FROM THE GREAT PAUSE IN/OF/AS THE GREAT VAST VOID
APPEARS
ATTAR’S CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
ANCIENT STONES IN THE OLD FAMILY FARM TREE TRUNK
HAVE BECOME NEWLY HATCHED
NEWLY EMERGED BIRDS
ALL IS WELL
REMEMBER THE VAST VOID PAUSE
BE THIS
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4:30 AM - 12/15/2015
http://www.sufism.ir/books/download/english/attar-en/bird-parliament-en.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds
https://birdsconf.wordpress.com/synopsis-of-the-poem/
(after session with Ann Bliss at Chef Neff's suite, yesterday afternoon)
see Read More for More.....
.....if you wish to find the ocean of your soul,
then die to all your old life and then keep silent.
Attar
Conference of the Birds
See Read More at end
then die to all your old life and then keep silent.
Attar
Conference of the Birds
See Read More at end
(The Master) lets the confused
stay confused
if that is what they want
and is always available
to those with a passion for the truth.
In the welter of opinions
She is content with not-knowing.
She makes distinctions
but doesn't take them seriously.
She sees the world constantly breaking
apart, and stays centered in the whole.
She sees the world endlessly changing
and never wants it to be
different from what it is.
Chuang-tzu
Adapted by Stephen Mitchell
http://beingsilentlydrawn.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/content-with-not-knowing.html
stay confused
if that is what they want
and is always available
to those with a passion for the truth.
In the welter of opinions
She is content with not-knowing.
She makes distinctions
but doesn't take them seriously.
She sees the world constantly breaking
apart, and stays centered in the whole.
She sees the world endlessly changing
and never wants it to be
different from what it is.
Chuang-tzu
Adapted by Stephen Mitchell
http://beingsilentlydrawn.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/content-with-not-knowing.html
Khing, the master carver, made a bell stand
Of precious wood. When it was finished,
All who saw it were astounded. They said it must be
The work of spirits.
The Prince of Lu said to the master carver:
"What is your secret?"
Khing replied: "I am only a workman:
I have no secret. There is only this:
When I began to think about the work you commanded
I guarded my spirit, did not expend it
On trifles, that were not to the point.
I fasted in order to set
My heart at rest.
After three days fasting,
I had forgotten gain and success.
After five days
I had forgotten praise or criticism.
After seven days
I had forgotten my body
With all its limbs.
"By this time all thought of your Highness
And of the court had faded away.
All that might distract me from the work
Had vanished.
I was collected in the single thought
Of the bell stand.
"Then I went to the forest
To see the trees in their own natural state.
When the right tree appeared before my eyes,
The bell stand also appeared in it, clearly, beyond doubt.
All I had to do was to put forth my hand
and begin.
"If I had not met this particular tree
There would have been
No bell stand at all.
"What happened?
My own collected thought
Encountered the hidden potential in the wood;
From this live encounter came the work
Which you ascribe to the spirits."
Chuang Tzu
http://beingsilentlydrawn.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/woodcarver.html
Of precious wood. When it was finished,
All who saw it were astounded. They said it must be
The work of spirits.
The Prince of Lu said to the master carver:
"What is your secret?"
Khing replied: "I am only a workman:
I have no secret. There is only this:
When I began to think about the work you commanded
I guarded my spirit, did not expend it
On trifles, that were not to the point.
I fasted in order to set
My heart at rest.
After three days fasting,
I had forgotten gain and success.
After five days
I had forgotten praise or criticism.
After seven days
I had forgotten my body
With all its limbs.
"By this time all thought of your Highness
And of the court had faded away.
All that might distract me from the work
Had vanished.
I was collected in the single thought
Of the bell stand.
"Then I went to the forest
To see the trees in their own natural state.
When the right tree appeared before my eyes,
The bell stand also appeared in it, clearly, beyond doubt.
All I had to do was to put forth my hand
and begin.
"If I had not met this particular tree
There would have been
No bell stand at all.
"What happened?
My own collected thought
Encountered the hidden potential in the wood;
From this live encounter came the work
Which you ascribe to the spirits."
Chuang Tzu
http://beingsilentlydrawn.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/woodcarver.html
Either you make your energy creative,
or it will turn sour and become destructive.
Energy is a dangerous thing - if you have it, you have to use it creatively,
otherwise sooner or later you will find it has become destructive.
So find something -- whatsoever you like -- to put your energy into.
If you want, painting, or if you want, dancing or singing;
or if you want to play an instrument....
Whatsoever you want, find a way in which you can become completely lost.
If you can be lost paying a guitar -- good!
In those moments when you are lost,
your energy will be released in a creative way.
If you cannot be lost in painting, in singing, in dancing,
in playing guitar or a flute,
then you will find lower ways of being lost:
anger, rage, aggression;
these are lower ways to be lost.
OSHO
# 39
Transformation Tarot
or it will turn sour and become destructive.
Energy is a dangerous thing - if you have it, you have to use it creatively,
otherwise sooner or later you will find it has become destructive.
So find something -- whatsoever you like -- to put your energy into.
If you want, painting, or if you want, dancing or singing;
or if you want to play an instrument....
Whatsoever you want, find a way in which you can become completely lost.
If you can be lost paying a guitar -- good!
In those moments when you are lost,
your energy will be released in a creative way.
If you cannot be lost in painting, in singing, in dancing,
in playing guitar or a flute,
then you will find lower ways of being lost:
anger, rage, aggression;
these are lower ways to be lost.
OSHO
# 39
Transformation Tarot
See Read More below for "Conference of the Birds" Synopsis and More....
Synopsis of the Poem
Conference of the Birds
FROM
https://birdsconf.wordpress.com/synopsis-of-the-poem/
Conference of the Birds is based on a poem in Persian by the 12th century poet, Farid ud-Din Attar. The poem contains approximately 4500 lines. The poem uses a journey by a group of 30 birds, led by a hoopoe as an allegory of a Sufi sheikh or master leading his pupils to enlightenment.
The journey of the birds takes them through the seven valleys of the quest,
love, understanding, independence and detachment, unity, astonishment,
and finally poverty and nothingness.
Each valley teaches a different moral.
In the valley of the quest one undergoes a hundred difficulties and trials. After one has been tested and becomes free, one learns in the valley of love that love has nothing to do with reason.
The valley of understanding teaches that knowledge is temporary, but understanding endures. Overcoming faults and weaknesses brings the seeker closer to the goal.
In the valley of independence and detachment one has no desire
to possess nor any wish to discover.
To cross this difficult valley one must be roused from apathy to renounce inner and outer attachments so that one can become self-sufficient.
In the valley of unity the Hoopoe announces that although you may see many beings, in reality there is only one, which is complete in its unity.
As long as you are separate, good and evil will arise; but when you lose yourself in the divine essence, they will be transcended by love.
When unity is achieved, one forgets all and forgets oneself in the valley of astonishment and bewilderment.
The Hoopoe declares that the last valley of deprivation and death is almost impossible to describe. In the immensity of the divine ocean the pattern of the present world and the future world dissolves.
As you realize that the individual self does not really exist, the drop becomes part of the great ocean forever in peace.
The analogy of moths seeking the flame is used.
Out of thousands of birds, only thirty reach the end of the journey.
When the light of lights is manifested and they are in peace,
they become aware that the Simurgh is them.
They begin a new life in the Simurgh and contemplate the inner world.
Simurgh, it turns out, means thirty birds; but if forty or fifty had arrived, it would be the same. By annihilating themselves gloriously in the Simurgh they find themselves in joy, learn the secrets, and receive immortality.
So long as you do not realize your nothingness and do not renounce your self-pride, vanity, and self-love, you will not reach the heights of immortality.
‘Attar concluded the epiloge with the admonition that
if you wish to find the ocean of your soul,
then die to all your old life and then keep silent.
taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/conference-of-the-birds/
∞
Conference of the Birds
FROM
https://birdsconf.wordpress.com/synopsis-of-the-poem/
Conference of the Birds is based on a poem in Persian by the 12th century poet, Farid ud-Din Attar. The poem contains approximately 4500 lines. The poem uses a journey by a group of 30 birds, led by a hoopoe as an allegory of a Sufi sheikh or master leading his pupils to enlightenment.
The journey of the birds takes them through the seven valleys of the quest,
love, understanding, independence and detachment, unity, astonishment,
and finally poverty and nothingness.
Each valley teaches a different moral.
In the valley of the quest one undergoes a hundred difficulties and trials. After one has been tested and becomes free, one learns in the valley of love that love has nothing to do with reason.
The valley of understanding teaches that knowledge is temporary, but understanding endures. Overcoming faults and weaknesses brings the seeker closer to the goal.
In the valley of independence and detachment one has no desire
to possess nor any wish to discover.
To cross this difficult valley one must be roused from apathy to renounce inner and outer attachments so that one can become self-sufficient.
In the valley of unity the Hoopoe announces that although you may see many beings, in reality there is only one, which is complete in its unity.
As long as you are separate, good and evil will arise; but when you lose yourself in the divine essence, they will be transcended by love.
When unity is achieved, one forgets all and forgets oneself in the valley of astonishment and bewilderment.
The Hoopoe declares that the last valley of deprivation and death is almost impossible to describe. In the immensity of the divine ocean the pattern of the present world and the future world dissolves.
As you realize that the individual self does not really exist, the drop becomes part of the great ocean forever in peace.
The analogy of moths seeking the flame is used.
Out of thousands of birds, only thirty reach the end of the journey.
When the light of lights is manifested and they are in peace,
they become aware that the Simurgh is them.
They begin a new life in the Simurgh and contemplate the inner world.
Simurgh, it turns out, means thirty birds; but if forty or fifty had arrived, it would be the same. By annihilating themselves gloriously in the Simurgh they find themselves in joy, learn the secrets, and receive immortality.
So long as you do not realize your nothingness and do not renounce your self-pride, vanity, and self-love, you will not reach the heights of immortality.
‘Attar concluded the epiloge with the admonition that
if you wish to find the ocean of your soul,
then die to all your old life and then keep silent.
taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/conference-of-the-birds/
∞
From ew/dmm "journal"
prior to Conference of the Bird Remembrance
Was Pregnant with this Happening in the Abysscape...
4:08 AM
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Time stands still again this morning….between OEW time remembered and what computer clock says when I open this doc to begin….after we have been in PAUSE mode to get hot lemon, salt etc….i have gone into a PAUSE Realm VAST VOID
OES with ABYSSCAPE Realer than real.
With an elder white haired woman….come to Understand she is quite famous for her research re: people…..we are in Ma’s barnlot between house and red barn…cannot remember all details now, though my soul does, can Sense this Remebrance
She understands me and is sure I will be fine…as she is returning to her "post" in an Research Univ seemingly in California.....I wonder how we can ever say in touch…she is not concerned as she doesn’t answer me in any dimension.
We had been searching for something in the trees and barnlot…..after she leaves I am strolling around to take photos with camera….something about STONES we wanted to have photo of to show her.
I find something to take photo of and then notice hole in trunk of big diameter tree trunk…NOT a full tree…just the old trunk still standing.
Then notice the hole is full of stones…go closer to photo, and see there must be over 50 small birds…some newly hatched and others larger….
all are “newly hatched” and seem to have no fear of me…my Gaze is drawn to the left and see the mother large bird just watching me…and is NOT fearful or concerned re: me being so close.
Scene changes. I was wanting to tell the elder woman and take photos and want to share this discovery with someone right now.
Turn to see Allen driving with Esther on a golfcart….to the little red barn…then Ben arrives with huge lift and needs to get into the lot I am in…needs to get thru the fence…I go over and help him with impeccable skill…he seems pleased, is grinning and then I say Ben, you won’t believe what we’ve discovered. Feels OK to tell him re: this find of the birds…
.what I believed would be STONES are BIRDS!!!
DREAM ENDS
An entire community of birds…..an entire flock that can take care of the entire farm. As though this has manifested because it is needful. Mother Bird watching and is comfortable, just as the wise old elder woman left and felt comfortable Know all was in Timing and Order for me to continue on without her…..
THE OLD BOWS OUT SO THE NEW CAN HAPPEN…..ALL OF YESTERYEARS’ STRUGGLES (AS WITH BEN, INDIANA ETC) ARE OVER
IT’S A NEW DAY.
***************************
4:22 AM
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Session with Ann Bliss yesterday on Chef Neff’s patio by their room
I was given crystals from her (STONES)
prior to Conference of the Bird Remembrance
Was Pregnant with this Happening in the Abysscape...
4:08 AM
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Time stands still again this morning….between OEW time remembered and what computer clock says when I open this doc to begin….after we have been in PAUSE mode to get hot lemon, salt etc….i have gone into a PAUSE Realm VAST VOID
OES with ABYSSCAPE Realer than real.
With an elder white haired woman….come to Understand she is quite famous for her research re: people…..we are in Ma’s barnlot between house and red barn…cannot remember all details now, though my soul does, can Sense this Remebrance
She understands me and is sure I will be fine…as she is returning to her "post" in an Research Univ seemingly in California.....I wonder how we can ever say in touch…she is not concerned as she doesn’t answer me in any dimension.
We had been searching for something in the trees and barnlot…..after she leaves I am strolling around to take photos with camera….something about STONES we wanted to have photo of to show her.
I find something to take photo of and then notice hole in trunk of big diameter tree trunk…NOT a full tree…just the old trunk still standing.
Then notice the hole is full of stones…go closer to photo, and see there must be over 50 small birds…some newly hatched and others larger….
all are “newly hatched” and seem to have no fear of me…my Gaze is drawn to the left and see the mother large bird just watching me…and is NOT fearful or concerned re: me being so close.
Scene changes. I was wanting to tell the elder woman and take photos and want to share this discovery with someone right now.
Turn to see Allen driving with Esther on a golfcart….to the little red barn…then Ben arrives with huge lift and needs to get into the lot I am in…needs to get thru the fence…I go over and help him with impeccable skill…he seems pleased, is grinning and then I say Ben, you won’t believe what we’ve discovered. Feels OK to tell him re: this find of the birds…
.what I believed would be STONES are BIRDS!!!
DREAM ENDS
An entire community of birds…..an entire flock that can take care of the entire farm. As though this has manifested because it is needful. Mother Bird watching and is comfortable, just as the wise old elder woman left and felt comfortable Know all was in Timing and Order for me to continue on without her…..
THE OLD BOWS OUT SO THE NEW CAN HAPPEN…..ALL OF YESTERYEARS’ STRUGGLES (AS WITH BEN, INDIANA ETC) ARE OVER
IT’S A NEW DAY.
***************************
4:22 AM
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Session with Ann Bliss yesterday on Chef Neff’s patio by their room
I was given crystals from her (STONES)
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