O SO SIMPLE! "Closer Than Breath" "...die while on this earth..." December 5, 2019

AS LIFE CLEARS OF MATERIAL MAN EXCESS
IN ALL REALMS…
CLEAR SEEING HAPPENS
O SO SIMPLE!
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5:59 AM-12/5/19

Pir Elias Amidon -
​So Close … Closer Than Breath


​So Close
From the Tibetan Shangpa Kagyu tradition comes this exquisite riddle:

It’s so close you can’t see it.
It’s so profound you can’t fathom it.
It’s so simple you can’t believe it.
It’s so good you can’t accept it.

What is it?

Conclusion:
This that is so good pervades all being.
It is the pure love-generosity that is
so close,
so profound,
so simple
​we can’t surround it
with our usual ways of knowing and feeling.

As Rumi advises,
“Close these eyes to open the other.
Let the center brighten your sight.”
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All Quotes below in this font by
​ Angelus Silesius
with more details found here:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angelus_Silesius

The rose is without 'why';
it blooms simply because it blooms.
It pays no attention to itself,
​ nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish,
You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.

How fleeting is this world
yet it survives.
It is ourselves that fade from it
and our ephemeral lives.
 
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem
– but all in vain until He is born in me.

Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend?
It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee
 
The All proceedeth from the One,
And into One must All regress:
If otherwise, the All remains
Asunder-riven manyness.

God is an utter Nothingness,
Beyond the touch of Time and Place:
The more thou graspest after Him,
The more he fleeth thy embrace.
 
Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He.
To know Him, Knower must be one with Known.

The Wise Man is that which he hath.
The precious Pearl of Paradise Wouldst thou not lose,
then must thou be Thyself that Pearl of greatest price.
 
If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside
 
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Below from:
​ "Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius
By Frederick Franck"
found on this webpage:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angelus_Silesius ​

He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.
 
How short our span!
If you once realized how brief,
you would refrain
from causing any beast or man
the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

Christ was born a man for me,
for me he died -
Unless I become God
through Him,
His birth is mocked
His death denied

True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground

God far exceeds all words that we can here express

• In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best


• No thought for the hereafter have the wise,

• for on this very earth they live in paradise


• All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning.

• You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning


• Unless you find paradise at your own center,

• there is not the smallest chance
  That you may enter

​Saints do not die. It is their lot,

• To die while on this earth to all that God is not.

​The vengeful God of wrath and punishment

• is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me
  That makes me fail.

 
Above in this font from
Translation in "Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius
By Frederick Franck"
found on this webpage:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angelus_Silesius

See Read More Below Afternoon Photos
for
Andrew Harvey's New book
​ re: Angelus Silesius

AFTERNOON

Note heart shape in "jungle" just to right of fencepost top.

From her new book
 Death: The End of Self-Improvement
by Joan Tollifson 

When the future disappears,
we are brought home to the immediacy
that we may have avoided all our lives--
the vibrant aliveness Here-Now,
the only place where we ever actually are.

Whether it is the personal death that awaits each of us,
or the inevitable planetary death
in which the earth itself will be no more,
or even the end of the entire known universe,
death is the single reality
that most clearly informs us that
the future is a fantasy
and that the person and the world
and everything
that we have been so concerned about
are all fleeting bubbles in a stream.

This book is not about getting control
and staying young forever,
nor is it about avoiding or denying
any of the messiness and painful loss that aging and dying and living inevitably involve.

This is not a self-help book that tells you how to stay active and feel perpetually young,
nor does it promise any kind of afterlife “for you”
through heaven or reincarnation.

Rather, this book is about fully embracing death,
and therefore life, wholeheartedly and relaxing
into the total disintegration and loss of control that growing old and falling apart
— and living and loving and being awake--
actually entails.
~ Joan Tollifson

Above from her new book
 Death: The End of Self-Improvement
by Joan Tollifson 
see this link for much more:
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/death-dissolving-joan-tollifson/?utm_source=Stillness+Speaks+Newsletter&utm_campaign=87b3bb5d45-NL_2019_12_04_D-D-EoSI-JT_ALL-S&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5958d3327-87b3bb5d45-19977997

​See Read More Below
Andrew Harvey's New book
​ re: Angelus Silesius

ANDREW HARVEY'S NEW BOOK:

Dear friends,
I am thrilled and honored to present to you my new book, Becoming God: 108 Epigrams from The Cherubinic Pilgrim by Angelus Silesius.
Angelus Silesius is one of humanity’s
few universal mystics.
He lived in the 17th century and his work had an enormous impact in German literature,
but he is far too little known in the English-speaking world.

I have worked on this book for half my lifetime
because I have come to understand that Silesius
knew the greatest secret of all,
the secret that burns
at the heart of the world’s great mystical traditions.

This secret is that humanity is
destined to be transfigured in heart, mind, soul, and body—going though not only an existential crisis
of epic proportions
but an actual mutation
from one kind of species to another.
​
SEE MORE FROM ANDREW HARVEY HERE:
https://mailchi.mp/andrewharvey/pilgrimage-intothe-sacred-heart-of-sri-lanka-761981?e=242e4756ff