Category: Sand Dunes Path

PURE FOOL "...guileless simplicity..." EPIPHANY February 11, 2020

2/11/2020

SIMPLY BE IT
AND WHEN SIMPLY BEING IT
NO ASPECT OF BEING REMAINS
THAT HAS A
MAN-MADE FOOLER ABILITY
OR
NEED TO EXPLAIN IT…
=
THE PURE FOOL IN/OF/AS ‘GOD’ SIMPLY
JUST IS*
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2:26 AM-2/11/20

*See
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/wails-howls-apply-vast-silence-even-in-sleep-i-am-awake-april-8-2019
for Ashtavakra Gita-THE FOOL

plus MORE in today’s Read More
following Afternoon photos

Below (in this font) is the entire chapter of THE FOOL....this is by far, the shortest chapter in the Ashtavakra Gita...
Full Ashtavakra Gita is here:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

Chapter 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.

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

also this excellent book:
THE HEART OF AWARENESS
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom

AFTERNOON

Another Tune

The personality is a phantom even less substantial than the body,
being an ephemeral work of art like a musical composition
that dies away as it is played.

But when it comes to silence we hear another tune,
for we are reduced to the guileless simplicity
of listening to what is – now.

This is really all there is to contemplative mysticism –
to be aware without judgment or comment
of what is actually happening at this moment,
both outside ourselves and within,
listening even to our involuntary thoughts
as if they were no more than the sound of rain.

This is possible only when it is clear
that there is nothing else to do,
and no way onward or back.

Alan Watts
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-tune.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29

See Read More Below
Additional Notes re: the pre-dawn EPIPHANY

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SEER SEES "...an appeal to either our greed or our fears." "...a quiet light..." January 26, 2020

1/26/2020

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GOD I AM*
HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?
DOES THE SEEING PHYSICAL EYE SEE ITSELF?
ONLY WITH A MIRROR
∞
IT’S ALL A MIRROR THE SEER SEES
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1:24 AM-1/26/20
*GOD I AM: From Tragic to Magic – Peter Erbe

this home
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart.
It draws no attention to itself
though it is always secretly there.

It is what illuminates
our minds to see beauty,
our desire to seek possibility
and our hearts to love life.
Without this subtle quickening
our days would be empty and wearisome,
and no horizon would ever awaken our longing.

Our passion for life is quietly sustained
from somewhere in us
that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life.

This shy inner light is what enables us
to recognize and receive our very presence here
as blessing.

We enter the world as strangers
who all at once become heirs to a harvest
of memory, spirit, and dream that has long preceded us
and will now enfold, nourish, and sustain us.
~John O'Donohue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/25/31562/

This breakage within us
is what makes us human and vulnerable.
There is nothing more sinister
than someone whose mind
seems to be an absolute circle;
there is a helpless coldness
and a deadly certainty
about such a presence.
― John O'Donohue,
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

We live in a world that responds to our longing;
it is a place where the echoes always return,
even if sometimes slowly.
― John O'Donohue
Eternal Echoes

AFTERNOON

Sand Dunes Path July 20, 2017

Above: Sand Dunes Path July 20, 2017
Below: Sand Dunes Path January 26, 2020

In our loneliness and isolation
and seemingly perpetual impulse
toward self-distraction
in the service of
finding a moment of meaningful connection,
there is a deep longing,
a yearning,
usually unconscious or ignored,
to belong, to be part of a larger whole,
to not be anonymous,
to be seen and known.

For relationality, exchange, give-and-take,
especially on an emotional plane,
is how we are reminded that we have
a place in this world,
how we know in our hearts
that we actually do belong
and make a difference.

It is deeply satisfying to experience
meaningful connection with others.
We hunger to be perceived by others,
to be both noticed and valued for
who we actually are,
and not merely for what we do.
And mostly we are not

It is now harder to pay attention to any one thing
and there is more to pay attention to.
Things come at us fast and furious,
relentlessly.
And almost all of it is man-made,
it has thought behind it,
and more often than not,
an appeal to either our greed or our fears.

These assaults on our nervous system
continually stimulate and foster
desire and agitation
rather than contentedness and calmness.

And above all,
if we are not careful,
they rob us of time,
of our moments.
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/25/31562/

The world is changed by your example,
not your opinion.
~Paul Coelho
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/26/31572/

Here is the link for many more details re: this project:
https://modernhouseharbourisland.com

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THE GREAT REVELATOR "...Like a bird who rivers the air..." January 18, 2020

1/18/2020

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CEASE & DESIST
POSSESSING THOUGHTS
OF
LIFE-SNUFFING DRAMA
<
ORIGINAL SILENCE POSSESSES
AS
THE GREAT REVELATOR
OF TRUTH OF BEING

LISTENING/BEING THE GREAT SILENCE
ELSE THY MINDING-MIND AND TONGUE
KEEP THEE DEAF
IMPRISONED IN ONE’S OWN HELL
OF
UNEXAMINED FOLLY
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5:39 AM-1/18/20

Effortlessly,
Love flows from God to man,
Like a bird
Who rivers the air
Without moving her wings.

Thus we move in His world
One in body and soul,
Though outwardly separate in form.

As the Source strikes the note,
Humanity sings -
The Holy Spirit is our harpist,
And all the strings
Which are touched in Love
Must sound.
—Mechtild of Magdeburg
(1210-1282)
beautywelove
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/love-and-do-as-you-like-st-augustine.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Love what you do and do what you love.
Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.
You do what you want, what you love.
Imagination should be the center of your life.
Ray Bradbury

Love, and do as you like!
---St. Augstine

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself.
Wisdom can never learn enough.
Mechthild of Magdeburg

AFTERNOON

A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?
Mechthild of Magdeburg

A Light of utmost splendor glows
on the eyes of my soul.
Therein have I seen the
inexpressible ordering of all things,
and recognized God's unspeakable glory
-- that incomprehensible wonder --
the tender caress between God and the soul...
the unmingled joy of union,
the living love of eternity as it now is
and evermore shall be.
Mechthild of Magdeburg

I was created in love.
For that reason
nothing can express my beauty
nor liberate me
except love alone.
Mechthild of Magdeburg

Daily Quote – January 18, 2020
Because others cannot vibrate in your experience,
they cannot affect the outcome of your experience.
They can hold their opinions,
but unless their opinion affects your opinion,
their opinion matters not at all.

A million people could be pushing against you,
and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back.
They are affecting what happens in their experience.
They are affecting their point of attraction--
but it does not affect you
unless you push against them.

Abraham (Esther Hicks)
https://www.abraham-hicks.com/?mc_cid=47f89d5253&mc_eid=70b37346bf

Don’t cling to whatever plane of reality you’re in,
including this one,
because a free being is not bound
by any plane of reality whatsoever.
– Ram Dass

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books
that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
Rilke

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BREATHED AS BREATH… "...realize it is play." "... primordial “breath” that fetuses have...." 1/13/20 Sand Dunes Drama

1/13/2020

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BEFRIEND OWN SOUL AND LIFE
AS WHITMAN SUGGESTS WITH:
“…the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship.."*
=
LIVING LIFE WITHOUT QUESTIONS OR ANSWERS…
BREATHED AS BREATH…**
...IN/OF/AS BEYOND BOTH
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5:18 AM-1/13/20
*https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/19/walt-whitman-hospital-visits/
**://www.learnreligions.com/tai-hsi-taoist-embryonic-breathing-3182942
Embryonic Breathing (Tai Hsi) – also known as Primordial Breathing or Umbilical Breathing

Embryonic Breathing (Tai Hsi)
– also known as Primordial Breathing or Umbilical Breathing –
refers to the process by which
a Taoist practitioner reactivates
the electro-magnetic circuitry
associated with the primordial
“breath” that fetuses have
inside of the womb.

As this happens,
the physical breathing process
becomes increasingly more subtle,
and then – for periods of time –
may cease altogether.

In the same way
a fetus “breathes” through the umbilical cord,
the practitioner whose system
has remembered embryonic breathing
is then able to draw life-force energy
directly from the universal matrix,
i.e. the “sea of energy”
in which
their individual bodymind floats.
https://www.learnreligions.com/tai-hsi-taoist-embryonic-breathing-3182942

Perhaps we set out on the spiritual path
in hopes of gaining something
we count as good in the ‘material':
we want to be a more peaceful person,
to be better able to love and be loved,
gain the high opinion of others,
or even, to take it to its most unfortunate end –
to have some kind of power or influence over others.

Or maybe we set out in order to end or avoid something
we count as bad in the ‘material’ life
such as our own suffering,
the cruelty and pain of others,
the loss or deficiency of any good thing.

All of these reasons mean beginning spiritual life
in service of the material.

But if we have a sincere heart and a strong will/desire
to know the Truth, we will be graced
with conversion
(a touch from God that clearly says “I Am”),
and then things will turn around.

We will see that everything in material life,
all of it, good and not so good,
is in service of the spiritual life.
When we understand this,
then we are getting somewhere.

( All but the first slide below are The Views
we can see while standing high atop this expensive new beach front property construction site.)

After living in a Zen Training Center for a few years,
I thought living there was great --
except for the inconveniences.
Later I realized
the inconveniences were the whole point!

https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/01/all-things-work-together-for-good.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29

To succeed in life, you need two things:
ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

This is the real secret of life –
to be completely engaged
with what you are doing
in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work,
realize it is play.
Alan Watts

DRAMA ON THE SAND DUNES PATH
just before 11 AM 1/13/20

At 10:47 AM was awakened from a deep sleep...by HUGE OCEAN ROAR and quickly headed out to Mother Ocean to see what could be seen.
In a nutshell, met up with the huge bulldozer that is used for the new construction and also taking out (months ago) all the foliage surrounding/protecting The Dunes Path.

Bulldozer Operator is VERY Gifted and Thorough...we have watched him for months seemingly doing the
"impossible"....but today was brand new....he agreed he was only "following boss's orders".

Today he was taking load after load of sand back up the hill and towards ocean....this is the sand that had blown up & over the hill from ocean side and down towards the land...as there is NO foliage to knit the sand and keep it from eroding due to ocean winds.

AFTERNOON

Think of this random Universe
where everything is possible.
The organizational skills belong to Law of Attraction.
If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction
to do the organization and the managing,
then you can spend your time
doing the things that please you.
Abraham (Hicks)
Daily Quote – January 13, 2020
https://www.abraham-hicks.com/?mc_cid=6aab0e1c5e&mc_eid=70b37346bf

The law of attraction is the attractive,
magnetic power of the Universe
that draws similar energies together.
It manifests through the power of creation,
everywhere and in many ways.

Even the law of gravity is part of the law of attraction.
This law attracts thoughts, ideas, people,
situations and circumstances.

The law of attraction manifests through your thoughts,
by drawing to you thoughts and ideas of a similar kind, people who think like you,
and also corresponding situations and circumstances.

It is the law and power that brings together people of similar interests, who unite into various groups,
such as political groups, sports teams,
sports fans, fraternities, etc.
https://www.successconsciousness.com/law-of-attraction-definitions.htm

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PURE FOOL "...guileless simplicity..." EPIPHANY February 11, 2020

SEER SEES "...an appeal to either our greed or our fears." "...a quiet light..." January 26, 2020

THE GREAT REVELATOR "...Like a bird who rivers the air..." January 18, 2020

BREATHED AS BREATH… "...realize it is play." "... primordial “breath” that fetuses have...." 1/13/20 Sand Dunes Drama

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