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"The Mystical Alchemy of Love Itself" Sunrise/Afternoon July 15, 2015

7/15/2015

WOMB BREATH RETURNS ALL
TO ORIGINAL VAST CORE STILLNESS
<
OVERFLOWING TRANSPARENCY
<
ABSOLUTE’S PRIMAL REPOSE
PRIMORDIAL REMEMBRANCE
THE DANCE IS ETERNAL
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5:07 AM - 7/15/15

Although Lao Tse lived in the material world, He did not look at it, but at the Depths.
He looked from the world of matter — into that Depth,
from which all the material was manifested:
into the world of the Divine Light and Great Transparent Calm.
http://parables-of-masters-en.blogspot.com/

(Read AFTER ew "Womb Breath" Whisper above Happened)

When The Beloved and I were in the Dance of Flirtation,
Before Her Embrace, and Lingering Perfume...

Even then I found, to my Great Delight,
That I could do no wrong,

In the stance I held in Loving Relationship,
Whatever that stance might be.

And now that She is the Gardener of my Soul,
Having taken up Residence in the Heart...

I find, still, to my Great Delight,
That I can do no wrong.

For She neither increases, nor diminishes,
Whichever stance I might take in Loving Her,

Each Way proving Beautiful and Fruitful,
However varied in their natures.

Standing here, I am Her Lover,
And She, my Beloved.

Standing here, I am Her Child,
And She, my Loving Mother.

Standing here, I am Her Friend,
And She, my Wise Counsel.

Standing here, I Vanish,
Into Her… as Her…

And standing here…
Both She and I Disappear,

Leaving only that which Shines,
Before ever “we” existed.

And although some decry the possibility,
I find it to be so, again and again...

That in whatever state I find myself,
Deemed "good" or "bad" by the scriptures...

She is there.

What Love, what Grace is this,
Unconditional, Unimaginable.

Oh, wearying debaters of “truth”,
Let all be Free to Celebrate their Love,

All stances being "true", in their way,
All… merely… a Dance of Apparitions.

The Illumination of the Heart,
Is not born of the Way in which we Love...

But through the Mystical Alchemy,
Of Love, Itself.

Chuck Surface

In the Garden of The Beloved
July 10 at 10:41am · Edited ·
www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved

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OCD = OC∞Déjà vu ∞ OriginalCore Calm ∞ Déjà vu ∞ Sunrise/Afternoon July 14, 2015

7/14/2015

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∞

ONLY THE ETERNAL MOMENT
THAT HAS NO TIME
THOUGHTS OR WORDS…

….YET CONTAINS ALL
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4:19 AM - 7/14/15

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OCD

OC∞Déjà vu

OriginalCore Calm < ∞ Déjà vu ∞
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experienced at sunrise - 7/14/15

“He doesn't hear but sees the Voice.”
Stephen Mitchell
The Book of Job

“The river rises, flows over its banks
and carries us all away, like mayflies
floating downstream: they stare at the sun,
then all at once there is nothing.”
Stephen Mitchell
The Epic of Gilgamesh

From joy all beings have come.
In joy all beings are sustained.
To joy all beings return.

This is the highest teaching.
This is the highest teaching.

—The Upanishads
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-highest-teaching.html

You can Pause and Infuse with all afternoon photos in order experienced here:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/harbour-island-slideshows/ocd-ocdeja-vu-originalcore-calm-deja-vu-all-photos-in-order-experienced-afternoon-july-14-2015

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Origin's Joy Usurps Imagination Sunrise/Afternoon July 13, 2015

7/13/2015

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BEYOND MENTAL CONCEPTS & PREFERENCES
BEYOND THINKING AND MENTATIONS
........BEYOND ALL IMAGINATION!........

.… IS ONLY ORIGIN’S JOY ….

THAT WHICH CAN ONLY BE IMPRINTED/TRANSMITTED
VIA SOULS
BEYOND SHARING/RECEIVING
IT SIMPLY
IS
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5:26 AM - 7/13/15

∞

This present moment is the eternal moment.
There is no eternity but NOW,
before time ever was.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
July 6

Only what is spontaneous can be correct
because it is free of separation
and thus of ego.
In living truly and freely there is no thought
and therefore no separation between self and other.
And spontaneous thought-free living
can only come out of
spontaneous Understanding.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
July 12

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WORDLESS TRANSMISSIONS - THOUGHTLESS IMPRINTS Sunrise/Afternoon July 12, 2015

7/12/2015

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∞
WORDLESS TRANSMISSIONS
THOUGHTLESS IMPRINTS
IN/OF/AS SOUL
SUFFICETH FOR ALL COMMUNICATION
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4:17 AM - 7/12/15
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No longer a need for words, labels, thinking, figuring…Really never has been.
A return to Pure Child Beingness
Weights, Waits, QuickSand and Krazy Glue Disappear from Consciousness.

The Older Than God POOF

“Joy will take you where you want to go”
B. McGill

∞

Brandy & Logan 7/11/15

They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual?
They wonder about Solomon and all his wives.

In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul
and you are that.

But we have ways within each other
that will never be said by anyone.
–Rumi

If you want to know who someone is,
what is flowing through or not flowing,
stay in a listening posture.

Close your eyes inside your companion’s shadow.
–Rumi

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20. "Stop accepting......" = POOF!!! Sunrise/Afternoon July 10, 2015

7/10/2015

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This is #20 (Tao #47) (Final One) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

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NO HUMAN SOUNDS
PREDAWN
SOFT OCEAN LULLS
<
REMIND OF
“OLDER THAN GOD” ORIGIN
BEFORE/DURING/AFTER FOREVER

ALL IS AS IT IS
AND CANNOT BE OTHERWISE.
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3:24 AM - 7/10/15
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Thinking is life's only variable.
Everything else was settled a long, long time ago
****
Seeing beyond the "end result,"
especially preparing for beyond the end result,
is as good as, if not better than,
simply seeing and preparing for the end result
Mike Dooley
www.tut.com

All you need is to understand is that you are the source of reality,
that you give reality instead of getting it,
that you need no support and no confirmation.

Things are as they are because you accept them as they are.
Stop accepting them and they will dissolve.

–Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/all-you-need.html

#47

You can’t talk about the ocean
with a frog who lives in a well:
he is bounded by the space he inhabits.

You can’t talk about ice
with an insect who was born in June:
he is bounded by a single season.

You can’t talk about the Tao
with a person who thinks he knows something:
he is bounded by his own belief.

The Tao is vast and fathomless.
You can understand only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries by
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

You can talk about the ocean with a frog who lives in a well,
but the conversation will be rather one-sided.

Eventually you realize that the only reason you’ve been talking
is that you love the sound of your own voice.

“Let me tell you about the ocean. It’s vast. It’s deep.”
“Huh?

“You can sail across it for days, for weeks and never come to the end.”
“Yea. Right.”

“It contains trillions of quadrillions of living creatures,
from the microscopic to the gargantuan.”
“I have a few lily pads here. Flies and mosquitoes.”

“The ocean is so deep that fish living far down generate their own light.”
“What do you mean by ‘fish’?”

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

You have traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the Dharma.
So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.

The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung
make heavy baggage.

Here! I have picked you a bunch of wildflowers.
Their meaning is the same
but they are much easier to carry.
–Xu Yun

It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly.
Learn to do everything lightly.

Yes, feel lightly
even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and
lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days,
such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.

When it comes to dying even.
Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona
putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you,
sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear
and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.

Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.

–Aldous Huxley

July 9, 2015 Sunrise

April 25, 2015 Afternoon

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19. Naturally Naked - "....leave no trace" "...land of great silence." Sunrise/Afternoon July 9, 2015

7/9/2015

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This is #19 (Tao #43) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

JUST BE NATURAL…
….NATURALLY NAKED
<
“OLDER THAN GOD”
PROVIDES THE LOOSE GARMENT DESIGN
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5:19 AM - 7/9/2015

#43

Give up wanting to be important;
let your footsteps leave no trace.

Travel alone as the Tao
to the land of the great silence.

If a man is crossing a river
and an empty boat
collides with his own boat,
he won’t get offended or angry,
however hot-tempered he may be.

But if the boat is manned,
he may flare up, shouting and cursing,
just because there’s a rower.

Realize that all boats are empty
as you cross the river of the world,
and nothing can possibly offend you.

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

COMMENTARY

When you understand how utterly alone you are,
it’s a cause for celebration.

Break out the caviar and champagne!
Le roi est mort, vivre le roi!

If everyone is your projection in the first place
--if you see not them but who you think they are--
how can you be offended?

Scene: a river.
You’re drifting along in your little boat,
happy as a minnow,
and suddenly
some jerk bangs into your boat, full force.

But when you look, it’s an empty boat.
Since there’s no offender, naturally there’s no offense.

–“You mean that the woman who broke my heart,
or my backstabbing colleague,
or the politicians who got us into this mess,
they’re all empty boats?” –

“Yes, indeed.”

This has nothing to do with taking
the right action against greed or stupidity.

But if you’re offended,
it means that you’re not paying attention.

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

Thursday, July 9, 2015
Thought for the Day
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

« The aim of spiritual life is to lead us to a higher state of consciousness
we call divine love.
For, true love, the kind that draws us closer to God,
is a state of consciousness.
It is impossible to describe it,
nor can it be explained to those who are not ready to experience it;
all we can do is try to lead them to it gradually.

Those who attain this state of consciousness
feel inwardly linked to the whole universe.
They are then like an instrument,
the cords of which vibrate in unison with all that exists.

They are inhabited by a deep sense of peace,
and above all they feel immense benevolence towards all beings.
They do not know why they feel so well-disposed towards them.
They simply sense that these feelings have entered their heart and soul,
causing them to behave with kindness and understanding,
and that they are connecting with the deep essence of creation. »
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

http://www.prosveta-usa.com/thought-for-the-day

on link above you can find an array of ways to find daily "Thought For The Day" from this man....he is one of the first i read re: the power of sunrise......long after we Knew to be with sunrise each day on island..
.....and nearly 30 years before when living in a TN woods,
also Knew to InnerSense Full Sun Light/Grace for the day ahead ..
....even without seeing actual sunrise.
dmm

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"Unhindered Minds" - Beyond Questions/Answers Sunrise/Afternoon July 8, 2015

7/8/2015

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This is #18 (Tao #56) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

(You can see all photos from today's amazing afternoon beach on this link:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/harbour-island-slideshows/unhindred-minds-afternoon-july-8-2015)

∞
PEACE THAT PRECEDES JOY
OR
JOY THAT PRECEDES PEACE?

A MENTAL DISTRACTION!

ALL
(INCLUDING MENTAL DISTRACTIONS)
IS EMERGED IN/FROM/AS
OTG
“OLDER THAN GOD”
ORIGINAL CORE
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4:15 AM - 7/8/15
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#56

The ancient Masters looked ordinary,
but their wisdom was profound.

They didn’t deviate from the truth.
The clever couldn’t persuade them,
the beautiful couldn’t seduce them,
the rich couldn’t corrupt them.

They considered life and death
to be insignificant matters.

Unhindered, their minds could soar
to the edges of the unknown,
beyond time and space, and plunge
past the beginning and the end.

They could take the most menial positions
and find contentment in their work.

Their virtue filled earth and heaven.
The more they gave to themselves,
the more they could give to others.

The more they gave to others,
the more they had for themselves.

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

COMMENTARY

You never knew when you’d bump into one of them.
You might be in a public toilet and there he was,
scrubbing the floor,
humming to himself with a little smile.

Or you’d be buying a piece of salmon at the market,
and the fat old woman behind the counter
would ask an ungraspable question
that would resonate inside you for days.

Or you’d sit down next to a beggar on the street,
one of the lost apparently,
his wrinkles caked with grime,
and when he looked into your eyes,
you’d feel penetrated to the core.

The ancient Masters had no word for compassion.
They wouldn’t have understood it,
because they didn’t harbor concepts of “self” and “other.”

The more they gave to others,
the more they had for themselves.

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

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Embodied...Ensouled....Beyond Preferences Sunrise/Afternoon July 7, 2015

7/7/2015

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This is #17 (Tao #13) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao

∞

no need,
propensity or ability for words,
camera, techno, thinking, processing, labeling

the Being is All of those and More

the Relief of this
automatically returns One to Original Joy of the Highest Octane
dmm
∞

∞

BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS
ONLY TRANSMISSIONS OF MOST ANCIENT QUALITY
AN “ISNESS”
BE STILL
BE SILENT
<
JUST
BE
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4:45 AM - 7/7/15

∞

#13

Things are the way they are
because we think they’re that way.

Good or bad,
acceptable or unacceptable,
they conform to the way we see them.

Originally, in themselves,
all things are good and acceptable.

That is why all things—a blade
of grass or a hundred-foot pine,
a leper or a legendary beauty,
a national hero or a traitor---
are equal in the Tao.

None is more important
or more valued than any others.
Their difference is their completeness.

Only the person of true vision
can recognize them as equal.

He sees past his own judgments,
doesn’t think more or less,
and accepts without even trying to.

This is called “honoring the Tao.”

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

COMMENTARY

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
This one liberating truth can be said in a hundred ways.
Each goes to the root of the matter.

What happens when we realize that the world appears according to our perception of it?
For one thing, we don’t take our judgments so seriously.
The judging I begins to unravel.

Eventually, we discover that everything exists in itself,
beyond comparison, beyond judgments,
as it did for God on the evening of the sixth day:
“Behold, it is very good.

When we look at creatures from this point of vision,
it’s easy to see that a blade of grass is as important as a pine tree,
a minnow as valued as a whale.
Size and complexity have nothing to do with it.
Evolution doesn’t mean progress.
Which is more conscious,
the butterfly or the flowers?

The Master sees that we’re all doing the best we can with what we’ve been given.
Realizing this, he doesn’t expect anything of anyone.
Thus as he honors himself,
he naturally honors the Tao.

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

Whereas awareness is the eternal potential
Consciousness is the eternal actual.

Consciousness is the surface;
Awareness is the limitless ocean.

Consciousness is the guide for the journey
Through the known and into The unknown.

In truth, they are not two, but
Aspects of a unified whole.
–Wu Hsin
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/aspects.html

The Ocean was so spectacular this afternoon, we "had" to post ALL photos,
in order experienced,
Those slideshows are here:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/harbour-island-slideshows/embodied-ensouled-beyond-preferences-july-7-12015

Below are a few samples:

The Secret

Since I am
Somebody's dream,
I have a good life.

Sometimes I go away in my sailboat on a cloud
and take a quiet little trip.

I have a secret
which I have learned how to read inside myself;
if I told it to you,
it would make you laugh.

My heart is naked
and no one can put clothes on it,
and nothing can be put on
that will not immediately fall off.

My secret is ignorant,
it doesn't sing songs,
no lie,
it has nothing to tell you.

My two eyes
are maps of the planet -
I see everything
and nothing upsets me.

Just now
I was in China
and saw there a great piece of happiness
that belonged to one man.

And I have been to the center of the earth,
where there is no suffering.

If on your loneliest nights,
I visit other planets
and the most secret stars of all,

besides being no one,
know that I am you
and everybody.

But if I go away
without giving you a name to remember me with,
how will I find
the right dream to return to?

You won't have to mark down
on your calendar that I am coming back;
don't bother to write me into your notebooks.
I will be around
when you aren't thinking about me,

without hair or a neck,
without a nose and cheeks
no reputation -
there won't be anything.

I am a bird
which God made.

–Thomas Merton
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-secret.html

Photo above from 5/3/15

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

7/6/2015

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Forgive me if I stop here…

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

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

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

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

Or… whatever.

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

The Event of Existence.

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

Within which all descriptions arise.

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

Is.

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

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

This Unfathomable Mystery.

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

I've lost all interest in Aboutism.

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

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

∞

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

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

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

∞

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

The bird flies by and forgets
(As is only right). The beast
Where he no longer is
(And is therefore no use)
Marks that he was there before
(Which is also no use).

For to remember is to betray
Nature, since the nature of yesterday
Is not nature.
What has been, is nothing.
Remembering
Is failure to see.

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

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

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

7/5/2015

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

∞

Pre-SunRise:

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

Post-SunRise:

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

∞

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

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

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

Solitary Sisyphus has a helper this morning.

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

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

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

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

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

COMMENTARY

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7/4/2015

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

∞

WHILE WAITING
BE ALL THAT YOU ARE
BUT
DO NOTHING…

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

∞

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

See Read More at end for Note re: the above

#11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COMMENTARY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speechless Words and Wordless Speech Suffice
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GODSEED
2003

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

7/3/2015

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The Second Book of The Tao

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

∞

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

THE ORIGINAL REMEMBRANCE

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4:50 AM - 7/3/15

∞

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

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

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

COMMENTARY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7/1/2015

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The Second Book of The Tao

All Sunrise Photos today from 11/26/14

∞

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

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5:49 AM - 7/1/15
∞

#24

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

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

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

Just act with integrity,
according to your true nature.

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

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

The Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The entire world
You experience is
Inside yourself.

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

–Wu Hsin

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

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11. Integrity's Dance of Co-Creation Sunrise/Afternoon June 30, 2015

6/30/2015

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The Second Book of The Tao

∞

PRIMAL REPOSE
<
ORIGINAL BEING SILENCE
<
DIRECTLY TRANSMITS TO ALL
<
DANCE OF CO-CREATION
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5:16 AM - 6/30/15

∞

Softly Pause/Gaze for shapes/forms/Transmissions from these clouds.....

#64

Integrity is our true nature;
arriving at integrity
is the work of a lifetime.

The person who has integrity
does the right thing without trying to,
understands the truth without thinking,
and naturally embodies the Tao.

Integrity is not only the fulfillment of our own being;
it is also the quality
through which all beings are fulfilled.

When we fulfill our own being,
we become truly human;
when we fulfill all being,
we arrive at true understanding.

Humanness and understanding
are inherent in our nature,
and by means of them
we unite the inner and the outer.

Thus, when we act with integrity
everything we do is right.

The Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

Integrity is the bridge to the kingdom,
the kiss that wakes the dead princess,
the fingers that spin straw into gold.

When a person has integrity, she’s genuine;
you can always trust that her
yes is a yes and her no a no.

There’s no motive behind it,
no sweet sticky lure for approval.

We love integrity.
It feels like home.

It’s solid,
there’s no acting-out in it,
no backtracking,
no second-guessing.

When you act with integrity,
everything you do is right,
because there’s no separation
between doer and done.

Besides,
you realize that you’re not doing it in the first place.
You have let go into the nameless,
and it’s not even you who have let go.
It’s not even you who have been let go of.

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

May your soul be happy, journey joyfully.

You have escaped from the city full of fear and trembling;
If the body’s image has gone, await the image-maker; if the
body is utterly ruined, become all soul.

If your face has become saffron pale through death, become a
dweller among tulip beds and Judas trees.

If the doors of repose have been barred to you, come, depart
by way of the roof and the ladder.

If you have been secluded from water and bread, like bread
become the food of the souls, and so become!

–Rumi
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/2015/06/blessing.html

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10. "Unattached to Words or to Silence" - "The Golden Eternity" Sunrise/Afternoon June 29, 2015

6/29/2015

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12/25/14

Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for three seconds,
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
which was taught
in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago
and not even at all.
—Jack Kerouac
(see full Kerouac quote at end)

#41

In the beginning, there was nothing.
From nothing arose the One.
All things return to it.

Because it is without form,
there is no way to name it.

It doesn’t exist and doesn’t
not-exist. When we call it “the Tao,”
we define nothing as a something.

The Tao is beyond words.
The more you talk about it,
the farther away from it you get.

Only when you are truly unattached
to words or to silence
can you express the truth.

The Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell

O That which Exhales me into form,
Inhales me gently Home!
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Godseed
2003
(slight edit from original below)
O One that Exhaled me into form
Inhales me gently Home!

COMMENTARY

Ah, the Tao, the Tao.
When we talk about it, the vast isn’t vast enough,
and the subtle seems ludicrously crude.
The only way to approach it is through paradox:
to step out of the way until language bites its own tail.
And a little chutzpah doesn’t hurt.

Chutzpah is usually defined as “effrontery,” but it’s more than that.
It’s effrontery with a feather in its cap,
it’s the sound of three hands clapping,
it’s a garlic bagel crashing a party of champagne flutes.
It’s not a good thing or a bad thing,
but we tend to smile or gasp when we encounter it.
Though there’s no Chinese ideogram for chutzpah,
this chapter is a perfect case study.

So: if the more we talk about the Tao, the farther away from it we get,
why would we talk about it at all?
But okay, let’s talk.

We begin with the beginning, which equals zero,
a nice round number that is the absence of numbers.
From this absence, the One arises.
Are you reeling yet?

But there’s more.
If zero transmutes into one, zero equals one.
(So much for the foundations of mathematics.)

Then, from the One, after a fraction of a nano-instant,
with a bang, the infinitely many arise.
Ultimately infinity return to the One, which equals zero.

But the One doesn’t not-exist.
It doesn’t exist either; you can’t limit it to either category of mind.
So when we say, “All things are one,”
we’re lying through our teeth.
Since reality is beyond conception,
how can we dare to talk about it?

But we do.
And there’s something endearing about the daring of that.
If nothing else, it makes us think.

Even better, it makes us not-think,
which could be the point of it all.

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

It’s all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside.
We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.
But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright
forever and forever and forever.

Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for three seconds,
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
which was taught
in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago
and not even at all.

It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity.

It is perfect.
We were never really born, we will never really die.
It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self,
other selves, many selves everywhere:
Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.

That which passes into everything is one thing.
It’s a dream already ended.
There’s nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about.

—Jack Kerouac
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-golden-eternity.html

All photos below are early evening 6/29/15

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9. "Move with Freedom of the Wind" Sunrise/Afternoon June 28, 2015

6/28/2015

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The Second Book of The Tao

∞
IT
MATTERS NOT WHAT IT IS CALLED
IT IS ALL THAT IS

IT
NEVERBORN-NEVERDIE-COMMUNICATES
ANIMATES
SOURCES
IN ”ABSOLUTE REPOSE”
PERFECTION
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5:09 AM - 6/28/15

∞

∞

GLIDE WITH WINGS STILL AND SPREAD….
BE
RAREFIRED/RAREFIED OCTANE/ALTITUDE
WHERE ALL IS EFFORTLESS EASE.
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8:10 AM-6/28/15

∞

Photo from 5/3/15

#44

Chaff from the winnowing fan
cancels the eye’s natural vision;
the whine of a mosquito
can keep you awake all night;
trying to be benevolent
makes the mind a tangle or confusion.

If you want the world to stay simple,
you must move with the freedom of the wind.

Why keep making the effort
to figure out right and wrong?

Why all this huffing and puffing
as though you were beating a drum
searching for a lost child?

The snow goose doesn’t need
a daily bath to stay white,
nor does the crow stay black
by dipping itself in an inkwell.

When the springs dry up
and the fish are left on the shore,
they spew one another with moisture.

But how much better
if they could forget one another and swim off
into the lake’s vast freedom!

The Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

The effort to be moral or benevolent is a disruption of our natural virtue.
What child would rather pray than play?

“Throw away morality,” Lao-tzu says,
“and you’ll be doing the world a big favor.”
Trying to figure out the right action does no one any good.
It’s better to keep moving, till the right action arises by itself.

When it’s genuine,
benevolence is the most beautiful quality in the world.
But when it has a motive, it feels like fish spittle,
not like clear water.

We recognize the genuine.
It’s what we all want.
It’s what we all are, when we are past our own thoughts.

Let the others comfort one another with slime:
that’s the best they can do under the circumstances.

But the instant any fish finds its way back to the lake,
it will swim off without a qualm.

“Thanks for the benevolence, muchachos,
but I’m out of here.”

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

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings,
for it destroys the world in which you live.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj

Above photo and Nisargadatta quote from:
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-most-dangerous-of-all-undertakings.html

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8. "Always Enough" The Ultimate Antidote Sunrise/Afternoon June 27, 2015

6/27/2015

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1) TOTAL ABSTINENCE FROM BEING BOTHERED BY ANYTHING/ANYONE
RESULTS IN
2) POSSESSION IN/OF/AS THE GREAT ORIGINAL CORE CALM.

THE SOURCE WHICH MOVES CREATION THRU ALL FORMS
THE ULTIMATE ANTIDOTE

(or does this happen the other way around?
doesn't matter! as long as it's Happening)
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4:12 AM - 6/27/15

#28
The Second Book of The Tao

Don’t chase after people’s approval.
Don’t depend on your plans.
Don’t make decisions;
let decisions make themselves.

Free yourself of concepts;
don’t believe what you think.
Embody the inexhaustible.
Wander beyond all paths.

Receive what you have been given
and know that
it is always enough.

The Master’s mind is like a mirror;
it responds but doesn’t store,
contains nothing, excludes nothing,
and reflects things exactly as they are.

Thus she has what she wants
and wants only what she has.

#28
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

This is a chapter of good advice.
You could do a lot worse than follow it.
But all advice is dispensable.
Here’s what I mean.

It’s morning again. You open your eyes.
There’s a you, there’s a world.
There’s even a woman lying in bed beside you,
the radiant one, whom you fell in love with the very first moments.
The gratitude you feel is one drop in the vast ocean of gratitude that surrounds you.
It’s unnecessary to feel more than that single drop.

There’s a musician at the foot of the bed.
His hands look like oak leaves.
He is leaning back with his arms raised in a gesture of what might seem
(if you didn’t know any better)
like despair.

A skull sits on your nightstand,
giving you its long-in-the-tooth, memento-mori grin.
Flowers drift through the air in Brownian motion.
Inevitably, there’s a guitar in your hands.
You don’t know how to play, but you’re a fast learner.
It must be time for “La tristesse du roi” or “Amor, la vida es sueno.”
Your fingers touch the strings.
Already you’re moved to tears.

Now the sun taps at your window,
your bladder needs emptying,
the children have dissolved into peals of laughter,
and as your feet touch the floor,
yet again the spirit of life and death has not a word to say.

Do you see things exactly as they are?
How would you know?
Yet things are so good that they couldn’t get much better.

All that you ever wanted is here, right in front of you;
all that you ever wanted is instantly, irrecoverably, gone.

#28
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

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7. "It's better just to leave things alone." Sunrise/Afternoon June 26, 2015

6/26/2015

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The Second Book of The Tao

∞

NO SEPARATE VOICE, BEING OR DIMENSION
TO LEAN UPON, LISTEN TO, OR TALK ABOUT
JUST
IS
THE ‘OLDER THAN GOD’ CONDITION
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4:25 AM - 6/26/15

∞

A person blended into God does not disappear.
He or she is just completely soaked in God's qualities

Rumi

Second Book of The TAO #7

Nothing in the world is bigger
than the tip of an autumn hair,
and Mount Everest is tiny.

No one in the world has lived longer
than a stillborn child,
and Methuselah died young.

The universe came into being
the moment that I was born,
and all things are one with me.

Since all things are one,
how can I put that into words?
But since I just said they are one,
how can my words mean nothing?

Sisyphus - Faint Hue on Ocean

Sisyphus, Ocean Golden Hue, 3 Gulls Gliding

The one plus my words make two,
and the two plus the one make three.
If we continue in this way,
even the greatest mathematician
couldn’t calculate where it will end.

Above: Photos are with camera settings either "vivid" or "auto"

It's better just to leave things alone.

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

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

COMMENTARY

There are paradoxes born of wit and paradoxes born of insight.
No thought is true,
but some thoughts are so much truer than the ones we’re used to
that they seem absurd at first glance.
It’s all a question of perspective.

Down at the level of the micro, there is no macro.
If you get small enough, you see that the world isn’t solid
and that uncertainty is the only thing that’s certain, perhaps.
Thus, everything the electron meets is electronal.
Ditto a galaxy: its consciousness, if it has one, is as little aware of a planet
as you are of a corpuscle.

We can’t stand outside the system and point to what’s real,
because what’s real is defined by the system.
This is relativity writ large.
The fastest thing in the universe isn’t light:
it’s mind.

All things may be one with me, but am I one with them?
That’s the issue.
And once I am one, what then?

Even the one is excessive for anyone who wants to be meticulous.
Look where it leads, after all—to two, to three, to infinity,
to an infinity of infinities and beyond:
always the unattainable, unassuageable beyond.

Of course, the nothing is out of the question as well,
since there’s already a word for it.
Not one?
Not nothing?

This leaves you in an ideal position: speechless, delighted,
and ready to say the most nonsensical things,
if only they make sense.

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

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.
Rumi

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.
–Rumi
Coleman Barks version
full writing here:
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/06/question_25.html

At end of the afternoon beach stroll, while Resting on chair, this bird hovered and circled over me and landed only a few feet from my chair....stayed for the longest....then moved towards ocean as i went towards her with camera....what Confirmation/Reminder of so much that Happened today.

Words create words, reality is silent.

–Nisargadatta

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6. - Pivot of the Tao - Cessation of Affirmation and Denial Sunrise/Afternoon June 25, 2015

6/25/2015

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The Second Book of The Tao

∞

REALIZE THERE IS NOTHING TO AVOID

WHEN IN TRUE BEING EVERSHINING
ALL THAT USED TO BE AVOIDED
IS IN THE REALM OF
‘LET THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD’
&
BEYOND
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4:10 AM - 6/25/15

∞

∞

WALK QUIETLY
CONTAINED ONLY IN THE
INVISIBLE WORLD OF DIVINE VOID
WHICH IS BEYOND
THOUGHTS AND AWARENESS
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Transcending Possession
1992

∞

TAO #6

Everything can be seen as a this;
everything can be seen as a that.
The that depends on the this;
the this mirrors the that.

One follows from the other;
each is inseparable from both.
You can’t have right without wrong,
life without death,
the true without the false.
The Master is not trapped in opposites.
His this is also a that.

He sees that life becomes death
and death becomes life, that right
has a kernel of wrong within it
and wrong a kernel of right,
that the true turns into the false
and the false into the true.

He understands that nothing is absolute,
that since every point of view
depends on the viewer,
affirmation and denial
are equally beside the point.

The place where the this and the that
are not opposed to each other
is called “the pivot of the Tao.”

When we find this pivot, we find ourselves
at the center of the circle,
and here we sit, serene,
while Yes and No keep chasing each other
around the circumference, endlessly.

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

COMMENTARY
by Stephen Mitchell

Mind can only create the qualities of good and bad by comparing.
Remove the comparison, and there go the qualities.
What remains is the pure unknown:
ungraspable object, ungraspable subject,
and the clear light of awareness streaming through.

The pivot of the Tao is the mind free of its thoughts.
It doesn’t believe that this is a this
or that that is a that.

Let Yes and No sprint around
the circumference toward a finish line that doesn’t exist.

How can they stop trying to win the argument of life until YOU stop?
When you do, you realize that you were the only one running.

Yes was you.
No was you,
the whole circumference, with its colored banners, its pom-pom girls
and frenzied crowds--
that was you as well.

At the center,
the eyes open and again it’s the sweet morning of the world.
There’s nothing here to limit you,
no one here to draw a circumference.

In fact, there’s no one here--
--not even you.

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

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5. "Nothing to Understand" "Nothing left but Gratitude and Laughter" Sunrise/Afternoon June 24. 2015

6/24/2015

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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE TAO

∞

IN THE NAMING OF
WHATEVER SEEMING DESTRUCTION IS OCCURING
IS THE POOFING!
<
WHEN YOU ARE WHO YOU REALLY ARE
NAMING IS INSTANT FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE.

WHEN YOU ARE NOT WHO YOU REALLY ARE
NAMING/OBSESSING/RESISTANCE IS AS CRAZY GLUE WITH HORRORS.

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5:31 AM - 6/24/15

∞

#5

The ancient Masters saw deeply.
How deep was their insight?

They realized that nothing exists.
This is perfect understanding.

Those at the next stage
thought that things existed
but saw no boundaries between them.

Next came those who saw boundaries
but didn’t judge things as good or bad.

When judgments arose, understanding was damaged;
when understanding was damaged,
preferences became ingrained.

But is there really such a thing
as damage or wholeness?

See Read More at end for "how" this photo Happened.

The Master understands
that there is nothing to understand.

S. Mitchell
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE TAO
#5

COMMENTARY
by
Stephen Mitchell

The ancient Masters saw deeply indeed.
They realized that since nothing lasts longer than the untraceable instant,
nothing ultimately exists.
They also realized that “nothing” is something,
and that the opposite of a profound truth
is another profound truth.

Nothing exists.
Something exists.
“All Cretans are liars,” said the Cretan.
It’s better to keep your mouth shut.

Still, these old fellows were on to something.
If nothing exists as we know it,
if time and space are intellectual categories,
there’s nothing we can actually grasp,
to arrange or disarrange.
This leaves us free.

It leaves us at play in the cosmic theater of the mind.
All the world’s a stage, and we are the non-actors.
Can life be as simple as that?

It went downhill from there,
to the next stage,
then the next.
Boundaries! Preferences! Attachments!!!
And before we knew it,
our days filled up with screaming babies,
mortgage payments,
nasty messages in the mailbox.

Damage and wholeness are in the eyes of the beholder, of course.
If you’re a child,
there’s nothing more fun that going downhill.

A tragedy is comedy misunderstood.
Once you realize what you are,
there’s nothing left but gratitude and laughter.

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE TAO
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

The soul has been given its own ears
to hear things the mind does not understand.

—Jalalud’din Rumi

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4. "Neither Coming or Going" "Walking Two Paths at Once" Sunrise/Afternoon June 23, 2015

6/23/2015

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∞

FROM THE VAST VOID…
THE INFINITE ”OLDER THAN GOD” CALM WITHIN….
SURFACES ALL TRUTH!

BE STILL AND NO-MINDING MIND KNOW
<
REMAIN STILL

ew
3:29 AM - 6/23/15

∞

#4

When we exhaust our minds
by clinging to a particular side of reality
without realizing the underlying oneness,
it’s called “three in the morning.”
What does that mean?

A monkey trainer, handing out acorns, said:
Each of you, will get three in the morning and four in the afternoon.”
The monkeys were outraged.
So he said,
“All right, then: you’ll get four in the morning and three in the afternoon.”
The monkeys were delighted.

Nothing essential had changed,
yet one statement produced anger, and the other, joy.
The trainer simply knew how to adapt to reality and he lost nothing by it.

Thus the Master uses his skill to harmonize with both sides,
and rests in the Tao,
which makes all things equal.
This is called “walking on two paths at once.”
#4
Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

The whole human condition is present in this tricky little tale,
which would be sad if it weren’t so ridiculous.
Although from the standpoint of the monkeys
it’s about the power of righteous indignation,
from the standpoint of the monkey trainer,
behind the scenes,
it’s about skillful management.
You have to admire his one-two punch;
he’s both bad cop and good cop.
But what is the trainer training the monkeys in, anyway?
Discernment?
If so, he’s being made a monkey of.

Whenever we cling to a particular side of reality,
it’s we who are the monkeys,
losing ourselves in outrage or partial delight.
If we look more carefully, though,
we can see that reality has only one side,
like a Mobius strip.
Stars or raindrops,
acorns or ashes,
apparent blessings,
apparent disasters--
--when the mind is clear, each is an occasion for rejoicing.
That’s what discernment is about.

Once our mind-monkeys are fully trained, it’s all good.
In the mathematics of mental peace, three equals four, one equals zero.
Adapting to reality means recognizing that nothing underlies or overlays it.
The Master can travel on two paths at once,
like a photon,
because his mind is free.
He’s subatomic and supererogatory.
He knows that all ways are the Way and that ultimately
he is neither coming nor going.

Stephen Mitchell

Photos in Slideshow below taken during evening sun on beach
6 p.m. 6/23/15
Again.....beyond words!!!

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2. "Center Everywhere - Circumference Nowhere" Sunrise/Afternoon June 21, 2015

6/21/2015

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∞

How to BE more SILENT?

SIMPLY STOP ALL MOVEMENT
(EVEN IF CONTINUING TO BE MOVED)

INSTANTLY
BE BREATH
THAT IS
BEYOND THE MINDING MIND

ew
5:07 AM - 6/21/15

∞

The above Scribed predawn and BEFORE we read Tao #2 this morning.

#2
Before sorrow, anger,
longing, or fear have arisen,
you are in the center.

When these emotions appear
and you know how to see through them,
you are in harmony.

That center is the root of the universe;
that harmony is the Tao,
which reaches out to all things.

Once you find the center
and achieve harmony,
heaven and earth take their proper places
and all things are fully nourished.

Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of The Tao
#2

COMMENTARY
for #2 above
by
Stephen Mitchell

This chapter is about saving the world.
You save the world when you save yourself.
(There’s no one else you can save.)
Returning to the center is thus an act of infinite kindness.

There’s nothing wrong with sorrow, anger, longing, or fear;
a painful emotion is just a signal
that you’ve left the center.

When you are at peace,
everything is at peace.

What seemed like cacophony
becomes the music of the spheres:
a suite for unaccompanied mind.

Living in harmony with the way things are,
the mind finds its center everywhere,
its circumference nowhere.
The part becomes the whole;
what is becomes what should be.

Heaven takes its proper, its only place:
on earth.

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

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1 "The Vast Mind Empty of Meaning" -Second Book of The Tao Sunrise/Afternoon June 20, 2015

6/20/2015

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The Second Book of The Tao
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1
What is bestowed on us at birth
is called human nature.
The fulfillment of human nature
is called the Tao.

The cultivation of the Tao
is the deepest form of learning.

The Tao is the way things are,
which you can’t depart from
even for one instant.

If you could depart from it,
it wouldn’t be the Tao.

Therefore the Master
looks into her own heart
and respects what is unseen and unheard.

Nothing is more manifest than the hidden;
nothing is more obvious than the unseen.

Therefore the Master
pays attention to what is happening
within her innermost self.

∞
Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of The Tao
#1

∞

SILENT’S SONG OF VAST INNER CORE SILENCE
POSSESSES
<
THE GREATEST FREEDOM
<
ORIGINAL BEING
ew
4:22 AM - 6/20/15

∞

Above: View from bottom of sand dunes path to the ocean beach.
Below: First gaze of the ocean from top of sand dunes path.

COMMENTARY
for #1 Tao
Stephen Mitchell

We think that we know what human nature is,
but what if our most cherished assumptions are wrong?
What if all suffering is the result of confused thoughts?
That would change our paradigm a bit.

We’re born into the open, into the vast mind empty of meaning.
Beyond thought, beyond things, reality just is.
Human nature doesn’t need to be fulfilled,
nor do we need to cultivate what is already perfect.
Once we recognize this, we return to the origin of all things.
There is never a movement toward or away.
We remain where we have always been,
but now we know it,
as if for the first time.

Departing from the Tao can happen only in the mind;
it’s an illusion that becomes our reality.
Though we actually live in what is,
we think ourselves into what isn’t.
Though every apparent detour is the path,
we get lost in our imagined wanderings.
That’s why, if we’re interested in freedom,
there is nothing sweeter than to cultivate, cultivate:
to get down, with trowel and hoe,
into the thought-rich soil of the mind.

It’s all about paying attention to what is happening within our innermost self,
until the unseen, the unquestioned,
is as obvious as the seen.

When the mind is free of its thoughts,
it becomes its own fulfillment.

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

Rest in peace.
You are the unchangeable
Awareness in which all activity takes place.
Always rest in peace.

You are eternal
Being, unbounded and undivided.
Just keep
Quiet.
All is well.
Keep Quiet
Here and Now.

You are Happiness, you are
Peace, you are
Freedom.
Do not entertain any
notions that you are in trouble.

Be kind to yourself.
Open to your Heart and simply
Be.

Those who know
This know
Everything.
If not,
even the most learned know nothing at all.

–Papaji

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The Vast Unnameable Sunrise/Afternoon June 19, 2015

6/19/2015

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THE VAST UNNAMEABLE
DOES NOT THINK, PROCESS OR LABEL.
BE THAT!
<
INSTANT PEACE BEYOND EARTHLY MEASURE
ew
4:13 AM - 6/19/15

p e a c e

palpable as the presence of a Presence

yet utterly ineffable

a benediction without diction

beyond the grope of thought

a blessedness without symbol

not experienced as other but

immanent

– inescapably so –

oh!

silence

from miriam louisa
http://echoesfromemptiness.com/2015/06/20/early-this-morning/
read by ew 9:10 p.m.
6/19/15

(miriam resides in a different geographic time zone)

IF YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS SOUL'S
SILENT’S SONG....

ALL WORDS ARE
CONFUSING,
CACOPHONOUS LIES.

ew
9:39 PM
6/19/15

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"Transparent to the Depths" - Primal Light's Evershining Sunrise/Afternoon June 18, 2015

6/18/2015

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∞

JUST BE

MOVED BY
CENTERED IN/OF/AS
VAST ORIGINAL CORE BEING
THAT HAS NO NAME OR EXPLANATION

JUST
IS.

ew
4:52 AM - 6/18/15

∞

Below: Am standing in these waters to take the above photos....until a huge wave came in and i got wet nearly up to my waist....it was.time to "fly" to shore again!!!
......immediately after "flying" to shore we see the extra Big Bird
in the distance...Reminding me to keep Altitude!!!!!

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The Book of Songs says,
Though the fish sinks to the bottom,
it still can clearly be seen.

Thus the Master
examines her innermost self.

She notices even the smallest
sign of discord, and corrects it
before it can do any harm.

When your mind is transparent to the depths
and your words and actions are one,
the whole world becomes transparent.
#63.- p.126
Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY

The Master does more than just notice discord in herself.
Since she knows that a feeling of discord can only be caused by a prior thought,
she questions the thought.
For her, discord is always a momentary imbalance.
When it is investigated, it unravels.
Thus it can never do any harm.

This is not ethics; it’s mental hygiene.
When the mind is transparent,
the heart is transparent.
There are no beliefs to keep awareness from shining through.

The primal light shines through even the densest matter.
As the world becomes transparent,
your goodness and everyone’s,
is gradually, heart-stirringly revealed.

To the transparent eye,
there is no place where goodness is not.
When a pickpocket sees a saint,
he sees only his pockets;
when a saint sees a pickpocket,
he sees only his innocence.

# 63 - p. 127

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

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