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UnKnowing's Deep Silence Sunrise/Afternoon Dec. 5, 2014

12/5/2014

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UnKnowing's Deep Silence Removes Mountains
ew

anger and blame keep a dead relationship alive
ew

If you concentrate on what is not
You veil the experience of what Is.
ew

Soul Centered Relationsips
Synergize only Love
ew

(all ew quotes from
Language of the Neverborn
Godseed)

Wherever you are,
you are one with the clouds
and one with the sun
and the stars you see.

You are one with everything.

That is more true than I can say,
and more true than you can hear.

–Shunryu Suzuki
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/12/wherever-you-are.html

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Prayer as Breath - Final Drowning's Silence of Grace Sunrise/Afternoon December 4, 2014

12/4/2014

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What I wear is pants.

What I do is live.

How I pray is breathe.

–Thomas Merton
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/08/like-this.html

Rumi's FINAL DROWNING
&
Goldsmith's SILENCE OF GRACE
see
Read More below right
Rumi is describing the last/final stage
of spiritual development for a creature in form.

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"Drops of the Sun" Sunrise/Afternoon Dec. 3, 3014

12/3/2014

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I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you.
I know those habits that can ruin your life
Still send their invitations.

But you are with the Friend now
And look so much stronger.
You can stay that way
And even bloom!

Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter.

Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From the sacred hands and glance of your Beloved
And, my dear,
From the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
That may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days
Like a broken man
Behind a farting camel.

You are with the Friend now.
Learn what actions of yours delight Him,
What actions of yours bring freedom
And Love.

Whenever you say God's name, dear pilgrim,
My ears wish my head was missing
So they could finally kiss each other
And applaud all your nourishing wisdom!

O keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter
And from the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body.

Now, sweet one,
Be wise.
Cast all your votes for Dancing!

–Hafiz
Daniel Ladinsky translation

see Read More at end on right

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"....nothing is left which you can disown........ Sunrise/Afternoon Dec. 2, 2014

12/2/2014

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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

BEFORE,
I CHOPPED WOOD AND CARRIED WATER.

AFTER,
I AM THE CHOPPED WATER AND CARRIED WOOD
ew

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Just Is...Beyond any Doing...All Just Is A Gentle DeJa Vu Sunrise/Afternoon December 1, 2014

12/1/2014

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Presence just is.
Its very nature is to allow.
It even allows all doing to happen.

Doing that arises from presence
accepts what is naturally and effortlessly
and then responds naturally and effortlessly.

Presence has no selfish agenda
because it recognizes no separate self.
Scott Kiloby
see Read More at end bottom right

present moment

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.

We have no present.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.

We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience
than present experience.
We are therefore out of touch with reality.

We confuse the world
as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.
We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers,
of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

–Alan Watts
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/12/present-moment.html

Above all, be at ease.
Be as natural and spacious as possible.

Slip quietly out of the noose
of your habitual anxious self,
release all grasping,
and relax into your true nature.

–Sogyal Rinpoche
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/11/be-at-ease.html

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UnKnowing's Deep Silence Sunrise/Afternoon Dec. 5, 2014

Prayer as Breath - Final Drowning's Silence of Grace Sunrise/Afternoon December 4, 2014

"Drops of the Sun" Sunrise/Afternoon Dec. 3, 3014

"....nothing is left which you can disown........ Sunrise/Afternoon Dec. 2, 2014

Just Is...Beyond any Doing...All Just Is A Gentle DeJa Vu Sunrise/Afternoon December 1, 2014

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