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 20
I Am Shiva
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IN/OF/AS TAO CORE MINDLESS TRANSPARENCY
HELD/ATTUNED/MOVED
VIA
MOTHER NATURE’S NATURAL RHYTHMS
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4:41 AM-4/20/19
I Am Shiva
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I am fulfilled.
The elements of nature,
The body and the senses,
What are they to me?
Or the mind?
What is emptiness or despair?
What are holy books,
Or knowledge of the Self,
Or the mind,
Even when it is free of the senses?
Or happiness,
Or freedom from desire?
I am always
One without two.
Knowledge or ignorance,
Freedom or bondage,
What are they?
What is "I,"
Or "mine,"
Or "this"?
Or the form of the true Self?
I am always one.
What do I care for freedom
In life or in death,
Or for my present karma?
I am always
Without I.
So where is the one
Who acts or enjoys?
And what is the rising
Or the vanishing of thought?
What is the invisible world,
Or the visible?
In my heart I am one.
What is this world?
Who seeks freedom,
Or wisdom or oneness?
Who is bound or free?
In my heart I am one.
What is creation,
Or dissolution?
What is seeking,
And the end of seeking?
Who is the seeker?
What has he found?
I am forever pure.
What do I care who knows,
What is known,
Or how it is known?
What do I care for knowledge?
What do I care what is,
Or what is not?
I am forever still.
What are joy or sorrow,
Distraction or concentration,
Understanding or delusion?
I am always without thought.
What is happiness or grief?
What is here and now,
Or beyond?
I am forever pure.
What is illusion,
Or the world?
What is the little soul,
Or God himself?
One without two,
I am always the same.
I sit in my heart.
What need is there
For striving or stillness?
What is freedom or bondage?
What are holy books or teachings?
What is the purpose of life?
Who is the disciple,
And who is the master?
For I have no bounds.
I am Shiva
Nothing arises in me,
In whom nothing is single,
Nothing is double.
Nothing is,
Nothing is not.
What more is there to say?
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Chapter 20
I Am Shiva
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
What is the deep listening? Sama is
a greeting from the secret ones inside
the heart, a letter. The branches of
your intelligence grow new leaves in
the wind of this listening. The body
reaches a peace. Rooster sound comes,
reminding you of your love for dawn.
the knack of how spirit breathes into
us becomes as simple and ordinary as
eating and drinking. The dead rise with
the pleasure of listening. If someone
can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle
dirt on his head and declare him dead.
separation, the unsayable absence.
Learn to be companions with it. Give
more of your life to this listening. As
brightness is to time, so you are to
the one who talks to the deep ear in
your chest.
and buy a thousand ears when that
one steps near and begins to speak.
—Rumi
from The Glance
Coleman Barks version
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/question_18.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.
—Rumi
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/you-are-that_18.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
AFTERNOON
They are real lines.
You can feel them.
The most difficult part about
the warrior’s way is to realize
that the world is a feeling.
When one is not-doing,
one is feeling the world,
and one feels the world through its lines.
—Carlos Castaneda
Feel yourself as Everything.
—Alan Watts
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-world-is-feeling.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
we are at the centre of the circle
and there we sit
while Yes and No
chase each other
around the circumference.
—Chuang Tzu
BE
NO EFFORT
ON YOUR PART
EXCEPT TO STILL
YOUR BUSY MIND
INTO
THE SILENCE THAT IS BEYOND SILENCE...
Excerpt from:
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Dorothea Mills/elizabeth walker