ORIGIN'S SILENCE "....rows of corpses,..." "...verticality of being..." December 7, 2019

ORIGIN’S SILENCE POSSESSES
ALL ELSE DISTURBS PEACE THAT PASSETH
MAN’S UNDERSTANDING
ORIGIN’S NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE SILENCE CONFIRMS
IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL WITH ALL SOULS*
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4:33 AM-12/7/19
*When peace, like a river, attendeth my way
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say
It is well, it is well with my soul
https://theblazingcenter.com/2018/08/peace-that-passes-all-understanding.html
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ORIGIN’S NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE SILENCE CONFIRMS
IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL WITH ALL SOULS
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Looking and Seeing


The glaring contrast between seeing and looking
– at the world around us –
is immense; it is fateful.
Everything in our society seems to conspire
​against our inborn human gift of seeing.​

We have become addicted to
merely looking – at things and beings.
​
The more we regress from seeing
to looking-at the world – through the ever-more-perfected machinery of viewfinders,
TV tubes, VCRs, microscopes,
spectroscopes, stereoscopes –
the less we see.

The less we see,
the more numbed we become
to the joy and the pain of being alive,
and the further estranged
we become from ourselves
and all others.

If we could still really see
what day after day is shown on the six o’clock news,
we would burst out in tears.
We would pray, or kneel,
or perhaps make the sign of the cross
over that screen
in an impotent gesture
​ of exorcising such evil,
such insanity.​

But there we sit,
programmed as we are to look-at,
to stare passively at those burning tanks,
those animals choking in oil spills.
We perfunctorily shake our heads,
take another sip of our drink,
and stare at the manic commercials
until the thing switches back to smiling bigwigs
reviewing honor guards,
rows of corpses,
and beauty queens preening.

No wonder that once the art of seeing is lost,
Meaning is lost,
and all life itself
​seems ever more meaningless:

No wonder that once the art of seeing is lost,
Meaning is lost,
and all life itself
​seems ever more meaningless:

“They know not what they do…”
for they do not see what they look-at.

Frederick Sigfred Franck
Posted::
12/6/19
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com

​AFTERNOON

Amoda Maa - Meditation


.......the question of meditation
cannot be answered by the mind.
It can only be realized when silence
has become the bedrock of your life.
This silence is not about closing the doors,
turning off the phone and lighting some candles.
Nor is it to do with trying to get rid of your thoughts
... or imagining the perfect sanctuary of peace.

This silence happens
when you stop giving attention
to the narratives that wrap themselves
around your experience of reality.
This silence happens
when you turn towards tenderness
every time an unwanted feeling
enters your inner landscape.
This silence happens
when you have surrendered
all resistance to what is.

This silence happens
when you are no longer
the center of your universe,
when you have become without a center
and the whole universe is in you.
Without resistance,
there is no inner conflict,
no inner division,
no outside and no inside,
no barrier and no boundary.

When you know your true nature as silence,
there is no need to do meditation ..
you ARE meditation.
True meditation is a state of being.
It is your natural open state.
In your natural open state,
there is nothing to move away from
and nothing to move towards.
You are simply and irrevocably here.
There is no longer a question ..
​ because in silence all questions fall away.

So,
it’s not about whether you meditate or not.
It’s about whether you can fall
into the silence that is always here
prior to your ideas of what meditation is
or what it can give you
or where it can take you.
Whether you sit in deep stillness
or whether you are doing something in the world,
this silence is always here ..
it is in you as being-ness.
Being-ness does not need to do meditation
.. it IS meditation.

I am often asked whether I meditate or not
.. and I sort of shake my head,
unable to give a definitive answer.
Did I used to do meditation? Yes.
Until meditation swallowed me up
and all that was left was silence.
Now the whole of life is meditation,
without doing a practice,
without trying to get anywhere,
​without trying to change anything.
Now .. I AM meditation.

So,
perhaps it is wise to ask a different question
.. how can I meet myself and meet the world as silence?

Perhaps this question will turn
the mind around from its horizontal searching
into the
verticality of being
that is always here.

And then you will discover
what true meditation is.

Excerpt from:
https://www.amodamaa.com/words-1/2019/3/15/meditation

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"The beauty of the riddle is that it forces us to the edge of language and then pushes us off.."

From an EXCELLENT Commentary
​by miriam louisa......re: a quote we shared yesterday on this OceanSpeak:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/holy-fool-wisdom-mature-innocence-control-is-an-illusion-getting-lost-in-regression-and-solitude-december-6-2019
re:
Pir Elias Amidon -
​So Close … Closer Than Breath

Here is the link for miriam's Commentary..
​..WELL WORTH SATURATING WITH
https://thisunlitlight.com/2019/12/07/so-what-is-it/#comment-8185