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

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
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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’
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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.


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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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