Hay-Ku of the Day (Being Being)

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(Red Sea Photograph)

Red Sea © 2008 RFHay; There was definitely a "collective sense of common humanity" at the Phillies' World Championship Parade today; a sense that at times approached a "trans-personal and/or self-transcendental" level; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

"I" can "Be Being"
But "I" can't relate to That
"Self-reflectively."

"I" can "Be Being"
But "I" cannot relate to
That as a "person."

"I" can "Be Being"
But can't relate to "That" as
"Other than I Am."

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Non-Relative Truth)

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(Celebration Photograph)

Celebration © 2008 RFHay; An image celebrating a surprise visit from an "old thinking buddy" (whose love of "Being books" may exceed mine) and a Philadelphia Phillies' World Championship; both of which involve "conceptual relations" to Reality; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

"I as I Am" in
Truth can't Be related
To relatively.

Regardless of what
"I think I am," I remain
What I Am in Truth.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Consciousness)

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(Desert Puffy Photograph)

Desert Puffy © 2001 RFHay; This image offers a beautiful visual metaphor (with the cloud a "thought" and the sky "awareness") for Sri Nisargadatta's response that "Consciousness is Awareness with an object" when asked to differentiate the two; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Consciousness is the
Aware-Presence of Being
I Am Here and Now.

Consciousness is the
Aware-Presence of Being
I Am and You Are.

Consciousness is the
Aware-Presence of Being
That Underlies All.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Freedom 2)

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(Tower of Babble Photograph)

Tower of Babble © 2001 RFHay: The Biblical metaphor of the "Tower of Babble" points to two things: (1) the arrogant self-ignorance of "I as I think I am" (egocentric thought or carnal mind); and (2) the fact one can't build a ladder to heaven (know the Absolute Truth of Being relatively); Free when "I as I Am" cease to think of myself as Being a "part."

Perfectly Free when
"I" stop believing "I Am
Other than I Am."

Free when "I as I
Am" stop thinking of myself
As other than That.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (How to Be Free)

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(Coit Memorial Tower Photograph)

Coit Memorial Tower (SF) © 2001 RFHay: How can "Anything" (as a relative state or concept of Being -- re: Coit Tower) be "other than I Am" if "I Am Consciousness Itself"; Companion haiku: Stop assuming a relative relationship to "Reality."

I Am Free when I
Stop relating to Life as
Other than I Am.

I Am Free when I
Stop relating to Life as
A "mental object."

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Me, Myself and I)

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(Gazebo Photograph)

Gazebo © 2008 RFHay; Is there anything "other than I Am and You Are" -- as Pure Being, as Conscious Aliveness, as Divine Energy, as Reality -- in this photograph of a particular "local point" in time and space; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Thinking creates a
"Me" that relates to "Life" as
A "mental object."

Language creates a
"Me" that relates to "Life" as
Other than "I Am."

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Knowledge)

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(Relative Being Photograph)

Relative Being (c) 2001 RFHay; The instant "I think about" what "I am seeing" I lose contact with the Reality of the Unified Field of Conscious Aliveness I Am in which both "seer and seen" necessarily arise; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

I cannot relate
To Conscious Aliveness in
A relative way.

I cannot relate
To that which I Am in a
Relative manner.

©2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Relative States)

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(USSR Parade Flag Photograph)

Former USSR Parade Flag © 2008 RFHay; A flag that represented a "Political State of Being" that turned to "ashes" a lot sooner than anyone expected; Companion haiku: Accompanying."

Ashes to ashes
And dust to dust" refers
To "relative states."

Although Being is
Permanent, "relative states"
Of Being are not.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Many in One)

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(The Kiss Photograph)

The Kiss: Two of the many polar (male and female) states of "human Being" (in a momentary state of conscious union/re-union), which current photos indicate are definitely finite in both time and space; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Conscious Aliveness
Assumes many states but is
Limited by None.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Conceived Being)

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(Withering Grass Photograph)

Withering Grass © 2000 RFHay; Every "thing" (concept of Being) in this picture would have to be classified as a "finite state" of Being and/or "Flesh" (Re:"The grass withereth, the flowers fadeth: but the Word (The Pure Conscious Aliveness I Am) of our God shall stand forever."); Companion haiku: Accompanying.

A "finite sense" of
Self-conceived Being is now
Mistaken for Life.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Contraction)

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(Time and Space Photograph)

Time and Space (c) 2001 RFHay; Relative "time and space" are two of the "conceptual things" egocentric thought "subjects me" to as a "human conception" of Being.

Egocentric thought
Contracts the Heartfelt Conscious
Aliveness I Am.

©2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Pointing to God)

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(Verrazano Sunset 3 Photograph)

[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Verrazano Sunset 3; The "Conscious or Aware" component of the "Conscious Aliveness I Am" implicitly includes the "Pure Light of Awareness"("...the True Light, which ligheth every man that cometh into the world") -- the Light without which the "Conscious Awareness I Am" could not exist.]

This Heartfelt Sense of
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Is What some call God.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Ignorance)

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(Point A to Point Be Photograph)

Point A to Point B © 2001 RFHay; Thinking about “getting from here to there,” I often miss the Beauty of Being Consciously Aware and Alive as I Am in any given moment; Companion haiku: Conscious Aliveness Is the Foundation of Life the mind overlooks.

Ignoring the Pure
Conscious Aliveness I Am
In favor of thought.

Minding “this” to the
Exclusion of “that” I miss
Conscious Aliveness.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Name Games)

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(Verrazano Sunset 1 Photograph)

Verrazano Sunset 1 (c) 2001 RFHay; Conscious Aliveness is a phrase that has both a conceptual and visceral component that seems to bridge (or marry) Spirit and Flesh, Awareness and Sensation, Thought and Feeling, Mind and Heart, and/or Male and Female.]

Consciousness, Being
And I Am are all Names for
Conscious Aliveness.

Conscious Aliveness,
Being and I Am are Names
For the "Living God."

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Being)

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(First Officer Photograph)

First Officer © 2000 RFHay: The Aware-Presence of the Conscious Aliveness of Being I Am is still Here and Now but the “Airline Pilot” in this picture “ceased to be” in June of 2004, as did the AF Major in Nov of 1987.

The Aware-Presence
Of Being I Am is Pure
Conscious Aliveness.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (All I See)

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(High Flight Photograph)

High Flight (c)2001 KRew; As "Everything" goes with today's hay-ku, I thought I'd use my favorite Higgins photo (he's 12 now and recently retired from Frisbee catching); Companion haiku: All I see is a Vibrant State of the Conscious Aliveness I Am.

Everything I see
Is a State of the Conscious
Aliveness I Am.

Everything is a
Vibrant State of the Conscious
Aliveness I Am.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Life's Calling)

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(Life's Essence Photograph)

Life’s Essence © 2008 RFHay; An expanded version of this Eugene, OR, street mural aphorism might be “Love of Being Consciously Aware as I Am is the Essence of Life”; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

I’m called to Love the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Above what “I think.”

I’m called to Love the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
“Within and without.”

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (What One Is)

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(The Unity of All Opposites Photograph)

The Unity of All Opposites (c) 2006 RFHay; The Conscious Aliveness I Am ever circling inward towards the Alpha-Omega Point at the Heart and Center of All.]

"I Am" the "Conscious
Aliveness I Am" and not
What "I think I am."

"I Am" the "Conscious
Aliveness I Am" and not
What the "mind reports.

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (What Can I Be?)

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(Vibrating Oneness Photograph)

Vibrating Oneness (c) 2006 RFHay; An abstract drawing of inter-penetrating, expanding circles in a Conscious Field of Aliveness similar to "multiple ripples" in a single pool of water; Companion haiku: How can I ever Be other than the Conscious Aliveness I Am.

Can "I Be" other
Than the "Conscious Aliveness"
"I Am" Here and Now?

Can "God Be" other
Than the "Conscious Aliveness"
"I Am" Here and Now?

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Loving Life)

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(Ever-Blooming Life Photograph)

Ever-Blooming Life; The "Divine Seed" of the "Conscious Aliveness I Am" is blooming everywhere One looks as an Outer Reflection of the "Ever-Expanding, Life, Light and Love" Blooming in One's Heart.

Mindfulness of the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Is Divine Worship.

Keeping in mind the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Is worshiping God.

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Mind Games)

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(End of the Story Photograph)

End of the Story © 2001 RFHay; Near the end of the day and the story of the tree in yesterday’s image – a tree that became the ivy covered stump it is today; Companion haiku: Conscious Aliveness is Being overlooked in favor of “stories.”

Conscious Aliveness
Is now Being overlooked
In favor of thought.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Common Ground)

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(Tree of Life Photograph)

Tree of Life © 2001 RFHay; A "human branch" on the "Tree of Life" in the process of "trimming (or in this case actually bringing down) the tree"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

"Conscious Aliveness"
Is the "Common Ground of All
"That "never changes."

"Conscious Aliveness"
Is the "One Thing" in our Lives
That remains "Constant.'

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Law of Love)

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(Grace and Mercy Photograph)

Grace and Mercy (c) 2008; This "WWII" Memorial of an Angel lifing-up a "fallen soldier" in Philadephia's 30th Street Station seems appropriate to the subject; Love of Being the Conscious Aliveness I Am is Self-Transcending.

Love of Being the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Is the "Living Law."

Love of Being the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Encompasses All.

Love of Being the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Includes "You and I."

[Rich Note: This is another one of those pieces for which there are an endless number of alternative "good third lines" and those who wish are most welcome to suggest any that might come to mind.]

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (First Person Singular)

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(Smelling the Roses Photograph)

Smelling the Roses © 2000 RFHay; Two firsts (and lasts): Yours truly wearing a beard, "stopping to smell the roses" during a 2000 cross-country road trip with my buddy Jimmy; Companion haiku: If "I Am Being Itself" can anything "Be Other" than "I Am."

If "Being" is "What
I Am" how can "I" ever"Be"
Other" than "That"?

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Denial)

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(States of Being Photograph)

States of Being (c)2008 RFHay; Both the "Dead Statue" and the "Live Bush" have Existence or Being in our Awareness, and the "dead and alive" are only conceptual over-lays.

Can “I” deny the
Fact of my own Existence,
That “I Am Being”?

© 2006 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Conceptual Worship)

Worshiping ideas
Above the Awareness in
Which they all rise.

Worshiping worldly
Matters above the Conscious
Awareness I Am.

[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) "Who Is Worshiping What?"; Attention fixed on the outer world of appearance implies a reciprocal self-worship that must eventually be crucified on the "Cross of the Here and Now" if One is to resurrect the Full Potential of Life and Being; Companion haiku: Worshiping self-thought instead of the Awareness of Being I Am.]

[Rich Note: What I give the preponderance of my conscious attention to (which, as a human being, is normally "me, myself and I" as a central referent of an apparent "self-existent world of personal being"), either as a function of love or fear (or variations thereof), I am actually worshiping.]

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (My Self)

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(Here and There Photograph)

Here and There (c) 2008 RFHay; The distance between "here," on this end of the log, and "there," on the other end of the log, is only conceptual; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

"My Self" implies a
Conceptual division
In That which I Am.

"My Self" implies a
Conceptual division
In "Being Itself."

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Mental Leverage)

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(Me and Myself Photograph)

Me and Myself © 2008 RFHay; A nice visual representation of the “relationship” I assume “I as I think I am” ("me" as the thinker) have with my own “thoughts of being or self-reflections” ("myself" as I think); Companion haiku: Accompanying.

“Self-control” requires
Mental space and leverage That
“I” do not have.

Without mental space
Between “me and myself” how
Can “I” control “ me”?

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Duplicity)

For "me" to control
"Myself" I would have to Be
"Other than I Am."

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(Flying United Photograph)

Flying United; A beautiful motif of flying "Canada Geese" (that leave no "trail, residue or memory" in the Clear Sky of Awareness) that has "Celtic, Taoist, Buddhist and Trinitarian" implications; Companion haiku: I cannot control myself because I Am both Subject and Object.]

[Rich Note: God's apparent nonsensical response of, "I AM THAT I AM," when responding to Moses' query as to the "Divine Name," becomes a perfect declaration of the Absolute Nature of Being when it is translated, "I AM Subject, I AM Object, I AM One, I AM All and, as Such, I AM the Absolute One or Spirit and Essence of All That Is, Was and Ever Will Be (RE: "The Holy One in the midst of thee").

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Mental Self-Division)

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(Which One Am I? Photograph)

Which One Am I? © 2008 RFHay; Eyes closed "I am one thing," eyes open "I am another thing," but what I Am in Truth is prior to all such "self-conceived" states of Being; Companion haiku: "I" cannot control "myself" because "I am" too close to the "subject."

Controlling myself
Implies a "duality"
That doesn't exist.

© 2008 RFHay