CHOICELESS CHOICE< FORMLESSNESS PRESIDING "Pausing in timeless awareness:" April 17, 2019 "...a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted."

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 18
The Master
​Verses  61-80

​THE SOUL LEADS
AS THIS CHOICELESS CHOICE TAKES OVER
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ALL THAT IS…AH!
ATIAH!
∞
SOURCING & BREATHED FROM & AS
THE UNNAMEABLE…
… THAT WHICH IS
BEYOND ALL WORDS & THOUGHTS
∞
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12:57 AM-4/17/19

AKASHA TAO CORE SILENCE
ORIGINAL BEING’S FORMLESSNESS
PREVAILS/SUSTAINS PARTING ALL RED SEAS
AH!....
…THE UNFETTERED SOUL OF FORMLESSNESS PRESIDING
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1:47 AM-4/17/19

The Master
​Verses  61-80


61
The fool is busy 
Even when he is still.
Even when he is busy
The master gathers the fruits of stillness. ​

 62
The fool often spurns his possessions.
The master is no longer attached to his body.
So how can he feel attraction or aversion?

63
The awareness of the fool is always limited
By thinking, or by trying not to think.
The awareness of the man who lives within,
Though he may be busy thinking,
Is beyond even awareness itself. 

 64 
The master is like a child.
All his actions are without motive.
He is pure.
Whatever he does, he is detached.

 65
He is blessed.
He understands the nature of the Self.
His mind is no longer thirsty.
He is the same under all conditions,
Whatever he sees or hears,
Or smells or touches or tastes.

 66
The master is like the sky. 
He never changes.
What does the world matter to him,
Or its reflection?
What does he care about seeking,
​ Or the end of seeking? 

 67
He is ever the same. 
The victory is his.
He has conquered the world.
He is the embodiment
Of his own perfect essence,
​ By nature one with the infinite. 

68
What more is there to say?
He knows the truth.
He has no desire for pleasure or liberation.
At all times, in all places,
He is free from passion.

 69
He has given up the duality of the world 
Which arises with the mind
And is nothing more than a name.
He is pure awareness.
​What is there left for him to do? 

70
The man who is pure knows for certain
That nothing really exists;
It is all the work of illusion. 
He sees what cannot be seen.
His nature is peace.

​ 71 
He does not see the world of appearances.
So what do rules matter to him,
Or dispassion, renunciation, and self-control?
​ His form is pure and shining light.

72 
He does not see the world.
So what does he care for joy or sorrow,
Bondage or liberation?
He is infinite and shining.

 73
Before the awakening of understanding 
The illusion of the world prevails.
But the master is free of passion.
He has no "I,"
He has no "mine,"
​And he shines!

74
He sees that the Self never suffers or dies. 
So what does he care for knowledge
Or the world?
Or the feeling "I am the body,"
​ "The body is mine"? ​

​​75
The moment a fool gives up concentration
And his other spiritual practices,
He falls prey to fancies and desires.

76
​Even after hearing the truth,
 The fool clings to his folly.
He tries hard to look calm and composed,
But inside he is full of cravings.

 77 
When the truth is understood,
Work falls away.
Though in the eyes of others
The master may seem to work,
In reality he has no occasion
To say or to do anything.

78 
He has no fear.
He is always the same.
He has nothing to lose.
For him there is no darkness,
There is no light.
There is nothing at all.

79
 He has no being of his own.
His nature cannot be described.
What is patience to him,
​ Or discrimination or fearlessness? ​

80
In the eyes of the master
There is nothing at all.
There is no heaven.
There is no hell.
There is no such thing as liberation in life.
​ What more is there to say? ​

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 18
The Master
​Verses  61-80
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​​​​​

​AFTERNOON

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
​ runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

In one who perceives impermanence,
the perception of nonself becomes firmly established;
and one who perceives nonself
achieves the elimination of the conceit “I am”
and attains nirvana in this very life.
And in the words of the Koran:
 “Everything is perishing except God’s Face.”
Elias Amidon
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/impermanence-deeper-secret-amidon/

Attention gets its attentiveness from pure awareness,
which is who you are. 
Self definition only keeps you fixated on waves
while yearning to find the deep.
The ocean has no problem with waves.”
​
“Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine the waves as separate from itself.
 Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine its depth as separate from itself.
Never for a moment does the ocean
imagine there is any separation
between wave and depth.
Be the ocean.
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/impermanence-deeper-secret-amidon/​

Pausing in timeless awareness:
 ​The Indian sage Nisargadatta
once advised a student who asked for guidance,
“Go back! Go back!”
Go back to the place where you begin, right now,
the place of spacious awareness
that hosts all the phenomena you experience.
It is a simple move,
although nothing really moves.
​
Just open up to the clearing you already are
and pause there for a moment or two.
When you do that your whole life is refreshed.
 More re: THE JOY OF PAUSING here:
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/142-the-joy-of-pausing

There is no beauty more real
​than the goodness one sees in someone.
Plotinus
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/181-beauty-will-save-the-world​

Beauty will save the world.
​Dostoevsky
https://sufiway.org/teaching/notes-from-the-open-path/14-teachings/181-beauty-will-save-the-world​

And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. 
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes
and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark,
nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom
and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

People of Orphalese,
​ beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Excerpt from BEAUTY
The Prophet
http://www.katsandogz.com/onbeauty.html

We usually do not look
into what is really there in front of us.
We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts,
and we mistake those mental objects for reality.
  We get so caught up in
this endless thought-stream
that reality flows by unnoticed.

We  spend our time engrossed in activity,
caught up in an eternal flight 
from pain and unpleasantness. 
We spend our energies
trying to make ourselves better,
trying to bury our fears.
​ 
We are endlessly seeking  security. 
 Meanwhile,
the world of real experience flows by 
untouched and unnoticed...

Henepola Gunaratana
Buddhist Monk
You Think You Have Time - Gunaratana
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