Category: ASHTAVAKRA GITA

FOLLY OF EXPLAINING "...Unfathomable awareness,..." " Love her wild...." July 13, 2019

7/13/2019

HELD IN/OF/AS/BY THE PEACE
THAT IS BEYOND
EARTHLY UNDERSTANDING…
AH THE FOLLY OF EXPLAINING
∞
ONLY THE VAST SILENCE
IS TRUTH OF BEING
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4:11 AM-7/13/19

You are bound
Only by the habit of meditation.
Your nature is pure awareness.

You are flowing in all things,
And all things are flowing in you.
But beware
The narrowness of the mind!

You are always the same,
Unfathomable awareness,
Limitless and free,
Serene and unperturbed.

Desire only your own awareness.
Whatever takes form is false.
Only the formless endures.

When you understand
The truth of this teaching,
You will not be born again.
For God is infinite,

Within the body and without,
Like a mirror,
And the image in a mirror.

As the air is everywhere,
Flowing around a pot
And filling it,
So God is everywhere,
Filling all things
And flowing through them forever.

Excerpt from
The Heart of Awareness
a translation of The Ashtavakra Gita
by Thomas Byrom
from pages 10-11 on this link below
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313%E2%80%8B

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AFTERNOON

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
--Max Lucado

If with every single act that you do,
you create what you care for,
then whatever you get or do not get,
your life is beautiful.
Sadhguru

You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with every step but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves, their fierce hearts don't settle between walls
and their instinct is stronger than upbringing.
Love her wild or leave her there.
― Nikki Rowe

Some days i am the artist,
Other days i am art and
When life gets real weird,
I become both.
― Nikki Rowe

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NATURAL RHYTHMS "...always One without two." April 20, 2019 "...the unsayable absence."

4/20/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 20
I Am Shiva

Too Rainy for Beach this morning.
Sunrise Photos from Archives

12/2/14

GENTLY SURF/DIVE-DEEPLY/FLY
IN/OF/AS TAO CORE MINDLESS TRANSPARENCY

HELD/ATTUNED/MOVED
VIA
MOTHER NATURE’S NATURAL RHYTHMS
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4:41 AM-4/20/19

12/2/14

Chapter 20
I Am Shiva

1
I am fulfilled.

The elements of nature,
The body and the senses,
What are they to me?

Or the mind?

What is emptiness or despair?

12/2/14

2
What are holy books,
Or knowledge of the Self,
Or the mind,
Even when it is free of the senses?

Or happiness,
Or freedom from desire?

I am always
One without two.

12/2/14

3
Knowledge or ignorance,
Freedom or bondage,
What are they?

What is "I,"
Or "mine,"
Or "this"?

Or the form of the true Self?

12/2/14

4
I am always one.

What do I care for freedom
In life or in death,
Or for my present karma?

6/16/15

5
I am always
Without I.

So where is the one
Who acts or enjoys?

And what is the rising
Or the vanishing of thought?

What is the invisible world,
Or the visible?

2/2/15

6
In my heart I am one.

What is this world?

Who seeks freedom,
Or wisdom or oneness?

Who is bound or free?

7/2/16

7
In my heart I am one.

What is creation,
Or dissolution?

What is seeking,
And the end of seeking?

Who is the seeker?
What has he found?

1/20/17

8
I am forever pure.

What do I care who knows,
What is known,
Or how it is known?

What do I care for knowledge?

What do I care what is,
Or what is not?

1/19/17

9
I am forever still.

What are joy or sorrow,
Distraction or concentration,
Understanding or delusion?

5/10/18

10
I am always without thought.

What is happiness or grief?

What is here and now,
Or beyond?

1/2/16

11
I am forever pure.

What is illusion,
Or the world?

What is the little soul,
Or God himself?

1/8/15

12
One without two,
I am always the same.

I sit in my heart.

13
What need is there
For striving or stillness?

What is freedom or bondage?

What are holy books or teachings?

What is the purpose of life?

Who is the disciple,
And who is the master?

1/25/15

14
For I have no bounds.

I am Shiva

Nothing arises in me,
In whom nothing is single,
Nothing is double.

Nothing is,
Nothing is not.

What more is there to say?

In Archives...on a web page years ago..

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 20
I Am Shiva
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

1/27/17

1/8/15

question

What is the deep listening? Sama is
a greeting from the secret ones inside
the heart, a letter. The branches of
your intelligence grow new leaves in
the wind of this listening. The body
reaches a peace. Rooster sound comes,
reminding you of your love for dawn.

5/6/15

The reed flute and the singer's lips:
the knack of how spirit breathes into
us becomes as simple and ordinary as
eating and drinking. The dead rise with
the pleasure of listening. If someone
can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle
dirt on his head and declare him dead.

Listen, and feel the beauty of your
separation, the unsayable absence.

4/2/19

There's a moon inside every human being.
Learn to be companions with it. Give
more of your life to this listening. As
brightness is to time, so you are to
the one who talks to the deep ear in
your chest.

5/1/16

I should sell my tongue
and buy a thousand ears when that
one steps near and begins to speak.

—Rumi
from The Glance
Coleman Barks version
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/question_18.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

12/19/14

you are that

do you know what you are?

You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.

Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.

—Rumi
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12/21/14

AFTERNOON

There are infinite numbers of lines that join us to things.
They are real lines.
You can feel them.
The most difficult part about
the warrior’s way is to realize
that the world is a feeling.
When one is not-doing,
one is feeling the world,
and one feels the world through its lines.
—Carlos Castaneda

Know yourself as Nothing.

Feel yourself as Everything.

—Alan Watts

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-world-is-feeling.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

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

THERE NEED
BE
NO EFFORT
ON YOUR PART
EXCEPT TO STILL
YOUR BUSY MIND
INTO
THE SILENCE THAT IS BEYOND SILENCE...

Excerpt from:
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Dorothea Mills/elizabeth walker

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"THE INWARD SEA" "My Own Splendor" "Flaming Sword Angel" "... this Touch where i Disappear.” MILESTONE April 19, 2019

4/19/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 19
My Own Splendor

DISSOLVING
<
DISSOLVED
INTO
“THE INWARD SEA”*
<
THE AKASHA TAO CORE OF ORIGIN
ALWAYS PREVAILS
(unless thinking otherwise!)
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6:02 AM-4/19/19
*See Afternoon Photos Section Today
&
Read More for Howard Thurman INWARD SEA Quote
&
More.......

19
My Own Splendor

1
With the pincers of truth I have plucked
From the dark corners of my heart
The thorn of many judgments.

2
I sit in my own splendor.

Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or discrimination,
Duality or nonduality,
What are they to me?

3
What is yesterday,
Tomorrow,
Or today?

What is space,
Or eternity?

I sit in my own radiance.

4
What is the Self,
Or the not-Self?

What is thinking,
Or not thinking?

What is good or evil?

I sit in my own splendor.

5
I sit in my own radiance,
And I have no fear.

Waking, Dreaming, Sleeping,
What are they to me?

Or even ecstasy?

6
What is far or near,
Outside or inside,
Gross or subtle?

I sit in my own splendor.

7
Dissolving the mind,
Or the highest meditation,
The world and all its works,
Life or death,
What are they to me?

I sit in my own radiance.

8
Why talk of wisdom,
The three ends of life,
Or oneness?

Why talk of these!

Now I live in my heart.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 19
My Own Splendor
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

I can only offer you this Touch where i Disappear.
ew/arif k.

AFTERNOON

I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky.
Virginia Woolf

The Inward Sea
Howard Thurman

There is in every person an inward sea,
And in that sea there is an island
And on that island there is an altar

And standing guard
before that altar is the
angel with the flaming sword.

"Nothing can get by that angel
to be placed upon that altar
unless it has the mark
of your inner authority."

"Nothing passes
'the angel with the flaming sword'
to be placed upon your altar
unless it be a part of
'the fluid area of your consent."

This is your crucial link with the Eternal."

--Dr. Howard Thurman
Excerpt from Howard Thurman's Meditation of the Heart.
http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/04/howard-thurmans-inward-sea.html

WHEN YOU ARE FREE
JOHN MCINTOSH

When you are FREE of conditioning nothing ‘sticks’
to divert your Attention from Who You Really Are.
-The glamor of the world swirls around you without effect

-Sorrow begs you to acknowledge its victim-hood
but is met only with compassion and never sympathy
that would fan the flames of that illusion

-Special abilities entice you to broadcast
your new-found power over illusion
but you remain ‘fixed’ on Truth and Peace ‘IS’

-Without effort,
your radiance touches and embraces the entire dream
and every version of dreamer within, that still sleeps

-Without any ‘doing’,
an infinite Light shines on every dark corner of the grand dream

-Many recoil in shame or fear as their disguises melt away

-Others approach with caution and scepticism,
dazzled by this ‘influence’ that lifts and inspires
but asks nothing

-Some few gravitate
to the boundless Life You Are
as their ancient burdens lose control

-Each one who still sleeps,
is in some way affected
and at the level of their open-ness,
shift ever more inward toward their own Freedom

-If called to act you are shown precisely what to do,
where to go,
what to say and to whom,
unencumbered by the conditioning
that once colored and tainted every action,
every word, every thought

-Your actions are Pure
and when complete are departed from completely

See this LINK for Photos/Quotes that date...September 7, 2018 - applies to today as well!
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/survived-into-thrived-all-pervading-peace-imprisoned-splendor-may-escape-september-7-2018

Freedom covets nothing,
holds onto nothing and craves nothing.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/when-you-are-free

See Read More Below
for full Quotes
+
Link for ANGEL WITH FLAMING SWORD
Saint Teresa-of-Avila
+
Additional Photos

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TRANSMISSION OF ORIGIN April 18, 2019

4/18/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 81-100

NO MARGIN FOR OTHERWISE
THAN
THE TRANSPARENCY OF ORIGIN

ABEYANCE
ELIMINATION
OF ALL BUT THAT
<
ALL JUST IS
=
BEYOND AND THRIVING
WITH THAT
WHICH CANNOT BE THOUGHT OR WORDED
....YET IS ALL THAT IS....
=
SIMPLY AND ONLY
THE OVERFLOW
OF
ORIGINAL LIFE IN PRISTINE FORMLESS FORM

TRANSMISSION OF ORIGIN
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4:30 AM-4/18/19

The Master
Verses 81-100

81
Nothing he hopes to win,
Nothing he fears to lose.

His mind is cool and drenched with nectar.

82
Free from desire,
He neither praises the peaceful
Nor blames the wicked.

The same in joy and sorrow,
He is always happy.

He sees there is nothing to do.

83
He does not hate the world.
He does not seek the Self.

He is free from joy and sorrow.

He is not alive,
And he is not dead.

84
He is not attached to his family.

Free from the desire of the senses,
He does not care about his body.

The master expects nothing,
And he shines.

85
Whatever befalls him,
He is always happy.

He wanders where he will.

And wherever he finds himself
When the sun sets,
There he lies down to rest.

86
He does not care if the body lives or dies.

He is so firmly set in his own being,
He rises above the round of birth and death.

87
He is full of joy.

Attached to nothing,
Free from possessions,
He stands on his own.

His doubts dispelled,
He wanders where he will,
Never setting one thing against another.

88
The master shines.

He never says "mine."
Gold, stone, earth--
They are all the same to him.

He is not bound by sloth,
Nor consumed by his own activity.

He has severed the knots which bind his heart.

89
Who can compare with him?
Indifferent to everything,
He is happy and he is free.
There is not the least desire in his heart.

90
Only the man without desire
Sees without seeing,
Speaks without speaking,
Knows without knowing.

91
In his view of things
Good and evil have melted away.

A king or a beggar,
Whoever is free from desire shines!

92
He is utterly without guile.
He has found his way.
He is simplicity itself.

He cares nothing for restraint,
Or abandon.

He has no interest in finding the truth.

93
He has no desires.
He rests happily in the Self.

His sorrows are over.
How can anyone tell what he feels inside?

94
Even when he is sound asleep,
He is not asleep.

Even when he is dreaming,
He does not dream.

Even when he is awake,
He is not awake.

Step by step,
Whatever befalls him,
He is happy.

95
He thinks without thinking.
He feels without feeling.

He is intelligent,
But he has no mind.

He has personality,
But with no thought for himself.

......continuing conclusion of this chapter in
AFTERNOON PHOTOS

AFTERNOON

96
He is not happy,
Nor is he sad.

He is not detached,
Nor is he bound.

He is not free,
Nor does he seek freedom.

He is not this.
He is not that.

97
Amid distractions,
He is undistracted.

In meditation,
He does not meditate.

Foolish,
He is not a fool.
Knowing everything,

He knows nothing.

98
He always lives within.
He is everywhere the same.

Action or duty are nothing to him.

Because he is free from desire,
He never worries about what he has done
Or has not done.

99
Blame does not disturb him,
Nor does praise delight him.

He neither rejoices in life,
Nor fears death.

100
His mind is calm.

Never seeking the solitude of the forest,
Nor running from the crowd.

Always and everywhere,
He is one and the same

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 21-100
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

Only an artist can tell …
what it is like for anyone
who gets to this planet to survive it.
What it is like to die,
or to have somebody die;
what it is like to be glad.
James Baldwin
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/?mc_cid=b9b8d012ff&mc_eid=bc3afd75c6

When things are in harmony with the divine will,
everything is there;
we just glance towards a thing and it is found,
as in the saying,
'Word spoken, action done.'

When we strive with all the material in our hands
and yet cannot achieve our desire,
that is when the matter is contrary
to the divine will.

Our success or failure all depends
upon the harmony or disharmony
of our individual will with the divine will. ...

Contentment and perfect resignation
open up a harmonious feeling and bring the divine will
into harmony with our own.

Our blessing now becomes a divine blessing,
our words divine words,
our atmosphere a divine atmosphere,
although we seem to be limited beings;
for our will becomes absorbed into the whole,
and so our will becomes the will of God.
https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_5.htm

Excerpt from:
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php
April 18, 2019

For the Interim Time
– John O’Donohue
When near the end of day, life has drained
Out of light, and it is too soon
For the mind of night to have darkened things,

No place looks like itself, loss of outline
Makes everything look strangely in-between,
Unsure of what has been, or what might come.

In this wan light, even trees seem groundless.
In a while it will be night, but nothing
Here seems to believe the relief of dark.

You are in this time of the interim
Where everything seems withheld.

The path you took to get here has washed out;
The way forward is still concealed from you.

“The old is not old enough to have died away;
The new is still too young to be born.”

You cannot lay claim to anything;
In this place of dusk,
Your eyes are blurred;
And there is no mirror.

Everything else has lost sight of your heart
And you can see nowhere to put your trust;
You know you have to make your own way through.

As far as you can, hold your confidence.
Do not allow your confusion to squander
This call which is loosening
Your roots in false ground,
That you might come free
From all you have outgrown.

What is being transfigured here is your mind,
And it is difficult and slow to become new.
The more faithfully you can endure here,
The more refined your heart will become
For your arrival in the new dawn.
– John O’Donohue

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REMEMBRANCE ROCK - 4/15/19

For the Interim Time
– John O’Donohue
From To Bless the Space Between Us:
A Book of Blessings, pp. 119-120)

In This In-Between Time . . .
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CHOICELESS CHOICE< FORMLESSNESS PRESIDING "Pausing in timeless awareness:" April 17, 2019 "...a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted."

4/17/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 61-80

THE SOUL LEADS
AS THIS CHOICELESS CHOICE TAKES OVER
<
ALL THAT IS…AH!
ATIAH!
∞
SOURCING & BREATHED FROM & AS
THE UNNAMEABLE…
… THAT WHICH IS
BEYOND ALL WORDS & THOUGHTS
∞
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12:57 AM-4/17/19

AKASHA TAO CORE SILENCE
ORIGINAL BEING’S FORMLESSNESS
PREVAILS/SUSTAINS PARTING ALL RED SEAS
AH!....
…THE UNFETTERED SOUL OF FORMLESSNESS PRESIDING
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1:47 AM-4/17/19

The Master
Verses 61-80

61
The fool is busy
Even when he is still.
Even when he is busy
The master gathers the fruits of stillness.

62
The fool often spurns his possessions.
The master is no longer attached to his body.
So how can he feel attraction or aversion?

63
The awareness of the fool is always limited
By thinking, or by trying not to think.
The awareness of the man who lives within,
Though he may be busy thinking,
Is beyond even awareness itself.

64
The master is like a child.
All his actions are without motive.
He is pure.
Whatever he does, he is detached.

65
He is blessed.
He understands the nature of the Self.
His mind is no longer thirsty.
He is the same under all conditions,
Whatever he sees or hears,
Or smells or touches or tastes.

66
The master is like the sky.
He never changes.
What does the world matter to him,
Or its reflection?
What does he care about seeking,
Or the end of seeking?

67
He is ever the same.
The victory is his.
He has conquered the world.
He is the embodiment
Of his own perfect essence,
By nature one with the infinite.

68
What more is there to say?
He knows the truth.
He has no desire for pleasure or liberation.
At all times, in all places,
He is free from passion.

69
He has given up the duality of the world
Which arises with the mind
And is nothing more than a name.
He is pure awareness.
What is there left for him to do?

70
The man who is pure knows for certain
That nothing really exists;
It is all the work of illusion.
He sees what cannot be seen.
His nature is peace.

71
He does not see the world of appearances.
So what do rules matter to him,
Or dispassion, renunciation, and self-control?
His form is pure and shining light.

72
He does not see the world.
So what does he care for joy or sorrow,
Bondage or liberation?
He is infinite and shining.

73
Before the awakening of understanding
The illusion of the world prevails.
But the master is free of passion.
He has no "I,"
He has no "mine,"
And he shines!

74
He sees that the Self never suffers or dies.
So what does he care for knowledge
Or the world?
Or the feeling "I am the body,"
"The body is mine"?

75
The moment a fool gives up concentration
And his other spiritual practices,
He falls prey to fancies and desires.

76
Even after hearing the truth,
The fool clings to his folly.
He tries hard to look calm and composed,
But inside he is full of cravings.

77
When the truth is understood,
Work falls away.
Though in the eyes of others
The master may seem to work,
In reality he has no occasion
To say or to do anything.

78
He has no fear.
He is always the same.
He has nothing to lose.
For him there is no darkness,
There is no light.
There is nothing at all.

79
He has no being of his own.
His nature cannot be described.
What is patience to him,
Or discrimination or fearlessness?

80
In the eyes of the master
There is nothing at all.
There is no heaven.
There is no hell.
There is no such thing as liberation in life.
What more is there to say?

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 61-80
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

In one who perceives impermanence,
the perception of nonself becomes firmly established;
and one who perceives nonself
achieves the elimination of the conceit “I am”
and attains nirvana in this very life.
And in the words of the Koran:
“Everything is perishing except God’s Face.”
Elias Amidon
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/impermanence-deeper-secret-amidon/

Attention gets its attentiveness from pure awareness,
which is who you are.
Self definition only keeps you fixated on waves
while yearning to find the deep.
The ocean has no problem with waves.”

“Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine the waves as separate from itself.
Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine its depth as separate from itself.
Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine there is any separation
between wave and depth.
Be the ocean.
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/impermanence-deeper-secret-amidon/

Pausing in timeless awareness:
The Indian sage Nisargadatta
once advised a student who asked for guidance,
“Go back! Go back!”
Go back to the place where you begin, right now,
the place of spacious awareness
that hosts all the phenomena you experience.
It is a simple move,
although nothing really moves.

Just open up to the clearing you already are
and pause there for a moment or two.
When you do that your whole life is refreshed.
More re: THE JOY OF PAUSING here:
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/142-the-joy-of-pausing

There is no beauty more real
than the goodness one sees in someone.
Plotinus
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/181-beauty-will-save-the-world

Beauty will save the world.
Dostoevsky
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/181-beauty-will-save-the-world

And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes
and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark,
nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom
and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

People of Orphalese,
beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Excerpt from BEAUTY
The Prophet
http://www.katsandogz.com/onbeauty.html

We usually do not look
into what is really there in front of us.
We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts,
and we mistake those mental objects for reality.
We get so caught up in
this endless thought-stream
that reality flows by unnoticed.

We spend our time engrossed in activity,
caught up in an eternal flight
from pain and unpleasantness.
We spend our energies
trying to make ourselves better,
trying to bury our fears.

We are endlessly seeking security.
Meanwhile,
the world of real experience flows by
untouched and unnoticed...

Henepola Gunaratana
Buddhist Monk
You Think You Have Time - Gunaratana
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/01/you-think-you-have-time-gunaratana.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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PRIMORDIAL TOUCHSTONE "His form is emptiness." " 'YOU' MUST DISSOLVE" April 16, 2019

4/16/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 41-60

NOTHING & NO/THING
IS GREATER THAN
ORIGINAL SILENCE
∞
BREATH AS THE PRIMORDIALTOUCHSTONE
OF ORIGINAL BEING IN HUMAN FORM…
=
THE CORE AS TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
REMOVING ALL SENSE
=
NOTHING & NO/THING
SUPERCEDES THIS
“JUST IS”
=
ALL ELSE PERCEIVED
IS MERELY
A REMINDER OF
“THE HUSH OF NOT” *
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4:40 AM-4/16/19

*Evil's Tender Kiss/ew - Epilogue
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The Master
Verses 41-60

41
The fool tries to control his mind.
How can he ever succeed?

Mastery always comes naturally
To the man who is wise
And who loves himself.

42
One man believes in existence,
Another says, "There is nothing!"

Rare is the man who believes in neither.

He is free from confusion.

43
The fool may know that the Self
Is pure and indivisible.

But because of his folly,
He never finds it.

He suffers all his life.

44
The mind of a man who longs to be free
Stumbles without support.

But the mind of a man who is already free
Stands on its own.

It is empty of passion.

45
The senses are tigers.

When a timid man catches sight of them,
He runs for safety to the nearest cave,
To practice control and meditation.

46
But a man without desires is a lion.

When the senses see him,
It is they who take flight!

They run away like elephants,
As quietly as they can.

And if they cannot escape,
They serve him like slaves.

47
A man who has no doubts
And whose mind is one with the Self
No longer looks for ways to find freedom.

He lives happily in the world,
Seeing and hearing,
Touching and smelling and tasting.

48
Just by hearing the truth
He becomes spacious
And his awareness pure.

He is indifferent
To striving or stillness.

He is indifferent
To his own indifference.

49
The master is like a child.
He does freely whatever comes his way,
Good or bad.

50
By standing on his own
A man finds happiness.

By standing on his own
A man finds freedom.

By standing on his own
He goes beyond the world.

By standing on his own
He finds the end of the way.

51
When a man realizes
He is neither the doer nor the enjoyer,
The ripples of his mind are stilled.

52
The master's way is unfettered
And free of guile.
He shines.

But for the fool
There is no peace.
His thoughts are full of desire.

53
The master is free of his mind,
And his mind is free.

In this freedom he plays.
He has a wonderful time!

Or he withdraws
And lives in a mountain cave.

54
If the master encounters
A king or a woman
Or someone he dearly loves,
He is without desire.

And when he honors
A god or a holy place
Or a man versed in the scriptures,
There is no longing in his heart.

None at all!

55
He is unperturbed
Even when his servants despise him,
Or his wives, sons, and grandsons mock him.

Even when his whole family makes fun of him,
He is undismayed.

56
For him there is no pain in pain,
No pleasure in pleasure.

Only those who are like him
Can know his exaltation.

57
He has no form.
His form is emptiness.

He is constant and pure.

He has no sense of duty,
Which only binds men to the world.

58
The master fulfills his duties
And is always untroubled.

The fool does nothing
And is always troubled and distracted.

59
The master goes about his business
With perfect equanimity.

He is happy when he sits,
Happy when he talks and eats,
Happy asleep,
Happy coming and going.

60
Because he knows his own nature,
He does what he has to without feeling ruffled
Like ordinary people.

Smooth and shining,
Like the surface of a vast lake.

His sorrows are at an end.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 41-60
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

YOU MUST DISSOLVE

When full Conscious Awareness ‘is’ …
the mind has vanished as you know it.
There is no sense of

-planning
-fixing
-working on
-getting better
-being your best
… there is no ‘you.

Love, for example … just IS.
IT emanates naturally as a radiance of Awareness
and not as an intentional thought projection.
You cannot ‘dance at two weddings’.
You cannot retain your personal identity … ‘and’ know Real Freedom,
‘you’ must dissolve into the God-SELF completely.

While you remain in a body
and navigate the grand dream
you may possess many forms of identification,
but no such person will exist any longer.
This projected false self will have disappeared
back into the infinite ocean of ONE.

This is the only death you fear and must be accepted to return HOME.

John McIntosh
Posted April 15, 2019
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/you-must-dissolve

See Read More Below
"The Hush of Not"
from-
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(Unpublished Archives)

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BEING’S BEINGLESSNESS "Whatever he does, He does nothing." "Just this breath,..." April 15, 2019

4/15/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 21-40

ROOTED IN THE GROUND
OF BEING’S BEINGLESSNESS
<
THE SOURCE OF ALL
FLOWERS IN/OF/AS
UNIMAGINABLE TRANSPARENCY
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4:50 AM-4/15/19

The Master
Verses 21-40

21
He has no desires.
He has cast off his chains.
He walks on air.

He is free,
Tumbling like a leaf in the wind,
From life to life.

22
He has gone beyond the world,
Beyond joy and sorrow.

His mind is always cool.
He lives as if he had no body.

23
His mind is cool and pure.
He delights in the Self.

There is nothing he wishes to renounce.
He misses nothing.

24
His mind is naturally empty.
He does as he pleases.

He is not an ordinary man.
Honor and dishonor mean nothing to him.

25
"The body does this, not I."
"My nature is purity."

With these thoughts,
Whatever he does,
He does nothing.

26
But he pretends not to know.

He finds freedom in this life,
But he acts like an ordinary man.

Yet he is not a fool.

Happy and bright,
He thrives in the world.

27
Weary of the vagaries of the mind,
He is at last composed.

He does not know or think,
Or hear or see.

28
Undistracted,
He does not meditate.

Unbound,
He does not seek freedom.

He sees the world,
But knows it is an illusion.

He lives like God.

29
Even when he is still,
The selfish man is busy.

Even when he is busy,
The selfless man is still.

30
He is free.

His mind is unmoved
By trouble or pleasure.

Free from action, desire or doubt,
He is still, and he shines!

31
His mind does not strive
To meditate or to act.

It acts or meditates without purpose.

32
When a fool hears the truth,
He is muddled.

When a wise man hears it,
He goes within.

He may look like a fool,
But he is not muddled.

33
The fool practices concentration
And control of the mind...

Cock Fight in Yard after Sunrise

...But the master is like a man asleep.
He rests in himself
And finds nothing more to do.

34
Striving or still,
The fool never finds peace....

Crowing Cock

...But the master finds it
Just by knowing how things are.

35
In this world
Men try all kinds of paths.

But they overlook the Self,
The Beloved.

Awake and pure,
Flawless and full,
Beyond the world.

36
The fool will never find freedom
By practicing concentration.

But the master never fails.

Just by knowing how things are,
He is free and constant.

37
Because the fool wants to become God,
He never finds him.

The master is already God,
Without ever wishing to be

38
The fool has no foundation.
Fretting to be free,
He only keeps the world spinning.

But the master cuts at its root,
The root of all suffering.

39
Because the fool looks for peace,
He never finds it.

But the master is always at peace,
Because he understands how things are.

40
If a man looks to the world,
How can he see himself?

The master is never distracted by this or that.

He sees himself,
The Self that never changes.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 21-40
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.
Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already.

Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.

Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already.
Nothing to receive but what
flows effortlessly from the
mystery into form.

Nothing to run from or run
toward. Just this breath,
Awareness knowing itself as
embodiment. Just this breath,
awareness waking up to truth.
― Danna Faulds

Above photo and Dana Faulds poem - posted on this Facebook page:
Ann Frances Ellis April 2, 2019

Limitless
Danna Faulds

Sun says, “Be your own
illumination.” Wren says,
“Sing your heart out,
all day long.” Stream says,
“Do not stop for any
obstacle.” Oak says,
“When the wind blows,
bend easily, and trust
your roots to hold.”

Stars say, “What you see
is one small slice of a
single modest galaxy.
Remember that vastness
cannot be grasped by mind.”
Ant says, “Small does not
mean powerless.”

Silence
says nothing. In the quiet,
everything comes clear.
I say, “Limitless.” I say,
“Yes.”
http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/resources_poetry.php

The Gentle Voice
- John O'Donohue

When you take the time
to draw on your listening-imagination,
you will begin to hear this gentle voice
at the heart of your life.

It is deeper and surer than all the other voices of disappointment,
unease, self-criticism and bleakness.
All holiness is about learning to hear
the voice of your own soul.
It is always there
and the more deeply you learn to listen,
the greater surprises
and discoveries that will unfold.

To enter into the gentleness of your own soul
changes the tone and quality of your life.
Your life is no longer consumed by
hunger for the next event, experience or achievement.
You gain a new respect for yourself and others.

You begin to see through
the enchanting veils of illusion
that you had taken for reality.
You no longer squander yourself
on things and situations
that deplete your essence.
You know now that your true source
is not outside you.

Your soul is your true source,
and a new energy and passion
awakens within you.

John O'Donohue
From: Beauty, The Invisible Embrace

via - The Beauty We Love

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-gentle-voice-john-odonohue.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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Both Danna Faulds Poems

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RELIEF SANS BELIEF "He looks busy, But he does nothing." "...the teaching of my Soul." April 14, 2019

4/14/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 1-20

NOTHING IS THE SAME
AS IT WAS
AND YET…
IT IS FOREVERMORE
ALWAYS THE SAME
AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
∞
AH!
THE TOTALITY
OF
RELIEF SANS BELIEF
∞
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1:54 AM-4/14/19

Chapter 18
The Master

1
Love your true Self,
Which is naturally happy
And peaceful and bright!

Awaken to your own nature,
And all delusion melts like a dream.

2
How much pleasure you take
In acquiring worldly goods!

But to find happiness
You must give them all up.

3
The sorrows of duty,
Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart.

But let stillness fall on you
With its sweet and cooling showers,
And you will find happiness.

4
For the world is nothing.
It is only an idea.

But the essence of what is
And of what is not
Can never fail.

5
The Self is always the same,
Already fulfilled,
Without flaw or choice or striving.

Close at hand,
But boundless.

6
When the Self is known,
All illusions vanish.

The veil falls,
And you see clearly.

Your sorrows are dispelled.

7
For the Self is free
And lives forever.

Everything else is imagination,
Nothing more!

Because he understands this,
The master acts like a child.

8
When you know you are God
And that what is and what is not
Are both imaginary,
And you are at last free of desire,
Then what is there left
To know or to say or to do?

9
For the Self is everything.

When the seeker knows this,
He falls silent.

He no longer thinks,
"I am this, I am not that."

Such thoughts melt away.

10
He is still.

Without pleasure or pain,
Distraction or concentration,
Learning or ignorance.

11
His nature is free of conditions.

Win or lose,
It makes no difference to him.

Alone in the forest or out in the world,
A god in heaven or a simple beggar,
It makes no difference!

12
He is free of duality.

Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or discrimination
Mean nothing to him.

What does he care
What is accomplished or neglected?

13
Finding freedom in this life,
The seeker takes nothing to heart,
Neither duty nor desire.

He has nothing to do
But to live out his life.

14
The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire.
Delusion or the world,

Meditation on the truth,
Liberation itself--
What are they to him?

15
You see the world
And you try to dissolve it.

But the master has no need to.
He is without desire.

For though he sees,
He sees nothing.

Continuing last 5 Verses this Afternoon

AFTERNOON

16
When you have seen God
You meditate on Him,
Saying to yourself, "I am He."

But when you are without thought
And you understand there is only one,
Without a second,
On whom can you meditate?

17
When you are distracted,
You practice concentration.

But the master is undistracted.

He has nothing to fulfill.
What is there left for him to accomplish?

18
He acts like an ordinary man.
But inside he is quite different.

He sees no imperfection in himself,
Nor distraction,
Nor any need for meditation.

19
He is awake,
Fulfilled,
Free from desire.

He neither is nor is not.

He looks busy,
But he does nothing.

20
Striving or still,
He is never troubled.

He does whatever comes his way,
And he is happy.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 1-20
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

from 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.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
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.

We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/114283-all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i

S K Y- C I R C L E S
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn that?

They fall, and falling,
they’re given wings.
Rumi

Trans Coleman Barks
Full book/pdf below
http://www.venerabilisopus.org/en/books-samael-aun-weor-gnostic-sacred-esoteric-spiritual/pdf/100/171_rumi-the-book-of-love.pdf

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Rumi

Let silence be the art you practice.
Rumi

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NO CHOICE TRANSPARENT SILENCE OF ORIGIN "...free of all desires." "...being in the void." April 13, 2019

4/13/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 11-20

ONLY
THE NO CHOICE
TRANSPARENT SILENCE OF ORIGIN
∞ALONE WITH THE ALONE∞
SUFFICETH
<
AH!
ALPHA & OMEGA SIMPLICITY
ew
4:57 AM-4/13/19

“LISTEN, ELSE THY TONGUE RENDERS THEE DEAF”
American Indian Proverb
(ew slight paraphrase)

God is my final end;
Does he from me evolve,
Then he grows out of me,
While I in Him dissolve.
~ Angelus Silesius
(The Cherubinic Wanderer)
https://thedawnwithin.com/2019/04/13/where-god-speaks/

See this OceanSpeak from 2014...
Synchronistically Appearing from a present-time reader comment
early this morning....underscores today's OceanSpeak Offerings

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping-sunrisenoon-march-21-2014

ASHTAVAKRA
Continuing Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 11-20

11
And the man who is free
Always lives in his heart.
His heart is always pure.

Whatever happens,
He is free of all desires.

12
Whatever he sees or hears or touches,
Whatever he smells or tastes,
Whatever he acquires,
He is free.

Free from striving,
And from stillness.

For indeed he is a great soul.

13
Without blame or praise,
Anger or rejoicing.

He gives nothing.
He takes nothing.

He wants nothing,
Nothing at all.

14
And whoever draws near him,
A woman full of passion
Or Death Himself,
He is not shaken.

He stays in his heart.

He is free indeed!

15
It is all the same to him.
Man or woman,
Good fortune or bad,
Happiness or sorrow.

It makes no difference.
He is serene.

16
The world no longer holds him.
He has gone beyond
The bounds of human nature.

Without compassion
Or the wish to harm,
Without pride or humility.

Nothing disturbs him.
Nothing surprises him.

17
Because he is free,
He neither craves nor disdains
The things of the world.

He takes them as they come.

His mind is always detached.

18
His mind is empty.
He is not concerned with meditation,
Or the absence of it,
Or the struggle between good and evil.

He is beyond all,
Alone.

19
No "I,"
No "mine."

He knows there is nothing.

All his inner desires have melted away.

Whatever he does,
He does nothing.

20
His mind has stopped working!

It has simply melted away. . .

And with it,
Dreams and delusions and dullness.

And for what he has become,
There is no name.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 11-20
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

Yet another Synchronistic "Arrival" this early morning...April 13, 2019
He who wants to understand, will understand.
Bowl of Saki, April 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

BOWL OF SAKI - April 13, 2019
for full commentary:
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php

AFTERNOON

The only problem with human beings is that they are arrogant,
because that’s what thinking is.
This is in essence ‘I know’.
Wisdom is being in the void.
To be thoughtless.

Only by being in the void can the Light come through.
As long as I have something going on in my mind
the Light can’t come through.
The Light can only come in when the mind is cleared
–in a state of silence.
– Dr Hew Len, Shamanic Wisdomkeepers
https://upliftconnect.com/hawaiian-practice-of-forgiveness/?utm_source=UPLIFT&utm_campaign=8a40cfc3e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_11_06_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_19c1fc07c2-8a40cfc3e4-116418961

You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.

You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary,
and the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.

It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka

Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave ‘til
it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.
—Rumi
above in this font from:
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/need-then-is-net-for-all-things-rumi_13.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

All there is is
Never not here,
Never not now.

One gets further lost in
All destinations other than
Here.
Wu Hsin

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VAST SILENCE "...in sanest hours..." "...lesson of Nature." "...calm, like the stars, shining eternal." April 12, 2019

4/12/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 1-10

I HAVE ALREADY BEEN
WHATEVER IS
IN WORDLING PROJECTIONS

THE VAST SILENCE
IS TOO MUCH
FOR WORDS
¥I¥
ew
March 20, 2006
(Random Pick from Archived Files
See Read More below Afternoon Photos
for More)

17
Beyond All

1

The man who is happy and pure
And likes his own company
Gathers the fruit of his practice
And the fruit of wisdom.

2
The man who knows the truth
Is never unhappy in the world.

For he alone fills the universe.

3
Just as the elephant loves
The leaves of the sallaki tree,
But not the neem tree,
So the man who loves himself
Always spurns the senses.

4
It is hard to find
A man who has no desire
For what he has not tasted,
Or who tastes the world
And is untouched.

5
Here in the world
Some crave pleasure,
Some seek freedom.
But it is hard to find
A man who wants neither.

He is a great soul.

6
It is hard to find
A man who has an open mind,
Who neither seeks nor shuns
Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or liberation,
Life or death. . .

7
He does not want the world to end.
He does not mind if it lasts.

Whatever befalls him,
He lives in happiness.

For he is truly blessed.

8
Now that he understands,
He is fulfilled.
His mind is drawn within,
And he is fulfilled.

He sees and he hears,
He touches and smells and tastes,
And he is happy.

9
Whatever he does is without purpose.
His senses have been stilled.
His eyes are empty.

He is without desire or aversion.

For him the waters of the world
Have all dried up!

10
He is not asleep.
He is not awake.
He never closes his eyes
Or opens them.

Wherever he is,
He is beyond everything.
He is free.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 1-10
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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AFTERNOON

whoever you are

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life.
—Walt Whitman

I believe in an invisible universe
in which we mark out our dark accomplishment.
I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music,
and I suffer from the arrow-tip of longing
that pierces us to death from the very beginning
and pushes us to go searching beyond,
where the wash of uncertainty begins.

—Nelly Sachs to Paul Celan
Stockholm, 1. 9. 1958 –
from their Correspondence...

There is, in sanest hours,
a consciousness, a thought that rises,
independent, lifted out from all else, calm,
like the stars, shining eternal.
This is the thought of identity -
yours for you, whoever you are, as mine for me.
Miracle of miracles, beyond statement,
most spiritual and vaguest of earth's dreams,
yet hardest basic fact, and only entrance to all facts.

In such devout hours,
in the midst of the significant wonders of heaven and earth,
(significant only because of the Me in the centre)
creeds, conventions, fall away and become of no account
before this simple idea.
Under the luminousness of real vision,
it alone takes possession,
takes value.

Like the shadowy dwarf in the fable, once liberated and look'd upon,
it expands over the whole earth,
and spreads to the roof of heaven.

The quality of being, in the object’s self,
according to its own central idea and purpose,
and of growing therefrom and thereto
— not criticism by other standards, and adjustments thereto --
is the lesson of Nature.
—Walt Whitman
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Heart-to-Heart Resonance - Eric Baret and Rumi

The heart is yearning to be open.
When a heart meets an open heart,
when a match approaches a lighted match,
it rejoices in unity, in the flame...
This is called transmission.
But nothing is transmitted.
No one transmits, no one receives;
There is [just] heart-to-heart [resonance].
There is only one heart.

Eric Baret

Some souls have gotten free of their bodies.
Do you see them?
Open your eyes for those who escape to meet
with other escapees, whose hearts associate in a way
they have of leaving their false selves to live
in a truer Self...

Rumi
From: Escaping to the Forest

What does pre-eternity mean to you?
What is your origin? The Source?
What is spirit?

Spend your life finding out your own state.
Those other mysteries will come clear.

God is depth. And you, you are also deep.
The same depth is in you.

Don't worry about terminology, pre-existence,
the original face, spirit, soul.
Search within yourself.
The great mystery is there.

I want someone with a living pulse,
a living friend...

************************************************************
Excerpts from the Sayings of Shams Tabriz
Soul Fury
Rumi and Shams Tabriz on Friendship
Coleman Barks

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ORIGIN’S SILENCE PRECEDING SOUND April 11, 2019 ".. stream retreats to its source."

4/11/2019

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A Translation of the
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Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 16
Forget Everything

NAKED GRACE ALONE
PEELED OF ALL*
<
THE ONE ETERNAL TAO MOMENT
SOURCING ALL
<
AH!
ORIGIN’S SILENCE
BEYOND LIFE & DEATH
POSSESSES ALL
ELIMINATING BELIEF
<
BEYOND ME & THEE
=
THE SILENCE PRECEDING SOUND & BREATH
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5:07 AM-4/11/19
*i want to surrender to your silence which peels me.
- Arif K
https://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/index.html

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AH! FOR THE RELIEF!
as the above Morning Whisper takes over consciousness…JUST IS
no pressure, no concerns
ONLY SILENCE

TAO CORE HAS POSSESSED
SOOTHING/SMOOTHING ALL THAT
WOULD CLOUD TRANSPARENCY
OF
ORIGIN’S FORMLESSNESS IN FORM
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5:36 AM-4/11/19

Chapter 16
Forget Everything

1
My child,
You may read or discuss scripture
As much as you like.

But until you forget everything,
You will never live in your heart.

2
You are wise.
You play and work and meditate.

But still your mind desires
That which is beyond everything,
Where all desires vanish.

3
Striving is the root of sorrow.

But who understands this?

Only when you are blessed
With the understanding of this teaching
Will you find freedom.

4
Who is lazier than the master?
He has trouble even blinking!

But only he is happy.
No one else!

5
Seeing to this,
Neglecting that. . .

But when the mind stops setting
One thing against another,
It no longer craves pleasure.

It no longer cares for wealth
Or religious duties or salvation.

6
Craving the pleasures of the senses,
You suffer attachment.

Disdaining them,
You learn detachment.

But if you desire nothing,
And disdain nothing,
Neither attachment nor detachment bind you.

7
When you live without discrimination,
Desire arises.

When desire persists,
Feelings of preference arise,
Of liking and disliking.

They are the root and branches of the world.

8
From activity, desire.
From renunciation, aversion.

But the man of wisdom is a child.
He never sets one thing against another.

It is true!
He is a child.

9
If you desire the world,
You may try to renounce it In order to escape sorrow.
Instead, renounce desire!

Then you will be free of sorrow,
And the world will not trouble you.

10
If you desire liberation,
But you still say "mine,"
If you feel you are the body,
You are not a wise man or seeker.

You are simply a man who suffers.

11
Let Hari teach you
Or Brahma, born of the lotus,
Or Shiva himself!

Unless you forget everything,
You will never live in your heart.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 15
Forget Everything

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AFTERNOON

Character is higher than intellect.
Thinking is the function.
Living is the functionary.
The stream retreats to its source.

A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them.
This is a total act.
Thinking is a partial act.
The solar loses no hour which the man lives.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creating Enmity - J. Krishnamurti

Surely that thing which you fight you become.
If I am angry and you meet me with anger what is the result?
More anger.

You have become that which I am.
If I am evil and you fight me with evil means
then you also become evil,
however righteous you may feel.

If I am brutal and you use brutal methods to overcome me,
then you become brutal like me.
And this we have done for thousands of years.

Surely there is a different approach than to meet hate by hate.
If I use violent methods to quell anger in myself
then I am using wrong means for a right end,
and thereby the right end ceases to be.
In this there is no understanding.
Anger is to be understood;
it is not to be overcome through violent means.
Anger may be the result of many causes and
without comprehending them there is no escape from anger.

We have created the enemy,
and becoming ourselves the enemy
in no way brings about an end to enmity.
We have to understand the cause of our enmity
and cease to feed it by our thought, feeling, and action.
This is an arduous task demanding constant
self-awareness [and Self awareness] and intelligent pliability,
for what we are society is...

The enemy and the friend are the outcome of our thought and action.
We are responsible for creating enmity
and so it is more important to be aware of our own thought and action
than to be concerned with the foe and the friend,
for right thinking puts an end to division.

Love transcends the friend and the enemy.

J. Krishnamurti
from: The Book of Life

via - The Beauty We Love

whoever you are

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life.
—Walt Whitman.

I believe in an invisible universe in which we mark out our dark accomplishment.
I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music,
and I suffer from the arrow-tip of longing
that pierces us to death from the very beginning
and pushes us to go searching beyond,
where the wash of uncertainty begins.

—Nelly Sachs to Paul Celan
Stockholm, 1. 9. 1958 –
from their Correspondence

There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises,
independent, lifted out from all else,
calm, like the stars, shining eternal.

This is the thought of identity - yours for you,
whoever you are, as mine for me.

Miracle of miracles, beyond statement,
most spiritual and vaguest of earth's dreams,
yet hardest basic fact, and only entrance to all facts.

In such devout hours,
in the midst of the significant wonders of heaven and earth,
(significant only because of the Me in the centre)
creeds, conventions, fall away
and become of no account before this simple idea.

Under the luminous of real vision,
it alone takes possession, takes value.

Like the shadowy dwarf in the fable,
once liberated and look'd upon,
it expands over the whole earth,
and spreads to the roof of heaven.

The quality of being, in the object’s self,
according to its own central idea and purpose,
and of growing therefrom and thereto
— not criticism by other standards, and adjustments thereto --
is the lesson of Nature.
—Walt Whitman
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BEFORE ABYSS DIE INTO BLISS April 10, 2019 "...pure awareness, Nothing less."

4/10/2019

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Chapter 15
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is last half of Chapter 15
(First part of Chapter 15
on yesterday's OceanSpeak)

The Clear Space of Awareness
Verses 11-20

BEFORE ABYSS
DIE INTO BLISS
<
BECUMS A WAY OF LIFE
AS WELLSPRING
FOR ORIGINAL ONES…
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2:42 AM-4/10/19

Chapter 15
The Clear Space of Awareness
Verses 11-20
(continued from yesterday)

11
You are the endless sea
In whom all the worlds like waves
Naturally rise and fall.

You have nothing to win,
Nothing to lose.

12
Child,
You are pure awareness,
Nothing less.

You and the world are one.

So who are you to think
You can hold on to it,
Or let it go?

How could you!

13
You are the clear space of awareness,
Pure and still,
In whom there is no birth,
No activity, No "I."

You are one and the same.
You cannot change or die.

14
You are in whatever you see.
You alone.

Just as bracelets and bangles
And dancing anklets
Are all of the same gold.

15
"I am not this."
"I am He."

Give up such distinctions.
Know that everything is the Self.
Rid yourself of all purpose.

And be happy.

16
The world only arises from ignorance.
You alone are real.

There is no one,
Not even God,
Separate from yourself.

17
You are pure awareness.

The world is an illusion,
Nothing more.

When you understand this fully,
Desire falls away.

You find peace.

For indeed!
There is nothing.

18
In the ocean of being
There is only one.

There was and there will be
Only one.

You are already fulfilled.
How can you be bound or free?

Wherever you go,
Be happy.

19
Never upset your mind
With yes and no.

Be quiet.
You are awareness itself.

Live in the happiness
Of your own nature,
Which is happiness itself.

20
What is the use of thinking?

Once and for all,
Give up meditation.
Hold nothing in your mind.

You are the Self,
And you are free

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
The Clear Space of Awareness

Chapter 15 -
Verses 11-20
Verses 1-10 on yesterday's OceanSpeak

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Every particle in your body is communicating with the entire cosmos.
Yoga is about experiencing that.
Sadhguru
Quote for the Day
April 10, 2019

AFTERNOON

The life of a sage appears to others
to be as purposeless as the actions of an infant.
the infant lives in the bliss of ignorance,
while the self-realized sage lives in the bliss
beyond both ignorance and knowledge.

In fact the sage is no longer even an individual,
in spite of the presence
of a fully developed intellect.

April 10
The Net of Jewels
Rasmesh S, Balsekar

Nothing to be reached.
Nothing to be gained.
Nothing to be added.
That which is sought is
Here and now.
Does one speak of space
Entering a room?
Wu Hsin

The eye makes no effort,
Yet it sees.
The ear makes no effort,
Yet it hears.
The tongue makes no effort,
Yet it tastes.
Action that is natural,
Action that is appropriate,
Requires no effort.
Wu Hsin

You have only to rest in inaction
and things will transform themselves.
Smash your form and body,
spit out hearing and eyesight,
forget you are a thing among other things,
and you may join in great unity
with the deep and boundless.
― Zhuangzi

Rather than focus on what needs changing,
turn attention to what cannot change.
Wu Hsin

Egocentricity & Suffering - Cheri Huber

Egocentricity is the process of wanting something other than
what is. Egocentricity means there is an "I" who [feels]
separate from everything else and doesn't like it; one thing is
happening, but I want a different thing to be happening
[which causes suffering]. Egocentricity is that constant
concern with how I feel, what I think, what I'm doing, what
I want - looking at what is and seeing it as inadequate.
My identity is maintained by the struggle of wanting
something other than what is [causing suffering].

Instead of spending our time trying to avoid suffering,
we must find the willingness to go directly into it.
Whenever anything causes us to suffer, we can know
two things: suffering is the same as egocentricity, and
when it arises, that is our best opportunity to end suffering.
As we open to suffering, as we embrace it, as we accept it,
our relationship to it changes. It is no longer horrible,
something to escape from. Suffering becomes just
another opportunity [for awareness], another chance for
freedom [from egocentricity].

Cheri Huber
Zen Teacher

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SIMPLE SOULUTION "Abandoning all dualities,..." April 9, 2019

4/9/2019

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A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
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There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 15
The Clear Space of Awareness
Verses 1-10

A SIMPLE SOULUTION:
RESTING IN THE STILLPOINT CORE OF ORIGIN
ALLOWS FALSE REALITIES TO DISAPPEAR
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3:22 AM-4/9/19

Chapter 15
Part 1
The Clear Space of Awareness

1
The man who is pure of heart
Is bound to fulfill himself
In whatever way he is taught.

A worldly man seeks all his life,
But is still bewildered.

2
Detached from the senses,
You are free.

Attached, you are bound.

When this is understood,
You may live as you please.

3
When this is understood,
The man who is bright and busy
And full of fine words
Falls silent.

He does nothing.
He is still.

No wonder
Those who wish to enjoy the world
Shun this understanding!

4
You are not your body.
Your body is not you.

You are not the doer.
You are not the enjoyer.

You are pure awareness,
The witness of all things.

You are without expectation,
Free.
Wherever you go,
Be happy!

5
Desire and aversion are of the mind.
The mind is never yours.
You are free of its turmoil.

You are awareness itself,
Never changing.

Wherever you go,
Be happy.

6
For see!
The Self is in all beings,
And all beings are in the Self.

Know you are free,
Free of "I,"
Free of "mine."

Be happy.

7
In you the worlds arise
Like waves in the sea.

It is true!
You are awareness itself.

So free yourself
From the fever of the world.

8
Have faith, my Child, have faith.
Do not be bewildered.

For you are beyond all things,
The heart of all knowing.

You are the Self.
You are God.

9
The body is confined
By its natural properties.

It comes,
It lingers awhile,
It goes.

But the Self neither comes nor goes.
So why grieve for the body?

10
If the body lasted till the end of time,
Or vanished today,
What would you win or lose?

You are pure awareness.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
The Clear Space of Awareness
Chapter 15 - Verses 1-10
Verses 11-20 posted 4/10/19

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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Stand in your original state of wholeness,
the state before you were born when there was no knowledge "I am"
and therefore no need or want of any kind.
All suffering will end
as soon as you stand in pure Awareness.
***
Intellect is very much necessary
to understand certain fundamentals,
but there is a strict limit
beyond which it cannot go.
Thereafter it is only when intellect gives up all efforts
and acknowledges total surrender
that intuition takes over.
Awakening can only happen spontaneously by itself.

The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
April 5

AFTERNOON

In the Garden of The Beloved
March 29 at 2:52 PM ·

SILENCE, STILLNESS, PEACE
My home is very near a busy road,
But Sitting in its lush garden,
The din and clamor, so close by,
While deemed by some, disruptive,
Is to me a Reminder that Silence,
Has naught to do with sound.

For hearing the myriad notes of Life,
Whether melodious or dissonant,
Within, my Soul’s attention is elsewhere,
Intoxicated at The Tavern of The Beloved,
Where Enraptured, it cups its ears and asks,
“Hmm, did you say something?”

My mind moves in continuous thought,
But Resting within myself,
The flow of words and images,
While deemed by some, a distraction,
Is to me a Reminder that Stillness,
Has naught to do with movement.

For as thoughts and images flow,
Whether pleasurable or discordant,
Within, my Soul’s attention is elsewhere,
Entranced by the Face of The Beloved,
Where, without turning from Her,
It gestures, “You go on ahead.”

The psyche’s weather roils, ever changing,
But Abiding as the formless Sky,
The inconstancy of calm and catastrophe,
While deemed by some, a hindrance,
Is to me a Reminder that Peace,
Has naught to do with change.

For whether the vicissitudes of emotion,
Bring sunlit joy or darkening sorrow,
Within, my Soul’s attention is elsewhere,
Lost in Reverie of The Changeless One,
Ever Radiant in the Heart of Being,
Timeless, Spaceless, Objectless.

Abandoning silence and clamor,
We become Silence.
Abandoning stillness and motion,
We become Stillness.

Abandoning peace and unrest,
We become Peace.

Abandoning all dualities,
We become our Essence.

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In the Garden of The Beloved
March 29 at 2:52 PM ·

come to the conclusion:
I am unborn,
I was unborn and I shall remain unborn.
—Sri Nisargadatta

We live in illusion and the appearance of things.
There is a reality.
We are that reality.
When you understand this,
you see that you are nothing,
and being nothing,
you are everything.

That is all.

—Kalu Rinpoche

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WAILS & HOWLS **** APPLY VAST SILENCE "Even in sleep, I am awake." April 8, 2019

4/8/2019

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The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 14
The Fool

6:42 AM - View from garden lot

WAILS & HOWLS
YOWLS & WAILS
VIA
PHYSICAL NERVE ENDINGS
MAP THE RELIEF REQUIRED
<
APPLY VAST SILENCE
VIA
PRESSURE TO PRESSURE
∞
ALSO REMEMBER:
ORIGINAL ONES’ AWARENESS
HAPPENS WITHOUT PHYSICAL TOUCH
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5:10 AM-4/8/19

14
The Fool

1
By nature my mind is empty.
Even in sleep,
I am awake.
I think of things without thinking.

All my impressions of the world
Have dissolved.

2
My desires have melted away.

So what do I care for money
Or the thieving senses,
For friends or knowledge or holy books?

3
Liberation,
Bondage,
What are they to me?

What do I care for freedom?

For I have known God,
The infinite Self,
The witness of all things.

4
Without, a fool.
Within, free of thought.

I do as I please,
And only those like me
Understand my ways.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 14
The Fool
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Before she became fire, she was water.
Quenched the thirst of every dying creature.
She gave and she gave,
until she turned from sea to desert.
But instead of dying of the heat,
the sadness, the heartache,
she took all of her pain
and from her own ashes
became fire.
~Nikita Gill
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/08/29324/

AFTERNOON

The path to heaven lies through heaven,
and all the way to heaven is heaven.
–Catherine of Siena

The bird has no path;
where the bird flies is the path.

The fish has no path in water;
wherever it swims is the path.
–The Upanishads

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 version

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Who (be quiet) Are you

Be still
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
To speak your

Name.
Listen
To the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
Are you? Whose
Silence are you?

Who (be quiet)
Are you (as these stones
Are quiet). Do not
Think of what you are
Still less of

What you may one day be.
Rather
Be what you are (but who?) be
The unthinkable one
You do not know.

O be still, while
You are still alive,
And all things live around you
Speaking (I do not hear)
To your own being,
Speaking by the Unknown
That is in you and in themselves.

“I will try, like them
To be my own silence:
And this is difficult. The whole
World is secretly on fire. The stones
Burn, even the stones
They burn me. How can a man be still or
Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
To sit with them when
All their silence
Is on fire?”

–Thomas Merton
in silence
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NOTHING TO WORD CLEAR TRANSPARENCY April 7, 2019 "...And now dance naked..." "...world of opposites Has faded..."

4/7/2019

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Happiness

BE STILL
<
SO TOTALLY STILL*
THERE IS NOTHING
TO WORD... EXPLAIN... REMEMBER....
.....A CLEAR TRANSPARENCY OF CREATOR/CREATION
JUST IS
<
NECESSARY UNFOLDMENTS ALWAYS HAPPENING
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4:50 AM-4/7/19

*REMEMBER HUMMINGBIRD PERCHING
IN STILLNESS
ON CLOTHESLINE**

**(as above last lines Write
a Solitary SongBird begans continual Happy Songing
in this very dark early morning sky..then is joined by others…
…then ceases as we finish describing this Understanding)
ALL OF NATURE SIMPLY SINGS BECAUSE IT HAS A SONG
&
NOT because it has a voice.
A CLEAR TRANSPARENCY IN HUMAN FORM
ALSO HAS SUCH SONG
<
JUST IS
<
BE THIS SONG
ew
5:04 AM-4/7/19

JUST as above finishes writing,
even the roosters that had joined in birds’ songings
have Quieted.
there is NOW only Pure Silence from Birds
Mother Ocean continues her rhythmic soft lull of waves/breakers
Ocean breeze gently wafting thru the window….
ALL JUST IS
BEFORE/DURING/AFTER FOREVER
=
RELIEF!!!!... BEYOND EARTHLY MEASURE
ew
5:10 AM-4/7/19
(Big Baubo Belly Laugh...as we trust this may be the LAST
time to ever try to word or Word such Happenings!!!)

13
Happiness

1
Even if you have nothing,
It is hard to find that contentment
Which comes from renunciation.

I accept nothing.
I reject nothing.

And I am happy.

2

The body trembles,
The tongue falters,
The mind is weary.
Forsaking them all,
I pursue my purpose happily.

3

Knowing I do nothing,
I do whatever comes my way,
And I am happy.

4

Bound to his body,
The seeker insists on striving
Or on sitting still.
But I no longer suppose
The body is mine,
Or is not mine.
And I am happy.

5

Sleeping, sitting, walking,
Nothing good or bad befalls me.
I sleep, I sit, I walk,
And I am happy.

6
Struggling or at rest,
Nothing is won or lost.
I have forsaken the joy of winning
And the sorrow of losing.
And I am happy.

7

For pleasures come and go.
How often I have watched their inconstancy!

But I have forsaken good and bad,
And now I am happy.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 13
Happiness
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

OF MYSELF I AM NOTHING

I am the blank screen
On which universes appear and disappear
I am the nothing-ness
From which ‘All That Is’ seems to BE
And yet I AM

The identities that once seduced me
Have died
And now dance naked before my
Awareness
Unable to entice me to wear their endless costumes

i AM beyond even the concept of Freedom
Unaware of its meaning
As the world of opposites
Has faded
In this Emptiness
I AM Eternity.

John McIntosh
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/of-myself-i-am-nothing

~~~ It is being dead to self that is the recognition of God.
Inayat Khan

Love accomplishes its work when it spreads its wings
and veils man's self from his own eyes.
That is the time when love is fulfilled,
and so it is in the life of the holy ones
who have not only loved God by professing or showing it,
but who have loved God to the extent
that they forgot themselves.

Excerpt from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_2_22.htm

https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date_no_photo.php

Bowl of Saki for April 7, 2019

Under whatever name and form one may worship the Absolute Reality,
it is only a means for realizing It without name and form.
That alone is true realization,
wherein one knows oneself in relation to that Reality,
attains peace and realizes one’s identity with it.
~Śrī Ramana Maharshi

Health is not just being disease-free.
Health is when every cell in your body
is bouncing with life.
Sadhguru

See Read More Below
a Re-Reminder from this morning
Additional Afternoon Photos

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A DROWNING DEATH UNFETTERED FREEDOM April 6, 2019 "Grasping nothing, spurning nothing."

4/6/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 12
Fulfillment

A DROWNING DEATH
OF ALL SUPERFLUITY DUE TO ORIGINAL SILENCE
<
SUCH ASPHYXIATION
REMOVES VEILS OF CHOKING DECEIT
∞
COCKROACHES SHUN LIGHT & DROWN IN LIVING WATERS
<
CLARITY & UNFETTERED FREEDOM
ew
5:34 AM-4/6/19

RE-REMINDER!
OTHER WAYS TO KNOW ‘COCKROACH’:
https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/spirit-totem-power-animal-meanings/insects/cockroach-symbolism-meaning/

From a dream psychology perspective, the dead cockroach is a symbol of cleansing your mind
https://www.auntyflo.com/dream-dictionary/roach-cockroach

12
Fulfillment

1
First I gave up action,
Then idle words,
And lastly thought itself.
Now I am here.

2
Ridding my mind of distraction,
single-pointed,
I shut out sound and all the senses,
And I am here.

3
Meditation is needed
Only when the mind is distracted
By false imagining.

Knowing this,
I am here.

4
Without joy or sorrow,
Grasping nothing, spurning nothing,
O Master,
I am here.

5
What do I care
If I observe or neglect
The four stages of life?

Meditation,
Controlling the mind,
These are mere distractions!

Now I am here.

6
Doing, or not doing,
Both come from not knowing.

Knowing this fully,
I am here.

7
Thinking
Of what is beyond thinking
Is still thinking.

I gave up thinking,
And I am here.

8
Whoever fulfills this
Fulfills his own nature
And is indeed fulfilled.

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 12

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

You are something that the whole universe is doing,
in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
...

We do not “come into” this world;
we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.”

Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature,
a unique action of the total universe.
This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals.
Even those who know it to be true in theory
do not sense or feel it,
but continue to be aware of themselves
as isolated “egos”
inside bags of skin.

You didn’t come into this world.
You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.
You are not a stranger here.
—Alan Watts
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, excerpt
.
know-the-self

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/doership.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29.

“Hold on to this knowingness ‘I am’ without words
and every secret of your existence
will be revealed to you.”
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
know-the-self

View from back porch...veiling entrance/clothesline!

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ORGASMIC DEATH "Clinging to nothing" "...grieve for nothing." "You become still." April 5, 2019

4/5/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 11

BEING THE GREAT ORGASMIC DEATH ONCE AND FOR ALL
BLESSEDLY ASSURES ORIGINAL TRUTH OF BEING
<
CREATOR’S FORMLESSNESS IN FORM ORCHESTRATING
∞=∞
THE STILLPOINT SOULUTION BEYOND ALL BELIEF
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4:01 AM-4/5/19

WITHOUT EGOIC DIRECTIVES
TRUTH OF BEING ORGASMIC CREATION
ARISES/RETURNS TO ORIGINAL STILLPOINT WITHIN
SOMETIMES NAMED "DEATH"
dmm/ew
5:10 AM - 4/5/19

See OceanSpeak Categories in right-hand column on this page for
Baubo
OSHO ORGASMIC CREATION
Googled for ORGASMIC DEATH
and this one! just Found us this morning:
https://www.medicaldaily.com/big-o-10-facts-about-orgasms-will-blow-your-mind-305460
above link includes a 17 min EXCELLENT Ted talk at the end

Chapter 11
Stillness

1
All things arise,
Suffer change,
And pass away.

This is their nature.

When you know this,
Nothing perturbs you,
Nothing hurts you.

You become still.

It is easy.

2
God made all things.
There is only God.

When you know this,
Desire melts away.

Clinging to nothing,
You become still.

3
Sooner or later,
Fortune or misfortune
May befall you.

When you know this,
You desire nothing,
You grieve for nothing.

Subduing the senses,
You are happy.

4
Whatever you do
Brings joy or sorrow,
Life or death.

When you know this,
You may act freely,
Without attachment.

For what is there to accomplish?

5
All sorrow comes from fear.
From nothing else.

When you know this,
You become free of it,
And desire melts away.

You become happy
And still.

6
"I am not the body,
Nor is the body mine.
I am awareness itself."

When you know this,
You have no thought
For what you have done
Or left undone.

You become one,
Perfect and indivisible.

7
"I am in all things,
From Brahma to a blade of grass."

When you know this,
You have no thought
For success or failure
Or the mind's inconstancy.

You are pure.
You are still.

8
The world with all its wonders
Is nothing.

When you know this,
Desire melts away.

For you are awareness itself.

When you know in your heart
That there is nothing,
You are still.

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 11
Stillness

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

Friday, April 5, 2019
Life is transmitted and perpetuated by the sexual organs.
You must study the science and wisdom
that goes into creating these organs,
and respect them.

However, they are often the organs which are the least respected:
puritans consider them with disgust,
the debauched abuse them,
comedians and rude people joke about them,
and most men and women see them simply
as a source of enjoyment.

Initiatic Science tells us that the energy
that manifests through the genitals descends from the heavenly regions.

And because this energy descends from the heavenly regions,
humans would do well to think about
how they use their organs that enable this energy to manifest.

They should even dedicate them to the Divine,
so that, instead of allowing this energy to simply
pass through them and go to waste,
this cosmic energy of love
may rise up and vivify all the cells in their body,
including their brain.

If they are content with feeling this energy
like a great tension which they are eager to release,
they deprive themselves of all the joy love could bring them,
and of all the knowledge and power too.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/sexual-energy-when-controlled-it-vivifies-the-cells-in-your-body-including-your-brain_2019-04-05

SEARCH RESULTS HERE
(via Omraam)
FOR MORE RE:
SEXUAL ORGANS
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/search?q=sexual+organs&d=thoughts&presentation=thought

Repeating a Morning Whisper here:

WITHOUT EGOIC DIRECTIVES
TRUTH OF BEING ORGASMIC CREATION
ARISES/RETURNS TO ORIGINAL STILLPOINT WITHIN
SOMETIMES NAMED "DEATH"
dmm/ew
5:10 AM - 4/5/19

See these two Categories in right-hand column on this OceanSpeak page for
Baubo
&
OSHO ORGASMIC CREATION

Googled for ORGASMIC DEATH
and this one below!!!!!!! just Found this morning:
Well Worth The Viewing/Listening!!!!
https://www.medicaldaily.com/big-o-10-facts-about-orgasms-will-blow-your-mind-305460
above link includes a 17 min Ted talk at the end

Because it is death-like when the body loses boundaries,
when the body becomes like a vaporous thing,
when the body evaporates substantially
and only energy is left,
a very subtle rhythm,
but you find yourself as if you are not.

Only in deep love can one move into it.
Love is like death: you die as far as your material image is concerned,
you die as far as you think you are a body,
you die as a body and you evolve as energy,
vital energy.

***
This vibration of two as one is orgasm.

When the same thing happens,
not with another person,
but with the whole existence,
then it is Mahamudra,
then it is the great orgasm.
OSHO

#55.SEX
The Circle of Mahamudra

OSHO
TRANSFORMATION
TAROT

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BE SO NOW ... BEYOND THE FRAY "Hold on to nothing." "I grow silent" April 4, 2019

4/4/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 10

“SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW”*
<
HELD IN TRUTH OF BEING
BEYOND THE FRAY
=
ORIGIN’S ORIGINAL SILENCE SUFFICETH
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6:48 AM-4/4/19

* SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW
(.. Googled for this phrase that Arose from Depths...
not even knowing these are Biblical..Christ words…)

“ So what is Christ saying
about how we meet the challenges
of our physical needs?
To
trust our ancient wisdom
not the cravings of our body
and that our life really comes
from the outpouring
that
touches us of the foundation of existence.”
http://christswords.com/content/christs-first-words

Chapter 10
Desire

1
Striving and craving,
For pleasure or prosperity,
These are your enemies,
Springing up to destroy you
From the presumptions of virtue.

Let them all go.
Hold on to nothing.

2
Every good fortune,
Wives, friends, houses, lands,
All these gifts and riches. . .

They are a dream,
A juggling act,
A traveling show!

A few days, and they are gone.

3
Consider.
Wherever there is desire,
There is the world.

With resolute dispassion
Free yourself from desire,
And find happiness.

4
Desire binds you,
Nothing else.
Destroy it, and you are free.

Turn from the world.
Fulfill yourself,
And find lasting happiness.

5
You are one.
You are pure awareness.

The world is not real.
It is cold and lifeless.

Nor is ignorance real.
So what can you wish to know?

6
Life after life you indulged In different forms,
Different pleasures,
Sons and kingdoms and wives.

Only to lose them all. . .

7
Enough of the pursuit of pleasure,
Enough of wealth and righteous deeds!

In the dark forest of the world
What peace of mind can they bring you?
How you have toiled,

8
How you have toiled,
Life after life,
Pressing into painful labor
Your body and your mind and your words.

It is time to stop.

Now!

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 10

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

Too rainy for beach this afternoon....
Below photos are a few favorites from Archives

I grow silent
dear soul-
you speak.
~Rumi
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/04/29303/

July 7, 2015

Self, experienced in the egoless state,
is the supreme Reality.
***
My relative absence is my absolute presence.
The moment of death
will be the moment of highest ecstasy,
the last sensorial perception
of the psychosomatic apparatus.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jesels
April 4

July 5, 2015

AH!
4:42 PM 4/4/19
Just returned from SUNNY AFTERNOON BEACH
Obviously the rain has stopped....

3:59 PM--4/4/19

More photos from this afternoon at end of
Read More Segment Below

See Read More Below
Chapter 10 - ASHTAVAKRA
Additional Photos

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CONDUIT OF CREATION "Set yourself free." April 3, 2019

4/3/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 9

ALL MATERIAL-MAN DESTRUCTION
NEGATIVITY & LIES MUTUALLY SELF-DESTRUCT
IF NOT ABSORBED AND/OR TRANSMUTED BY LIGHT ONES
<
ORIGINAL ONES’ IMPERSONAL
EVERSHINING TRANSPARENCY REMAINING INTACT…
…THE CONDUIT OF CREATION FOREVER IN A STATE OF
UNTAINTED, UNSHADOWED OVERFLOW
ew
3:15 AM-4/3/19

Chapter 9
Dispassion

1
Seeing to this,
Neglecting that,
Setting one thing against another. . .

Who is free of such cares?
When will they ever end?

Consider.
Without passion,
With dispassion,
Let go.

2
My child,
Rare is he, and blessed,
Who observes the ways of men
And gives up the desire
For pleasure and knowledge,
For life itself.

3
Nothing lasts.
Nothing is real.

It is all suffering,
Threefold affliction!
It is all beneath contempt.

Know this.
Give it up.
Be still.

4
When will men ever stop
Setting one thing against another?

Let go of all contraries.
Whatever comes, be happy
And so fulfill yourself.

5
Masters, saints, seekers:
They all say different things.

Whoever knows this,
With dispassion becomes quiet.

6
The true master considers well.
With dispassion
He sees all things are the same.
He comes to understand
The nature of things,
The essence of awareness.

He will not be born again.

7
In the shifting elements
See only their pure form.

Rest in your own nature.
Set yourself free.

8
The world is just a set of false impressions.
Give them up.

Give up the illusion.
Give up the world.

And live freely.

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 9

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

MID-MORNING

A VISIT TO THE LOCAL ARTISTS'--FARMERS' MARKET
am with Lena Proudlock
Creator of this wonderful Marketplace
and
Hosted by Valentine's Beach Resort
See this link for wonderful photos of the Resort
https://www.valentinesresort.com/

Lena's Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/harbourislandlife/?hl=en
has many more photos of Market and More re: Harbour Island

AFTERNOON

The sage is indifferent.
He does not hanker after more pleasure,
nor does he refuse whatever may come to him by way of experience.
There is no volition, either positive or negative,
because there is no separate entity to choose,
want or strive for anything.

Man, unaware of the seamless unity of all things,
pulls in one direction and in turn finds himself
pulled helplessly in the opposite direction.

He considers himself superior to his environment
and yet is ignorant even of the origin of his own thoughts.
He does not truly know whether any action of his
is really of his own volition or predetermined.

He thinks he can shape his own destiny
and yet is piteously anxious about his future.
He does not realize that his confusion lies within,
in the knotted, convoluted tangle of his own conceptualization,
and not in outside conditions.
March 29
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

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Additional Photos

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THERE IS NO OTHER "... a grace approaching..." 4/2/19 "...the completion of our birth." "...naked as a wheat grain.."

4/2/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 8
The Mind

“FLIGHT OR FIGHT” DISAPPEARS
<
EFFORTLESS EASE BEYOND DESCRIPTION
THE ALREADY-DEAD LIFE LIVING
THE ALWAYS ALIVE LIFE DYING
TELLS THE STORY
∞
ALONE WITH THE ALONE…
…THERE IS NO ‘OTHER’
ew
2:53 AM-4/2/19

8
The Mind

1
The mind desires this,
And grieves for that.
It embraces one thing,
And spurns another.

Now it feels anger,
Now happiness.

In this way you are bound.

2
But when the mind desires nothing
And grieves for nothing,
When it is without joy or anger
And, grasping nothing,
Turns nothing away. . .

Then you are free.

3
When the mind is attracted
To anything it senses,
You are bound.
When there is no attraction,
You are free.

4
Where there is no I
You are free.
Where there is I,
You are bound.

Consider this.

It is easy.

Embrace nothing,
Turn nothing away.

http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

ABOVE WORDINGS:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 8

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
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AFTERNOON

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 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.

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

And this is what we sing about.

Stephen Levine
http://www.beingsilentlydrawn.com/2019/02/millennium-blessing-this.html

Reminding others of the enormity of their own
Great Nature is the highest service one can offer another.
Kyoto Zen Master

First we serve, then we become service.
It is alot like prayer; first you pray,
but eventually your life becomes the prayer.
First you sing, then you become the song.
Gandhi said,
'My life is my message."

Stephen Levine
http://www.beingsilentlydrawn.com/2016/01/being-song.html

When the path ignites a soul,
there's no remaining in place.
The foot touches ground,
but not for long.

The way where love tells its secret
stays always in motion,
and there is no you there, and no reason.

The rider urges his horse to gallop,
and so doing, throws himself
under the flying hooves.
In love-unity there's no old or new.
Everything is nothing.
God alone is.

For lovers the phenomena-veil is very transparent,
and the delicate tracings on it cannot
be explained with language.
Clouds burn off as the sun rises,
and the love-world floods with light.
But cloud-water can be obscuring,
as well as useful.
There is an affection that covers the glory,
rather than dissolving into it.

It's a subtle difference,
like the change in Persian
from the word "friendship"
to the word "work."
That happens with just a dot
above or below the third letter.

There is a seeing of the beauty
of union that doesn't actively work
for the inner conversation.
Your hand and feet must move,
as a stream streams, working
as its Self, to get to the ocean.

Then there's no more mention
of the search.
Being famous, or being a disgrace,
who's ahead or behind, these considerations
are rocks and clogged places
that slow you.

Be as naked as a wheat grain
out of its husk and sleek as Adam.
Don't ask for anything other
than the presence.

Don't speak of a "you"
apart from That.
A full container cannot be more full.
Be whole, and nothing.

—Hakim Sanai (1044? - 1150?)
Coleman Barks version
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/streaming.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

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Chapter 8
The Mind
from
Asktavakra Gita

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ORIGIN’S OUROBOROS "...Forever still." "...ultimate refuge..." "..a special kind of grace.." April 1, 2019

4/1/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 7

ORIGIN’S OUROBOROS
<
SOULULTION-INHALE-SOULUTION-EXHALE
<
DISSOLVES ALL THAT IS UNREAL
<
BOUNDLESS FORMLESS BEING REMAINS
BEYOND ANY SELF & MAN-MADE GOD AWARENESS* **
ew
4:34 AM-4/1/19

*Douglas Harding
* http://www.headless.org/

**Bernadette Roberts
**"Where there is no personal self, there is no personal God.”
**https://www.innerexplorations.com/ewtext/br.htm

7
The Boundless Ocean

1
I am the boundless ocean.

This way and that,
The wind, blowing where it will,
Drives the ship of the world.

But I am not shaken.

2
I am the unbounded deep
In whom the waves of all the worlds
Naturally rise and fall.

But I do not rise or fall.

3
I am the infinite deep
In whom all the worlds
Appear to rise.

Beyond all form,
Forever still.

Even so am I.

4
I am not in the world.
The world is not in me.

I am pure.
I am unbounded.

Free from attachment,
Free from desire,
Still.

Even so am I.

5
O how wonderful!

I am awareness itself,
No less.

The world is a magic show!

But in me
There is nothing to embrace,
And nothing to turn away.

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 7

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AFTERNOON

Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it
is the essence of mindfulness practice.
This knowing is a non-conceptual knowing,
or a bigger than conceptual knowing.
It is awareness itself.

It is a capacity you already have.
All it involves is paying attention
to your experience from moment to moment.

This leads directly to new ways
of seeing and being in your life
because the present moment,
whenever it is recognized and honored,
reveals a very special,
indeed magical power:
it is the only time that any of us ever has.

The present is the only time that we have to know anything.
It is the only time we have to perceive,
to learn,
to act,
to change,
to heal,
to love.

That is why we value moment-to-moment awareness so highly.
It makes our experiences more vivid
and
our lives more real.
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/01/29278/

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan
The two important things in life are the praise of God and the pursuit of God.
The praise of God is important, and it gives bliss in life,
but it is not the real attainment.
The all-important work in life is the attainment of God.
God cannot be explained.
Any attempt to do this always ends in failure.
The knowledge of Him can only be attained in the silence and in solitude,
and how to do this cannot be explained better
than in the words of the Urdu poet Zahir,
'He who attaineth best the peace of God,
his very self must lose.'

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/V/V_38.htm

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BLESSED RELIEF "...boundless space." "Nothing to dissolve." "...impregnate the matter..." March 31, 2019

3/31/2019

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*NOT ‘WHAT?’
RATHER THE ETERNAL NOW “IS”….
<
THE CESSATION OF ALL SEEKING/QUESTIONING
<
THE VAST SILENCE “IS”
ELIMINATING ANY ABILITY TO PRETEND OTHERWISE
<
BLESSED RELIEF*
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4:18 AM-3/31/19
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Knowledge
Chapter 6

1
I am boundless space.
The world is a clay pot.

This is the truth.

There is nothing to accept,
Nothing to reject,
Nothing to dissolve.

2
I am the ocean.
All the worlds are like waves.

This is the truth.

Nothing to hold on to,
Nothing to let go of,
Nothing to dissolve.

3
I am the mother-of-pearl.
The world is a vein of silver,
An illusion!

This is the truth.

Nothing to grasp,
Nothing to spurn,
Nothing to dissolve.

4
I am in all beings.
All beings are in me.

This is the whole truth.

Nothing to embrace,
Nothing to relinquish,
Nothing to dissolve.

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Sunday, March 31, 2019
In the morning we go to contemplate the sun rising.
In doing so, we eat it and drink it,
and its living light and warmth spread to all the cells in our body enlightening them, strengthening them, purifying them and vivifying them.

Every day, you are before the sun which projects particles of light into space.
By looking at it, imagine that you free yourselves of your body's impurities
to replace them with the particles of light the sun sends you.
With all your heart, with all your soul,
take these divine particles and place them within you.

And so, little by little, thanks to the sun,
you will impregnate the matter
of your being with spiritual vibrations
and become more and more alive.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/sunrise-at-the-the-cells-of-our-body-are-permeated-with-the-sun-s-life-and-light_2019-03-31
ON ABOVE LINK,
THERE IS ABILITY TO SEARCH FOR MORE RE: SUN
AND MANY OTHER SUBJECTS

Let your heart be like the sky,
that transparent, that close.
Touch everything. Be so quiet
against each leaf, each face.
Where lovers move, be there.
Where bullets strike, be there.
Around each voice, be that air.
Now you know how God feels.

Pir Elias Amidon

AFTERNOON

Journey Out of Time -
Ram Dass, Rupert Spira, Elias Amidon

Time is a box formed by thoughts of the past and future.
When you're not dwelling in the past or anticipating the future,
but are just here - you're outside of time.

Dwelling in the moment is dwelling in Eternal Presence.
From within here... you are not being in time.
You [just] Be, and time goes by, as if you were
standing on a bridge, watching it all go by.

Ours is a journey toward simplicity, toward quietness,
toward a kind of joy that is not in time.
In this journey out of time,
we are leaving behind every model we have had
of who we thought we were.

This journey involves a transformation of our being.
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 soul, I live in the moment, in each rich and
precious moment, and I am filled with contentment.

Ram Dass
from Polishing the Mirror:
How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

The Eternal Now,
when seen through the mind,
appears as time.

The Now is our Self.
We are not present in the Now.
We are the Now.

The Now is not a container that contains our Self
along with everything else.
It is our Self, Eternal Presence...

Rupert Spira

You cannot "shop" for truth.
Truth cannot be seen.
What is necessary is a different seeing,
whole seeing,
seeing from within,
from the Source of all seeing.
*****
No one is born and no one dies.
This dream-world of phenomena
is merely something to be witnessed in passing.
March 31
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

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PRISTINE FORMLESS ABUNDANCE "Tear off the mask." "...cry of the Soul." "The Silence is palpable." March 30, 2019

3/30/2019

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7:05 AM View from Garden Lot...

PRISTINE FORMLESS ABUNDANCE
IN/OF/AS IMMATERIAL REALMS
OVERFLOWS FREELY
THRU TRANSPARENT
ORIGINAL ONES
ew
5:41 AM-3/30/19

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.
—Rumi

As a child I felt myself to be alone,
and I am still,
because I know things
and must hint at things
which others apparently know nothing of,
and for the most part
do not want to know.

–Carl Gustav Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, excerpt

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Dissolving
Chapter 5

1
You are pure.
Nothing touches you.
What is there to renounce?
Let it all go,
The body and the mind.
Let yourself dissolve.

2
Like bubbles in the sea,
All the worlds arise in you.
Know you are the Self.
Know you are one.
Let yourself dissolve.

3
You see the world.
But like the snake in the rope,
It is not really there.
You are pure.
Let yourself dissolve.

4
You are one and the same
In joy and sorrow,
Hope and despair,
Life and death.

You are already fulfilled.

Let yourself dissolve.

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AFTERNOON

There is a Living Silence that hears the cry of the Soul.

Abandon surface impressions and patterns.
Abandon what has become comfortable,
and embrace a sacred depth of being
that asks us to enter that which is wholly unknown
and that which fosters genuine metanoia.

This Holy Silence creates an inner clearing
that makes room for new life,
including
living, breathing Silence.
In this dimension
where time has become space,
life is enlivened.

We are fortunate to have night's solace.
In the silence that is created by the dark of night...
....that melancholy time,
when the stars remind us of the Silence of "God" -
here we can lean into the unknown,
setting aside life's demands and tasks,
and the oppressive weight
of our carefully constructed version
of who we think we are.

We can remember
how to see in the dark...
with our ears... perceiving the Silence
in its holy echoing and resonance,
its calling forth a knowing
that is from the Soul.

The Silence sends us on a different pilgrimage.
It guards the heart's fire and teaches us
to speak from within with a language
that is imbued with the Sacred.
Words thus nurtured in this Holy Silence
fly forth to lead us back
to the Silence from which we were born...

As we enter the mystery of Silence,
its presence resonates throughout the fibers of our flesh
to the soul inwardly and to the cosmos outwardly.
The inward silence of solitude
meets up with the Great Silence of Cosmic Wisdom.
When we do not cultivate this,
we lose access to the presence of the Silence.
Without silence we are lost
and cannot get still enough
to find
our way back.

Silence bears the wholeness we keep looking for
while we do not know exactly what we are looking for.
It is around us and within us.
It goes to the deepest depths of the Soul
and to the outermost reaches of the cosmos
and continuously unites the two
at the centering place of our Heart.
Here everything comes alive again
as if for the first time.
We may be shocked to notice
we had not even realized we had lost ourselves.
And feel a new attunement to Spirit as a directly felt reality.
The Silence is palpable.

In Silence everything displays its depth.
We are part of the depth of everything around us.
We see that separation between
ourselves and the world is an illusion.
We and the world
each mirror the other
within the depths of the Soul.

Silence is not merely the void
from which things spring up,
it is a living presence.
The deeper we enter into Silence
the more we become aware
that this living presence is primary.

Robert Sardello
From: Silence - The Mystery of Wholeness
from the Introduction and Chapter 1

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/03/silence-mystery-of-wholeness-sardello.html

Rumi - Silence is the guide

The story admits of being told up to this point,
But what follows is hidden, and inexpressible in words.
If you should speak and try a hundred ways to express it,
'Tis useless; the mystery becomes no clearer,
You can ride on saddle and horse to the sea-coast,
But then you must use a horse of wood (i.e. a boat).
A horse of wood is useless on dry land,
It is the special vehicle of voyagers by sea.
Silence is this horse of wood,
Silence is the guide and support of men at sea.

The Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi

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FOOTLESS & PATHLESS "... rhythm of sadness..." "...One without two,..." MILESTONE March 29, 2019

3/29/2019

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FOOTLESS & PATHLESS
STEPPING WITHOUT FEET*
<
ORIGIN’S
AKASHA TAO CORE AWARENESS
PREVAILS
ew
6:25 AM-3/29/19

*This is love:
to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi

Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom

Chapter 4
The True Seeker

1
The wise man knows the Self,
And he plays the game of life.
But the fool lives in the world
Like a beast of burden.

2
The true seeker feels no elation
Even in that exalted state
Which Indra and all the gods
Unhappily long for.

3
He understands the nature of things.
His heart is not smudged
By right or wrong,
As the sky is not smudged by smoke.

4
He is pure of heart,
He knows the whole world is only the Self.
So who can stop him
From doing as he wishes?

5
Of the four kinds of being,
From Brahma to a blade of grass,
Only the wise man is strong enough
To give up desire and aversion.

6
How rare he is!
Knowing he is the Self,
He acts accordingly
And is never fearful.
For he knows he is the Self,
One without two,
The Lord of all creation.

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A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
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Rhythm of Sadness...

A deep rhythm of sadness
arises from within...
unexpectedly,
spontaneously,
inexplicably.

It rises even though
I "know"
that before thought and feeling
"I" am Eternal Beingness.

It will not be held back
by the sand bags of knowledge,
from the caverns of the mind...

It matters not to
"The Eternal"
that sadness and grief
arise in the mechanism called
"me",
like the tides of the ocean,
rising and falling
in a darkened harbor;
felt not seen...

It is all just held in Its Awareness...

Sadness
is of no consequence
to "The Eternal..."
It just is - sadness
rising and falling,
breathing
through
me

I follow the rhythm of sadness
as it rises through the gut
into the Heart
where it meets
The Rhythm
of
"The Eternal"
and
dissolves
~
~
~
into
rivulets
of energy;
just energy,
decreasing in
intensity.

Only to rise again
another day, or
on the next tide...

Mystic Meandering
Sept. 20, 2015

Sadness is not something you need to fix,
cure, or transform. It need not be healed but held.
You need not shift sadness into some "higher" state or
apply teachings so that it will yield into something else.
For it is complete and pure on its own.

With the fire of awareness and the ally of your breath,
touch your heart...
Go on a journey into the core of the feeling, the sensation,
images and the raw, shaky life that is longing to be held.
And listen.

It is by way of this journey that sadness will be revealed to
be what it is, a bridge into the the universal heart, a messenger
of power, mercy, and fierce compassion...
Matt Licata

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See this link for More
Re: Ways of Avoiding Emptiness OR Real Silence
https://thedawnwithin.com/2019/03/29/the-flame-of-sorrow/

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CESSATION OF EXPLANATIONS "...gazing beyond..." "...energies, which are immortal." March 28, 2019

3/28/2019

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BEING FLOWED IN/OF/AS THE ETERNAL NOW
WITHOUT WORDS OR THOUGHTS…
…CESSATION OF EXPLANATIONS
∞
AN ORIGINAL-SILENCE LIFE
TELLS THE STORY
WITHOUT A PERSONAL “I”
<
TRANSPARENCY’S RELIEF
ew
4:55 AM-3/28/19

sunrise

The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally
that the mind's muddy river,
this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash,
cannot be dammed,
and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort
that might lead to madness.

Instead you must allow the muddy river
to flow unheeded in the dim channels of consciousness;
you raise your sights;
you look along it, mildly,
acknowledging its presence without interest
and gazing beyond it into the realm of the real
where subjects and objects act and rest purely, without utterance.
–Annie Dillard
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(the above quote read
just moments after the above Morning Whisper Emerged)

AFTERNOON

The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 3

Chapter 3
Wisdom

1
You know the Self,
By nature one
Without end.
You know the Self,
And you are serene.
How can you still desire riches?

2
When from ignorance
You see silver in mother-of-pearl,
Greed arises.
From ignorance of the Self
Desire arises
For the world where the senses whirl.

3
Knowing yourself as
That In which the worlds rise and fall
Like waves in the ocean,
Why do you run about so wretchedly?

4
For have you not heard?
You are pure awareness,
And your beauty is infinite!
So why let lust mislead you?

5
The man who is wise
Knows himself in all things
And all things in himself.
Yet how strange!
He still says,
"This is mine."

6
Determined to be free,
He abides in the oneness
Beyond all things.
Yet how strange!
Indulging in passion, he weakens,
And lust overwhelms him.

7
Feeble with age,
Still he is filled with desire,
When without doubt he knows
That lust is the enemy of awareness.
Indeed how strange!

8
He longs to be free . . .
He has no care for this world
Or the next,
And he knows what is passing
Or forever.
And yet how strange!
He is still afraid of freedom.

9
But he who is truly wise
Always sees the absolute Self.
Celebrated, he is not delighted.
Spurned, he is not angry.

10
Pure of heart,
He watches his own actions
As if they were another's.
How can praise or blame disturb him?

11
With clear and steady insight
He sees this world is a mirage,
And he no longer wonders about it.
How can he fear the approach of death?

12
Pure of heart,
He desires nothing,
Even in despair.
He is content In the knowledge of the Self.
With whom may I compare him?

13
With clear and steady insight
He knows that whatever he sees
Is by its very nature nothing.
How can he prefer one thing to another?

14
He is beyond all duality,
Free from desire,
He has driven from his mind
All longing for the world.
Come what may,
Joy or sorrow,
Nothing moves him.

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A Translation of the
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... So come I to live in thoughts, and act with
energies, which are immortal.
Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said,
that "its beauty is immense," man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh,
and be less astonished at particular wonders;
he will learn that there is no profane history;
that all history is sacred;
that the universe is represented in an atom,
in a moment of time.

He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches,
but he will live with a divine unity.
He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life,
and be content with all places and with any service he can render.
He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency
of that trust which carries God with it,
and so
hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841
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