Category: The Quiet Answer

NESTLED SAFELY... "...a dream already ended." Dec. 20, 2019 "...absolute, total silence;"

12/20/2019

Due to windy/rainy weather all day.....Unless otherwise stated..
ALL photos below from five years ago..
December 20, 2014 - "When I Cast All Dreams Away"

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https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/when-i-cast-all-dreams-away-sunriseafternoon-december-20-2014

Entire Month of December 2014:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/archives/12-2014

December 20, 2014 - View from Top of Sand Dunes Path -

NESTLED SAFELY IN TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
NO AWARENESS OF SELF OR GOD*

DOES THE PHYSICAL EYE SEE ITSELF?...
...THINK RE: ITS REALITY?
NO!
IT JUST IS
…..FUNCTIONING AS ORIGINAL CREATION’S DESIGN
=
FADN
“THE FINE ART OF DOING NOTHING”**

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7:00 AM-12/20/19
*Bernadette Roberts
The Experience of No-Self
pp. 177-181
See Read More below Afternoon photos
for extensive summary via Bernadette Roberts

**A personal in-flesh-form Friend who is the soul of Yogananda
coined this phrase..
...lives FADN as a Way of Life

The truest communication with God
is absolute, total silence;
there is not a single word in existence
that can convey this communication.
Bernadette Roberts
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8712-bernadette-roberts

Ultimately, then, union with God is not really complete until there is nothing left to be united:
between self (the still center on the affective continuum)
and God (the still-point)
there is no gap remaining.
What is left is what Is, all that Is
and Its identity
is unmistabkable.
Bernadette Roberts
The Experience of No-Self
page 180

A friend recently told me
that the falling way of the affective system
was invariably a psychotic symptom.
While I had never heard this before and cannot verify it,
my present perspective is quite the opposite.
As I see it,
the affective system is not only
the cause of every psychological illness,
it is the cause of all man's suffering.
Bernadette Roberts
The Experience of No-Self
page 180

AFTERNOON

I have lots of things to teach you now,
in case we ever meet,
concerning the message
that was transmitted to me
under a pine tree in North Carolina
on a cold winter moonlit night.

It said that Nothing Ever Happened,
so don’t worry.
Everything is ecstasy,
inside.
We just don’t know it
because of our thinking-minds.

But in our true blissful essence of mind
it is known that everything
is alright forever and forever and forever.

Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for 3 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 ways
of cloudy 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,
or one universal self.

Self is only an idea,
a mortal idea.
That which passes through everything,
is one thing.
It’s a dream already ended.

There’s nothing to be afraid of
and nothing to be glad about.

I know this from staring at mountains months on end.
They never show any expression,
they are like empty space.

Do you think the emptiness of space
will ever crumble away?

Mountains will crumble,
but the emptiness of space,
which is the one universal essence of mind,
the one vast awakenerhood,
empty and awake,
will never crumble away
because it was never born.
—Jack Kerouac
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/10/information-for-matt.html.

Remembrance Rock

You are born with the soul,
but you are absolutely unaware of it –
because of the mind.

The mind never allows you to be in the present.
That’s the reason my insistence on meditation is so strong –
because meditation simply means a method to get rid of the mind.
The moment the mind is not there, suddenly you are in a new space:
so fresh, so beautiful, so blissful.

That is your soul; that is your no-mind.

And once you have entered that space,
that space starts growing around you
and creates a certain energy field.
That becomes your presence of being.
-Osho
Excerpt from:

Sat Chit Anand, Chapter 19
Full article here:
NO MIND & Being Present...
https://o-meditation.com/2019/12/20/no-mind-and-being-present-osho/

Read More Below for MORE
Bernadette Roberts - The Experience of No-Self

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PURE SILENT LISTENER "-the virgin point-" May 9, 2019 ".. a point of nothingness.." "...a point of pure truth."

5/9/2019

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∞
THAT WHICH CANNOT CHANGE
IS
ALL THAT IS….AH!
∞
BEHOLD & HELD
AS THAT PURE SILENT LISTENER**
IN/OF/AS ALL ASPECTS OF ALL
=
THE TRANSPARENT ZERO POINT*
OF
‘THE LISTENER’**
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3:56 AM-5/9/19

*Gregg Braden....quotes below
**Taylor Caldwell VITAL quote in Read More
from her book
The Listener
below
Afternoon photos

O GREAT BREATHER!
INHALING ME GENTLY HOME
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four words

Every child has known god,
not the god of names,
not the god of don’t,
not the god who does anything
weird,
but the god who only knows four words
and keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come dance with Me."....
Come
Dance

—Hafiz
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/four-words.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

....Come
Dance

—Hafiz
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/four-words.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

The Trappist monk,
mystic and author Thomas Merton wrote of le point vierge
- the virgin point -
and described how there is "at the center of our being
a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion,
a point of pure truth,
a point or spark which belongs entirely to God...
which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind
or the brutalities of our own will".

Le point vierge is found in different forms
in the great wisdom traditions,
particularly in Sufism,
and it is from this tradition that
Thomas Merton developed his vision
of a point of pure truth.

This vision is also found in popular culture:
for instance in John Lennon's Imagine,
which
- in an unashamed hymn to le point vierge -
implores us to "imagine there is
no heaven..
no religion...
no countries..
no possessions".

This search for a point of nothingness
can be extended beyond faith traditions to cultural traditions,
and in an unstructured way I have in recent years
found myself exploring diverse overgrown paths
in search of the point
where dogma and conditioning disappear
and pure truth can be glimpsed.

At this central point
classical, sacred, world and all music fuse
into a single Nada Brahma,
and the great wisdom traditions
-- Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism --
coexist without conflict
https://www.overgrownpath.com/2014/12/in-search-of-le-point-vierge.html

Quotes Below in this font from:
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

In Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, where he (Thomas Merton) wrote:

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness
which is untouched by sin and by illusion,
a point of pure truth,
a point or spark which belongs entirely to God,
which is never at our disposal,
from which God disposes of our lives,
which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind
or the brutalities of our own will.

This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty
is the pure glory of God in us.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

Reincarnation or not,
I am as tired of talking and writing
as if I had done it for centuries.
Now it is the time to listen at length to this Asian ocean.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

The country which is nowhere is the real home.
His (Thomas Merton) real home was le point vierge,
the place in himself reserved only for God.

Perhaps I have an obligation to preserve the stillness,
the silence,
the poverty,
the virginal point of pure nothingness
which is at the center of all other loves.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon
if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”
Merton asked.
“This is the most important of all voyages of discovery,
and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.”

To update Merton’s question:
What can we gain by fixing climate change or ending poverty
or terraforming Mars if we remain alienated from ourselves?
How to cross that abyss?

Brother Leander:
You must let the prayer descend to your heart, laddie!

Brother Isidore:
Let us be silent before God who made us.

Brother Jerome:
You learn to talk to silence, and silence answers in silence.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/87400-the-divine-matrix-bridging-time-space-miracles-and-belief?page=2

The lesson was less about reacting to what the world was showing us
and more about creating our own rules for what we choose to experience.
The secret here is that our instructor was experiencing himself
from the perspective that he was already fixed
in one place on that mat.

In those moments,
he was living from the outcome of his meditation.

Until he chose
to break the chains in his imagination,
nothing could move him.
And that’s precisely what we found out.”
― Gregg Braden,
Above is conclusion of short article here...well worth the read...:
https://www.greggbraden.com/blog/message-from-a-native-american-wisdom-keeper/

The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/25150.Gregg_Braden?page=2
See Read More below afternoon quotes for full story of above quote

AFTERNOON

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
Rumi

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside,
look inside yourself and seek that..
Rumi

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi

I have neither a soul nor a body,
for I come from the very Soul of all souls.
Rumi

See Read More Below
for
More from Gregg Braden
+
Excellent Taylor Caldwell - Seneca's THE LISTENER
+
Foreword to Caldwell's Book THE LISTENER
+
Additional Photos

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WHEN ONE REMEMBERS FORMLESSNESS PRESIDES "In unbroken meditation." MILESTONE March 27, 3019

3/27/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 2

PURE SILENCE OF ASKASHA TAO CORE
=
ALL UNFOLDS WITHOUT ILLUSORY INTERFERENCE
FROM THE MAN-CREATED DREAM OF LIFE
<

WE ARE THE ANSWER WHEN WE BECOME AS
SILENT AS THE ORIGINAL SILENT ANSWER
WHICH HAS NO QUESTION
=
FORMLESSNESS PRESIDES
ALL IS WELL
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4:14 AM-3/27/19*

WHEN ONE REMEMBERS
…IS RE-REALIZED…
IT MATTERS NOT THE MAN MADE NAMES AND EVENTS
AS THE STORY IS THE SAME
AND THOSE ALL-WAYS CONFIRM
SUCH TRUTH-OF-BEING-REALITY MANIFESTING/AWAKENING

….
NOT THINKING & NOT TALKING
MATTERS NOT
TO ORIGINAL SILENCE
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5:57 AM-3/27/19*
*See Read More
Below Afternoon Photos
for additional notes
from early this morning

Chapter 2:
Awareness

1
Yesterday
I lived bewildered,
In illusion.

But now I am awake,
Flawless and serene,
Beyond the world.

2
From my light
The body and the world arise.
So all things are mine,
Or nothing is.

3
Now I have given up
The body and the world,
I have a special gift.
I see the infinite Self.

4
As a wave,
Seething and foaming,
Is only water
So all creation,
Streaming out of the Self,
Is only the Self.

5
Consider a piece of cloth,
It is only threads!
So all creation,
When you look closely,
Is only the Self.

6
Like the sugar
In the juice of the sugarcane,
I am the sweetness
In everything I have made.

7
When the Self is unknown
The world arises,
Not when it is known.
But you mistake
The rope for the snake.
When you see the rope,
The snake vanishes.

8
My nature is light,
Nothing but light.
When the world arises
I alone am shining.

9
When the world arises in me,
It is just an illusion:
Water shimmering in the sun,
A vein of silver in mother-of-pearl,
A serpent in a strand of rope.

10
From me the world streams out
And in me it dissolves,
As a bracelet melts into gold,
A pot crumbles into clay,
A wave subsides into water.

11
I adore myself.
How wonderful I am!
I can never die.

The whole world may perish,
From Brahma to a blade of grass,
But I am still here.

AFTERNOON

12
Indeed how wonderful!
I adore myself.
For I have taken form
But I am still one.
Neither coming or going,
Yet I am still everywhere.

13
How wonderful,
And how great my powers!
For I am without form,
Yet till the end of time
I uphold the universe.

14
Wonderful!
For nothing is mine,
Yet it is all mine,
Whatever is thought or spoken.

15
I am not the knower,
Nor the known,
Nor the knowing.
These three are not real.
They only seem to be
When I am not known.
For I am flawl

16
Two from one!
This is the root of suffering.
Only perceive
That I am one without two,
Pure awareness, pure joy,
And all the world is false.
There is no other remedy!

17
Through ignorance
I once imagined I was bound.
But I am pure awareness.
I live beyond all distinctions,
In unbroken meditation.

18
Indeed,
I am neither bound nor free.
An end to illusion!
It is all groundless.
For the whole of creation,
Though it rests in me,
Is without foundation.

19
The body is nothing.
The world is nothing.
When you understand this fully,
How can they be invented?
For the Self is pure awareness,
Nothing less.

20
The body is false,
And so are its fears,
Heaven and hell, freedom and bondage.
It is all invention.
What can they matter to me?
I am awareness itself.

21
I see only one.
Many men,
One wilderness.
Then to what may I cling?

22
I am not the body.
Nor is the body mine.
I am not separate.
I am awareness itself,
Bound only by my thirst for life.

23
I am the infinite ocean.
When thoughts spring up,
The wind freshens, and like waves
A thousand worlds arise.

24
But when the wind falls,
The trader sinks with his ship.
On the boundless ocean of my being
He founders,
And all the worlds with him.

25
But O how wonderful!
I am the unbounded deep In whom all living things
Naturally arise,
Rush against each other playfully,
And then subside. ;

The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 2
http://www.austincc.edu/adechene/Ashta%20Byrom%20short.pdf

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

See Read More Below
for additional notes
from early this morning
&
More Afternoon Photos

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IMMORTAL CORE "And when I breathe in..." "...kiss of relief. Sunrise/Afternoon January 17, 2018

1/17/2018

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CORE OF ORIGINAL BEING
JUST IS<JUST BE
<
JUST BE=JUST IS
<
ELIMINATING ALL INROADS
THAT WELCOME THAT WHICH IS NOT REAL
IN THE TRUTH OF IMMORTAL CORE
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12:05 AM-1/17/18

This was in the end of the movie: The Shape of Water
They are assuming Rumi wrote it.
For me it speaks of G-d.

"Unable to perceive the shape of you,
I find you all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with your love,
It humbles my heart...
For you are everywhere."

And when I breathe in....this is what I inspire...
G-d is everywhere.
Barbara Azzara
http://revbarbaraazzara.com

(CAN HIGHLY RECOMMEND CONTACTING BARBARA PERSONALLY
VIA THE E-MAIL ON HER WEBSiTE
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AND/OR SIGN UP FOR THE AMAZING
MONTHLY "LOVE LETTERS".
SHE IS A ONE
THE TAO WOULD NAME 'SAGE' OR 'MASTER'
NEED WE SAY MORE?
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The below in this color font from
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE TAO # 55
Stephen Mitchell

Life is the companion of death;
death is the beginning of life.
Who can understand
how the two are related?
But if life and death are companions,
why should you be concerned?
All things are connected at the root.
We arrive here from the unknown
and go back to where we came from.

AFTERNOON........

What people love about life
is its miraculous beauty;
what they hate about death
is the loss and decay around it.
Yet losing is not losing, and decay
turns into beauty, as beauty
turns back into decay.

We are breathed in, breathed out.
Therefore all you need
is to understand the one breath
that makes up the world.
The Master is always conscious
of the mystery at the heart of all things.

COMMENTARY by Stephen Mitchell

After the joyful raucous skepticism of the earlier chapters---
a bucketful of ice water poured onto
you while you’re still snoozing
under the comforter--
this chapter’s mode of unknowing
is a grandmotherly kindness.

Life becomes very gentle
when you understand that you’re not living it.

...to understand the one breath:
The exhalation is not opposed to the inhalation.

It is strange that people don’t want to know about
the present, whose existence nobody can doubt,
but are always eager to know about the past or the
future, both of which are unknown. What is birth
and what is death? Why go to birth and death to
understand what you experience every day in
sleeping and waking? When you sleep, this body
and the world do not exist for you, and these questions
do not worry you, and yet you exist,
the same you that exists now while waking.

If you understand waking and sleep properly,
you will understand life and death.
But waking and sleeping happen every day,
so people don’t notice the wonder of it,
but only want to know about birth and death.
Ramana Maharshi

The above in this color font from
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE TAO # 55
Stephen Mitchell

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what’s been done to us,
while peace comes alive by living with the result….
Mark Nepo

The entire Mark Nepo poem & more on this page:
The Kiss of Release That Abides With Time
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2012/12/11/4124/

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"Life Is UnaVoidable" Sunrise/Afternoon May 27, 2015

5/27/2015

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The way of Tao is the art of blending with the universe and accepting that which is moving through the great void in this moment.
To the Taoist life does not need to be a search,
for it is here with us now and quite unavoidable.
Michael Lindfield
The Dance of Change
p. 72

IN/OF/AS THE VAST ORIGINAL VOID
BLENDING
EXPANDING

LEFT BRAIN AUTONOMY IS INCREASINGLY BLURRING INTO THE HEART
GURU GULLS OF YESTERDAY REMIND OF AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL BEING

“LIFE IS UNAVOIDABLE”**

A JOYFULL PURE CHILD
…ALLOWING LIFE TO DANCE THE VOLITION SUFFICES
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4:07 AM - 5/27/15
**Michael Lindfield
The Dance of Change
p. 72

In the point of rest at the center of our being,
we encounter a world where
all things are at rest in the same way.

Then a tree becomes a mystery,
a cloud a revelation,
each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld from Markings
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2015/05/at-rest.html

Sunrise 12/14/14

I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.

Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually,
without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.

–Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters To A Young Poet
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/questions.html

Discard all you are not and go ever deeper.

Just as a man digging a well discards what is not water ... so must you discard what is not your own,
till nothing is left which you can disown.
You will find that what is left is nothing which the mind can hook on to.

You are not even a human being.

You just are - a point of awareness,
co-extensive with time and space and beyond both,
the ultimate cause, itself uncaused.

If you ask me “Who are you?”,
my answer would be:
“Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.”

–Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/who-are-you.html

The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer.
The question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
–Ramana Maharshi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-question.html

We can Hear the Quiet Answer
When we become as Quiet
as
The Answer Itself.
Hugh Prather

We ARE The Quiet Answer
When we Become
As Quiet
as
The Answer ItSelf.
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http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/lifting-gently-buoyed-by-grace-ap-28-2013-sunrise-noon

http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/the-quiet-answer-sunriseafternoon-january-25-2015

Chuck Surface Synchronicities/Buoy/Life Itself here:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/a-sublime-formless-radiance-sunriseafternoon-may-25-2015

The day after this Buoy Milestone/Quiet Answer
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/the-keeper-of-nothingness-torus-ouroboros-full-circl-all-eternal-timelines-sunriseafternoon-may-24-2015

"Become Life Itself"
more from Chuck Surface
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/beyond-volition-and-name-become-life-itself-sunriseafternoon-may-17-2015

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NESTLED SAFELY... "...a dream already ended." Dec. 20, 2019 "...absolute, total silence;"

PURE SILENT LISTENER "-the virgin point-" May 9, 2019 ".. a point of nothingness.." "...a point of pure truth."

WHEN ONE REMEMBERS FORMLESSNESS PRESIDES "In unbroken meditation." MILESTONE March 27, 3019

IMMORTAL CORE "And when I breathe in..." "...kiss of relief. Sunrise/Afternoon January 17, 2018

"Life Is UnaVoidable" Sunrise/Afternoon May 27, 2015

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