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"Reveling in Unimaginable Freedom" - "Resting in The Unfathomable Mystery" July 6, 2015

7/6/2015

Forgive me if I stop here…

Here where I cannot find "myself" as an object,
And have discovered, with a shock…

That “i” am just a thought, a feeling.

Let me just rest here awhile,
Reveling in this Unimaginable Freedom,
Before we go on to think “about” it all.

To come up with words like Consciousness,
Or Brahman,
Or Emptiness...

Or… whatever.

Words to describe what remains,
In that placeless place where I find myself,
Not a thing alive, but only...

The Event of Existence.

Words to explain the unexplainable,
To speak of that which cannot be spoken of,
To describe this Great Mystery...

Within which all descriptions arise.

It's enough for me to simply sit here,
Drowning in Wonder, that "i" do not exist,
And yet… Existence, Consciousness, Bliss…

Is.

On second thought…
You know what?
You go on ahead.

I'll catch up with you later,
And you can tell me all that you've come up with,
In the way of concepts, theories, and conjecture "about"…

This Unfathomable Mystery.

Just please forgive me if I appear uninterested.
For in the Immediacy of Experience,
In this Fullness, Completion, and Bliss...

I've lost all interest in Aboutism.

Chuck Surface
www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved

A Large Thrush/Mockingbird kept following and then seemed like she wanted me to follow her....she led me to her new nest in the sour orange tree just outside my window....this was as i returned from sunrrise....

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ENSOULED/EMBODIED FORM IS AS A VARIETY OF BIRD FORMS
MINDLESSLY GLIDED/MOVED THRU LIFE

CORE’S ORIGINAL DIVINE IMPRINT LIVES
…IS BREATHED BY….
…..MELTED IN/OF/AS....
“OLDER THAN GOD”
RUMI’S DROWNING MAN

THE “I” OF IT ALL HAS POOFED
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4:32 AM - 7/6/15

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Rather the flying bird, leaving no trace
Than the going beast
Marking the earth with his track.

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).

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.

Move on, bird, move on, teach me
To move on.

–Fernando Pessoa
Thomas Merton translation
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/failure-to-see.html

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16. ORIGIN'S CORE AWARENESS - "creates without doing" Sunrise/Afternoon July 5, 2015

7/5/2015

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This is #16 (Tao #12) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

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Pre-SunRise:

ALLOW
ORIGIN’S CORE AWARENESS
TO GLIDE ONE THRU LIFE….
EVEN BEYOND THE CONCEPT OF A MOMENT.
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CESSATION OF THINKING ONE’S WAY THRU LIFE SUFFICETH.
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3:53 AM - 7/5/15

Post-SunRise:

ORIGIN’S CORE AWARENESS
GLIDES ONE THRU LIFE….
EVEN BEYOND THE CONCEPT OF A MOMENT.
<
CESSATION OF THINKING ONE’S WAY THRU LIFE SUFFICETH.
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7:08 AM - 7/5/15

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#12
The Tao penetrates
into every last corner of the universe.

Because it is deep and wide
and extends its power everywhere,
it transcends all things.

Because it transcends all things,
it is at the heart of all things.
It shows itself without being seen,
creates without doing,
fulfills without an intention.

Solitary Sisyphus has a helper this morning.

It obeys only its own law;
thus it is like heaven and earth.

Heaven is a bright emptiness,
but in its measureless extent
it contains the sun, moon, planets,
and the uncountable stars,
and through it all things are illumined.

Earth is a heap of soil,
but in its width and depth
it hold up the great mountains,
the rivers, lakes, and seas,
trees, plants, animals, birds,
fish, and the monsters of the deep:
all life in its manifold splendor.

The Tao claims nothing for itself;
thus it contains all things.

The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

#12
We love the nature of things,
even when we don’t understand it.
Who doesn’t take pleasure in light,
so married to vision before any eyes existed?

Who doesn’t think that light is beautiful,
whatever it happens to shine on?

We’re instinctively attracted to
what is all-embracing and all-allowing.
We can oppose it
only if we construe it as something it’s not.

The nature of things can’t help but be our own nature as well.
What we love in the world Is what we discover in ourselves.

The infinite inclusiveness of heaven,
the unshakable support of earth:
how could we notice them
if they weren’t qualities of our noticing mind?

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not
long at this moment to be older, or younger, nor born in any
other nation, or time, or place.

They are content to be where they are,
talking or not talking. Their breaths together feed someone whom we do
not know.
The man sees the way his fingers move; he sees her hands
close around a book she hands to him.

They obey a third body they have in common.
They have made a promise to love that body.

Age may come, parting may come, death will come.

A man and woman sit near each other;
as they breathe they feed someone we do not know,
someone we know of,
whom we have never seen.

–Robert Bly
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/this-cloud-is-learning.html

Read More below has repeat of the Tao quotes for today #12

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15. Speechless Words and Wordless Speech Sunrise/Afternoon July 4, 2015

7/4/2015

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This is #15 (Tao #11) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

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WHILE WAITING
BE ALL THAT YOU ARE
BUT
DO NOTHING…

.....ALLOWING THE VAST CURRENT OF AUTHENTIC LIFE
TO GLIDE DESTINY’S CO-CREATION
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5:28 AM - 7/4/15

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To act without needing a reason,
to sit still without knowing how,
to ride the current of what is--
this is the primal virtue.
The Second Book of The Tao
#36
Stephen Mitchell

See Read More at end for Note re: the above

#11

The Master doesn’t aim for success,
doesn’t avoid failure,
doesn’t act with a motive,
doesn’t try to follow the Tao.

She speaks when she is silent,
says nothing when she speaks,
and remains pure
amid the world’s dust and grime.

The Master soars past the sun and moon,
tucks the universe under her arm,
and is one with the ten thousand things.

She lets the confused stay confused
if that is what they want
and is always available
to those with a passion for the truth.

In the welter of opinions,
she is content with not-knowing.
She makes distinctions
but doesn’t take them seriously.

She sees the world constantly breaking
apart, and stays centered in the whole.

She sees the world endlessly changing
and never wants it to be
different from what is is.
#11
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

There’s nothing special about the Master.
She doesn’t know any secrets,
and she doesn’t live in some state of exalted consciousness.

She’s just like you,
except that she no longer believes her own thoughts.

“When I attained unexcelled perfect enlightenment,” the Buddha said,
“there was nothing that I attained.”

The mind at peace with itself needs only what it has,
wants only what it is.

The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

The Great Way has no gate;
there are a thousand paths to it.

If you pass through the barrier,
you walk the universe alone.
–Wu-Men
The Enlightened Heart
Stephen Mitchell
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-gate.html

Speechless Words and Wordless Speech Suffice
ew
GODSEED
2003

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14. Radical Ignorance - Original Remembrance Sunrise/Afternoon July 3, 2015

7/3/2015

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This is #14 (Tao #21) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

Setting Moon this morning....she was Full July 1, 2015

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REPLACE CACOPHONY'S POSSESSION OF EXPECTATION
EDICTS & LABELS
WITH A CALM CORE THAT ONLY
IS
SPONTANEOUS JOY AND PEACE

THE ORIGINAL REMEMBRANCE

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4:50 AM - 7/3/15

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#21
The Master treads lightly on the earth.
Life is not serious for him,
and death is not serious.

Even if the whole world
collapsed, it would not disturb him.

He realizes what is essential.
He has returned to the source.
The Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

The more we move beyond our ideas about life and death,
the more open we are to life.

This radical ignorance is not a path to wisdom:
it is wisdom itself.

There a current that is deeper than we are.
It will carry us off whether we want it to or not.
When we resist it, we suffer.
Only when we let it take us can we begin to sense its intelligence.

The Master knows how to die,
because he knows how to deal with the everyday losses
that form the texture of our life.

He deals with them by understanding that loss is just a concept.
He looks into the abyss as into the eyes of the beloved.

He knows nothing about death:
he knows everything he needs to know about dying.

The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

See Read More Below for additional photos, and quotes...

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13. Primal Virtue - ("to ride the current of what is") Sunrise/Afternoon July 2, 2015

7/2/2015

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This is #13 (Tao #36) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

FullMoonSet in the West

#36

Whatever happens or doesn’t happen,
can you center yourself in the Tao?

Can you stop looking to others
and focus on your innermost self?

Can you return to the beginning of the world
and be like a newborn baby?

It can scream its head off all day,
yet it never becomes hoarse.

It can clench its fist for hours,
yet its fingers never get cramped.

It can stare all day without blinking,
yet its yes never grow tired.

Free from concerns and worries,
unaware of itself,

it moves without thinking,
doesn’t know why things happen,
doesn’t need to know.

To act without needing a reason,
to sit still without knowing how,

to ride the current of what is--
this is the primal virtue.

The Second Book of The Tao
#36
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

People think that entering the kingdom of heaven
has something to do with good and evil.
But as Jesus implied,
every mother’s child wakes up in the kingdom of heaven.

Heaven is intimacy: the world before separation.
It looks exactly like earth,
but without the thoughts that branch out in a thousand directions
too heavy for us to bear.

Our first parents were not the good children in a morality tale.
They were enchanted with each other and with themselves,
Adam staring into the mirror of phenomena,
Eve singing as she plaited a wreath.

The tree they ate from was not called the Tree of Evil:
it was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
They become mere grown-ups the moment they bit into that bitter fruit.
They opened their eyes and thought that they knew something.

They heard the voice of guilt and punishment
walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

They imagined that they were naked,
when all the while they were clad in all earthly abundance,
and crowned with the moon and stars.

The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

The Life-Energy and
Awareness arrive.
In due course,
The instrument’s purpose is fulfilled
The Life-Energy and
Awareness depart.
The cycle is completed.
Understand this thoroughly and
There is nothing else to do.

–Wu Hsin

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12. "Selfishness as an Act of Pure Love" - "Perfect Sustenance" Sunrise/Afternoon July 1, 2015

7/1/2015

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This is #12 (Tao #24) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

All Sunrise Photos today from 11/26/14

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THE SOLITUDE OF ORIGIN'S REMEMBRANCE
IS “OLDER THAN GOD” COMFORT
AND
PERFECT SUSTENANCE

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5:49 AM - 7/1/15
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#24

To find the Tao,
there is nowhere you need to search.
If it is not inside you,
it is not the Tao.

The Book of Songs says,
When you make the handle of an ax
by cutting wood with an ax,
the model is near at hand.

Thus, in dealing with people,
you already have the perfect
model of behavior inside you.

Just act with integrity,
according to your true nature.

"I am only a Loose Garment of the Great Breather" ew 11/26/14 Afternoon

Don’t do to others
what you wouldn’t want done to you.

The Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

We talk of inside and outside,
but it’s as impossible to locate the Tao in the mind as in the world.
Anything here or there isn’t it.
Can your eyes see themselves?
When the answer searches for the answer,
what can it ever find?

That’s why even the most gold rules of behavior don’t work,
if they’re only rules.
What is genuine has no models or rules.
It’s spontaneous, self-generating, free.
Nothng can stand against it.
It doesn’t depend on motivation and isn’t concerned with effect.
It just wants to be itself,
to express itself,
to give itself utterly away.
Its nature is kindness,
but there’s nothing moral about it.

In dealing with people, you’re always dealing with yourself.
The apparent other is you in disguise,
the mirrored impulse,
the reflection of your own mind,
brilliant or confused.

Unkindness to the other is literally unkindness to you.
When you realize this, you naturally stop hurting yourself.

And in the end,
you come full circle, where 0° equals 360°
and
selfishness is an act of pure love.

The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.

Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.

Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?

–Rumi
Ode 2865
Coleman Barks translation
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/your-work-is-deeper.html

You are a sinner,
You are a saint.
You are a murderer and
You are a monk.

The entire world
You experience is
Inside yourself.

To fix the problems of
The world,
You need only
Fix yourself.

–Wu Hsin

the mad world
of earthbound creatures
must first diagnose
before it can kill
ew
GODSEED
2003

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"Reveling in Unimaginable Freedom" - "Resting in The Unfathomable Mystery" July 6, 2015

16. ORIGIN'S CORE AWARENESS - "creates without doing" Sunrise/Afternoon July 5, 2015

15. Speechless Words and Wordless Speech Sunrise/Afternoon July 4, 2015

14. Radical Ignorance - Original Remembrance Sunrise/Afternoon July 3, 2015

13. Primal Virtue - ("to ride the current of what is") Sunrise/Afternoon July 2, 2015

12. "Selfishness as an Act of Pure Love" - "Perfect Sustenance" Sunrise/Afternoon July 1, 2015

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