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 7
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 7
ORIGIN’S OUROBOROS
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SOULULTION-INHALE-SOULUTION-EXHALE
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DISSOLVES ALL THAT IS UNREAL
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BOUNDLESS FORMLESS BEING REMAINS
BEYOND ANY SELF & MAN-MADE GOD AWARENESS* **
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4:34 AM-4/1/19
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SOULULTION-INHALE-SOULUTION-EXHALE
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DISSOLVES ALL THAT IS UNREAL
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BOUNDLESS FORMLESS BEING REMAINS
BEYOND ANY SELF & MAN-MADE GOD AWARENESS* **
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4:34 AM-4/1/19
*Douglas Harding
* http://www.headless.org/
**Bernadette Roberts
**"Where there is no personal self, there is no personal God.”
**https://www.innerexplorations.com/ewtext/br.htm
* http://www.headless.org/
**Bernadette Roberts
**"Where there is no personal self, there is no personal God.”
**https://www.innerexplorations.com/ewtext/br.htm
7
The Boundless Ocean
1
I am the boundless ocean.
This way and that,
The wind, blowing where it will,
Drives the ship of the world.
But I am not shaken.
The Boundless Ocean
1
I am the boundless ocean.
This way and that,
The wind, blowing where it will,
Drives the ship of the world.
But I am not shaken.
2
I am the unbounded deep
In whom the waves of all the worlds
Naturally rise and fall.
But I do not rise or fall.
I am the unbounded deep
In whom the waves of all the worlds
Naturally rise and fall.
But I do not rise or fall.
3
I am the infinite deep
In whom all the worlds
Appear to rise.
Beyond all form,
Forever still.
Even so am I.
I am the infinite deep
In whom all the worlds
Appear to rise.
Beyond all form,
Forever still.
Even so am I.
4
I am not in the world.
The world is not in me.
I am pure.
I am unbounded.
Free from attachment,
Free from desire,
Still.
Even so am I.
I am not in the world.
The world is not in me.
I am pure.
I am unbounded.
Free from attachment,
Free from desire,
Still.
Even so am I.
5
O how wonderful!
I am awareness itself,
No less.
The world is a magic show!
But in me
There is nothing to embrace,
And nothing to turn away.
O how wonderful!
I am awareness itself,
No less.
The world is a magic show!
But in me
There is nothing to embrace,
And nothing to turn away.
ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 7
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 7
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
AFTERNOON
Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it
is the essence of mindfulness practice.
This knowing is a non-conceptual knowing,
or a bigger than conceptual knowing.
It is awareness itself.
is the essence of mindfulness practice.
This knowing is a non-conceptual knowing,
or a bigger than conceptual knowing.
It is awareness itself.
It is a capacity you already have.
All it involves is paying attention
to your experience from moment to moment.
All it involves is paying attention
to your experience from moment to moment.
This leads directly to new ways
of seeing and being in your life
because the present moment,
whenever it is recognized and honored,
reveals a very special,
indeed magical power:
it is the only time that any of us ever has.
of seeing and being in your life
because the present moment,
whenever it is recognized and honored,
reveals a very special,
indeed magical power:
it is the only time that any of us ever has.
The present is the only time that we have to know anything.
It is the only time we have to perceive,
to learn,
to act,
to change,
to heal,
to love.
It is the only time we have to perceive,
to learn,
to act,
to change,
to heal,
to love.
That is why we value moment-to-moment awareness so highly.
It makes our experiences more vivid
and
our lives more real.
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/01/29278/
It makes our experiences more vivid
and
our lives more real.
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/01/29278/
Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan
The two important things in life are the praise of God and the pursuit of God.
The praise of God is important, and it gives bliss in life,
but it is not the real attainment.
The all-important work in life is the attainment of God.
God cannot be explained.
Any attempt to do this always ends in failure.
The knowledge of Him can only be attained in the silence and in solitude,
and how to do this cannot be explained better
than in the words of the Urdu poet Zahir,
'He who attaineth best the peace of God,
his very self must lose.'
from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/V/V_38.htm
The two important things in life are the praise of God and the pursuit of God.
The praise of God is important, and it gives bliss in life,
but it is not the real attainment.
The all-important work in life is the attainment of God.
God cannot be explained.
Any attempt to do this always ends in failure.
The knowledge of Him can only be attained in the silence and in solitude,
and how to do this cannot be explained better
than in the words of the Urdu poet Zahir,
'He who attaineth best the peace of God,
his very self must lose.'
from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/V/V_38.htm
Read More Below
Chapter 7
Ashtavakra Gita
"...ultimate refuge..." "..a special kind of grace.."
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7
The Boundless Ocean
1
I am the boundless ocean.
This way and that,
The wind, blowing where it will,
Drives the ship of the world.
But I am not shaken.
2
I am the unbounded deep
In whom the waves of all the worlds
Naturally rise and fall.
But I do not rise or fall.
3
I am the infinite deep
3 In whom all the worlds
Appear to rise.
Beyond all form,
Forever still.
Even so am I.
4
I am not in the world.
The world is not in me.
I am pure.
I am unbounded.
Free from attachment,
Free from desire,
Still.
Even so am I.
5
O how wonderful!
I am awareness itself,
No less.
The world is a magic show!
But in me
There is nothing to embrace,
And nothing to turn away
The Boundless Ocean
1
I am the boundless ocean.
This way and that,
The wind, blowing where it will,
Drives the ship of the world.
But I am not shaken.
2
I am the unbounded deep
In whom the waves of all the worlds
Naturally rise and fall.
But I do not rise or fall.
3
I am the infinite deep
3 In whom all the worlds
Appear to rise.
Beyond all form,
Forever still.
Even so am I.
4
I am not in the world.
The world is not in me.
I am pure.
I am unbounded.
Free from attachment,
Free from desire,
Still.
Even so am I.
5
O how wonderful!
I am awareness itself,
No less.
The world is a magic show!
But in me
There is nothing to embrace,
And nothing to turn away
ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 7
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 7
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
( "...ultimate refuge..." "..a special kind of grace.." )
The forms of love
The specific forms that love take in our lives
arise and pass in time,
for this is the way of form.
Time is the great dissolver.
But love itself is that which
never comes and goes.
We never know what form love
will choose to take in the future,
for there is no love in the future.
Love is only now.
But it can take a cleansing of perception
to see through the veil,
behind the scenes where love is always at work…
giving birth to one of its forms,
one of its children,
while recycling and dissolving another.
If we become too fused with a specific form
we believe we need love to take
—a particular person or way
of finding purpose and meaning--
our heart will inevitably break
when love obliterates that form
for something new,
which it always will.
This shattering is the great gift of form,
evidence not of error and mistake,
but of wholeness and profound compassion.
This dissolution and reorganization is
a special kind of grace
that the conventional mind struggles to know.
But the heart knows.
The body knows.
May we be grateful
for the forms of love while they appear,
standing in awe at the ways
the beloved takes expression within
this chaotic, messy, and glorious
sanctuary of time and space.
While simultaneously allowing
the forms to make their own journey,
to depart this place and move
into another world.
Seek ultimate refuge not in love’s forms,
but in the field of love itself,
that which never comes and goes.
For this is what you are.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-forms-of-love.html
The forms of love
The specific forms that love take in our lives
arise and pass in time,
for this is the way of form.
Time is the great dissolver.
But love itself is that which
never comes and goes.
We never know what form love
will choose to take in the future,
for there is no love in the future.
Love is only now.
But it can take a cleansing of perception
to see through the veil,
behind the scenes where love is always at work…
giving birth to one of its forms,
one of its children,
while recycling and dissolving another.
If we become too fused with a specific form
we believe we need love to take
—a particular person or way
of finding purpose and meaning--
our heart will inevitably break
when love obliterates that form
for something new,
which it always will.
This shattering is the great gift of form,
evidence not of error and mistake,
but of wholeness and profound compassion.
This dissolution and reorganization is
a special kind of grace
that the conventional mind struggles to know.
But the heart knows.
The body knows.
May we be grateful
for the forms of love while they appear,
standing in awe at the ways
the beloved takes expression within
this chaotic, messy, and glorious
sanctuary of time and space.
While simultaneously allowing
the forms to make their own journey,
to depart this place and move
into another world.
Seek ultimate refuge not in love’s forms,
but in the field of love itself,
that which never comes and goes.
For this is what you are.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-forms-of-love.html
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