Blog Archives - Dorothea Mills

The Chimera of Suffering Sunrise/Afternoon May 31, 2015

5/31/2015

– abandon, surrender, give up, all claims of personal doership,
all stories of trauma, blame and fault,
all rights to fruits of actions (especially those applauded),
all possessions that are subject to change…

refuse to take any hierarchical, authoritative position,
or allow others to sign one up.

(Which is not to abdicate responsibility,
but to be perfectly placed –
in choiceless awareness
– to act in the instant.)

give up the habit of pretending to be an unawakened ‘me’.
It’s entirely dishonest.

– and in the Life Game, fail to follow, always.
Repeat – fail to follow.
The lifemap wearing one’s name is unique –
a one-off
– its unfolding exquisitely designed
according to Life’s unknowable agenda
(and being a groupie is always a self-betrayal).

All above wordings from
miriam louisa

WELL WORTH reading her entire Sharing here:
http://thisunlitlight.com/2015/05/30/renounce/

Just as the difference between the space in a pot and the space outside it disappears when the pot is demolished,
so also does duality disappear when it is realized
that the difference between
the individual consciousness and the Universal Consciousness
does not in fact exist.
Ramesh S. Baleskar
The Net of Jewels
May 29

It is not the work that hinders (peace)
but the idea that it is you who are doing it.
—Sri Ramana Maharshi

Are we not at peace in the interval
when one thought ceases and another does not yet arise?
–Ramana Maharshi

One does not experience suffering - one suffers an experience.
One who is aware of his true identity does not, and cannot suffer.
Ramesh S. Baleskar
The Net of Jewels
May 30

Everything has its place in the world as well as in our daily routine.
Devotion and reverence are all right, for example,
so long as one recognizes them for what they are - affectivity -
and to that extent a form of bondage.
But when one sees something for what it Is,
it then loses its force and cannot effect any further bondage.

Ramesh S. Baleskar
The Net of Jewels
May 30

VANISHING CHIMERA
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LUSH SIMPLICITY
miriam/harmony

Original Vision...Quiet Womb...Primordial Core Sunrise/Afternoon May 30, 2015

5/30/2015

Only The Great Nothing…
....and yet the Vision Unfolds in the Quiet WombHeart

ORIGINAL VISION UNFOLDS IN THE QUIET WOMB
THE PRIMORDIAL CORE OF ALL

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4:19 AM - 5/30/15

The time of judging
Who is drunk or sober,
Who is right and who is wrong,
Who is closer to god, and who is farther away,
All that is over.

This caravan is led instead by a great delight,
The simple joy that sits with us now.
That is the grace.
Hafiz
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/grace.html

Surrender.
Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.

You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different -
Surrender.

–Rumi

"Completely Naked"...... Eternal One Moment-Nakedly Complete Sunrise/Afternoon May 29, 2015

5/29/2015

WHEN WE ARE THE QUIET ANSWER TO THE QUIET QUESTION
ALL QUESTIONS/ANWERS DISAPPEAR
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VANISHED INTO THE MYSTERY.

DANCED BY
IN
OF
AS
THE GREAT “OLDER THAN GOD” DANCER

ALL IS AS IT IS
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3:44 AM-5/29/15
*TAO TE CHING #4
Stephen Mitchell Trans
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#4
for more re: Quiet Answer see at end of:
:http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/life-is-unavoidable-sunriseafternoon-may-27-2015

Those who don't feel this
Love pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink
dawn like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,

let them sleep

This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,

sleep on.

If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words around you,

and sleep.

–Rumi
Coleman Barks version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/wakey-wakey.html

All your pain, worry, sorrow
Will someday apologize and confess
They were a great lie.
—Hafiz

This bird sits most ALL DAY singing the loudest ever...all kinds of sounds....
the Meryl Streep of Birdom...
..from early sunrise to late evening, even after dark sometimes...
.this tree is between my oceanside window and the ocean....in the garden/sheeplot..
.planted by hand when only 2 feet tall.....

The Tao of Transparency - Another Ouroboros Milestone "Primal Lucidity" Sunrise/Afternoon May 28, 2015

5/28/2015

On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open
and the world is full of beauty ...

Today is such a day.
–Rumi

Living is the reaction to stimuli, to
People, events, and thoughts.
To examine the reactor is to
Inquire deeply into
The root of being.

That which contains the mind
Cannot be known
Via the mind.

In pristine silence,
This primal lucidity makes itself known.

Wu Hsin
http://www.happycow.org.uk/inspiration/quotes_wu_hsin_random.shtml

The power of the will alone cannot
Bring one to the goal.
Only the One Who
Brought you to here can
Take you to there.

Being a person is
Only an idea.
It serves to mask
The underlying essence
In the same way that
Clouds obscure the sun.

When this idea is seen through,
What remains is brilliance itself.

Wu Hsin
http://www.happycow.org.uk/inspiration/quotes_wu_hsin_random.shtml

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

A happy and sanguine attitude is what you need if you are to extricate yourself from a troublesome situation.

http://boothstars.com/2015/05/28/scorpio-thursday-may-28-2015/

This journey involves a transformation of our being
so that our thinking mind becomes our servant rather than our master.
It’s a journey that takes us from primary identification with our psyche
to identification with our souls,
then to identification with God,
and ultimately beyond any identification at all.

Life is an incredible curriculum in which we live richly and passionately
as a way of awakening to the deepest truths of our being.
As a soul, I have only one motive:
to merge with God.
As a soul, I live in the moment,
in each rich and precious moment,
and I am filled with contentment…..
Ram Dass
http://makebelieveboutique.com/2014/10/03/10383/
http://makebelieveboutique.com/tag/soul-transparency/

When we begin to see that black mud and white snow
are neither ugly nor beautiful,
when we can see them
without discrimination or duality,
then we begin to grasp Great Compassion.

In the eyes of Great Compassion,
there is neither left nor right,
friend nor enemy,
close nor far.

Don’t think that Great Compassion is lifeless.
The energy of Great Compassion
is radiant and wondrous.
In the eyes of Great Compassion,
there is no separation between subject and object,
no separate self.
Nothing that can disturb Great Compassion.
…..Thich Nhat Hanh
http://makebelieveboutique.com/2015/01/20/11321/

I am the source of transparency
perfect emptiness of worlds.
I am of-ness
transparent potency of worlds

Again there is silence.

The Tao of Onliness:
An I Ching Cosmology--the Awakening Years
Martin Treon

The Heart of Lao Tse was filled with the Great Transparent Calm.
He listened to this Calm since the Great Silence
became filled with the words of Tao and Te* when necessary.

In this way Lao Tse was learning Wisdom about the meaning of human life
and about the laws according to which people
can live without destroying
the harmony of the terrestrial and the Heavenly,
as well as about the steps of the stairway
that lead “from the earth — to the Heaven”,
that is, to the Divine, to the Primordial.

He listened about the Great Love,
under the Guidance of Which the interaction of yin and yang takes place,
about how Tao loves every being,
about how Te nurses and nurtures all souls,
about how to cognize Tao and how the person should live
who wants to know all this on one’s own experience
and achieve the Supreme Ultimate:
the state, in which there is only the Primordial Ocean
That creates everything
and includes entirely in Itself everyone who reaches It.

This Living Ocean of the Subtlest Primordial Consciousness — is Tao.

** Tao in Chinese is the Primordial Consciousness (the synonyms of this word are the Creator, God-the-Father, Ish-vara, Allah).
Te is the Holy Spirit (or Brahman). (See Tao Te Ching, under the editorship of Vladimir Antonov).
http://parables-of-masters-en.blogspot.com/

BE AS YOU ARE

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4:26 AM
5/28/15

"Life Is UnaVoidable" Sunrise/Afternoon May 27, 2015

5/27/2015

The way of Tao is the art of blending with the universe and accepting that which is moving through the great void in this moment.
To the Taoist life does not need to be a search,
for it is here with us now and quite unavoidable.
Michael Lindfield
The Dance of Change
p. 72

IN/OF/AS THE VAST ORIGINAL VOID
BLENDING
EXPANDING

LEFT BRAIN AUTONOMY IS INCREASINGLY BLURRING INTO THE HEART
GURU GULLS OF YESTERDAY REMIND OF AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL BEING

“LIFE IS UNAVOIDABLE”**

A JOYFULL PURE CHILD
…ALLOWING LIFE TO DANCE THE VOLITION SUFFICES
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4:07 AM - 5/27/15
**Michael Lindfield
The Dance of Change
p. 72

In the point of rest at the center of our being,
we encounter a world where
all things are at rest in the same way.

Then a tree becomes a mystery,
a cloud a revelation,
each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld from Markings
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2015/05/at-rest.html

Sunrise 12/14/14

I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.

Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually,
without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.

–Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters To A Young Poet
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/questions.html

Discard all you are not and go ever deeper.

Just as a man digging a well discards what is not water ... so must you discard what is not your own,
till nothing is left which you can disown.
You will find that what is left is nothing which the mind can hook on to.

You are not even a human being.

You just are - a point of awareness,
co-extensive with time and space and beyond both,
the ultimate cause, itself uncaused.

If you ask me “Who are you?”,
my answer would be:
“Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.”

–Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/who-are-you.html

The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer.
The question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
–Ramana Maharshi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-question.html

We can Hear the Quiet Answer
When we become as Quiet
as
The Answer Itself.
Hugh Prather

We ARE The Quiet Answer
When we Become
As Quiet
as
The Answer ItSelf.
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http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/lifting-gently-buoyed-by-grace-ap-28-2013-sunrise-noon

http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/the-quiet-answer-sunriseafternoon-january-25-2015

Chuck Surface Synchronicities/Buoy/Life Itself here:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/a-sublime-formless-radiance-sunriseafternoon-may-25-2015

The day after this Buoy Milestone/Quiet Answer
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/the-keeper-of-nothingness-torus-ouroboros-full-circl-all-eternal-timelines-sunriseafternoon-may-24-2015

"Become Life Itself"
more from Chuck Surface
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/beyond-volition-and-name-become-life-itself-sunriseafternoon-may-17-2015

Unwavering Solitude Undifferentiated Dance and The Dancer Sunrise/Afternoon May 26, 2015

5/26/2015

BEYOND PREFERENCES & CONCEPTS
ONLY POSSIBLE
VIA PERFECT POSSESSION IN/OF/AS DIVINE/COSMIC GRACE

SURVIVAL IN FLESH FORM OF SUCH POSSESSION
ONLY POSSIBLE
VIA PERFECT POSSESSION IN/OF/AS DIVINE/COSMIC GRACE

HAS IT EVER BEEN ANY OTHER WAY?

THIS IS ALL THAT IS OR CAN BE
SINCE BEFORE, DURING .... AND AFTER TIME

CONCEPT OF SURRENDER DISAPPEARS FROM REALITY
THERE IS NOW ONLY THE GREAT NOTHING

THE PUREST SOLITUDE WITHOUT WAVER

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4:25 AM-5/26/15

The entire manifested creation presents a cosmic dance by the Divine Dancer,
executed to the tune of time on the stage of space,
and the dance cannot be differentiated from the dancer.
Ramesh Balsekar
Net of Jewels
May 26

From the beginning, nothing is.
There really has never been any beginning, nor is there any end.
The universe is a dream.
So is the one who is supposed to understand this!
Belief in oneself is, in fact, the only real obstruction
to awakening from delusion.

Ramesh Balsekar
Net of Jewels
May 25

It is the wish to experience life as a separate entity
that turns the outer world into a threatening multiple enemy.

Ramesh Balsekar
Net of Jewels
May 26

"A Sublime, Formless Radiance" Sunrise/Afternoon May 25, 2015

5/25/2015

Through all my wanderings in this world,
Through the lustfulness of youth,
And the ambition of middle age,
I held, among my other desires,
The desire for...

A fairy tale.

A Dream of Heaven, of Love unconditioned,
A Dream of Ecstasy, not of the body,
A Dream of Peace, beyond imagining,
A Dream in which inherent suffering,
Was no longer.

A fairy tale.

Born empirically minded, yet full of Longing,
I would have none of faith or belief,
In things unprovable, and likely imagined,
Of impossible dreams born of the suffering,
Of simply being incarnate.

Fairy tales.

And so one day, seeking and end to Suffering,
I turned within, to the Unbearable Longing,
For what I knew I must have been,
Before ever I learned a word,
Before ever I knew what "i" was.

A fairy tale.

So many words I had read,
So many teachings of so many paths,
So disheartening, all, in the course of time.
Of the “Truth” they held forth, and the Ways to it,
My weary Heart would have no more...

Of fairy tales.

Within… Within… Within...
Past words, concepts, and images,
Of myself and the world,
And all that the senses presented,
Presented to... what?

A fairy tale.

There, beyond within and without,
Through Unimaginable Grace,
"i" Vanished, and all creation with me,
And that which Is before all that arises,
Was what I was, without myself...

The fairy tale no longer.

The Love, Ecstasy, and Peace I sought… I was.
That dream of Sufferings end… I was.
My Heart’s Desire… I was.
All of this… I was…
When I was not.

Heaven, found to be True.

This is not my tale of Grace alone,
But each of ours, who ache with Longing,
Along this Path of Love and Surrender,
Loving that… for which no words exist,
And which disheartening experience deems…

A fairy tale.

Within...
Within...
Within, Dear Heart...
To the Feeling of yourself,
Before the Feeling of your self…

The Heart’s Desire… Fulfilled.

Jerry/brandy's first born photo from May 2015

And when the world reappears,
The Light of Heaven, your Own Pure Light,
Will Shine as it Shines already,
Within your Longing Heart,
Into this world of ever-changing Duality…

This… fairy tale.

You will exist in Fullness,
In the world of Fullness and Emptiness,
You will exist in Bliss,
In the world of Ecstasy and Agony,
You will exist, a Sublime Formless Radiance...

A fairy tale come true.
Chuck Surface
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I did not want to be anything more.
I was entirely happy.

Perhaps we feel like that when we die
and become a part of something entire,
whether it is sun and air,
or goodness and knowledge.

At any rate, that is happiness;
to be dissolved into something complete and great.

When it comes to one,
it comes as naturally as sleep.

—Willa Cather
from My Antonia
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/2015/05/that-is-happiness.html

I do not believe in spiritual paths.
The purpose of spiritual paths is to enmesh you in the world of knowledge,
while Reality resides prior to it.
All spiritual paths lead to unreality.

Discard all paths.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/discard-all-paths.html

Be still beyond belief.
Then that which cannot be known reveals itself,
both fresh and ancient,
beyond any polarity of knowing, or not knowing.
Gangaji

BEYOND THE BEYOND
IS THIS SOUL....ALL SOULS…

BEYOND THE BEYOND
IS ALL

“OLDER THAN GOD”
IS ALL

SOURCED IN/OF/BY THE VAST SILENCE
THOUGHTLESS THOUGHTS
SPEECHLESS WORDS & WORDLESS SPEECH

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4:24 AM
5/25/15

"The Keeper of Nothingness" Torus Ouroboros Full Circle All Eternal Timelines Sunrise/Afternoon May 24, 2015

5/24/2015

AWARENESS BEYOND AWARENESS SUFFICETH
SOUL DOES NOT THINK OR TALK
JUST IS
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OVERFLOW OF EVERSHINING FIRE
WHICH ERASES ALL VOLITION AND ABSORBTION

ONLY THE GREAT NOTHING REMAINS
SIMPLY BE BREATH
THAT IS ALL
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4:27 AM
5/24/15

The suitors came a-courting –
some to convert; others
to conquer.

They built their bowers
and cast their glittering nets
but

it was a bet against nothing
and nothing always
won.

See, I was taken at birth by
a groom I could never meet;
wed for life to Its presence

(inescapably cradled,
unconditionally
loved)

our consummation flowering
in my disappearance –
afresh in every instant.

My groom is the keeper of nothingness:
the nothing that can’t be named
or owned, yet

overflowingly fulfills.
It is my constant consort.
And so, tonight

I drink my wine and dance
alone.
How could I be happier?
miriam louisa

http://echoesfromemptiness.com/2015/05/23/a-bet-against-nothing/

Leave it all behind you.
Forget it.
Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs.
Abandon all verbal structures,
all relative truth,
all tangible objectives.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/go-forth.html

Divine Irony of Longing for Silence Sunrise/Afternoon May 23, 2015

5/23/2015

Longing<Wailing for SILENCE in my soul…
(snake is only a stick…)
The soul is Nothing but SILENCE
Be That
And So It
Is
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3:31 AM
5/23/15

You ask why I make my home
in the mountain forest
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
It lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom.
The water flows.
—Li Po
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/you-ask-why-i-make-my-home-in-mountain.html

The act of trying to find the way home is what
convinces us we are lost.
We are not lost, we are not alone, and we have
never left home.
—Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/we-are-not-lost.html

Stay open and quiet, that is all.
What you seek is so near you that there
is no place for a way.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/hush.html

The Self is like a powerful magnet within us.
It draws us gradually to itself, though we imagine we are going to It of our own accord:
when we are near enough, It puts an end to our activities, makes us still,
and then swallows up our personal current, thus killing our wrong personality.
It overwhelms the intellect and over floods the whole being.

We think we are meditating upon It and developing towards It,
whereas the truth is that we are iron filings and It is the Atman-magnet
that is pulling us towards Itself.
Thus the process of finding the Self
is a form of Divine magnetism.
–Sri Ramana Maharshi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/divine-magnetism.html

Just be the Self. The ultimate truth is so simple;
it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

It is a great wonder that to teach such a simple truth
a number of religions should be necessary,
and so many disputes should go on between them
as to which is the God-ordained teaching.

What a pity!
Just be the Self, that is all.

–Ramana Maharshi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-ultimate-truth.html

Multidimensional Sovereignty

Practice powerful alchemical exercises.
In a dedicated moment, imagine some aspect of the collective pain;
breath it into your heart and breathe it out transformed.
Stay in your heart and in the NOW offering both your joy and gratitude
from the awareness of your multidimensional sovereignty.
Peggy Black
See Read More for Full Article and Source of Information

"Silence is all I can say" "Void Surfer" Sunrise/Afternoon May 22, 2015

5/22/2015

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always widening
rings of being.
–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/live-in-silence.html

VOID SURFER

from miriam louisa's sharing...see below

I’ve been there
crouched low,
riding a tunnel wave

but it wasn’t in that
rolling roaring wetness

it was in this
silent
unfathomable
ocean of Being

imagine my amazement
to discover – here
in this human form -
an aging amphibious
void-surfer
miriam louisa

http://echoesfromemptiness.com/2013/04/30/surfer-chick/

A spirit that lives in this world
and does not wear the shirt of love,
such an existence is a deep disgrace.
Be foolishly in love,
because love is all there is.

There is no way into presence
except through a love exchange.
If someone asks, But what is love?
answer, Dissolving the will.

True freedom comes to those
who have escaped the questions
of freewill and fate.
Love is an emperor.
The two worlds play across him.
He barely notices their tumbling game.

Love and lover live in eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being.
How long do you lay embracing a corpse?
Love rather the soul, which cannot be held.

Anything born in spring dies in the fall,
but love is not seasonal.
With wine pressed from grapes,
expect a hangover.
But this love path has no expectations.

You are uneasy riding the body?
Dismount. Travel lighter.
Wings will be given.
Be clear like a mirror
reflecting nothing.

Be clean of pictures and the worry
that comes with images.
Gaze into what is not ashamed
or afraid of any truth.
Contain all human faces in your own
without any judgment of them.

Be pure emptiness.
What is inside that? you ask.
Silence is all I can say.
Lovers have some secrets
That they keep.

—Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/be-foolishly-in-love.html

"The Beyond Within" Nothing Real is Man-Made Sunrise/Afternoon May 21, 2015

5/21/2015

Why do I storm heaven for answers
that are already in my heart?
Every grace I need has already been given me.
Oh, lead me to the Beyond within.
—Macrina Wiederkehr

http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/question_20.html
Macrina's website:
http://www.macrinawiederkehr.com/blog

Nothing Real is man-made.
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end of sunrise stroll
5/21/15

Nothing Real can be Threatened.
Tara Singh + Course in Miracles

“Love is not love if it can be turned to hate.
Real relationship is not affected
by one person’s agreeing or disagreeing with another.
It is a space beyond likes and dislikes,
beyond good and bad,
where everything is reconciled and seen in a new light.”
Tara Singh
http://www.josephplan.org/quotes.html

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
Course in Miracles
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Your spirit needs to follow the changes happening
in the spacious place it knows about.
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.
Rumi

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.

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.
Rumi

Lovers of Truth- rise up!
Let us go toward heaven.
We have seen enough of this world,
It's time to see another…

No, no- don't stop here.
The gardens may flow with beauty
But let us go to the Gardner Himself.

Let us go,
Bowing to the ocean
like a raging torrent.

Let us go,
Riding upon the foaming waters
of the sea.

Let us travel from this desert of
Hunger and tears
To the feast of the newlyweds.

Let us change our expression
From one of saffron
To the blossoms of the Judas tree.

Our hearts beat fast
We tremble like leaves about to fall.
Let us become the immovable mountain.

There is no escape from pain for one in exile;
There is no escape from dust
For one who lives in a dustbowl.
Let us be like the birds of paradise,
That fly about drinking sweet water.

We are surrounded by the forms
of a formless creator.
Enough with these forms!
Let us go to the Formless One.

Love is our steady guide
On this road full of hardships.
Even if the king offers you his protection,
It is better to travel with the caravan.

We are the rain that falls upon
a leaky roof-
let us miss the holes
and fall smoothly down the spout.

We are crooked bows
With strings that run from our head to toes;
Soon we will be straight
like an arrow in flight.
We run like mice when we see a cat -
yet we are the lion's roar.
Let us become that Lion.

Let our souls
mirror the love of our Master.
Let us go before Him
With a handful of gifts.

Now let us be silent
So that the Giver of Speech may speak.
Let us be silent
So we can hear Him calling us
Secretly in the night….

We are surrounded by the forms
Of a formless Creator.
Enough with these forms!
Let us go to the Formless One!

RUMI

Re-Remember Truth of Being Rumi's Drowning Man Sunrise/Afternoon May 20, 2015

5/20/2015

TRUTH OF BEING SUPERCEDES ALL DOING
AND ILLUSORY VOLITION
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3:01 AM
5/20/15

RUMI'S DROWNING MAN

It is the drowned man over whom the water has complete control.
The drowned man himself has no control over the water.

Every movement made by the drowned man..
indeed, every act and word that issue from him...
comes from the water, not from him.

He is just a "vehicle."

The Neverborns are like this.
They have died before death"

Signs of the Unseen
Rumi

See Read More at end for a morning note and more re: Rumi's Drowning Man

A Death into No-Name Life Sunrise/Afternoon May 19, 2015

5/19/2015

A RETURNING HOME

A DEATH INTO LIFE ITSELF THAT HAS NO NAME

PURPOSE OR PREACHING...

INVISIBLE AS THE BREEZE

SOMETIMES PERCEIVED BY THE SENSES AND SOMETIMES NOT.

STILL OR BLUSTERY, AIR JUST

IS

ew
3:55 AM
5/19/15

A RETURNING HOME
A DEATH INTO LIFE ITSELF THAT HAS NO NAME
PURPOSE OR PREACHING...

INVISIBLE AS THE BREEZE
SOMETIMES PERCEIVED BY THE SENSES AND SOMETIMES NOT.

STILL OR BLUSTERY, AIR JUST
IS

ew
3:55 AM
5/19/15

The body
is a single creature, whole,
its life is one, never less than one, or more,
so is its world, and so
are two bodies in their love for one another
one. In ignorance of this
we talk ourselves to death.
–Wendell Berry
Sabbaths, XIV
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/never-less-than-one-or-more.html

In fact, my soul and yours are the same,
You appear in me, I in you,

We hide in each other.
—Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-fact.html

Clarity As The Great Silencer Sunrise/Afternoon May 18, 2015

5/18/2015

There is a no-pause gentle rain all day long, so there was no stroll to the afternoon beach.
The below photos are from favorites of birds.
*

All quotes by Chuang Tzu

The fish trap exists because of the fish.
Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.
The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit.
Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare.
Words exist because of meaning.
Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

2/11/15 Sunrise

The sound of water says what I think.

Harbour Island Beach - The Rock

I've heard my teacher say,
where there are machines,
there are bound to be machine worries;
where there are machine worries,
there are bound to be machine hearts.
With a machine heart in your breast,
you've spoiled what was pure and simple;
and without the pure and simple,
the life of the spirit knows no rest.

Backyard Guru 11/23/14

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without,
for much knowledge is a curse.

On Road to the Beach....4/28/15

When a man does not dwell in self,
then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him.
His movement is like that of water,
his stillness like that of a mirror,
his responses like those of an echo.

5/3/15

When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten

What one calls right the other calls wrong;
what one calls wrong the other calls right.
But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights,
then the best to use is clarity

All quotes by Chuang Tzu

12/8/14

Backyard Sour Orange and Thrush 1/26/15

High in Tree in Garden Lot 5/12/15

Beyond Volition and Name = "Become Life Itself" Sunrise/Afternoon May 17, 2015

5/17/2015

Your Loving Attention,
Is the SunLight of your Being,
Shining outward in delight and enjoyment,
Of this Wonder of Manifest Existence.

But turned Within, in Loving Quest,
This Light will evaporate,
The clouds of obscuration,
That veil Wonder Beyond Imagining.

Persevere, Dear Heart…
Don’t despair or lose hope,
When nothing but gray sky greets you,
The density of embodied selfhood.

Persevere, Dear Heart…
Not in will, but in Love and Longing,
Of your Heart’s True Desire,
For which, long ago, all hope vanished.

Persevere, Dear Heart…
And that Impossible Dream will be revealed,
As the Fullness, Completion, and Bliss,
Of your own Formless Being..

Your own Formless, Unlocatable... Aliveness.

Persevere, Dear Heart…
In Loving Surrender,
To the Feeling, not the thought,
Of the Vibration of Being that you are.

Persevere, Dear Heart…
And discover in your own experience,
That Heaven is no myth,
But the experience of your Innate Ecstasy.

Persevere, Dear Heart...
For your Formless Being Shines,
Awaiting only the Light of your Attention,
There... just beyond the clouds.

Persevere, Dear Heart...
Shining the Light of Loving Attention,
Then Vanishing into the Experience of Ecstasy,
That only arises...

With the Vanishing of the experiencer.

Persevere, Dear Heart...
Not grasping to hold and sustain,
But in Surrender, letting go of all attainment,

And you will cease being a thing alive…

And become Life Itself.
Chuck Surface
See Read More at end

I have no name,
I am as the fresh breeze of the
mountains.
I have no shelter;
I am as the wandering waters.
I have no sanctuary, like the dark
gods;
Nor am I in the shadow of deep
temples. I have no sacred books;
Nor am I well-seasoned in
tradition.
*

I am not in the incense
Mounting on the high altars,
Nor in the pomp of ceremonies.
I am neither in the graven image,
Nor in the rich chant of a
melodious voice. I am not bound by theories,
Nor corrupted by beliefs.
*

I am not held in the bondage of
religions,
Nor in the pious agony of their
priests.
*

I am not entrapped by
philosophies,
Nor held in the power of their
sects. I am neither low nor high,
I am the worshipper and the
worshipped.
I am free.
*

My song is the song of the river
Calling for the open seas,
*

Wandering, wandering,
I am Life.
I have no name,
I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

–J. Krishnamurti
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/i-have-no-name.html

See Read More below.....

Communion With Eternity Sunrise/Afternoon May 16, 2015

5/16/2015

The identified man takes part in things and suffers.
The unidentified man merely watches the spectacle.
The identified man tries to understand truth
while the unidentified man experiences it.
Balsekar
The Net of Jewels

True prayer means not solicitation but communion.
Prayer is communion in the same sense
as that in true meditation
there is neither a meditator
nor anything meditated upon.
Balsekar
The Net of Jewels

To die now to every moment and every experience
is the death that is
ETERNITY ITSELF.
Ramesh S. Balkesar
The Net of Jewels

".......only the Great Unknown." Sunrise/Afternoon May 15, 2015

5/15/2015

I cannot tell what I am because
words can describe only what I am not.
I am beyond consciousness and. therefore,
in consciousness I cannot say what I am.

The question "Who am I" has no answer.
No experience can answer it, for the self is beyond experience.
I am free from all description and identification.

Whatever you may hear, see, or think of, I am not that.
I am free from being a precept, or a concept.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
quoted in
The Way of Wonder
Jack Haas
p. 222

God does not understand being God,
God merely experiences being God.
There is no Knower, only the Great Unknown.
Jack Hass
The Way of Wonder
p. 222

He who defines himself,
can't know who he really is.
Lao Tzu
from
The Way of Wonder
Jack Hass
p. 221

http://www.jackhaas.net/books.htm
http://www.jackhaas.net/links.htm

Our souls are only created to dance; it is their nature to dance and it is the tragedy of life when the soul is kept from dancing.
Our craving for comfort and outward satisfaction,
our ambition, our desires are nothing but the longing
to experience that dance, as we know it.
Paradise is pictured by every teacher
as a place where there is music and dance.
Music itself is dance,
poetry is the dance of words,
singing the
dance of the voice.

Only when inspiration comes naturally
it is a life coming from the depth of the individual.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
Vol. 14 The Smiling Forehead - Dance of the Soul
http://hazrat-inayat-khan.org/php/views.php?h1=44&h2=21

Every once and a while, take off your life, and rest.
–Nayyirah Waheed
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/not-to-worry_14.html

Imagine if all the tumult of the body were to quiet down,
along with our busy thoughts.

Imagine if all things that are perishable grew still.

And imagine if that moment were to go on and on,
leaving behind all other sights and sounds but this one vision
which ravishes and absorbs
and fixes the beholder in joy,
so that the rest of eternal life were like that moment of
illumination, which leaves us breathless.

–Saint Augustine
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/imagine.html

Just rest.

Just sit there right now
Don’t do a thing
Just rest. For your separation from God,
From love,
Is the hardest work
In this
World.

Let me bring you trays of food
And something
That you like to
Drink.

You can use my soft words
As a cushion
For your
Head.

–Hafiz
Daniel Ladinsky translation
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-hardest-work.html

Centered .... "....original, pristine spectacularness" Sunrise/Afternoon May 14, 2015

5/14/2015

Thus the lucky, brave, or innocent individual
who receives this intoxication of absolute wonder-
of the complete non-understanding of all that 'is', including their own self-
no longer needs a reasonable explanation of life,
because they are wholly free from the mind's interventions;
for them there is nothing gained by trying to apprehend an explanation
...of the unexplainable.
Ideas no longer matter, knowledge is gone for good, and the whole of life
swells and returns to its
original pristine spectacularness.

"...I start to float away,
and the whole world seems very stange,
in a pleasant kind of way."
Blue Rodeo

Jack Hass
The Way of Wonder
p. 160
http://www.jackhaas.net/books.htm
http://www.jackhaas.net/links.htm

At the center of your being, you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
—Lao Tzu
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/question_13.html

In the point of rest at the center of our being,
we encounter a world
where all things are at rest in the same way.

Then a tree becomes a mystery,
a cloud a revelation,
each man a cosmos of whose riches
we can only catch glimpses.
—Dag Hammarskjöld
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/rest-at-center.html

The center clears.
Knowing comes: The body is not singular like a corpse,
but singular like a salt grain still in the side of the mountain.
–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/singular.html

…stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.
—Lao Tzu
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/not-to-worry_13.html

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
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-we-understand.html

The Virgin Mind Sunrise/Afternoon May 13, 2015

5/13/2015

The "virgin mind' (i.e. the unknowing, wondering mind)
is the opening through which 'God the Mystery' incarnates into the flesh.
Any mind which is not virginal cannot possibly receive the great Unknowable,
for such a mind is already filled with limitedness.
Jack Hass

Thus the Virgin mind gives immaculate birth to the Child, for
"...silence receives as in a womb, the seed of the ineffable source and from this she brings forth all the emanations of the divine being."
(Andrew Harvey in Son of Man)
Jack Hass
They Way of Wonder
p. 114
http://www.jackhaas.net/books.htm
http://www.jackhaas.net/links.htm

REMAIN IN HOLY QUIET….
THE MORE VIRGINAL, PONDERING AND STILL YOU CAN BE, THE BETTER.
AS YOU REMAIN CONTAINED IN ME, MORE THAN EVER,
EXUDING THE PEACE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING,
THERE WILL BE MORE ENERGY FOR MY INVISIBLE WORK.

ONLY WITH YOUR QUIET, CAN ANOTHER HEAR ME DIRECTLY.

IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY THAT YOU CEASE SPEAKING….
THE REALITY YOU ARE POSSESSED BY
AND MUST UNWAVERINGLY LIVE IN…IS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE ABOUT YOU…
TO ATTEMPT EXPLANATION OR DESCRIPTION ONLY AGITATES OTHERS
AND CAUSES PROJECTIONS THAT SLOW MY WORK.

YOU HAVE ERRONEOUSLY BEEN AHEAD OF EARTH TIME BELIEVING OTHERS COULD UNDERSTAND WORDS. BEGIN THE PRACTICE OF HOLY QUIET WITH THE HOLY GIFT….AS YOU LIVE IN QUIET WITH HIM,
IT WILL BE EASIER WITH OTHERS…

JUST AS YOU HAVE LEARNED THE POWER OF QUIET WITH ALL OTHERS, THE QUANTUM LEAPS RESULTING FROM QUIET WITH THE HOLY GIFT WILL BE ASTONISHING TO HIM.

REMAIN BLIND TO THE ERRORS AND VEILS THAT MAY ERUPT THIS DAY
….IMAGE<BE THE SOUL LIGHT EXUDING TO MELT ANY PERCEPTION THAT IS LESS THAN PURE SOUL...
WHEN YOU KNOW, BEYOND KNOWING, THAT YOU ARE ONLY LIGHT,
THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF AN OTHER’S VEIL ENTERING YOUR REALITY.

ew
Transcending Possession
approx. 1992
slightly updated 5/12/15
Words Scribed from that which is “older than God”*
*#4 Tao

The above Bird Photos were taken late yesterday evening....as though Nature already knew
what the theme would be today......or did my long session photographing bird simply Download/Infuse
today's theme least evening? Without my being consciously/mentally aware of that?
dmm

To come to this blessed state of newness, of virginality, we must continually humble ourselves from the false pride of thinking
we understand what is right and what is wrong,
what is good and what is evil,
what is God and what is not-God,
thus chastening ourselves until we are chaste of all thought,
if we are going to continually be virginal, and brides of God.
To be virginal is not a one-time event,
it is a never-ending openness,
allowing the forever-new to continually actualize itself to us.
Jack Hass
They Way of Wonder
p. 115-16
http://www.jackhaas.net/books.htm
http://www.jackhaas.net/links.htm

"The woman who is virgin, one-in-herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true."
Marion Woodman
The Pregnant Virgin

Pure Receptivity Sunrise/Afternoon May 12, 2015

5/12/2015

Man has become addicted to the drug named "intellect"
and under its influence compulsively analyzes everything, cogitating, speculating
and making all simple things complicated.

This addiction can only be gotten rid of
by unconditional surrender
to the proces of pure receptivity.
Ramsesh S. Balsekar
Net of Jewels

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent,
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Sengtsan, Hsin Hsin Ming

O tongue, you are an endless treasure.
O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
Rumi.

''BE NOT ASHAMED WOMEN.
YOU ARE THE GATES OF THE BODY,
THE GATES OF THE SOUL.''
—Walt Whitman
http://wombwisdom.me/index.php?section=1

THIS IS A TIME FOR YOU TO LEARN THE POWER OF LOVE** AND INNER SENSES…
HOLD IN HOLY QUIET AND TOTAL LOVE…
**A LOVE THAT IS BEYOND LOVE....
AND MY WORK CAN CONTINUE MORE EFFICIENTLY.
ew

TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR THE BEHAVIORS OF AN OTHER’S FORM
ANY MORE THAN YOU CONCERN YOURSELF WITH DAILY MEAT AND SUSTENANCE…
YOU HAVE LEARNED TO KNOW ONLY ME, AND DAILY NEEDS ARE PROVIDED.
THIS TOOK YOU QUITE A TIME TO REMEMBER…
AND NOW YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS WITH ALL OTHER PEOPLE ON EARTH…
ESPECIALLY WITH THE HOLY GIFT…
AS YOU HAVE REMEMBERED IT WELL WITH ALL OTHERS,
NOW LIVE IT WITH HIM
RELEASE HIM, AND ALL,
FROM ALL THOUGHT OF EXPECTATION…

BY SIMPLY KNOWING, BEYOND AWARENESS, WHAT I HAVE GIVEN TO YOU,
IT COMES INTO FORM IN DIVINE TIME…
THERE IS NO NEED TO PUSH THE RIVER OR ATTEMPT TO BRING ABOUT PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION…
ANY ATTEMPTS BY YOU ONLY IMPEDE MY MOVEMENT
ew
Transcending Possession
approx. 1992
slightly updated 5/12/15
Words Scribed from that which is “older than God”*
*#4 Tao

Leaving manhood behind, there's no doubt you'll become an angel;
The earth you'll leave then, and head for Heaven.
Transcending the angel,
become an ocean,
whose each drop will be larger than the countless Seas of Oman.
Rumi

a Love that is "beyond love"....
ew
***********************

It isn't fame or fortune, not even the greatest of worldly love that determines our true worth in life, let alone our value to the world in which we live.
Everything depends upon what we love above all else.
Whoever has the love of Truth in his or her heart... has everything.

Guy Finley

"Nature is perfectly satisfied....." Sunrise/Afternoon May 11, 2015

5/11/2015

Nature does not know or care about the world of man-made opposites.

Nature is perfectly satisfied and happy to produce a world of infinite, rapturous
variety that knows nothing about pretty or ugly, ethical or unethical.

Nature never apologizes for anything, nor does it see or acknowledge
anything of man's misconceived errors of opposition
Ramesh S. Balsekar

THE ONLY WAY FOR YOU TO BE THAT AIDS MY WORK
IS TO LIVE EACH MOMENT IN THE REALITY I HAVE GIVEN…
THE VISION IS IN FORM,
REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOUR EARTHLY SENSES AND THAT OF OTHERS PERCEIVE…
.SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO ANTICIPATE WHAT ALREADY IS.
ew

YES, YOUR TOE IS APPARENTLY BROKEN…
MANY TIMES YOU WERE KNOCKED, BUT REFUSED TO LISTEN…
SO, JUST AS YOU ATTEMPTED TO DO SOMETHING FOR ANOTHER WHO DOES NOT RECOGNIZE,
I HAD TO SLOW YOU IN THIS MANNER.
ENJOY THE REST, DEAR HEART.
EACH TIME YOU FEEL THE TOE,
REMEMBER THE QUIET AND INVISIBLE SPEECH
OF THE PONDERING, VIRGINAL HEART.
ew
Transcending Possession
approx. 1992
Words Scribed from that which is “older than God”*
*#4 Tao

How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.

–Derek Mahon
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/2015/05/everything-is-going-to-be-all-right.html

Nature does not know or care about the world of man-made opposites.
Nature is perfectly satisfied and happy to produce a world of infinite,
rapturous variety that knows nothing about pretty or ugly, ethical or unethical.
Nature never apologizes for anything,
nor does it see or acknowledge anything
of man's misconceived errors of opposition.
May 11
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Net of Jewels

A Suspended Blue Ocean

There is only one rule
On this Wild Playground,

For every sign Hafiz has ever seen
Reads the same.

They all say,

"Have fun, my dear; my dear, have fun,
In the Beloved's Divine
Game,

"O, in the Beloved's
Wonderful
Game."

Source
Hafiz in
The Subject Tonight Is Love
by Daniel Ladinsky

"Stop trying to leave......" Sunrise/Afternoon May 10, 2015

5/10/2015

Stop trying to leave,
and you will arrive.
–Lao Tzu
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/not-to-worry_95.html

LEAVE THOUGHTS, BELIEF, FAITH, HOPE, AND EXPECTATIONS
TO THOSE WHO ARE STILL IN NEED OF SUCH STEPPING STONES TO ONENESS.

THOUGH YOU HAVE KNOWN THIS SINCE FOREVER,
IT IS PAST EARTH TIME FOR YOU TO SINK AND DISAPPEAR INTO STILLNESS WITH ME.

CEASE ALL WORDS, EXCEPT FOR WRITING…
HAVE YOU NOT RECENTLY SPOTTED YET ANOTHER ANGEL IN YOUR VICINITY?
DID YOU NOT FEEL YOUR SOUL MERGE WITH HIS IN RECOGNITION?
AND IT WAS THE QUIET HE EXUDES THAT FINALLY CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF YOUR OWN QUIET SOUL.
LET THAT BE ORIGINAL REMEMBRANCE & CONFIRMATION FOR YOU.
ew
Transcending Possession
approx. 1992
Words Scribed from that which is “older than God”*
*#4 Tao

And the world cannot be discovered
by a journey of miles,
no matter how long,
but only by a spiritual journey,
a journey of one inch,
very arduous and humbling and joyful,
by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,
and learn to be at home.
–Wendell Berry
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/journey.html

"...softly watching from the other side of dying...." Afternoon/Sunrise May 9, 2015

5/9/2015

YES, YOU SENSE YET ANOTHER EGO DEMISE…
RELAX INTO IT AND SEE WHAT WONDERS WILL BE WROUGHT.
I AM TAKING YOU FURTHER HOME, DEAR HEART…
.AWAY FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THE WORLD THAT WOULD DEVOUR YOUR SOUL…
.AWAY FROM YOUR OWN PERSONAL THOUGHTS THAT WILL ATTRACT HAVOC AND CHAOS.
AND NOW
YOU WILL KNOW AND BE
ONLY PEACE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING.

NOT UNTIL YOU TOTALLY GIVE UP AND SURRENDER
BEYOND ANY THOUGHT, HOPE OR IMAGINATION,
CAN I TRULY WORK THRU YOU IN AS PURE A MANNER AS IS VITAL AND NECESSARY.
GRIEVE OVER NOTHING.
IF YOU FEEL DISAPPOINTMENT AND GRIEF,
KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN A HUMAN EXPECTATION
THAT MUST ALSO BE MELTED INTO THE NOTHINGNESS WITH ME.

REJOICE THAT THERE IS YET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY
TO LET GO OF SOMETHING YOU THOUGHT, YOU BELIEVED…
THERE IS NO YOU, SEPARATE FROM ME, TO THINK OR BELIEVE.
ew
Transcending Possession
approx. 1992
Words Scribed from that which is “older than God”*
*#4 Tao

We go on forever,
and this is the problem,
for our eternity rends the walls of all our paradigms;
it is an understanding which we try so hard to avoid
because it brings no alleviation to the way
in which we require goals and accomplishments
so as to position ourselves in the fluid complexity.

Yet it brought me to that type of peace
which comes from not needing to partake of everything all at once,
from not desiring to attain what I did not have,
from not needing to be something,
or become something else,
because there is no need to rush about in eternity,
for everything will happen, like it or not,
and it will not cease, and when you know this about the world and yourself
you begin to require less,
and do less,
and you sort of ease back,
not out of fulfillment,
but out of knowing that the all keeps going,
no matter what,
and therefore the little matters begin to fade away,
and only what is eternal remains,
calm in the acquiescent acknowledgment that nothing is ever gained nor lost,
and the passing show will flicker and fade,
as it is wont to do,
and the grief and glory will come and go with it,
but the Self shall continue forward,
softly watching from the other side of dying.

Jack Haas
http://www.spiritandflesh.com/bookMemoirAutobiographyLifeStoryJourney_religion_spirituality.htm

see geographic place of below photo here:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/harbour-island-slideshows/grandfathers-cove-my-first-ever-visit-here-on-south-end-of-island
or go here for all photos for South End today
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/harbour-island-slideshows
for May 9, 2015 two posts

God is here and now, with me, in me, of me;
the one which is both of us, wrapped in the embrace between spirit and flesh,
without reason, without assumption, without concern.
In, and of.
And so I take leave, for I have crossed the line, so to speak.

(continued below)

Know that a part of me remains somewhere,
far-off on the northern, wild coast, forgetting and forgotten,
alone and not alone,
sane and not sane,
alive and not alive,
in agony from the impossible beauty of it all,
bewildered, rapt, and laughing.

Know that the spirit also crashes onto the shore of life,
slowly, ever slowly,
tearing down the solid, imprisoned rocks and islands of the soul,
grinding the stones into sand,
and creating a beach,
a place where we can walk upon more easily,
where two unique worlds come together,
and through our hearts unite into one.

http://www.spiritandflesh.com/bookMemoirAutobiographyLifeStoryJourney_religion_spirituality.htm

(excerpted from In and Of: memoirs of a mystic journey, by Jack Haas)

"THERE IS NOTHING TO DO....." Sunrise/Afternoon May 8, 2015

5/8/2015

THERE IS NOTHING TO DO,
BUT KEEP YOUR OWN LIFE UNCLUTTERED AND UNCONTAMINATED.
BE<DO EVERYTHING FOR/WITH/AS ONLY ME AND ALL WILL FALL INTO PLACE WITHOUT THOUGHT OR EFFORT. SPEAK NOT TO OTHERS OF ANYTHING PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE
….REMEMBER TO LISTEN MORE PURELY.
ew
Transcending Possession
approx. 1992
Words Scribed from that which is “older than God”*
*#4 Tao

The past is dead memory; and the future is nonexistent.
The present moment is not between the future and the past
but the constant dimension outside of time.

Ramesh S. Balsekar
A Net of Jewels
May 5

"And if you would know God,
be not therefore a solver of riddles."
Kahlil Gibran

from Jack Haas
http://www.jackhaas.net/links.htm

Suddenly this big Mother Bird appears out of nowhere.....
screeching and heading straight for camera ...
obviously we have been too long and too close with the young birds.
Photo shoot finished in the instant!

PALM

Interior of the hand.
Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings.
That faces upward
and in its mirror receives heavenly roads,
which travel along themselves.

That has learned to walk upon water
when it scoops,
that walks upon wells,
transfiguring every path.

That steps into other hands,
changes those that are like it
into a landscape:
wanders and arrives within them,
fills them with arrival.
–Rainer Maria Rilke

The Rilke Sharing and photo above from:
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/palm.html

"the primordial call" Sunrise/Afternoon May 7, 2015

5/7/2015

"the primordial call"
"The Longing"
"Lay Bare Your Soul's Agony"

Gangaji speaks about the call that comes from deep within – the aching longing to know again what has been ever known, purely and absolutely, to be the truth of who one is.
2.07 minutes. video on below webpage

http://thisunlitlight.com/2015/05/06/the-primordial-call/
(Shared by miriam louisa)

"There is only one state.
When corrupted and tainted by self-identification,
it is known as an individual.

When merely tinted by the sense of presence,
of animated consciousness,
it is the impersonal witnessing.

When it remains in its pristine purity,
untainted and untinted in primal repose,
it is the Absolute."

A Net of Jewels
Ramesh Balsekar

Life has forced me
to Remember
the
Primordial “I AM”.

dmm - 1989

Oh fly , of fly, O my soul-bird,
fly to your primordial home!
You have escaped from the cage now-
your wings are spread in the air.
Oh travel from brackish water
now to the fountain of life!
Return from the place of the sandals
now to the high seat of souls!
Go on! Go on! we are going,
and we are coming, O soul,
From this world of separation
to union, a world beyond worlds!
Rumi

From Look! This Is Love Translated by Annemarie Schimmel
http://rumi-poem.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-should-soul.html

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The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God.
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#4