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The Song of Unknowing Sunrise/Afternoon June 5, 2015

6/5/2015

grace approaching

There is a grace approaching
that we shun as much as death,
it is the completion of our birth.

It does not come in time,
but in timelessness
when the mind sinks into the heart
and we remember.

It is an insistent grace
that draws us to the edge
and beckons us surrender
safe territory and enter our enormity.

We know we must pass
beyond knowing and fear the shedding.

But we are pulled upward none-the-less
through forgotten ghosts and unexpected angels, luminous.

And there is nothing left to say
but we are That.

And that is what we sing about.

–Stephen Levine
Breaking the Drought, Visions of Grace
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/2015/05/grace-approaching.html

VANISH INTO BREATH ALONE
SEQUESTERED BEYOND CAUSE & EFFECT,
PREFERENCES & LABELS

HUMANS ARE THE ONLY LIFE FORCE TO NAME THIS CONDITION
NAMING/LABELING IT ACCORDING TO HIS/HER OWN CONDITION

UNTIL IT COMES UPON THEM
& THEN
ONLY THE GREAT NOTHING REMAINS

THE VOICE FROM BEYOND THE SILENCE
THE UNKNOWING

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4:52 AM=6/5/15

If we would only live softly, resolute in strangeness,
accepting that our limited perspectives cannot do justice to the all,
our false way of seeing would cease to shudder through us,
and in the movement of that purity
all our solemn angst would unavoidably turn to awe.
Jack Hass
The Way of Wonder
p. 102

We must no longer eat from the Tree of Knowledge,
but now we must gorge ourselves upon the Tree of Unknowledge.

After all,
"...this surpassing non-understanding,
is 'un-undestandably' above every affirmation and denial",
as claimed by the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing.
This is the way home.
Jack Hass
The Way of Wonder
p. 103
http://www.jackhaas.net/books.htm
http://www.jackhaas.net/links.htm

(See Jack Hass in OceanSpeak Categories for additional quotes and OceanSpeak posts)

Above: this is prior to afternoon stroll.... the same bird singing in the tree, as usual..
...and is still singing (last photo below) when we return from beach.

Standing at times with water up to shoulders....above it about to come up to my waist..
foot is on the bottom....this is the water we're standing in...in slideshow below.

Photo (above) taken from IN the water (slideshow below) This is the house we call "Sanctarii" Unusual!
see more here:
http://www.travellersbazaar.com/curators-blog/house-on-a-dune-harbor-island-bahamas
http://www.bookmarc.com.au/blog/house-dune-bahamas/
http://leibal.com/architecture/house-dune/

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TRANSPARENCY Sunrise/Afternoon June 4, 2015

6/4/2015

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RESIDE WITH AWARENESS DEEPLY WITHIN
THE CALM CORE IS THE TRANSPARENCY FOR ALL

PEACE BE STILL
THE GREAT NOTHING IS ALL THAT IS
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4:27 AM-6/4/15

Spontaneous true action happens naturally
when there is no "you" checking whether the action conforms
to your own idea of what's best for you.
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
June 4

Human beings have no independent or autonomous existence
whether they accept the fact or not.
And whether they like it or not,
they are being helplessly lived within the vast totality
of an imponderably intricate creation over which they have absolutely no control.
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
June 4

Your every thought-form perishes in your formlessness.
–Rumi
see Full Poem in Read More at end

“Really important meetings are planned by the souls
long before the bodies see each other.

Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit,
when we need to die and be reborn emotionally.

These meetings are waiting for us,
but more often than not, we avoid them happening.

If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose,
or if we are full of enthusiasm for life,
then the unknown reveals itself,
and our universe changes direction.”
― Paulo Coelho,
Eleven Minutes

Soul Love is All that Is
when you are at One
with the Great Silence
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Godseed

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"....a void of nothing that is void of nothing." Afternoon June 3, 2015

6/3/2015

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no beach time today as flood rains are constant last night and all day

The Void is not of the nature of a black abyss or a bottomless pit.
Rather is its nature 'vast and expansive like space itself'.
It is apprehended as 'serene, marvelous, all-pure, brilliant and all-inclusive'.
Above all does it partake of the nature of light.
And it is not anything.
For Void is Mind Itself, and Mind Itself is Void.
Wei Wu Wei
http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/bits.html

This place is a dream.
Only a sleeper considers it real.

Then death comes like dawn,
and you wake up laughing
at what you thought was your grief.
–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/mirrors-in-mirror.html

Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself -
And there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/bits.html

In my journey, awakening has been a natural uninterrupted flow of grace
that has permeated each breath and encounter for the past ten years.
There was a point where thoughts and feelings dissolved back into their natural state of emptiness,
and from that point forward,
I inhabited this body and moved throughout the world
as a void of nothing that is void of nothing.

Yet, this didn’t occur by wanting it, wishing for my experiences to change,
or even attempting to be any particular way whenever a thought or feeling appeared.
I simply knew, in the core of my being,
each thought or feeling were like children, only making noise or taking form,
as a request for love
that only I, the witness of reality could provide.
Matt Kahn - Facebook 6/2/15
Excerpt
See Full Post on his Facebook Page
or in Read More below

This same bird that sings all day long (everyday for days) in this tree...has been at the top of its voice in the same spot as soon as the rains lighten up....even a little.

I have only one object in writing books:
to demonstrate that there could not be anyone to do it.
Wei Wu Wei
http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/bits.html

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LUSH SIMPLICITY Sunrise/Afternoon June 2, 2015

6/2/2015

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ABOVE - Sunrise
BELOW - Afternoon
See Yesterday's OceanSpeak for Driftwood's First Appearance...today, this afternoon it is pointing towards the OceanFront Sanctarii

UNKNOWING AWARENESS
<
POSSESSION OF DIVINE GRACE
<
LUSH SIMPLICITY*
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3:54 AM
6/2/15
*miriam/harmony

Those who are shining

Have no location in space.

Rather, space is located in them.

–The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/little-gem.html

"When I think of authentic power, I think of the power that occurs
when purpose aligns with personality to serve the greater good.
For me, the only real power is the kind
that comes from the core of who you are
and reflects all that you were meant to be.
When you see this kind of power
shining through someone in all its truth and certainty
it's irresistible, inspiring, elevating."

~ Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
from this page with much more:
http://www.liveyourlight.com/WhatShines.html

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"Older Than God" Sunrise/Afternoon June 1, 2015

6/1/2015

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Below: these two larger-than-gulls are suddenly Appearing right over my head as above photo finishes....
It is after this Climatic-Conclusion to the Inner/Outer Experiences of the beach morning,
that i am Danced and Played thru a new-to-me camera setting which is MUCH Clearer and can capture VERY long distance shots.
Remaining photos after the birds below are with the new setting.
Please see Read More a end for "the rest of the story" details.

MIND WITH NO-MIND
LEAVING ALL PERCEPTIONS TO GRACE ALONE

GRACE ONLY OCCURS BEYOND MIND

WITHOUT MIND TO MIND, LABEL AND DESTROY
ALL IS PERPETUAL ETERNAL GRACE

ERASING ALL THAT IS NOT REAL
<
“OLDER THAN GOD”*
IS ALL THAT IS
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4:31 AM
6/1/2015

*Tao Te Ching#4
Stephen Mitchell Trans.
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html

http://genius.com/2139315/Lao-tzu-tao-te-ching/The-tao-that-can-be-told-is-not-the-eternal-tao-the-name-that-can-be-named-is-not-the-eternal

True art reveals there is no void
Or darkness.
There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic
In this luminous, brimming
Playful world.
–Hafiz

Happiness Floats

Since there is no place large enough
To contain so much happiness,
You shrug, you raise your hands
, and it flows out of you
Into everything you touch.

You are not responsible.

You take no credit,
as the night sky takes no credit
For the moon, but continues to hold it,
and to share it,
And in that way, be known.

–Naomi Shihab Nye
Excerpt above
full Sharing here:
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/happiness-floats.html

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

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