Why should you bear your load on your head when you are traveling on a train?
It carries you and your load whether the load is on your head or on the floor of the train.
You are not lessening the burden of the train by keeping it on your head
but only straining yourself unnecessarily.
 
Similar is the sense of doership in the world by individuals.

–Ramana Maharshi  
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/09/doership.html
see this page for a great photo that goes along with the writing!

BIRD SONGS, OCEAN SURF
EXIST OUT OF SILENCE
RETURN IN TO SILENCE

Infinity's Infinite Dance
(circle in sand is evidence of a dervish whirl)

ew
3:08 a.m. 
9/23/14 

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people,
as the rain that falls.

We consist of that which is around us.

We are the same as everything.


—Buddha
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/

O BREATHER'S INFINITE BREATH
SOURCING ALL
BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS

ew
4:43 a.m.
September 18, 2014

The body is not you, the name is not you.
The body is the food you have consumed;
the taste of the food is the knowledge ‘I am’.
That is Self,
the feeling ‘I am’,
that is the love to be. 

How amazing, how incredible,
it has no name, but you give many names to it.
It is the Self, the love to be.

That love to be is all pervading.
 
Before you conceptualize anything, you are.
Even before the knowingness,
you are.

–Nisargadatta

God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought.
–Joseph Campbell 

To deliver oneself up, to hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely
to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hills, or sea and desert;
to sit still while the sun comes up
over the land and fills its silences with light.

...few are willing to belong completely to such silence,
to let it soak into their bones,
to breathe nothing but silence, to feed on silence,
and to turn the very substance of their life into a living and vigilant silence.

~ Thomas Merton from Thoughts in Solitude
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2012/02/empty-boat.html

Dear ones,
Beware of the tiny gods frightened men
Create
To bring an anesthetic relief
To their sad
Days.

–Hafiz

BE THAT
BE THIS
BE NOTHING
THE GREAT NOTHING
THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO BE OR DO

ALL IS DONE IN/Of/AS THRU THE FORM THAT IS
CREATOR/CREATION AS ONE LIFE...
....AS ALL LIFE AND BEYOND

AS A LIFE THAT CONTAINS ALL CREATED CREATION....

(INCLUDING WHAT HUMANS CONSIDER THE DARKEST HELLS )

IS ABLE TO ACCESS THAT ONENESS AS WELL.....

NO NEED TO DWELL UPON ANY THING OR SITUATION

APPRECIATE<ALLOW<RELEASE

RELEASE DUE TO LACK OF JUDGMENT OR PREFERENCE

ONLY CORE'S
IMMORTAL PEACE
WITH ALL THAT IS

WORDS DO NOT EXIST
TO DESCRIBE THIS

It makes my mind shudder, as well,
Though my Heart dances like a Fool, in Ignorance.

My advaitic friends interpret it one way,
Describing with such great certainty and clarity,
Citing this authority or that.

Is it simply an “effect” of residing as “That”?

My Devotee friends speak of it otherwise,
Describing with such great certainty and clarity,
Citing this authority or that.

Is this Bliss the Presence of God?

I know only this…
That Formless Pure Being,
Is worthy of the name “Heaven”,
And this Bliss, Shining ever-available in the Heart,
Is worthy of being called the “Divine Presence”.

But interpreting and describing…
These are wholly unnecessary,
And best left to those mind-bound souls,
Who care for such things,
Moved by a desperate need to "know".

I know only that this Presence… Is,
That although it Shines in the Heart,
There is no center or periphery,
And that it is a touch, alloyed, as Bliss,
Of Heaven's Unalloyed Ecstasy.

Does it shock you,
That living as this Experience,
Day to day,
Moment to moment,
Breath to breath...

I “know” nothing “about” it?

It makes my mind shudder, as well,
Though my Heart dances like a Fool, in Ignorance.

“The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance
to a state of enlightenment and bliss.”
― Deepak Chopra,
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

“This is why alchemy exists," the boy said.
"So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it,
and then want to be better than he was in his former life.
Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead;
and then lead will have to turn itself into gold.
That's what alchemists do.
They show that,
when we strive to become better than we are,
everything around us becomes better, too.”
― Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist

“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness,
and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists,
who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy,
bodies into souls, the darkness into God;
and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out,
as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried,
for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty
which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.”
― Jake Ducey,
Into the Wind: My Six-Month Journey Wandering the World for Life�s Purpose

YOUR DEATH
IS THE DEATH
OF ALL THAT IS MORTAL...

IT IS NOW
AN UNWAVERING WAY OF LIFE.
ew

ONLY THE VAST SILENCE CAN UTTER THE SILENT SONGS
OF SUCH LIFE AFTER DEATH.

SUCH LIFE AS DEATH.

THE RETURN OF FULL LIFE
TO ONE WHO HAS NEVER DIED,
WHO HAS NEVER BORNED.

THIS IS THE LIBERATION
OF THE ALL.
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Death of Mortality