WAILS & HOWLS **** APPLY VAST SILENCE "Even in sleep, I am awake." April 8, 2019

​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 14
The Fool

6:42 AM - View from garden lot

​WAILS & HOWLS
YOWLS & WAILS
VIA
PHYSICAL NERVE ENDINGS
MAP THE RELIEF REQUIRED
< 
APPLY VAST SILENCE
 VIA
PRESSURE TO PRESSURE
∞
ALSO REMEMBER:
ORIGINAL ONES’ AWARENESS
HAPPENS WITHOUT PHYSICAL TOUCH
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5:10 AM-4/8/19

14 
The Fool 

​1 
By nature my mind is empty.
 Even in sleep,
I am awake.
I think of things without thinking.

All my impressions of the world
Have dissolved.​

2
My desires have melted away.

So what do I care for money
Or the thieving senses,
For friends or knowledge or holy books?

3
Liberation,
 Bondage,
What are they to me?

What do I care for freedom?

For I have known God,
The infinite Self,
The witness of all things.

4
Without, a fool. 
Within, free of thought.

I do as I please,
And only those like me
Understand my ways.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 14
The Fool
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313​​​

Before she became fire, she was water.
Quenched the thirst of every dying creature.
She gave and she gave,
until she turned from sea to desert.
But instead of dying of the heat,
the sadness, the heartache,
she took all of her pain
and from her own ashes
became fire.
~Nikita Gill
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/08/29324/​

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AFTERNOON

The path to heaven lies through heaven,
and all the way to heaven is heaven.
–Catherine of Siena

The bird has no path; 
where the bird flies is the path.

The fish has no path in water;
wherever it swims is the path.
–The Upanishads ​

Rather the flying bird, leaving no trace
Than the going beast
Marking the earth with his track.

The bird flies by and forgets
(As is only right). The beast
Where he no longer is
(And is therefore no use)
Marks that he was there before
(Which is also no use).

For to remember is to betray
Nature, since the nature of yesterday
Is not nature.
What has been, is nothing.
Remembering
Is failure to see.

Move on, bird, move on, teach me
To move on.


–Fernando Pessoa
Thomas Merton version

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Who (be quiet) Are you


Be still
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
To speak your

Name.
Listen
To the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
Are you? Whose
Silence are you?

Who (be quiet)
Are you (as these stones
Are quiet). Do not
Think of what you are
Still less of

What you may one day be.
Rather
Be what you are (but who?) be
The unthinkable one
You do not know.

O be still, while
You are still alive,
And all things live around you
Speaking (I do not hear)
To your own being,
Speaking by the Unknown
That is in you and in themselves.

“I will try, like them
To be my own silence:
And this is difficult. The whole
World is secretly on fire. The stones
Burn, even the stones
They burn me. How can a man be still or
Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
To sit with them when
All their silence
Is on fire?”

–Thomas Merton
in silence
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