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
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
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March 20, 2006
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WHATEVER IS
IN WORDLING PROJECTIONS
THE VAST SILENCE
IS TOO MUCH
FOR WORDS
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March 20, 2006
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. . .
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.
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.
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!
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.
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:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
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:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
AFTERNOON
whoever you are
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life.
—Walt Whitman
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...
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
Above in this color font from:
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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
Above in this color font from:
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/whoever-you-are.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
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
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
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
Sharings above in this font from:
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April 12, 2019
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
Sharings above in this font from:
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/heart-to-heart-resonance-eric-baret-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29
April 12, 2019
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