BE THE PEACE THAT PASSETH EARTHLY UNDERSTANDING
ORIGIN'S AKASHA TAO CORE
PARTING ALL RED SEAS OF LIES & DESTRUCTION
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IN/OF/AS
CREATION’S GREAT BREATH
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1:30 AM-1/13/19
ORIGIN'S AKASHA TAO CORE
PARTING ALL RED SEAS OF LIES & DESTRUCTION
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INHALED/EXHALED SYNCHRONOUS
IN/OF/AS
CREATION’S GREAT BREATH
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1:30 AM-1/13/19
Profound Not-Knowing - Jeff Foster
One of my favorite things to do is to sit with my elderly father
who has Alzheimers. It's a beautiful thing to just sit in a place
of profound not-knowing with him, a place where I do not
know what to say or do.
One of my favorite things to do is to sit with my elderly father
who has Alzheimers. It's a beautiful thing to just sit in a place
of profound not-knowing with him, a place where I do not
know what to say or do.
I sit, without expectation,
without trying to 'fix' him,
or manipulate his experience in any way.
without trying to 'fix' him,
or manipulate his experience in any way.
I just listen,
without trying to make things better in the moment,
without playing the role of 'the one who knows'.
I am simply available to him.
without trying to make things better in the moment,
without playing the role of 'the one who knows'.
I am simply available to him.
I don't need to 'know' anything in this place...
And here,
I notice a deep and profound acceptance
of any wave of frustration or sadness
that appears in the ocean of experience.
And here,
I notice a deep and profound acceptance
of any wave of frustration or sadness
that appears in the ocean of experience.
And this seems to be
what true relationship is at its very core -
meeting, really meeting in the moment,
without hope, without
a future, without expectation, without a story.
Coming face to face with - yourself.
what true relationship is at its very core -
meeting, really meeting in the moment,
without hope, without
a future, without expectation, without a story.
Coming face to face with - yourself.
Nisargadatta Maharaj says:
"What remains is the great sadness of compassion"
"What remains is the great sadness of compassion"
It is not cold detachment and neo-Advaita
world-rejection,
but the
intimacy of the most unspeakable kind.
Jeff Foster
Excerpt from The Beauty We Love
Also here:
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/01/profound-not-knowing-jeff-foster.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29
world-rejection,
but the
intimacy of the most unspeakable kind.
Jeff Foster
Excerpt from The Beauty We Love
Also here:
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/01/profound-not-knowing-jeff-foster.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29
AFTERNOON
the silent self
There is a silent self within us
whose presence is disturbing precisely because it is so silent:
it can't be spoken.
It has to remain silent.
To articulate it, to verbalize it,
is to tamper with it, and in some way to destroy it.
There is a silent self within us
whose presence is disturbing precisely because it is so silent:
it can't be spoken.
It has to remain silent.
To articulate it, to verbalize it,
is to tamper with it, and in some way to destroy it.
Now let us frankly face the fact
that our culture is one which is geared in many ways
to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self.
that our culture is one which is geared in many ways
to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self.
We live in a state of constant semi attention
to the sound of voices, music, traffic,
or the generalized noise of what goes on around us all the time.
to the sound of voices, music, traffic,
or the generalized noise of what goes on around us all the time.
This keeps us immersed in a flood of racket and words,
a diffuse medium in which our consciousness is half diluted:
we are not quite "thinking",
not entirely responding,
but we are more or less there.
a diffuse medium in which our consciousness is half diluted:
we are not quite "thinking",
not entirely responding,
but we are more or less there.
We are not fully present and not entirely absent,
not fully withdrawn,
yet not completely available.
not fully withdrawn,
yet not completely available.
It cannot be said that we are really participating in anything
and we may in fact, be half conscious of our alienation and resentment.
Yet we derive a certain comfort from the vague sense
that we are "part of something"
-- although we are not quite able to define what that something is --
and probably wouldn't want to define it even if we could.
and we may in fact, be half conscious of our alienation and resentment.
Yet we derive a certain comfort from the vague sense
that we are "part of something"
-- although we are not quite able to define what that something is --
and probably wouldn't want to define it even if we could.
We just float along in the general noise.
Resigned and indifferent,
we share semi-consciously
in the mindless mind of Muzak and radio commercials
which pass for "reality".
- Thomas Merton
from Love & Living
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-silent-self.html
Resigned and indifferent,
we share semi-consciously
in the mindless mind of Muzak and radio commercials
which pass for "reality".
- Thomas Merton
from Love & Living
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-silent-self.html
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