "...dead to its own."                "The most powerful prayer,...."      April 21, 2019

4/21/2019

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ALL TALKING & THINKING
< 
A DEVOURING
 CONTAMINATION<POSSESSION
OF ALL THAT IS REAL
<
APPROACH OF THE DREADED BLACK HOLE ABYSS
 IS REALLY
A "WELCOME HOME" ANNOUNCEMENT
TO THE
AKASHA-TAO-CORE-OF-ORIGIN


∞

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The Rx
FOR SEEMING DREADED BLACK HOLE AYBYSS:

BE STILL AND KNOW BEYOND KNOWING
< 
EVEN MORE STILL
∞=∞
BE BEYOND KNOWING
THE SILENCE BEFORE SOUND
∞=∞
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Something inside of me has reached to the place
where the world is breathing.
~ Kabir
The most powerful prayer,
one well nigh omnipotent,
and the worthiest work of all
is the outcome of a quiet mind.
The quieter it is
the more powerful,
the worthier, the deeper,
the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
What is a quiet mind?
A quiet mind is one
which nothing weighs on,
nothing worries,
which,
free from ties and from all self-seeking,
is wholly merged into the will of God
and dead to its own. 

~ Meister Eckhart 
The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
Rumi
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​AFTERNOON
THE EYE OF THE STORM
JOHN MCINTOSH

​

There is no physical ‘cause’ for anything.
The manifested universe down to the most infinitesimal particle
all show up according to a ‘projection’
from the mind on the screen of consciousness.
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A tiny shift in ‘Attention, Belief and Passion’
can alter worlds and how they play out.
The mind itself is ‘also’ a projection
and when combined with the belief in separation
produces a myriad of new beliefs
that sculpt the visible, sensually accessible world
each one experiences.
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Only the SELF ‘as’ ONE is Real
and as Pure Consciousness Awareness,
everything that seems to be happening
is NOT somehow ‘out there’ but …
‘within’ IT.
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Believing yourself to be a ‘separated being’
throws you into this swirling hurricane
of physical manifestation like a leaf in a storm.
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When you are fully Aware,
this dynamic panorama shows up clearly as the dream it is and
... then, if you choose,
you may remain
IN it
but are never again
OF it.
Attempting to influence the storm
while you are still in this ‘leaf-awareness’
may shift the winds slightly
but the ‘effect’ of the storm-energy
will simply show up elsewhere in your life. 
​
Only the True Awareness
​ of your ONE-ness
​ places you in the ‘eye of the storm’
where Peace is eternal.

​https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/the-eye-of-the-storm
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Life abounds
in all variety of resources and resourcefulness.
Every moment is a divine encounter,
every facet is an exposure
to the boundless energies
by which life is sustained
and our spirits made whole." 

Howard Thurman
Meditations of the Heart

​





​Below is an example of the above Howard Thurman Quote...
...An Outing just before Afternoon Beach with Friend Chef Neff
who lives down the 'Jungle Path" from the Abode where i live.
The first photos are of her property and Rental Suites...
......then the Sanctuary Pool by Harbour Waterfront we often
Disappear to for Privacy/Sancturary/Relaxation...
​ ...and Mama Hen and chicks on the road in town
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NATURAL RHYTHMS   "...always One without two."   April 20, 2019              "...the unsayable absence."

4/20/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 20
I Am Shiva
​


Too Rainy for Beach this morning.
Sunrise Photos from Archives
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GENTLY SURF/DIVE-DEEPLY/FLY
 IN/OF/AS TAO CORE MINDLESS TRANSPARENCY
 
HELD/ATTUNED/MOVED
VIA
MOTHER NATURE’S NATURAL RHYTHMS

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Chapter 20
I Am Shiva


​1
I am fulfilled.

 The elements of nature,
The body and the senses,
What are they to me?

Or the mind?

What is emptiness or despair? 
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 2
What are holy books,
Or knowledge of the Self,
Or the mind,
Even when it is free of the senses?

Or happiness,
Or freedom from desire?
​
I am always
One without two.
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12/2/14
3
Knowledge or ignorance,
Freedom or bondage,
What are they?

What is "I,"
Or "mine,"
Or "this"?
​
​Or the form of the true Self? 
​
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4
I am always one. 

What do I care for freedom
​ In life or in death,
​ Or for my present karma? 
​
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​5
I am always
 Without I.

So where is the one
Who acts or enjoys?

And what is the rising
Or the vanishing of thought?
​
What is the invisible world,
Or the visible?
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2/2/15
6 
In my heart I am one.

 What is this world?

Who seeks freedom,
Or wisdom or oneness?
​
​ Who is bound or free? 
​
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7/2/16
7
In my heart I am one.

 What is creation,
Or dissolution?

What is seeking,
And the end of seeking?
​
Who is the seeker?
​ What has he found?
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8
 I am forever pure.

What do I care who knows,
What is known,
Or how it is known?

What do I care for knowledge?
​
What do I care what is,
​Or what is not?
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1/19/17
 9
I am forever still.
​
 What are joy or sorrow,
Distraction or concentration,
​Understanding or delusion?
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5/10/18
 10
I am always without thought.

 What is happiness or grief?
​
What is here and now,
​Or beyond?
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1/2/16
11 
I am forever pure.

 What is illusion,
Or the world?
​
What is the little soul,
​Or God himself?
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1/8/15
12
One without two,
I am always the same.
​
  I sit in my heart.
 13
What need is there
 For striving or stillness?

What is freedom or bondage?

What are holy books or teachings?

What is the purpose of life?
​
Who is the disciple,
​ And who is the master?
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 14
For I have no bounds. 

I am Shiva

Nothing arises in me,
In whom nothing is single,
Nothing is double.

Nothing is,
Nothing is not.
​
​What more is there to say?
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In Archives...on a web page years ago..
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A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 20

I Am Shiva
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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What is the deep listening? Sama is
a greeting from the secret ones inside
the heart, a letter. The branches of
your intelligence grow new leaves in
the wind of this listening. The body
reaches a peace. Rooster sound comes,
reminding you of your love for dawn.
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The reed flute and the singer's lips:
the knack of how spirit breathes into
us 
becomes as simple and ordinary as
eating and drinking. The dead rise with
the pleasure of listening. If someone
can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle
dirt on his head and declare him dead.
​
Listen, and feel the beauty of your
separation, the unsayable absence.
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There's a moon inside every human being.
Learn to be companions with it. Give
more of your life to this listening. As
brightness is to time, so you are to
the one who talks to the deep ear in
your chest.
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I should sell my tongue
and buy a thousand ears when that
one steps near and begins to speak.


—Rumi
from The Glance
Coleman Barks version

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you are that

do you know what you are?

You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.


Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
 you are already that.



—Rumi
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​AFTERNOON
There are infinite numbers of lines that join us to things.
​ They are real lines.
You can feel them.
The most difficult part about
the warrior’s way is to realize
that the world is a feeling.
When one is not-doing,
one is feeling the world,
​and one feels the world through its lines.
​

—Carlos Castaneda
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Know yourself as Nothing.

Feel yourself as Everything.


—Alan Watts


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When we understand,
we are at the centre of the circle
and there we sit
while Yes and No
chase each other
around the circumference.

—Chuang Tzu
THERE NEED 
BE
NO EFFORT
ON YOUR PART
EXCEPT TO STILL
YOUR BUSY MIND
INTO
THE SILENCE THAT IS BEYOND SILENCE..
.


Excerpt from:
​GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Dorothea Mills/elizabeth walker

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"THE INWARD SEA"    "My Own Splendor"  "Flaming Sword Angel"    "... this Touch where i Disappear.”   MILESTONE  April 19, 2019

4/19/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 
19
My Own Splendor
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DISSOLVING
< 
DISSOLVED
INTO
“THE INWARD SEA”*
< 
THE AKASHA TAO CORE OF ORIGIN
ALWAYS PREVAILS
(unless thinking otherwise!)
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&
Read More for Howard Thurman INWARD SEA Quote
&
​More.......
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19
My Own Splendor

​

1
With the pincers of truth I have plucked
From the dark corners of my heart
The thorn of many judgments.
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I sit in my own splendor.
​
 Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or discrimination,
Duality or nonduality,
What are they to me?
3
What is yesterday,
 Tomorrow,
Or today?

What is space,
Or eternity?
​
I sit in my own radiance. 
​
4 
​What is the Self,
Or the not-Self?

What is thinking,
Or not thinking?

What is good or evil?
​
I sit in my own splendor.
​ 5
I sit in my own radiance,
And I have no fear.

Waking, Dreaming, Sleeping,
What are they to me?
​
Or even ecstasy?
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​ 6
What is far or near,
Outside or inside,
Gross or subtle?
​
I sit in my own splendor.
7
 Dissolving the mind,
 Or the highest meditation,
The world and all its works,
Life or death,
What are they to me?
​
I sit in my own radiance.
8
Why talk of wisdom,
The three ends of life,
Or oneness?

Why talk of these!

Now I live in my heart.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 19
My Own Splendor
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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I can only offer you this Touch where i Disappear.
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​AFTERNOON
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I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky.
Virginia Woolf​
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​The Inward Sea
Howard Thurman
​

 
There is in every person an inward sea,
And in that sea there is an island
And on that island there is an altar
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And standing guard
before that altar is the
​ angel with the flaming sword.
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"Nothing can get by that angel
to be placed upon that altar
unless it has the mark
​ of your inner authority."
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"Nothing passes
'the angel with the flaming sword'
to be placed upon your altar
unless it be a part of
​ 'the fluid area of your consent."
This is your crucial link with the Eternal."
--Dr. Howard Thurman
Excerpt from Howard Thurman's Meditation of the Heart.  

http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/04/howard-thurmans-inward-sea.html
WHEN YOU ARE FREE
JOHN MCINTOSH


When you are FREE of conditioning nothing ‘sticks’
to divert your Attention from Who You Really Are.

-The glamor of the world swirls around you without effect

-Sorrow begs you to acknowledge its victim-hood
but is met only with compassion and never sympathy
that would fan the flames of that illusion
-Special abilities entice you to broadcast
your new-found power over illusion
but you remain ‘fixed’ on Truth and Peace ‘IS’


-Without effort,
your radiance touches and embraces the entire dream
and every version of dreamer within, that still sleeps
-Without any ‘doing’,
an infinite Light shines on every dark corner of the grand dream


-Many recoil in shame or fear as their disguises melt away

-Others approach with caution and scepticism,
dazzled by this ‘influence’ that lifts and inspires
but asks nothing
​-Some few gravitate
to the boundless Life You Are
​as their ancient burdens lose control


-Each one who still sleeps,
is in some way affected
and at the level of their open-ness,
shift ever more inward toward their own Freedom
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-If called to act you are shown precisely what to do,
where to go,
what to say and to whom,
unencumbered by the conditioning
that once colored and tainted every action,
every word, every thought
-Your actions are Pure
and when complete are departed from completely
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Freedom covets nothing, 
​holds onto nothing and craves nothing.
​

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Saint Teresa-of-Avila
 
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TRANSMISSION OF ORIGIN          April 18, 2019

4/18/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses  81-100
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 NO MARGIN FOR OTHERWISE
THAN
THE TRANSPARENCY OF ORIGIN
 
ABEYANCE
ELIMINATION
 OF ALL BUT THAT
< 
ALL JUST IS
=
BEYOND AND THRIVING
WITH THAT
WHICH CANNOT BE THOUGHT OR WORDED
....YET IS ALL THAT IS....
=

SIMPLY AND ONLY
THE OVERFLOW

OF
ORIGINAL LIFE IN PRISTINE FORMLESS FORM


TRANSMISSION OF ORIGIN
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The Master
Verses 81-100

81
Nothing he hopes to win,
Nothing he fears to lose.
​
His mind is cool and drenched with nectar.
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82
Free from desire,
He neither praises the peaceful
Nor blames the wicked.

The same in joy and sorrow,
He is always happy.
​
​He sees there is nothing to do.
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83
He does not hate the world.
 He does not seek the Self.

He is free from joy and sorrow.
​
He is not alive,
​And he is not dead.
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84
He is not attached to his family. 

Free from the desire of the senses,
He does not care about his body.
​
The master expects nothing,
And he shines.  
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85
Whatever befalls him,
 He is always happy.

He wanders where he will.
​
And wherever he finds himself
When the sun sets,
There he lies down to rest.
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86
He does not care if the body lives or dies.
​
 He is so firmly set in his own being,
He rises above the round of birth and death.
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 87
He is full of joy. 

Attached to nothing,
Free from possessions,
He stands on his own.
​
His doubts dispelled,
He wanders where he will,
Never setting one thing against another.
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 88 
The master shines.

 He never says "mine."
Gold, stone, earth--
They are all the same to him.

He is not bound by sloth,
Nor consumed by his own activity.
​
He has severed the knots which bind his heart.
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89 
​Who can compare with him?
Indifferent to everything,
He is happy and he is free.
There is not the least desire in his heart. 
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​ 90
Only the man without desire
Sees without seeing,
Speaks without speaking,
​Knows without knowing. 
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91​
In his view of things
 Good and evil have melted away.
​
A king or a beggar,
Whoever is free from desire shines! ​
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92
He is utterly without guile.
He has found his way.
He is simplicity itself.

He cares nothing for restraint,
Or abandon.
​
He has no interest in finding the truth. 
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 93
He has no desires.
 He rests happily in the Self.
​
His sorrows are over.
How can anyone tell what he feels inside?
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 94
​Even when he is sound asleep,
He is not asleep.

Even when he is dreaming,
He does not dream.

Even when he is awake,
He is not awake.
​
Step by step,
Whatever befalls him,
He is happy. 
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​ He thinks without thinking.
He feels without feeling.

He is intelligent,
But he has no mind.
​
He has personality,
But with no thought for himself.
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AFTERNOON PHOTOS




AFTERNOON
96 
He is not happy,
 Nor is he sad.

He is not detached,
Nor is he bound.

He is not free,
Nor does he seek freedom.
​
He is not this.
He is not that.
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​ Amid distractions,
 He is undistracted.

In meditation,
He does not meditate.

Foolish,
He is not a fool.
Knowing everything,
​
He knows nothing.
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98
​He always lives within.
He is everywhere the same.

Action or duty are nothing to him.

Because he is free from desire, 
He never worries about what he has done
Or has not done.

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99
Blame does not disturb him,
Nor does praise delight him. 
​
He neither rejoices in life, 
​Nor fears death.
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 100 
​ His mind is calm.

Never seeking the solitude of the forest,
Nor running from the crowd.
​
Always and everywhere,
He is one and the same
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Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses 21-100

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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Only an artist can tell …
what it is like for anyone
who gets to this planet to survive it.
What it is like to die,
or to have somebody die;
what it is like to be glad.
​
James Baldwin
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/?mc_cid=b9b8d012ff&mc_eid=bc3afd75c6
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When things are in harmony with the divine will,
everything is there;
we just glance towards a thing and it is found,
as in the saying,
'Word spoken, action done.'
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When we strive with all the material in our hands
and yet cannot achieve our desire,
that is when the matter is contrary
to the divine will.
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Our success or failure all depends
upon the harmony or disharmony
​of our individual will with the divine will. ...
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Contentment and perfect resignation
open up a harmonious feeling and bring the divine will
into harmony with our own.

Our blessing now becomes a divine blessing,
our words divine words,
our atmosphere a divine atmosphere,
although we seem to be limited beings;
for our will becomes absorbed into the whole,
and so our will becomes the will of God.

  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_5.htm

Excerpt from:
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php
April 18, 2019
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For the Interim Time
– John O’Donohue
When near the end of day, life has drained
Out of light, and it is too soon
For the mind of night to have darkened things,

No place looks like itself, loss of outline
Makes everything look strangely in-between,
Unsure of what has been, or what might come.

In this wan light, even trees seem groundless.
In a while it will be night, but nothing
Here seems to believe the relief of dark.
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​You are in this time of the interim
Where everything seems withheld.

The path you took to get here has washed out;
The way forward is still concealed from you.

“The old is not old enough to have died away;
The new is still too young to be born.”

You cannot lay claim to anything;
In this place of dusk,
Your eyes are blurred;
And there is no mirror.
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Everything else has lost sight of your heart
And you can see nowhere to put your trust;
You know you have to make your own way through.

As far as you can, hold your confidence.
Do not allow your confusion to squander
This call which is loosening
Your roots in false ground,
That you might come free
From all you have outgrown.

What is being transfigured here is your mind,
And it is difficult and slow to become new.
The more faithfully you can endure here,
The more refined your heart will become
For your arrival in the new dawn.

– John O’Donohue
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REMEMBRANCE ROCK  -  4/15/19



For the Interim Time
– John O’Donohue
​
From
 To Bless the Space Between Us:
A Book of Blessings
, pp. 119-120)

In This In-Between Time . . .

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CHOICELESS CHOICE< FORMLESSNESS PRESIDING                        "Pausing in timeless awareness:"              April 17, 2019                            "...a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted."

4/17/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses  61-80
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​THE SOUL LEADS
AS THIS CHOICELESS CHOICE TAKES OVER
< 
ALL THAT IS…AH!
ATIAH!
∞
SOURCING & BREATHED FROM & AS
THE UNNAMEABLE…
… THAT WHICH IS
BEYOND ALL WORDS & THOUGHTS
∞

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AKASHA TAO CORE SILENCE
ORIGINAL BEING’S FORMLESSNESS
PREVAILS/SUSTAINS PARTING ALL RED SEAS
AH!....
…THE UNFETTERED SOUL OF FORMLESSNESS PRESIDING

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The Master
​Verses  61-80



61
The fool is busy 
Even when he is still.
Even when he is busy
The master gathers the fruits of stillness. 
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 62
The fool often spurns his possessions.
The master is no longer attached to his body.
So how can he feel attraction or aversion?
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63
The awareness of the fool is always limited
By thinking, or by trying not to think.
The awareness of the man who lives within,
Though he may be busy thinking,
Is beyond even awareness itself. 
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 64 
The master is like a child.
All his actions are without motive.
He is pure.
Whatever he does, he is detached.
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 65
He is blessed.
He understands the nature of the Self.
His mind is no longer thirsty.
He is the same under all conditions,
Whatever he sees or hears,
Or smells or touches or tastes.
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 66
The master is like the sky. 
He never changes.
What does the world matter to him,
Or its reflection?
What does he care about seeking,
​ Or the end of seeking? 
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 67
He is ever the same. 
The victory is his.
He has conquered the world.
He is the embodiment
Of his own perfect essence,
​ By nature one with the infinite. 
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68
What more is there to say?
He knows the truth.
He has no desire for pleasure or liberation.
At all times, in all places,
He is free from passion.
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 69
He has given up the duality of the world 
Which arises with the mind
And is nothing more than a name.
He is pure awareness.
​What is there left for him to do? 
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70
The man who is pure knows for certain
That nothing really exists;
It is all the work of illusion. 
He sees what cannot be seen.
His nature is peace.
​ 71 
He does not see the world of appearances.
So what do rules matter to him,
Or dispassion, renunciation, and self-control?
​ His form is pure and shining light.
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72 
He does not see the world.
So what does he care for joy or sorrow,
Bondage or liberation?
He is infinite and shining.
 73
Before the awakening of understanding 
The illusion of the world prevails.
But the master is free of passion.
He has no "I,"
He has no "mine,"
​And he shines!
74
He sees that the Self never suffers or dies. 
So what does he care for knowledge
Or the world?
Or the feeling "I am the body,"
​ "The body is mine"? 
​
​​75
Th
e moment a fool gives up concentration
And his other spiritual practices,
He falls prey to fancies and desires.
76
​Even after hearing the truth,
 The fool clings to his folly.
He tries hard to look calm and composed,
But inside he is full of cravings.
 77 
When the truth is understood,
Work falls away.
Though in the eyes of others
The master may seem to work,
In reality he has no occasion
To say or to do anything.
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78 
He has no fear.
He is always the same.
He has nothing to lose.
For him there is no darkness,
There is no light.
There is nothing at all.
79
 He has no being of his own.
His nature cannot be described.
What is patience to him,
​ Or discrimination or fearlessness? 
​
80
In the eyes of the master
There is nothing at all.
There is no heaven.
There is no hell.
There is no such thing as liberation in life.
​ What more is there to say? 
​
Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters​

Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses  61-80
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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​AFTERNOON
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
​ runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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In one who perceives impermanence,
the perception of nonself becomes firmly established;
and one who perceives nonself
achieves the elimination of the conceit “I am”
and attains nirvana in this very life.

And in the words of the Koran:
 “Everything is perishing except God’s Face.”

Elias Amidon
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/impermanence-deeper-secret-amidon/
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Attention gets its attentiveness from pure awareness,
which is who you are. 
Self definition only keeps you fixated on waves
while yearning to find the deep.
The ocean has no problem with waves.”
​

“Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine the waves as separate from itself.
 Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine its depth as separate from itself.
Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine there is any separation
between wave and depth.

Be the ocean.

https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/impermanence-deeper-secret-amidon/​
Pausing in timeless awareness:
 ​The Indian sage Nisargadatta
once advised a student who asked for guidance,
“Go back! Go back!”
Go back to the place where you begin, right now,
the place of spacious awareness
that hosts all the phenomena you experience.
It is a simple move,
although nothing really moves.
​
Just open up to the clearing you already are
and pause there for a moment or two.
When you do that your whole life is refreshed.

 More re: THE JOY OF PAUSING here:

https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/142-the-joy-of-pausing
There is no beauty more real
​than the goodness one sees in someone.

Plotinus
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/181-beauty-will-save-the-world​
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Beauty will save the world.
​
Dostoevsky
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/181-beauty-will-save-the-world​
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And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. 
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes
and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark,
nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom
and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

People of Orphalese,
​ beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Excerpt from BEAUTY
The Prophet

http://www.katsandogz.com/onbeauty.html
We usually do not look
into what is really there in front of us.
We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts,
and we mistake those mental objects for reality.
  We get so caught up in
this endless thought-stream
that reality flows by unnoticed.

We  spend our time engrossed in activity,
caught up in an eternal flight 
from pain and unpleasantness. 
We spend our energies
trying to make ourselves better,
trying to bury our fears.
​ 
We are endlessly seeking  security. 
 Meanwhile,
the world of real experience flows by 
untouched and unnoticed...

Henepola Gunaratana
Buddhist Monk

You Think You Have Time - Gunaratana
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PRIMORDIAL TOUCHSTONE         "His form is emptiness."                                    " 'YOU' MUST DISSOLVE"        April 16, 2019

4/16/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses  41-60
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NOTHING & NO/THING
​ IS GREATER THAN

ORIGINAL SILENCE
∞
BREATH AS THE PRIMORDIALTOUCHSTONE
OF ORIGINAL BEING IN HUMAN FORM…
=
THE CORE AS TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
REMOVING ALL SENSE
=
NOTHING & NO/THING
SUPERCEDES THIS
“JUST IS”

=
ALL ELSE PERCEIVED
IS MERELY
A REMINDER OF
“THE HUSH OF NOT”
 *
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The Master
Verses 41-60
​
41
The fool tries to control his mind.
 How can he ever succeed?
​
Mastery always comes naturally
To the man who is wise
​And who loves himself.
Picture
42
 One man believes in existence,
Another says, "There is nothing!"

Rare is the man who believes in neither.
​ 
​He is free from confusion.
Picture
43
The fool may know that the Self 
Is pure and indivisible.

But because of his folly,
He never finds it.
​
He suffers all his life.
Picture
​44
The mind of a man who longs to be free
Stumbles without support.

But the mind of a man who is already free
Stands on its own.
​
​ It is empty of passion. 
Picture
45
The senses are tigers.
​
 When a timid man catches sight of them,
He runs for safety to the nearest cave,
To practice control and meditation.
Picture
46
But a man without desires is a lion.

 When the senses see him,
It is they who take flight!

They run away like elephants,
As quietly as they can.
​
And if they cannot escape,
They serve him like slaves.
Picture
47
A man who has no doubts
  And whose mind is one with the Self
No longer looks for ways to find freedom.
​
He lives happily in the world,
Seeing and hearing,
​Touching and smelling and tasting.
Picture
48
Just by hearing the truth
He becomes spacious
And his awareness pure.

He is indifferent
To striving or stillness.
​
He is indifferent
To his own indifference.
Picture
  49
The master is like a child. 
He does freely whatever comes his way,
​Good or bad.
Picture
 50
By standing on his own
A man finds happiness.

By standing on his own
A man finds freedom.

By standing on his own
He goes beyond the world.
​
By standing on his own
​He finds the end of the way. 
​
Picture
51
When a man realizes  
He is neither the doer nor the enjoyer,
The ripples of his mind are stilled. 
​
Picture
 52
The master's way is unfettered
And free of guile.
He shines.
​
But for the fool
There is no peace.
His thoughts are full of desire.
Picture
53
The master is free of his mind,
 And his mind is free.

In this freedom he plays.
He has a wonderful time!
​
Or he withdraws
And lives in a mountain cave.
Picture
 54
 ​If the master encounters 
A king or a woman
Or someone he dearly loves,
He is without desire.

And when he honors
A god or a holy place
Or a man versed in the scriptures,
There is no longing in his heart. 
​
 None at all!
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​ 55
He is unperturbed
 Even when his servants despise him,
Or his wives, sons, and grandsons mock him.
​
  Even when his whole family makes fun of him,
He is undismayed.
Picture
  56
 For him there is no pain in pain,
 No pleasure in pleasure.
​
Only those who are like him
Can know his exaltation.
Picture
57
He has no form.
His form is emptiness.

He is constant and pure.
​
He has no sense of duty,
Which only binds men to the world. 
​
Picture
Picture
58
The master fulfills his duties
And is always untroubled.
​
The fool does nothing
And is always troubled and distracted.
Picture
59
The master goes about his business
 With perfect equanimity.
​
He is happy when he sits,
Happy when he talks and eats,
Happy asleep,
Happy coming and going. 
​
Picture
 ​60
Because he knows his own nature,
He does what he has to without feeling ruffled
Like ordinary people. 

Smooth and shining,
Like the surface of a vast lake.
​
His sorrows are at an end. 

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Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses 41-60

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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​AFTERNOON
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YOU MUST DISSOLVE

When full Conscious Awareness ‘is’ …
the mind has vanished as you know it.
There is no sense of

 -planning
-fixing
-working on
-getting better
-being your best
… there is no ‘you.
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Love, for example … just IS.
IT emanates naturally as a radiance of Awareness
and not as an intentional thought projection.
You cannot ‘dance at two weddings’.
You cannot retain your personal identity … ‘and’ know Real Freedom,
‘you’ must dissolve into the God-SELF completely.
​
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While you remain in a body
and navigate the grand dream
you may possess many forms of identification,
but no such person will exist any longer.
This projected false self will have disappeared
back into the infinite ocean of ONE.
​
This is the only death you fear and must be accepted to return HOME.
​
John McIntosh
​Posted April 15, 2019

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/you-must-dissolve
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BEING’S BEINGLESSNESS  "Whatever he does, He does nothing."                      "Just this breath,..."       April 15, 2019

4/15/2019

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The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses  21-40
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ROOTED IN THE GROUND
OF BEING’S BEINGLESSNESS
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THE SOURCE OF ALL
FLOWERS IN/OF/AS
UNIMAGINABLE TRANSPARENCY

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The Master
Verses 21-40
​

21
​He has no desires.
 He has cast off his chains.
He walks on air.
​

He is free,
Tumbling like a leaf in the wind,
From life to life. 
​
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22
​He has gone beyond the world,
Beyond joy and sorrow.
​
His mind is always cool.
He lives as if he had no body. 
​
Picture
23
His mind is cool and pure.
He delights in the Self.
​
There is nothing he wishes to renounce.
​He misses nothing.
Picture
24
His mind is naturally empty.
He does as he pleases.
​
He is not an ordinary man.
Honor and dishonor mean nothing to him.
Picture
25
​ "The body does this, not I."
"My nature is purity."
​
With these thoughts,
Whatever he does,
He does nothing.
Picture
26
But he pretends not to know. 

He finds freedom in this life,
But he acts like an ordinary man.

Yet he is not a fool.
​
Happy and bright,
​He thrives in the world.
Picture
27 
Weary of the vagaries of the mind, 
He is at last composed.
​
He does not know or think,
​Or hear or see.
Picture
28
 Undistracted, 
He does not meditate. 

Unbound,
He does not seek freedom.

He sees the world,
But knows it is an illusion.
​
He lives like God.
Picture
 29
Even when he is still,
The selfish man is busy.
​
 Even when he is busy,
The selfless man is still.
Picture
30
He is free.

 His mind is unmoved
By trouble or pleasure.
​
Free from action, desire or doubt,
He is still, and he shines!
Picture
31 
His mind does not strive
To meditate or to act.
​
It acts or meditates without purpose.
Picture
32
When a fool hears the truth,
He is muddled.

When a wise man hears it,
He goes within.
​
He may look like a fool,
But he is not muddled.
Picture
33 
The fool practices concentration
 And control of the mind...
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Cock Fight in Yard after Sunrise
...But the master is like a man asleep.
He rests in himself
And finds nothing more to do. 
​
Picture
​34
Striving or still, 
The fool never finds peace....
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Crowing Cock
...But the master finds it
Just by knowing how things are.
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   35
In this world 
Men try all kinds of paths. 

But they overlook the Self,
The Beloved.
​
Awake and pure,
Flawless and full,
Beyond the world. 
​
Picture
36
The fool will never find freedom
 By practicing concentration.

But the master never fails.
​
Just by knowing how things are,
He is free and constant.
Picture
 37
Because the fool wants to become God,
 He never finds him.
​
The master is already God,
Without ever wishing to be
Picture
38
​The fool has no foundation.
 Fretting to be free,
He only keeps the world spinning.
​
But the master cuts at its root,
The root of all suffering. 
​
​39
Because the fool looks for peace,
 He never finds it.
​
But the master is always at peace,
Because he understands how things are.
Picture
40
If a man looks to the world,
 How can he see himself?

The master is never distracted by this or that.
​
He sees himself,
The Self that never changes. 
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Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses 21-40

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​​​​
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​AFTERNOON
​Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.
Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already.
​Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.
​Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already.
Nothing to receive but what
flows effortlessly from the
mystery into form.
Nothing to run from or run
toward. Just this breath,
Awareness knowing itself as
embodiment. Just this breath,
awareness waking up to truth.

― Danna Faulds
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​  Ann Frances Ellis  April 2, 2019
​Limitless 
Danna Faulds

​Sun says, “Be your own
illumination.” Wren says,
“Sing your heart out,
all day long.” Stream says,
 “Do not stop for any 
obstacle.” Oak says, 
“When the wind blows, 
bend easily, and trust 
your roots to hold.”
Stars say, “What you see
is one small slice of a
single modest galaxy. 
Remember that vastness 
cannot be grasped by mind.” 
Ant says, “Small does not 
mean powerless.”
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​Silence 
says nothing. In the quiet, 
everything comes clear.
I say, “Limitless.” I say, 
“Yes.”

http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/resources_poetry.php
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The Gentle Voice
​ - John O'Donohue

When you take the time
to draw on your listening-imagination,
you will begin to hear this gentle voice
​ at the heart of your life.
It is deeper and surer than all the other voices of disappointment,
unease, self-criticism and bleakness. 
All holiness is about learning to hear
the voice of your own soul. 
It is always there
and the more deeply you learn to listen,
​ the greater surprises
and discoveries that will unfold.
To enter into the gentleness of your own soul
changes the tone and quality of your life. 
Your life is no longer consumed by
hunger for the next event, experience or achievement.
You gain a new respect for yourself and others. 
 You begin to see through
the enchanting veils of illusion
that you had taken for reality. 
You no longer squander yourself
on things and situations 
​that deplete your essence. 
You know now that your true source
is not outside you.
Your soul is your true source,
 and a new energy and passion
awakens within you.


John O'Donohue
From: Beauty, The Invisible Embrace


via - The Beauty We Love

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RELIEF SANS BELIEF    "He looks busy, But he does nothing."            "...the teaching of my Soul."           April 14, 2019

4/14/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses 1-20
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NOTHING IS THE SAME
AS IT WAS
AND YET…
IT IS FOREVERMORE
ALWAYS THE SAME
AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

∞
AH!
THE TOTALITY
OF
RELIEF SANS BELIEF

∞
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1:54 AM-4/14/19
Chapter 18
The Master


1
Love your true Self,
Which is naturally happy
And peaceful and bright!
​

Awaken to your own nature,
​ And all delusion melts like a dream. 
2
How much pleasure you take 
In acquiring worldly goods!
​
But to find happiness
You must give them all up. 
Picture
3
The sorrows of duty,
 Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart.
​
But let stillness fall on you
With its sweet and cooling showers,
​And you will find happiness. 
Picture
4 
For the world is nothing. 
It is only an idea.
​
But the essence of what is
And of what is not
​Can never fail.
Picture
5
The Self is always the same,
 Already fulfilled,
Without flaw or choice or striving.
​
Close at hand,
​But boundless.
Picture
6
When the Self is known, 
All illusions vanish.

The veil falls,
And you see clearly.
​
Your sorrows are dispelled. 
​
Picture
7
For the Self is free 
And lives forever.

Everything else is imagination,
Nothing more!
​
Because he understands this,
The master acts like a child. 
Picture
8
​When you know you are God
And that what is and what is not
Are both imaginary,
And you are at last free of desire,
Then what is there left
To know or to say or to do? 
​
Picture
9
For the Self is everything.

 When the seeker knows this,
He falls silent.

He no longer thinks,
"I am this, I am not that." 
​

​​Such thoughts melt away.
Picture
10 
He is still. 
​
Without pleasure or pain,
Distraction or concentration,
Learning or ignorance.
Picture
11
 His nature is free of conditions.

 Win or lose,
It makes no difference to him.

Alone in the forest or out in the world,
​A god in heaven or a simple beggar,
It makes no difference!
 
Picture
 12
He is free of duality.

Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or discrimination
Mean nothing to him.
​
What does he care
What is accomplished or neglected?
Picture
13
Finding freedom in this life,
 The seeker takes nothing to heart,
Neither duty nor desire.
​
He has nothing to do
But to live out his life. 
​
Picture
14
The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire.
 Delusion or the world,
​
Meditation on the truth, 
Liberation itself--
What are they to him? 
Picture
15
You see the world
 And you try to dissolve it.

But the master has no need to.
He is without desire.
​
For though he sees,
He sees nothing. 
​
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Continuing last 5 Verses this Afternoon



​AFTERNOON
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16
​ When you have seen God
You meditate on Him,
Saying to yourself, "I am He."
​
But when you are without thought
And you understand there is only one,
Without a second,
​On whom can you meditate? 
​
Picture
17
​When you are distracted, 
You practice concentration.

But the master is undistracted.
​
He has nothing to fulfill.
What is there left for him to accomplish?
18
He acts like an ordinary man.
But inside he is quite different.
​
He sees no imperfection in himself,
Nor distraction,
Nor any need for meditation.
​19
 He is awake,
 Fulfilled,
Free from desire.

He neither is nor is not.
​
He looks busy,
But he does nothing.
20 
Striving or still,
 He is never troubled.
​
He does whatever comes his way,
And he is happy. 
​
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Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 18
The Master
​Verses 1-20

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​​​​
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from Rumi:
​
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.
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This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?
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Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
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​This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
​I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.”

― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
​
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/114283-all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i
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S K Y- C I R C L E S
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn that?

They fall, and falling,
they’re given wings. 
Rumi

​Trans Coleman Barks
Full book/pdf below

http://www.venerabilisopus.org/en/books-samael-aun-weor-gnostic-sacred-esoteric-spiritual/pdf/100/171_rumi-the-book-of-love.pdf
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
​I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Rumi
​​Let silence be the art you practice.
Rumi
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NO CHOICE TRANSPARENT SILENCE OF ORIGIN                          "...free of all desires."   "...being in the void."      April 13, 2019

4/13/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 17
Beyond All
​Verses 11-20
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ONLY
THE NO CHOICE
TRANSPARENT SILENCE OF ORIGIN
∞ALONE WITH THE ALONE∞
SUFFICETH
< 
AH!
ALPHA & OMEGA SIMPLICITY

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4:57 AM-4/13/19

 
“LISTEN, ELSE THY TONGUE RENDERS THEE DEAF”

American Indian Proverb
(ew slight paraphrase)

God is my final end;
Does he from me evolve, 
Then he grows out of me, 
While I in Him dissolve
.

~ Angelus Silesius
(The Cherubinic Wanderer)

https://thedawnwithin.com/2019/04/13/where-god-speaks/
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See this OceanSpeak from 2014...
Synchronistically Appearing from a present-time reader comment
early this morning....underscores today's OceanSpeak Offerings


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ASHTAVAKRA
​Continuing Chapter 17

Beyond All
​Verses 11-20
​11
And the man who is free
 Always lives in his heart.
His heart is always pure.
​
Whatever happens,
He is free of all desires.
12
​Whatever he sees or hears or touches,
Whatever he smells or tastes,
Whatever he acquires,
He is free.

Free from striving,
And from stillness.
​
For indeed he is a great soul.
13 
Without blame or praise,
Anger or rejoicing.

He gives nothing.
He takes nothing.
​
He wants nothing,
Nothing at all. 
14
And whoever draws near him,
 A woman full of passion
Or Death Himself,
He is not shaken.

He stays in his heart.
​
He is free indeed!
15
It is all the same to him.
Man or woman,
Good fortune or bad,
Happiness or sorrow.
​
It makes no difference.
He is serene.
16
 The world
  no longer holds him.
 He has gone beyond
The bounds of human nature.

Without compassion
Or the wish to harm,
Without pride or humility.
​
Nothing disturbs him.
Nothing surprises him.
17
Because he is free,
 He neither craves nor disdains
The things of the world.

He takes them as they come.
​
His mind is always detached. 
18
His mind is empty.
 He is not concerned with meditation,
Or the absence of it,
Or the struggle between good and evil.
​
He is beyond all,
Alone.
19 
​No "I,"
 No "mine."

He knows there is nothing.

All his inner desires have melted away.

Whatever he does,
He does nothing.
20 
His mind has stopped working! 

It has simply melted away. . . 

And with it,
Dreams and delusions and dullness.
​
And for what he has become,
There is no name.
Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 17
Beyond All
​Verses 11-20

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​​​​
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Yet another Synchronistic "Arrival" this early morning...April 13, 2019
He who wants to understand, will understand.
     Bowl of Saki, April 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

BOWL OF SAKI - April 13, 2019
for full commentary:

https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php
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AFTERNOON
The only problem with human beings is that they are arrogant,
because that’s what thinking is.
This is in essence ‘I know’.
Wisdom is being in the void.
To be thoughtless.
Only by being in the void can the Light come through.
As long as I have something going on in my mind
the Light can’t come through.
The Light can only come in when the mind is cleared
​–in a state of silence.

​– Dr Hew Len, Shamanic Wisdomkeepers

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You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.

You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary,
and the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.

It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

—Franz Kafka
Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave ‘til
it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.

—Rumi
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All there is is
Never not here,
Never not now.

One gets further lost in
All destinations other than
Here.

Wu Hsin

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VAST SILENCE     "...in sanest hours..."     "...lesson of Nature."           "...calm, like the stars, shining eternal."      April 12, 2019

4/12/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 17
Beyond All
​Verses 1-10
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I HAVE ALREADY BEEN
WHATEVER IS
IN WORDLING PROJECTIONS
 
THE VAST SILENCE
IS TOO MUCH
FOR WORDS
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17 
Beyond All 

1
​
The man who is happy and pure 
And likes his own company
Gathers the fruit of his practice
And the fruit of wisdom.
2
The man who knows the truth 
Is never unhappy in the world.

For he alone fills the universe.
Picture
3
Just as the elephant loves
The leaves of the sallaki tree,
But not the neem tree,
So the man who loves himself
Always spurns the senses.
Picture
4
It is hard to find
 A man who has no desire
For what he has not tasted,
Or who tastes the world
And is untouched.
Picture
5
Here in the world
Some crave pleasure,
Some seek freedom.
But it is hard to find
A man who wants neither.

He is a great soul.
Picture
6
It is hard to find
A man who has an open mind,
Who neither seeks nor shuns
Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or liberation,
Life or death. . .
Picture
7
He does not want the world to end.
 He does not mind if it lasts.

Whatever befalls him,
He lives in happiness.

For he is truly blessed.
Picture
8
Now that he understands,
He is fulfilled.
His mind is drawn within,
And he is fulfilled.

He sees and he hears,
He touches and smells and tastes,
And he is happy.
Picture
9
Whatever he does is without purpose.
His senses have been stilled.
His eyes are empty.

He is without desire or aversion.

For him the waters of the world
Have all dried up!
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10
He is not asleep.
 He is not awake.
He never closes his eyes
Or opens them.
​
Wherever he is,
He is beyond everything.
​ He is free. 
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Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

 Chapter 17
Beyond All
​Verses 1-10

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​AFTERNOON
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whoever you are

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life.
—Walt Whitman
I believe in an invisible universe
in which we mark out our dark accomplishment.
I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music,
and I suffer from the arrow-tip of longing
that pierces us to death from the very beginning
and pushes us to go searching beyond,
where the wash of uncertainty begins.


—Nelly Sachs to Paul Celan
Stockholm, 1. 9. 1958 – 
from their Correspondence
...
There is, in sanest hours,
a consciousness, a thought that rises,
independent, lifted out from all else, calm,
 like the stars, shining eternal.
This is the thought of identity -
yours for you, whoever you are, as mine for me.
Miracle of miracles, beyond statement,
most spiritual and vaguest of earth's dreams,
yet hardest basic fact, and only entrance to all facts.

In such devout hours,
in the midst of the significant wonders of heaven and earth,
(significant only because of the Me in the centre)
creeds, conventions, fall away and become of no account
before this simple idea.
Under the luminousness of real vision,
it alone takes possession,
takes value.

Like the shadowy dwarf in the fable, once liberated and look'd upon,
it expands over the whole earth,
and spreads to the roof of heaven.

The quality of being, in the object’s self,
according to its own central  idea and purpose,
and of growing therefrom and thereto
— not criticism by other standards, and adjustments thereto --
is the lesson of Nature.

—Walt Whitman
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​Heart-to-Heart Resonance - Eric Baret and Rumi

​
The heart is yearning to be open.
When 
a heart meets an open heart,
when a match approaches a lighted match,
it rejoices in unity, in the flame...
This is called transmission.
But nothing is transmitted.
No one transmits, no one receives;
There is [just] heart-to-heart [resonance].
There is only one heart.


Eric Baret
​Some souls have gotten free of their bodies.
Do you see them?
Open your eyes for those who escape to meet
with other escapees, whose hearts associate in a way
they have of leaving their false selves to live
in a truer Self...


Rumi
From: Escaping to the Forest
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What does pre-eternity mean to you?
What is your origin?  The Source?
What is spirit?  


Spend your life finding out your own state.
Those other mysteries will come clear.


God is depth.  And you, you are also deep.
The same depth is in you.

Don't worry about terminology, pre-existence,
the original face, spirit, soul.
Search within yourself.
The great mystery is there.


I want someone with a living pulse,
a living friend...


************************************************************
Excerpts from the Sayings of Shams Tabriz
Soul Fury
Rumi and Shams Tabriz on Friendship

Coleman Barks

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ORIGIN’S SILENCE PRECEDING SOUND    April 11, 2019                           ".. stream retreats to its source."

4/11/2019

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The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is Chapter 16
​Forget Everything

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NAKED GRACE ALONE
PEELED OF ALL
*
< 
THE ONE ETERNAL TAO MOMENT
SOURCING ALL
< 
AH!
ORIGIN’S SILENCE
BEYOND LIFE & DEATH
POSSESSES ALL
ELIMINATING BELIEF
< 
BEYOND ME & THEE
=

THE SILENCE PRECEDING SOUND & BREATH

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5:07 AM-4/11/19
*i want to surrender to your silence which peels me.
- Arif K

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AH!  FOR THE RELIEF!
as the above Morning Whisper takes over consciousness…JUST IS
no pressure, no concerns
ONLY SILENCE
​
TAO CORE HAS POSSESSED
SOOTHING/SMOOTHING ALL THAT
WOULD CLOUD TRANSPARENCY
OF
ORIGIN’S FORMLESSNESS IN FORM
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Chapter 16
Forget Everything

1
My child,
 You may read or discuss scripture
As much as you like.

But until you forget everything,
You will never live in your heart.
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2​
You are wise.
You play and work and meditate.

But still your mind desires
That which is beyond everything,
Where all desires vanish.
​
3​
Striving is the root of sorrow. 

But who understands this?

Only when you are blessed
With the understanding of this teaching
Will you find freedom.
​
4
Who is lazier than the master? 
He has trouble even blinking!

But only he is happy.
No one else!
5
Seeing to this, 
Neglecting that. . .

But when the mind stops setting
One thing against another,
It no longer craves pleasure.

It no longer cares for wealth
Or religious duties or salvation.
​
6
Craving the pleasures of the senses, 
You suffer attachment.

Disdaining them,
You learn detachment.

But if you desire nothing,
And disdain nothing,
Neither attachment nor detachment bind you.
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7
When you live without discrimination,
  Desire arises. 

When desire persists,
Feelings of preference arise,
Of liking and disliking.

They are the root and branches of the world.
​
Picture
8
​From activity, desire. 
From renunciation, aversion.

But the man of wisdom is a child.
He never sets one thing against another.

It is true!
He is a child.
​
Picture
9
If you desire the world, 
You may try to renounce it In order to escape sorrow.
Instead, renounce desire!

Then you will be free of sorrow,
And the world will not trouble you.
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​10
 If you desire liberation,
But you still say "mine,"
If you feel you are the body,
You are not a wise man or seeker.

You are simply a man who suffers.
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11
Let Hari teach you 
Or Brahma, born of the lotus,
Or Shiva himself!
​
Unless you forget everything,
You will never live in your heart.
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A Translation of the
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Forget Everything 


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AFTERNOON
Character is higher than intellect.
Thinking is the function.
Living is the functionary.
The stream retreats to its source.

A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them.

This is a total act.
Thinking is a partial act.
The solar loses no hour which the man lives.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creating Enmity - J. Krishnamurti

Surely that thing which you fight you become.
  If I am angry and you meet me with anger what is the result? 
More anger.

You have become that which I am.
  If I am evil and you fight me with evil means
then you also become evil,
however righteous you may feel. 

If I am brutal and you use brutal methods to overcome me,
then you become brutal like me.
And this we have done for thousands of years. 

Surely there is a different approach than to meet hate by hate. 
If I use violent methods to quell anger in myself
then I am using wrong means for a right end,
and thereby the right end ceases to be. 
In this there is no understanding. 
Anger is to be understood;
it is not to be overcome through violent means. 
Anger may be the result of many causes and
without comprehending them there is no escape from anger.

We have created the enemy,
and becoming ourselves the enemy
in no way brings about an end to enmity. 
We have to understand the cause of our enmity
and cease to feed it by our thought, feeling, and action. 
This is an arduous task demanding constant
self-awareness [and Self awareness] and intelligent pliability,
for what we are society is... 

The enemy and the friend are the outcome of our thought and action. 
We are responsible for creating enmity
and so it is more important to be aware of our own thought and action
than to be concerned with the foe and the friend,
for right thinking puts an end to division.
​
Love transcends the friend and the enemy.

J. Krishnamurti
from: The Book of Life



via - The Beauty We Love
whoever you are


You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life.
—Walt Whitman
.



I believe in an invisible universe in which we mark out our dark accomplishment.
I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music,
and I suffer from the arrow-tip of longing
that pierces us to death from the very beginning
and pushes us to go searching beyond,
where the wash of uncertainty begins.


—Nelly Sachs to Paul Celan
Stockholm, 1. 9. 1958 – 
from their Correspondence
There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises,
independent, lifted out from all else,
calm, like the stars, shining eternal.

This is the thought of identity - yours for you,
whoever you are, as mine for me.

Miracle of miracles, beyond statement,
most spiritual and vaguest of earth's dreams,
yet hardest basic fact, and only entrance to all facts.

In such devout hours,
in the midst of the significant wonders of heaven and earth,
(significant only because of the Me in the centre)
creeds, conventions, fall away
and become of no account before this simple idea.

Under the luminous of real vision,
it alone takes possession, takes value.

Like the shadowy dwarf in the fable,
once liberated and look'd upon,
it expands over the whole earth,
and spreads to the roof of heaven.

The quality of being, in the object’s self,
according to its own central  idea and purpose,
and of growing therefrom and thereto
— not criticism by other standards, and adjustments thereto --
is the lesson of Nature.

—Walt Whitman
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BEFORE ABYSS DIE INTO BLISS        April 10, 2019                                  "...pure awareness, Nothing less."

4/10/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
Chapter 15
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters
​

Below is last half of Chapter 15
(First part of Chapter 15
on yesterday's OceanSpeak)
​
The  Clear Space of Awareness
​Verses 11-20
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BEFORE ABYSS
DIE INTO BLISS
< 
BECUMS A WAY OF LIFE
AS WELLSPRING
FOR ORIGINAL ONES…

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2:42 AM-4/10/19
Chapter 15
The Clear Space of Awareness
Verses 11-20 
(continued from yesterday)

11
You are the endless sea
 In whom all the worlds like waves
Naturally rise and fall.

You have nothing to win,
​Nothing to lose
.
12
 Child,
You are pure awareness,
Nothing less.


You and the world are one.

So who are you to think
You can hold on to it,
Or let it go?
​
​ How could you! 
13
You are the clear space of awareness, 
Pure and still,
In whom there is no birth,
No activity, No "I."
​
You are one and the same.
​You cannot change or die. 
14
 You are in whatever you see. 
You alone.
​
Just as bracelets and bangles
And dancing anklets
​ Are all of the same gold.
15
"I am not this." 
"I am He."

Give up such distinctions.
Know that everything is the Self.
Rid yourself of all purpose.

And be happy.
​
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16
​The world only arises from ignorance.
You alone are real.
​
There is no one,
Not even God,
Separate from yourself. 
​
​ 17
You are pure awareness.

 The world is an illusion,
Nothing more.

When you understand this fully,
Desire falls away.
​
You find peace.

 For indeed!
​ There is nothing. 
18
 In the ocean of being 
There is only one.

There was and there will be
Only one.

You are already fulfilled.
How can you be bound or free?

Wherever you go,
​ Be happy.
19   
Never upset your mind
 With yes and no.

Be quiet.
You are awareness itself.

Live in the happiness
Of your own nature,
Which is happiness itself.
20
​What is the use of thinking?

 Once and for all,
Give up meditation.
Hold nothing in your mind.
​
You are the Self,
​And you are free
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A Translation of the
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Thomas Byrom

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Chapter 15 -
Verses 11-20
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Every particle in your body is communicating with the entire cosmos. 
Yoga is about experiencing that.
Sadhguru
Quote for the Day 
April 10, 2019
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​AFTERNOON
The life of a sage appears to others
to be as purposeless as the actions of an infant. 
the infant lives in the bliss of ignorance,
while the self-realized sage lives in the bliss
beyond both ignorance and knowledge. 

In fact the sage is no longer even an individual,
in spite of the presence
of a fully developed intellect.
​

April 10
The Net of Jewels
Rasmesh S, Balsekar

Nothing to be reached.
Nothing to be gained.
Nothing to be added.
That which is sought is
Here and now.
Does one speak of space
Entering a room?

​Wu Hsin
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The eye makes no effort,
Yet it sees.
The ear makes no effort,
Yet it hears.
The tongue makes no effort,
Yet it tastes.
Action that is natural,
Action that is appropriate,
Requires no effort.

​Wu Hsin
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You have only to rest in inaction
and things will transform themselves.
Smash your form and body,
spit out hearing and eyesight,
forget you are a thing among other things,
and you may join in great unity
with the deep and boundless.
― Zhuangzi
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Rather than focus on what needs changing,
turn attention to what cannot change.
Wu Hsin
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Egocentricity & Suffering - Cheri Huber

Egocentricity is the process of wanting something other than
what is.  Egocentricity means there is an "I" who [feels]
separate from everything else and doesn't like it; one thing is
happening, but I want a different thing to be happening
[which causes suffering].  Egocentricity is that constant
concern with how I feel, what I think, what I'm doing, what
I want - looking at what is and seeing it as inadequate.
My identity is maintained by the struggle of wanting 
something other than what is [causing suffering].
​
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Instead of spending our time trying to avoid suffering,
we must find the willingness to go directly into it.
Whenever anything causes us to suffer, we can know
two things: suffering is the same as egocentricity, and
when it arises, that is our best opportunity to end suffering.
As we open to suffering, as we embrace it, as we accept it,
our relationship to it changes. It is no longer horrible,
something to escape from.  Suffering becomes just
another opportunity [for awareness], another chance for
freedom [from egocentricity].

Cheri Huber
Zen Teacher
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SIMPLE SOULUTION   "Abandoning all dualities,..."  April 9, 2019

4/9/2019

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The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 15
The  Clear Space of Awareness
​Verses 1-10
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A SIMPLE SOULUTION:
RESTING IN THE STILLPOINT CORE OF ORIGIN
ALLOWS FALSE REALITIES TO DISAPPEAR
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Chapter 15
Part 1
The Clear Space of Awareness
​

 1
The man who is pure of heart
 Is bound to fulfill himself
In whatever way he is taught.

A worldly man seeks all his life,
But is still bewildered.
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2
Detached from the senses,
You are free.

Attached, you are bound.

When this is understood,
You may live as you please.
3
When this is understood, 
The man who is bright and busy
And full of fine words
Falls silent.

He does nothing.
He is still.

No wonder
Those who wish to enjoy the world
Shun this understanding!
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4
You are not your body. 
Your body is not you.

You are not the doer.
You are not the enjoyer.

You are pure awareness,
The witness of all things.

 You are without expectation,
Free.
Wherever you go,
Be happy!
​5
Desire and aversion are of the mind.
The mind is never yours.
You are free of its turmoil.

You are awareness itself,
Never changing.

Wherever you go,
Be happy.
6
 For see! 
The Self is in all beings,
And all beings are in the Self.

Know you are free,
Free of "I,"
Free of "mine."

Be happy.
Picture
7
In you the worlds arise 
Like waves in the sea.

It is true!
You are awareness itself.
​
So free yourself
From the fever of the world.
Picture
8
Have faith, my Child, have faith.
Do not be bewildered.

For you are beyond all things,
The heart of all knowing.

You are the Self.
You are God.
Picture
9
The body is confined 
By its natural properties.

It comes,
It lingers awhile,
It goes.

But the Self neither comes nor goes.
So why grieve for the body?

Picture
10
If the body lasted till the end of time, 
Or vanished today,
What would you win or lose?

You are pure awareness. 
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A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

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Stand in your original state of wholeness,
the state before you were born when there was no knowledge "I am"
and therefore no need or want of any kind. 
All suffering will end
as soon as you stand in pure Awareness.
***
Intellect is very much necessary
to understand certain fundamentals,
but there is a strict limit
beyond which it cannot go.
  Thereafter it is only when intellect gives up all efforts
and acknowledges total surrender
that intuition takes over. 
​Awakening can only happen spontaneously by itself.

The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
April 5



​


​AFTERNOON
In the Garden of The Beloved
March 29 at 2:52 PM
 ·


​ 
SILENCE, STILLNESS, PEACE
My home is very near a busy road,
But Sitting in its lush garden,
The din and clamor, so close by,
While deemed by some, disruptive,
Is to me a Reminder that Silence,
Has naught to do with sound.
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For hearing the myriad notes of Life,
Whether melodious or dissonant,
Within, my Soul’s attention is elsewhere,
Intoxicated at The Tavern of The Beloved,
Where Enraptured, it cups its ears and asks,
“Hmm, did you say something?”
My mind moves in continuous thought,
But Resting within myself,
The flow of words and images,
While deemed by some, a distraction,
Is to me a Reminder that Stillness,
Has naught to do with movement.
For as thoughts and images flow,
Whether pleasurable or discordant,
Within, my Soul’s attention is elsewhere,
Entranced by the Face of The Beloved,
Where, without turning from Her,
It gestures, “You go on ahead.”
​
The psyche’s weather roils, ever changing,
But Abiding as the formless Sky,
The inconstancy of calm and catastrophe,
While deemed by some, a hindrance,
Is to me a Reminder that Peace,
Has naught to do with change.
For whether the vicissitudes of emotion,
Bring sunlit joy or darkening sorrow,
Within, my Soul’s attention is elsewhere, 
Lost in Reverie of The Changeless One,
Ever Radiant in the Heart of Being,
Timeless, Spaceless, Objectless.
Abandoning silence and clamor,
We become Silence.
Abandoning stillness and motion,
We become Stillness.
​Abandoning peace and unrest,
We become Peace.
Abandoning all dualities, 
We become our Essence.
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In the Garden of The Beloved
March 29 at 2:52 PM ·
come to the conclusion:
I am unborn,
​ I was unborn and I shall remain unborn.

—Sri Nisargadatta
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We live in illusion and the appearance of things.
There is a reality.
We are that reality.
When you understand this,
you see that you are nothing,
and being nothing,
you are everything.

​That is all.


—Kalu Rinpoche

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WAILS & HOWLS  ****   APPLY VAST SILENCE                                            "Even in sleep, I am awake."         April 8, 2019

4/8/2019

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​Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 14
The Fool
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6:42 AM - View from garden lot


​WAILS & HOWLS

YOWLS & WAILS
VIA
PHYSICAL NERVE ENDINGS
MAP THE RELIEF REQUIRED
< 
APPLY VAST SILENCE
 VIA
PRESSURE TO PRESSURE
∞
ALSO REMEMBER:
ORIGINAL ONES’ AWARENESS
HAPPENS WITHOUT PHYSICAL TOUCH
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14 
The Fool 

​1
 
By nature my mind is empty.
 Even in sleep,
I am awake.
I think of things without thinking.

All my impressions of the world
Have dissolved.
​
2
My desires have melted away.

So what do I care for money
Or the thieving senses,
For friends or knowledge or holy books?
3
Liberation,
 Bondage,
What are they to me?

What do I care for freedom?

For I have known God,
The infinite Self,
The witness of all things.
4
Without, a fool. 
Within, free of thought.

I do as I please,
And only those like me
Understand my ways.
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A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
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The Fool
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Before she became fire, she was water.
Quenched the thirst of every dying creature.
She gave and she gave,
until she turned from sea to desert.
But instead of dying of the heat,
the sadness, the heartache,
she took all of her pain
and from her own ashes
became fire.
~Nikita Gill
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​
AFTERNOON
The path to heaven lies through heaven,
and all the way to heaven is heaven.

–Catherine of Siena
The bird has no path; 
where the bird flies is the path.

The fish has no path in water;
wherever it swims is the path.

–The Upanishads ​
Rather the flying bird, leaving no trace
Than the going beast
Marking the earth with his track.
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The bird flies by and forgets
(As is only right). The beast
Where he no longer is
(And is therefore no use)
Marks that he was there before
(Which is also no use).
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For to remember is to betray
Nature, since the nature of yesterday
Is not nature.
What has been, is nothing.
Remembering
Is failure to see.
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Move on, bird, move on, teach me
To move on.



–Fernando Pessoa
Thomas Merton version


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Who (be quiet) Are you


Be still
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
To speak your

Name.
Listen
To the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
Are you? Whose
Silence are you?
Who (be quiet)
Are you (as these stones
Are quiet). Do not
Think of what you are
Still less of

What you may one day be.
Rather
Be what you are (but who?) be
The unthinkable one
You do not know.

O be still, while
You are still alive,
And all things live around you
Speaking (I do not hear)
To your own being,
Speaking by the Unknown
That is in you and in themselves.
“I will try, like them
To be my own silence:
And this is difficult. The whole
World is secretly on fire. The stones
Burn, even the stones
They burn me. How can a man be still or
Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
To sit with them when
All their silence
Is on fire?”

–Thomas Merton
in silence

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NOTHING TO WORD   CLEAR TRANSPARENCY       April 7, 2019         "...And now dance naked..."   "...world of opposites Has faded..."

4/7/2019

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​Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 13
Happiness

BE STILL
< 
SO TOTALLY STILL*
THERE IS NOTHING
TO WORD... EXPLAIN... REMEMBER....

.....A CLEAR TRANSPARENCY OF CREATOR/CREATION
JUST IS
< 
NECESSARY UNFOLDMENTS ALWAYS HAPPENING

ew
4:50 AM-4/7/19
*REMEMBER HUMMINGBIRD PERCHING
 IN STILLNESS 
ON CLOTHESLINE**
**(as above last lines Write
a Solitary SongBird begans continual Happy Songing
in this very dark early morning sky..then is joined by others…
…then ceases as we finish describing this Understanding)
ALL OF NATURE SIMPLY SINGS BECAUSE IT HAS A SONG
&
NOT because it has a voice.
A CLEAR TRANSPARENCY IN HUMAN FORM
​ ALSO HAS SUCH SONG

< 
JUST IS
< 
BE THIS SONG
ew
5:04 AM-4/7/19
JUST as above finishes writing,
even the roosters that had joined in birds’ songings
have Quieted.
there is NOW only Pure Silence from Birds
Mother Ocean continues her rhythmic soft lull of waves/breakers
Ocean breeze gently wafting thru the window….
ALL JUST IS
BEFORE/DURING/AFTER FOREVER
=
RELIEF!!!!... BEYOND EARTHLY MEASURE
ew
5:10 AM-4/7/19
(Big Baubo Belly Laugh...as we trust this may be the LAST
time to ever try to word or Word such Happenings!!!)
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Happiness


1  
Even if you have nothing,
 It is hard to find that contentment
Which comes from renunciation.

I accept nothing.
I reject nothing.

And I am happy.
​
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2
 
The body trembles,
 The tongue falters,
The mind is weary.
Forsaking them all,
I pursue my purpose happily.
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 3

Knowing I do nothing,
 I do whatever comes my way,
And I am happy.
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  4

​ Bound to his body,
 The seeker insists on striving
Or on sitting still.
But I no longer suppose
The body is mine,
Or is not mine.
And I am happy.
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 5

​Sleeping, sitting, walking,
 Nothing good or bad befalls me.
I sleep, I sit, I walk,
And I am happy.
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6
Struggling or at rest, 
Nothing is won or lost.
I have forsaken the joy of winning
And the sorrow of losing.
And I am happy. 
7
​
 For pleasures come and go.
 How often I have watched their inconstancy!

But I have forsaken good and bad,
And now I am happy. 
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Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom

Chapter 13
Happiness

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​​​





​AFTERNOON
OF MYSELF I AM NOTHING

I am the blank screen
On which universes appear and disappear

I am the nothing-ness
From which ‘All That Is’ seems to BE
​
And yet I AM
The identities that once seduced me
Have died
And now dance naked before my
Awareness
Unable to entice me to wear their endless costumes
​
 i AM beyond even the concept of Freedom
Unaware of its meaning
As the world of opposites
Has faded

In this Emptiness
I AM Eternity.

John McIntosh
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/of-myself-i-am-nothing
 ~~~ It is being dead to self that is the recognition of God.
 Inayat Khan

 Love accomplishes its work when it spreads its wings
and veils man's self from his own eyes.
That is the time when love is fulfilled,
and so it is in the life of the holy ones
who have not only loved God by professing or showing it,
but who have loved God to the extent
that they forgot themselves.


  Excerpt from  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_2_22.htm

https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date_no_photo.php

Bowl of Saki for April 7, 2019
Under whatever name and form one may worship the Absolute Reality,
it is only a means for realizing It without name and form.
That alone is true realization,
wherein one knows oneself in relation to that Reality,
​ attains peace and realizes one’s identity with it.

~Śrī Ramana Maharshi
Health is not just being disease-free.
Health is when every cell in your body
is bouncing with life.
Sadhguru
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A DROWNING DEATH     UNFETTERED FREEDOM   April 6, 2019                     "Grasping nothing, spurning nothing."

4/6/2019

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​Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
​There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 12
​Fulfillment

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A DROWNING DEATH
 OF ALL SUPERFLUITY DUE TO ORIGINAL SILENCE
​<
SUCH ASPHYXIATION
 REMOVES VEILS OF CHOKING DECEIT
∞
COCKROACHES SHUN LIGHT & DROWN IN LIVING WATERS
< 
CLARITY & UNFETTERED FREEDOM

ew
5:34 AM-4/6/19

 
RE-REMINDER!
OTHER WAYS TO KNOW ‘COCKROACH’:
https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/spirit-totem-power-animal-meanings/insects/cockroach-symbolism-meaning/
 
From a dream psychology perspective, the dead cockroach is a symbol of cleansing your mind
https://www.auntyflo.com/dream-dictionary/roach-cockroach
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​ Fulfillment 
​


1

First I gave up action, 
Then idle words,
And lastly thought itself.
​Now I am here.
2
​ Ridding my mind of distraction,
single-pointed,
I shut out sound and all the 
senses,
And I am here.
3
Meditation is needed 
Only when the mind is distracted
By false imagining.

Knowing this,
I am here.
4
 Without joy or sorrow,
 Grasping nothing, spurning nothing,
O Master,
​ I am here. 
5
What do I care
If I observe or neglect
The four stages of life?

Meditation,
Controlling the mind,
These are mere distractions!

Now I am here.
 6
​Doing, or not doing,
 Both come from not knowing.

Knowing this fully,
I am here.
 7
Thinking
  Of what is beyond thinking
Is still thinking.

I gave up thinking,
​And I am here.
8 
Whoever fulfills this 
Fulfills his own nature
​And is indeed fulfilled.
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ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita

Thomas Byrom
Chapter  12


Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​



​AFTERNOON
You are something that the whole universe is doing, 
in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
...
We do not “come into” this world;
we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” 

Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature,
a unique action of the total universe.
This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. 
Even those who know it to be true in theory
do not sense or feel it,
but continue to be aware of themselves
​ as isolated “egos”
​inside bags of skin.
You didn’t come into this world.
You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.
You are not a stranger here.

—Alan Watts
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, excerpt

.
know-the-self


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“Hold on to this knowingness ‘I am’ without words
and every secret of your existence
will be revealed to you.”
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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