Hay-Ku of the Day (Pure Love of Being)

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(Flesh and Spirit Photograph)

Flesh and Spirit © 2002 RFHay; As a take-off on an old anti-drug campaign I once subtitled this particular image: “Here is your mind on Ego (the Box) and Here is your mind on Spirit/Christ” (the Cross); Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Pure Love of Being
The Aware Presence I Am
Overrides self-will.

Pure Love of Being
The Aware Presence I Am
Transfigures ego.

Pure Love of Being
The Aware Presence I Am
Is the “End of Days.”

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Sacrificial Love)

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(Self-Sacrifical Love Photograph)

Self-Sacrificial Love © 2009 RFHay; Mystically speaking, the Cross symbolizes the “Self-Sacrificial Love” implicit in giving "Oneself as a Field of Pure Subjective Awareness" to the "Objective states of Consciousness" that arise and fall within It; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Can an "ego," as
An idea of Being, Love
Or do anything?

Can “I as I think
I am” Love God as the “One
I Am within All”?

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku fo the Day (The Great Commanment)

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(Celtic Cross Photograph)

Celtic Cross © 2008 RFHay; Generally speaking, the Circle symbolizes Eternity and the Cross Infinity Manifest in the “Four Square World “of Length, Breadth, Height and Time and, thereby, Sacrificed on the “Cross of Relative Time and Space” that defines a Point called Here and Now; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

I Am called to Love
God as the One I Am and
Others as Myself.

[Rich Note: Biblically speaking: “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as theyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matt 22:36-40).]

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Artificial Life)

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(Artificial Displays Photograph)

Artificial Displays © 2002 RFHay; All of these gauges served to translate a real event into an electrical signal, into a visual indication, into a conceptual representation useful in managing aircraft flight; Companion haiku: A conceptual relation to Life is a snake in the woodpile.

A conceptual
Relation to Life is a
Lousy surrogate.

A conceptual
Relation to God is the
Devil in disguise.

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Present Mindedness)

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(Out of the Darkness Photograph)

Out of the Darkness [USAF C-141 Photo by SSgt Robert Wickerly (253L)]; A favorite C-141 photo from “Enlisted Friends” (a military oxymoron) commemorating AF retirement in 1987: Companion haiku: I am seeking the Present-Minded Awareness I myself Am.

Ever-seeking the
Present-Minded Awareness
Of Being I Am.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Missing the Mark)

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(Apparently Green Photograph)

Apparently Green © 2008 RFHay: Although the preponderance of this photo is green, the two nuclear power plant stacks are what attract attention and foster thought; Companion haiku: Thinking causes me to miss the Aware-Presence of Being I Am.

Missing the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
In favor of thought.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Missing Myself)

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(Flowing Down Stream Photograph)

Flowing Down Stream © 2008 RFHay; As streams seek rivers and rivers seek oceans, so does the mind seek its source in the Award-Presence of Being that is both its Origin and Ultimate Destination; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Forever seeking
Something only the mind is
Presently missing.

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (What's Missing)

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(Mental Diversion Photograph)

Mental Diversion © 2008 RFHay; The “entertainment, fun, excitement, release, exhilaration, and joy” that "sporting events, movies, TV shows and good books” seem able to evoke really come from the mental self-forgetting and diversion they afford; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The mind misses the
Abundance of Life that the
Mind itself obscures.

The mind misses the
Fullness of Joy that thinking
Presently obscures.

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Partial Perspectives)

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(What In the Word? Photograph)

What In the World? © 2008 RFHay; This close-up, and the narrow perspective it affords, makes it difficult to ascertain what this "particular thing" is; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Stuck in a partial
Frame of reference the mind
Fosters ignorance.

Stuck in a narrow
Frame of reference the mind
Limits Awareness.

© 2009 RHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Frame of Reference)

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(Frame of Reference Photograph)

Frame of Reference © 2002 RFHay; At least from a conceptual standpoint, what lies outside the narrow frame of reference this window offers is, quite literally, “as wide as all outdoors”; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

A relative frame
Of reference limits the
Extent of Being.

A relative frame
Of reference limits one’s
Potential to Be.

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (I and I)

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(Insturment Flight Photograph)

Instrument Flight © 2001 RFHay; As the "attitude indicator" in this 767 cockpit is an "artificial horizon" used to orient the airplane in physical space while "in the clouds," so is “I that I think I am” used as an “artificial self-referencing and orienting principle" while operating in self-enclouded mental space; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

I used to refer
To I as I think I am
Is a misnomer.

I as I think is
A thought and I as I Am
Is Being Itself.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Linguistic Trap)

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(Skylight Photograph)

Skylight © 2002 RFHay; This Skylight in the Whiteley’s mall in London offers a nice visual metaphor for “carnal mind" as a "centrally referenced contraction” in a Field of Infinite Awareness: Accompanying.

“I” as a central
Referent of Being is
A linguistic trap.

“I” as more than a
“Linguistic convention” is
A “snake in the grass.”

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day ( I Am Not I)

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(Thai Diety Photograph)

Thai Diety © 2008 RFHay; Perhaps a metaphor for the soaring “Wings of Spirit, Consciousness or Being,” unfettered by the “mental chains” of relative mind and thought, that Every One Is; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

I Am not I but
The Consciousness in which that
Rascal arises.

[Rich Note: Interstingly enough, while posting this hay-ku I happened to be listening to some cable music on the TV and, lo and behold, a song called “It Is I” was immediately followed by a song called “A Girl Like You” by the “Rascals.”]

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Entrancement)

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(Cloud Hidden Sun Photograph)

Cloud Hidden Sun © 2005 RFHay; Self-reflective thought involves narrowed mental focus, uses a conceptual “me, myself and I” as a central reference, attends to “this” while ignoring “that” and so blocks the Light of Awareness at its Origin as the cloud in this image blocks the sun; Companion haiku: Entranced by Self-Reflection One misses the Awareness One Is.

Self-entranced by
Relative thought I miss the
Consciousness I Am.

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Limitation)

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(Buddha Mind Photograph)

Buddha Mind © 2003 RFHay; A Unitary State of Consciousness implies “No Mind” -- “not minding this to the exclusion of that”; or a Non-Dual State of Mind which “judges not” because there is no longer a “subjective” state of Consciousness to judge an "objective" state; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Conditioned to think
I am a person who is
Subject to the world.

Conditioned to think
I am a personal state
Of Conscious Being.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Mesmerized)

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(Tripleheader Photograph)

Tripleheader © 2003 RFHay; A three-headed Bangkok statue that offers a nice visual representation of conscious attention divided between "What Presently Is" and “a multitude of conceptual mental objects"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Mesmerized by mind
I miss the Joy of Being
Consciously Present.

Fixated on thought
I miss the Fullness of Joy
Otherwise Present.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Hocus Pocus)

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(Empty Chair Photograph)

Empty Chair (c) 2006 RFHay; I as a central referent of Being is more an idea I identify with than the substantial reality I take it to be; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Without a locus
Of mental focus there is
No hocus pocus.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Thinking Myself Apart)

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(Open and Shut Case Photograph)

Open and Shut Case © 2002 RFHay; Although the Essential Nature of each of these Heart Boxes is exactly the same, the closed and self-enfolded one in the center is obviously not expressing it and, as such, appears to be fundamentally different; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

If I did not think
I was "a part" could I fear
Or harm anyone?

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Only One One)

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(Only One One Photograph)

Only One One © 2008 RFHay; The Absolute manifests as the Heartfelt Knowledge of Being I Am, You Are and Every One Is; Companion haiku: The Absolute One Lives as the Heartfelt Knowledge of Being I Am.

The Absolute is
One with the Heartfelt Knowledge
Of Being I Am.

The Absolute is
Wed to the Heartfelt Knowledge
Of Being One Is.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Wedding)

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(As Above So Below Photograph)

As Above So Below © 2004 RFHay; Although the image of the trees in the water is both transitory and insubstantial from a relative perspective, it is not really other than I Am at the level of Pure Light, Energy and/or Consciousness; Wed to the Heartfelt Knowledge of Being I Am mind becomes single.

Wed to the Heartfelt
Knowledge of Being I Am
There is only One.

Wed to the Heartfelt
Knowledge of Being I Am
Life Springs Eternal.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Missing Lover)

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(Full Moon Photograph)

Full Moon © 2008 RFHay; As the moon reflects the direct light of the sun, so the Intellect reflects the Direct Light of the Heart; Companion haiku: Intellect without Heartfelt Knowledge of Being is missing its Soul.

Intellect without
Heartfelt Knowledge of Being
Misses its Lover.

[Rich Note: The “first two lines” of this one generated so many good “third lines” I couldn’t resist a “reprise.” Here are some that go in a number of different conceptual directions: “Is full of itself, is self-deluded, is self-infested, is full of self doubt, is afraid of life, is self-destructive, seeks self-fulfillment, is full of concepts, is built upon sand, is a rootless tree, is a barking dog, is a sounding brass, is a braying ass, is without substance, loses its meaning and has little to say." I also invite anyone who might wish to do so to suggest their own "third lines".]

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Blank Mirror)

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(Mental Mirrors Photograph)

Mental Mirrors © 2008 RFHay; From the perspective the Field of Pure Consciousness in which they arise, which towel is “more real if both are actually temporary states of the Conscious Awareness I Am, You Are and All Is; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Intellect without
Heartfelt Knowledge of Being
Is a Barren Tree.

Intellect without
Heartfelt Knowledge of Being
Is a Blank Mirror.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Selling Oneself Short)

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(Modern Farthings Photograph)

Modern Farthings © 2008 RFHay; Pennies whose relative value these days attracts little or no attention if one is found lying on the ground; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The Heartfelt Sense of
Awareness I Am is sold
For “mental farthings.”

[Rich Note: For those not familiar with “King James” Bible terminology, a “farthing” was a British copper coin worth 1/4 of a penny or 1/960 of a pound and, as such, of very little value (of course "30 pieces of silver" makes the same point with considerably greater emotional impact).]

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Heartfelt Presence)

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(Unconditional Love and Loyality Photograph)

Unconditional Love and Loyality (c) 2009 GAHay 2009; "Maggie" has absolutely no problem being a perfect expression of her "Heartfelt Knowledge of Being," as she is not subject to the potential distortion of intellectual self-reflection; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Life without Heartfelt
Knowledge of Being is a
Dream One can't escape.

Life without Heartfelt
Knowledge of Being is a
Game that can't be won.

Life without Heartfelt
Knowledge of Being is the
Ultimate "Snipe Hunt."

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Heartfelt Knowledge)

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(Mental Box Photograph)

Mental Box © 2008 RFHay; Mind, as contracted state of self-referencing Consciousness in the Field of Pure Awareness I Am, is the "mental box we are often told to think outside of" and incapable of knowing the Ground of its own Being; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

This Heartfelt Sense of
Aware-Presence I Am can't
Be known by the mind.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (What Being Is)

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(Dark Path Into Light Photograph)

Dark Path Into Light © 2002 RFHay; A dark forest path in Japan transitions into an open field of light; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Being is the Pure
Light of Awareness wed to
Sensory Presence.

What I Am is the
Light of Awareness wed to
A Sense of Presence.

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (What Being Is)

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(Dark Path Into Light Photograph)

Dark Path Into Light © 2002 RFHay; A dark forest path in Japan transitions into an open field of light; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Being is the Pure
Light of Awareness wed to
Sensory Presence.

What I Am is the
Light of Awareness wed to
A Sense of Presence.

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (What Being Is)

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(Dark Path Into Light Photograph)

Dark Path Into Light © 2002 RFHay; A dark forest path in Japan transitions into an open field of light; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Being is the Pure
Light of Awareness wed to
Sensory Presence.

What I Am is the
Light of Awareness wed to
A Sense of Presence.

© 2009 RFHay

What Being Is

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(Dark Path Into Light Photograph)

Dark Path Into Light © 2002 RFHay; A dark forest path in Japan transitions into an open field of light; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Being is the Pure
Light of Awareness wed to
Sensory Presence.

What I Am is the
Light of Awareness wed to
A Sense of Presence.

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Particular States)

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(Nothing Into Something)

Nothing Into Something © 2002; An interesting image where the white foreground of the road seems to progress into shapes and colors as white light through a prism becomes red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

"Relative thought" is
A particle state of the
"Consciousness I Am."

"I as I think" is
A relative state of the
"Consciousness I Am."

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Wavicles)

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(Levels of Glory Photograph)

Levels of Glory © 2002 RFHay; A shot of Whitley's Indoor Mall in London where the Originating Wave State of Being can be likened to the ceiling and the Projected Particle State to the balconies: Thought, sense and feeling are Particle States of the Awareness I Am.

Mind and Consciousness
Are Particle and Wave states
Of That Which I Am.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Quantum Presence)

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(Tower Memorial Photograph)

Tower Memorial © 2003 RFHay; What "once was and is no more," arose and fell in the same Field of Pure Aware Presence of Being I Am and You Are; Companion haiku: Essential to All is the Witnessing Presence of Being I Am.

Aware-Presence is
The "Alpha-Omega" of
All Conscious Being.

A Quantum State of
The Aware-Presence I Am
Is the Ground of All.

(c) 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Alpha Omega)

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(Endless Variety Photograph)

Endless Variety © 2008 RFHay; An amazing variety of relative things (mental concepts) or One (Your) Consciousness temporarily assuming a multitude of apparent forms; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The Knowledge I Am
Is the Alpha-Omega
Of Everything Else.

The Knowledge I Am
Conscious of Being is the
Ground of Existence.

© 2008 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Fusion)

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(Wings of the Spirit Photograph)

[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Wings of the Spirit © 2002 RFHay; Pure Awareness (Still Awareness) and Sensory Presence (Vibratory Awareness) give birth to the Aware-Presence of Being I Am (or Consiousness) and might be likened to the "Two Wings of the Spirit" (Eagle or Dove).]

Being involves a
Wedding of Awareness with
Sensory Presence.

Awareness married
To Sensory Presence give
Birth to Consciousness.

© 2008 RFHay