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 5
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 5
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PRISTINE FORMLESS ABUNDANCE
IN/OF/AS IMMATERIAL REALMS
OVERFLOWS FREELY
THRU TRANSPARENT
ORIGINAL ONES
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5:41 AM-3/30/19
IN/OF/AS IMMATERIAL REALMS
OVERFLOWS FREELY
THRU TRANSPARENT
ORIGINAL ONES
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5:41 AM-3/30/19
As a child I felt myself to be alone,
and I am still,
because I know things
and must hint at things
which others apparently know nothing of,
and for the most part
do not want to know.
–Carl Gustav Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, excerpt
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/03/tear-off-mask-your-face-is-glorious-rumi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
and I am still,
because I know things
and must hint at things
which others apparently know nothing of,
and for the most part
do not want to know.
–Carl Gustav Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, excerpt
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/03/tear-off-mask-your-face-is-glorious-rumi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
BELOW:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 5
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 5
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
Dissolving
Chapter 5
1
You are pure.
Nothing touches you.
What is there to renounce?
Let it all go,
The body and the mind.
Let yourself dissolve.
Chapter 5
1
You are pure.
Nothing touches you.
What is there to renounce?
Let it all go,
The body and the mind.
Let yourself dissolve.
2
Like bubbles in the sea,
All the worlds arise in you.
Know you are the Self.
Know you are one.
Let yourself dissolve.
Like bubbles in the sea,
All the worlds arise in you.
Know you are the Self.
Know you are one.
Let yourself dissolve.
3
You see the world.
But like the snake in the rope,
It is not really there.
You are pure.
Let yourself dissolve.
You see the world.
But like the snake in the rope,
It is not really there.
You are pure.
Let yourself dissolve.
4
You are one and the same
In joy and sorrow,
Hope and despair,
Life and death.
You are already fulfilled.
Let yourself dissolve.
You are one and the same
In joy and sorrow,
Hope and despair,
Life and death.
You are already fulfilled.
Let yourself dissolve.
ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 5
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 5
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
AFTERNOON
There is a Living Silence that hears the cry of the Soul.
Abandon surface impressions and patterns.
Abandon what has become comfortable,
and embrace a sacred depth of being
that asks us to enter that which is wholly unknown
and that which fosters genuine metanoia.
Abandon what has become comfortable,
and embrace a sacred depth of being
that asks us to enter that which is wholly unknown
and that which fosters genuine metanoia.
This Holy Silence creates an inner clearing
that makes room for new life,
including
living, breathing Silence.
In this dimension
where time has become space,
life is enlivened.
that makes room for new life,
including
living, breathing Silence.
In this dimension
where time has become space,
life is enlivened.
We are fortunate to have night's solace.
In the silence that is created by the dark of night...
....that melancholy time,
when the stars remind us of the Silence of "God" -
here we can lean into the unknown,
setting aside life's demands and tasks,
and the oppressive weight
of our carefully constructed version
of who we think we are.
In the silence that is created by the dark of night...
....that melancholy time,
when the stars remind us of the Silence of "God" -
here we can lean into the unknown,
setting aside life's demands and tasks,
and the oppressive weight
of our carefully constructed version
of who we think we are.
We can remember
how to see in the dark...
with our ears... perceiving the Silence
in its holy echoing and resonance,
its calling forth a knowing
that is from the Soul.
how to see in the dark...
with our ears... perceiving the Silence
in its holy echoing and resonance,
its calling forth a knowing
that is from the Soul.
The Silence sends us on a different pilgrimage.
It guards the heart's fire and teaches us
to speak from within with a language
that is imbued with the Sacred.
Words thus nurtured in this Holy Silence
fly forth to lead us back
to the Silence from which we were born...
It guards the heart's fire and teaches us
to speak from within with a language
that is imbued with the Sacred.
Words thus nurtured in this Holy Silence
fly forth to lead us back
to the Silence from which we were born...
As we enter the mystery of Silence,
its presence resonates throughout the fibers of our flesh
to the soul inwardly and to the cosmos outwardly.
The inward silence of solitude
meets up with the Great Silence of Cosmic Wisdom.
When we do not cultivate this,
we lose access to the presence of the Silence.
Without silence we are lost
and cannot get still enough
to find
our way back.
its presence resonates throughout the fibers of our flesh
to the soul inwardly and to the cosmos outwardly.
The inward silence of solitude
meets up with the Great Silence of Cosmic Wisdom.
When we do not cultivate this,
we lose access to the presence of the Silence.
Without silence we are lost
and cannot get still enough
to find
our way back.
Silence bears the wholeness we keep looking for
while we do not know exactly what we are looking for.
It is around us and within us.
It goes to the deepest depths of the Soul
and to the outermost reaches of the cosmos
and continuously unites the two
at the centering place of our Heart.
Here everything comes alive again
as if for the first time.
We may be shocked to notice
we had not even realized we had lost ourselves.
And feel a new attunement to Spirit as a directly felt reality.
The Silence is palpable.
while we do not know exactly what we are looking for.
It is around us and within us.
It goes to the deepest depths of the Soul
and to the outermost reaches of the cosmos
and continuously unites the two
at the centering place of our Heart.
Here everything comes alive again
as if for the first time.
We may be shocked to notice
we had not even realized we had lost ourselves.
And feel a new attunement to Spirit as a directly felt reality.
The Silence is palpable.
In Silence everything displays its depth.
We are part of the depth of everything around us.
We see that separation between
ourselves and the world is an illusion.
We and the world
each mirror the other
within the depths of the Soul.
We are part of the depth of everything around us.
We see that separation between
ourselves and the world is an illusion.
We and the world
each mirror the other
within the depths of the Soul.
Silence is not merely the void
from which things spring up,
it is a living presence.
The deeper we enter into Silence
the more we become aware
that this living presence is primary.
Robert Sardello
From: Silence - The Mystery of Wholeness
from the Introduction and Chapter 1
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/03/silence-mystery-of-wholeness-sardello.html
from which things spring up,
it is a living presence.
The deeper we enter into Silence
the more we become aware
that this living presence is primary.
Robert Sardello
From: Silence - The Mystery of Wholeness
from the Introduction and Chapter 1
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/03/silence-mystery-of-wholeness-sardello.html
Rumi - Silence is the guide
The story admits of being told up to this point,
But what follows is hidden, and inexpressible in words.
If you should speak and try a hundred ways to express it,
'Tis useless; the mystery becomes no clearer,
You can ride on saddle and horse to the sea-coast,
But then you must use a horse of wood (i.e. a boat).
A horse of wood is useless on dry land,
It is the special vehicle of voyagers by sea.
Silence is this horse of wood,
Silence is the guide and support of men at sea.
The Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi
The story admits of being told up to this point,
But what follows is hidden, and inexpressible in words.
If you should speak and try a hundred ways to express it,
'Tis useless; the mystery becomes no clearer,
You can ride on saddle and horse to the sea-coast,
But then you must use a horse of wood (i.e. a boat).
A horse of wood is useless on dry land,
It is the special vehicle of voyagers by sea.
Silence is this horse of wood,
Silence is the guide and support of men at sea.
The Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi
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Ashtavakra Gita - Chapter 5
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BELOW:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 5
Dissolving
Chapter 5
1
You are pure.
Nothing touches you.
What is there to renounce?
Let it all go,
The body and the mind.
Let yourself dissolve.
2
Like bubbles in the sea,
All the worlds arise in you.
Know you are the Self.
Know you are one.
Let yourself dissolve.
3
You see the world.
But like the snake in the rope,
It is not really there.
You are pure.
Let yourself dissolve.
4
You are one and the same
In joy and sorrow,
Hope and despair,
Life and death.
You are already fulfilled.
Let yourself dissolve.
ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 5
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 5
Dissolving
Chapter 5
1
You are pure.
Nothing touches you.
What is there to renounce?
Let it all go,
The body and the mind.
Let yourself dissolve.
2
Like bubbles in the sea,
All the worlds arise in you.
Know you are the Self.
Know you are one.
Let yourself dissolve.
3
You see the world.
But like the snake in the rope,
It is not really there.
You are pure.
Let yourself dissolve.
4
You are one and the same
In joy and sorrow,
Hope and despair,
Life and death.
You are already fulfilled.
Let yourself dissolve.
ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 5
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313
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