[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
"Light, Light, More Light"! © 2009 RFHay; "Life is like the silver moon, its borrowed light is gone so soon, hide and seek its favorite game, it seems to change, yet stays the same"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
I am seeking what
I can never lose in what
I can never keep.
What God gives I can
Never lose; what the world gives
I can never keep!
© 2009 RFHay
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (The True You)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Built for Love Photograph)
Built for Love © 2009 RFHay; An interesting thing about “Build a Bear” stuffed animals is, however different they may appear to be on the outside (on the surface), on the inside (and so at Heart) they are All filled with the same Fundamental Substance; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
“That in You” which is
“Constant and Ever-Present”
Is your “True Nature.”
“That in You” which is
“Constant and Always Present”
Is “Life, Light and Love.”
© 2009 RFHay
(Built for Love Photograph)
Built for Love © 2009 RFHay; An interesting thing about “Build a Bear” stuffed animals is, however different they may appear to be on the outside (on the surface), on the inside (and so at Heart) they are All filled with the same Fundamental Substance; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
“That in You” which is
“Constant and Ever-Present”
Is your “True Nature.”
“That in You” which is
“Constant and Always Present”
Is “Life, Light and Love.”
© 2009 RFHay
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (You Are That)
[Rich Note: Companion haiku may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Burning Though the Clouds Photograph)
Burning Through the Clouds © 2008 RFHay; The Pure Light of Awareness is presently burning through the "collective mental clouds" of words and thoughts that habitually attract the self-focused attention that causes ignorance of the Aware Presence I Am; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Find “That in You” which
Is “Never Not Present” and
Realize “You Are That.”
© 2009 RFHay
(Burning Though the Clouds Photograph)
Burning Through the Clouds © 2008 RFHay; The Pure Light of Awareness is presently burning through the "collective mental clouds" of words and thoughts that habitually attract the self-focused attention that causes ignorance of the Aware Presence I Am; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Find “That in You” which
Is “Never Not Present” and
Realize “You Are That.”
© 2009 RFHay
Hay-Ku of the Day (Out of Sight)
[Rich Note: Companion haiku may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Groundhog Day Photograph)
Groundhog Day (c) 2000 RFHay; Day 3, 4 or 5 in Childress Texas, during what became a 7 day, mind-numbing waiting for 2 different transmission changes; a circumstance that clearly shows on my face but disappeared every night while asleep; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
If you shut your eyes
Does anything remain that
Is other than thought?
With your eyes shut is
There anything there that does
Not depend on thought?
© 2009 RFHay
(Groundhog Day Photograph)
Groundhog Day (c) 2000 RFHay; Day 3, 4 or 5 in Childress Texas, during what became a 7 day, mind-numbing waiting for 2 different transmission changes; a circumstance that clearly shows on my face but disappeared every night while asleep; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
If you shut your eyes
Does anything remain that
Is other than thought?
With your eyes shut is
There anything there that does
Not depend on thought?
© 2009 RFHay
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (States of Mind)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Zen Garden 8 Photograph)
Zen Garden 8 © 2002 RFHay; The beautiful images captured in this "electronic replication" are just as real as a temporary state of my consciousness (and yours) occurring “Now,” as they were eight years ago in conceptual "real time"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Are the Inside and
Outside different if both
Arise in the mind?
If the world and I
Both arise in Consciousness
How do we differ?
© 2008 RFHay
(Zen Garden 8 Photograph)
Zen Garden 8 © 2002 RFHay; The beautiful images captured in this "electronic replication" are just as real as a temporary state of my consciousness (and yours) occurring “Now,” as they were eight years ago in conceptual "real time"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Are the Inside and
Outside different if both
Arise in the mind?
If the world and I
Both arise in Consciousness
How do we differ?
© 2008 RFHay
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Independence)
Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Postcard Photograph)
Postcard © 2005 RFHay: Though the camera effectively froze everything in this picture (including a momentary point of observation), everything was (and still is) ever-moving and changeful, except for the mental and physical space it "comes and goes" in; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
What I Am does not
Depend on self-conception
For Its Existence.
What I Am does not
Depend on self-reflective
Circumstance to Be.
© 2009 RFHay
(Postcard Photograph)
Postcard © 2005 RFHay: Though the camera effectively froze everything in this picture (including a momentary point of observation), everything was (and still is) ever-moving and changeful, except for the mental and physical space it "comes and goes" in; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
What I Am does not
Depend on self-conception
For Its Existence.
What I Am does not
Depend on self-reflective
Circumstance to Be.
© 2009 RFHay
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
hay-ku of the Day (Essential to All)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(No Thin At All Photograph)
No Thing At All © 2005 RFHay; The Aware Presence of Being I Am -- more often referred to as Consciousness, Being, the Mind of God, the Holy One, The Lord or Christ -- is the Conscious Equivalent of the physical space in which the sun in this image sets; Companion haiku: Without the Aware Presence of Being I Am "I" would Be No One.
Remove the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
And “I” cease to Be.
Without the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
“I” would disappear.
© 2009 RFHay
(No Thin At All Photograph)
No Thing At All © 2005 RFHay; The Aware Presence of Being I Am -- more often referred to as Consciousness, Being, the Mind of God, the Holy One, The Lord or Christ -- is the Conscious Equivalent of the physical space in which the sun in this image sets; Companion haiku: Without the Aware Presence of Being I Am "I" would Be No One.
Remove the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
And “I” cease to Be.
Without the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
“I” would disappear.
© 2009 RFHay
Monday, March 23, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Where Would I Be?)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Sun Block Photograph)
Sun Block © 2005 RFHay; Although the sun as the origin of the light is itself blocked by this cloud, its light must still be present (thought relatively invisible and, perhaps, taken for granted) to see the cloud that temporarily blocks its source: Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Where would "I" Be
Without the Aware Presence
Of Being I Am?
Can "I" Be other
Than the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being I Am?
“What am I” if not
The Aware Presence I Am
Conscious of Being?
© 2009 RFHay
(Sun Block Photograph)
Sun Block © 2005 RFHay; Although the sun as the origin of the light is itself blocked by this cloud, its light must still be present (thought relatively invisible and, perhaps, taken for granted) to see the cloud that temporarily blocks its source: Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Where would "I" Be
Without the Aware Presence
Of Being I Am?
Can "I" Be other
Than the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being I Am?
“What am I” if not
The Aware Presence I Am
Conscious of Being?
© 2009 RFHay
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (The Witness of All)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Me and Myself Photograph)
[Me and Myself © 2009 RFHay; “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known"(1 Cor 13:12); Companion haiku: “I as I think” have to go for “I as I Am” to “Be as I Am."]
The Living God Is
The Aware Presence I Am
That Witnesses All.
The Living God Is
The Aware Presence I Am
That "people" ignore.
The Living God Is
The Aware Presence I Am
"I" can never know.
[Rich Note: The "people that ignore" and the "I that can never know" the “Aware Presence of Beng I Am” are names for "mind as a process of mental self-reflection" and/or "ego as a concept of Being separate and apart."]
(c) 2009 RFHay
(Me and Myself Photograph)
[Me and Myself © 2009 RFHay; “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known"(1 Cor 13:12); Companion haiku: “I as I think” have to go for “I as I Am” to “Be as I Am."]
The Living God Is
The Aware Presence I Am
That Witnesses All.
The Living God Is
The Aware Presence I Am
That "people" ignore.
The Living God Is
The Aware Presence I Am
"I" can never know.
[Rich Note: The "people that ignore" and the "I that can never know" the “Aware Presence of Beng I Am” are names for "mind as a process of mental self-reflection" and/or "ego as a concept of Being separate and apart."]
(c) 2009 RFHay
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (The Heart of Being)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(States of Mine Photograph)
States of Mine © 2007 RFHay; Everything seen in this image is a state of mind (itself a “centrally self-referenced system of relative, mental processing”) which “arises in” and is “composed of” the Pure Aware Presence of Being One Ultimately Is; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Underlying All
Is the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being I Am.
Living within All
Is the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being You Are.
Essential to All
Is the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being One Is.
© 2009 RFHay
(States of Mine Photograph)
States of Mine © 2007 RFHay; Everything seen in this image is a state of mind (itself a “centrally self-referenced system of relative, mental processing”) which “arises in” and is “composed of” the Pure Aware Presence of Being One Ultimately Is; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Underlying All
Is the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being I Am.
Living within All
Is the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being You Are.
Essential to All
Is the Pure Aware Presence
Of Being One Is.
© 2009 RFHay
Friday, March 20, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (All Ways)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Eyes on the Prize Photograph)
Eyes on the Prize © 2005 RFHay; If I kept my “Eyes on the Prize” of the “Aware Presence of Being I Am” as faithfully as Boddhi is this ball I would know "I Am That" in "No Timez"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Pure Love of Being
The Aware Presence I Am
Embraces All Ways.
© 2009 RFHay
(Eyes on the Prize Photograph)
Eyes on the Prize © 2005 RFHay; If I kept my “Eyes on the Prize” of the “Aware Presence of Being I Am” as faithfully as Boddhi is this ball I would know "I Am That" in "No Timez"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Pure Love of Being
The Aware Presence I Am
Embraces All Ways.
© 2009 RFHay
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Haiku, Senryu or Hay-Ku?)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Zen Garden 8 Photograph)
Zen Garden 8 © 2002 RFHay; A favorite image from a Zen Garden located in Narita, Japan, that feels particularly appropriate to today's dialogue; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Smart Bombs to Target
Deeply Embedded Patterns of
Self-Centered Thought.
[Rich Note: In addition to today’s “reprise haiku,” I thought I’d offer the following response to a discussion that arose in the comments section of the “Seeking Ends” offering. In this regard, I felt it worthwhile to clear the air (but probably no once and for all), at the level of a post, what haiku and senryu technically are in their classical forms; and how “hay-ku,” which is a play on words used in an attempt to differentiate the “haiku-like insights” being offered (which are predominately intellectual in nature and presented in 5-7-5 syllable format) from their more orthodox kin, normally referred to as haiku and senryu.]
“Thank you, Michelle -- You tickle both of my Hearts (the Big as well as the Little One)”!
This on-going conversation has called to mind a favorite little book of haiku; one by a Kenneth Verity (how fitting is that name) called "Awareness Beyond Mind," (ISBN 1-85230-819-2), a title which is itself an extraction from the following haiku:"
Awakening to
The Awareness beyond mind --
Only now is real.
Shinri (1931- )
Which is a poem (a senryu actually) which pretty much says it all about “What It’s All About”, while both affirming and underscoring Michelle’s last comment to the Seeking Ends offering about Being “Now.”
However, in addition to its synoptic title, what I like best about Kenneth's book (not to mention the 39 page abbreviated history of Eastern Philosophy, as it relates to the development of both haiku and senryu) are the "near-perfect characterizations" of what haiku and senryu actually are and truly aim at offering. Some of favorite characterizations from the book follow:
(1) "Haiku is Zen-inspired verse-philosophy wholly relevant to life today. It has the directness, clarity and precision essential to good communication." (flyleaf)
[Rich Note: Given this criteria, haiku, senryn and (hopefully) hay-ku are exactly the same thing.]
(2) "The haiku catches that brief moment between perception and realization, making it available to every one." (flyleaf)
[Rich Note: Same here. Although the “haiku and senryn” tend to deal with “outward, worldly or natural” perceptions; while “hay-ku” tends to deal with “inward, mental or intellectual” perceptions.]
(3) “In one sense haiku and senryu have a single subject matter – realization of the moment ‘now’; in another sense, the true subject of the verse is the reader.” (Forward, pg ix)
[Rich Note: Once again, “spot on” with respect to what haiku, senryu and hay-ku as they all have the same "Subject Matter" and "Ultimate Intent."]
(4) “As we read, we are taken to the writer’s moment of experience without needing an explanation or rationalization to share the insight of that moment.” (Forward, pg ix)
[Rich Note: This is where some true difference begin haiku and hay-ku enters with respect to the particular “insight of the moment” shared; as a “hay-ku” insight is more often than not relates to the “nature of the mind and relative thought” (instead of Physical Nature); and, as such, appear in the form of a logical explanation of same.]
(5) “The mark of a fine writer of haiku and senryu is the precision with which the experience is conveyed to the reader and the awakening that results.” (Forward, pg ix)
[Rich Note: Although the nature of the “experience” being conveyed appears to be “conceptual or mental vs. natural," the general criteria would still seem to hold for hay-ku.][Rich Note: By the way, why do we consider conceptualization “unnatural” if it is “natural for mankind” and “mankind is part and parcel” of the Nature?)
(6) “The haiku is free from the rules and restrictions which bind orthodox waka, but it does have canons of good taste –- unwritten rules to which its voltaries conform with common consent.” (pg 33)
[Rich Note: The “…free from rules and restrictions which bind orthodox (haiku)…” fits “hay-ku” perfectly; but seldom meet “the canons of good taste or unwritten rules” criteria of Japanese haiku suggested below.]
(7) “For example, a true haiku should be a simple and direct ..sometime an exclamation) of pure response to a glimpse or scene in life, with no intervention from the logical intellect. The good haiku is a picture in words, rich in suggestiveness – not explanation or argument.” (pg 34)
[Rich Note: Well, hay-ku again meets the criteria up to the point of being “a glimpse or scene in life,” for an “intellectual conception or insight” is just as much a “scene in life,” abet a mental one, as anything else. Admittedly, however, it hay-ku are “intellect Insights into the Nature of Being; thought, perhaps, not Natural Being as normally defined.]
(8) “Its severity suggests that the ego-reflecting mirror of the poet has been shattered by a Zen-like impact, leaving un-obscured that universal mirror which reflects the Natural World.”
[Rich Note: Although hay-ku offer direct insights from the Heart (the Universal Mirror – Direct Light of the Heart versus the Self-Reflective Light of the Head)and not the “mental constructs” of “Rich Hay’s” relative, egoic state of mind and consciousness, "Ego-less-ness," in this particular case, is not being claimed.
(9) “To summarize the difference, a haiku expresses a moment or insight into the world of nature; a senryu is a satirical statement on the nature of the world.” (pg 36)
[Rich Note: Hay-Ku would also seem to meet both these criteria (although skewed toward senryu) if one concedes that the “world of man’s mind and intellect” are necessarily an “integral part” of the “World of Nature.]
(10) Several examples of Mr. Verity’s senryn that “I find" particularly enlightening” and which may actually fall into the “hay-ku” category follow:
Peering out through our
Eye-windows, pretending that
We are inside ourselves.
Religion, ever
Maintaining duality
And separation.
The “not knowing” of
Knowing, is non-conceptual
“Knowledge of Being.”
[Rich Note: The quotes from Mr. Verity’s book are used under the Fair Use doctrine of the copyright laws in the hopes they might help expanded the collective understanding of a Subject that is Near and Dear to All Hearts.]
(Zen Garden 8 Photograph)
Zen Garden 8 © 2002 RFHay; A favorite image from a Zen Garden located in Narita, Japan, that feels particularly appropriate to today's dialogue; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Smart Bombs to Target
Deeply Embedded Patterns of
Self-Centered Thought.
[Rich Note: In addition to today’s “reprise haiku,” I thought I’d offer the following response to a discussion that arose in the comments section of the “Seeking Ends” offering. In this regard, I felt it worthwhile to clear the air (but probably no once and for all), at the level of a post, what haiku and senryu technically are in their classical forms; and how “hay-ku,” which is a play on words used in an attempt to differentiate the “haiku-like insights” being offered (which are predominately intellectual in nature and presented in 5-7-5 syllable format) from their more orthodox kin, normally referred to as haiku and senryu.]
“Thank you, Michelle -- You tickle both of my Hearts (the Big as well as the Little One)”!
This on-going conversation has called to mind a favorite little book of haiku; one by a Kenneth Verity (how fitting is that name) called "Awareness Beyond Mind," (ISBN 1-85230-819-2), a title which is itself an extraction from the following haiku:"
Awakening to
The Awareness beyond mind --
Only now is real.
Shinri (1931- )
Which is a poem (a senryu actually) which pretty much says it all about “What It’s All About”, while both affirming and underscoring Michelle’s last comment to the Seeking Ends offering about Being “Now.”
However, in addition to its synoptic title, what I like best about Kenneth's book (not to mention the 39 page abbreviated history of Eastern Philosophy, as it relates to the development of both haiku and senryu) are the "near-perfect characterizations" of what haiku and senryu actually are and truly aim at offering. Some of favorite characterizations from the book follow:
(1) "Haiku is Zen-inspired verse-philosophy wholly relevant to life today. It has the directness, clarity and precision essential to good communication." (flyleaf)
[Rich Note: Given this criteria, haiku, senryn and (hopefully) hay-ku are exactly the same thing.]
(2) "The haiku catches that brief moment between perception and realization, making it available to every one." (flyleaf)
[Rich Note: Same here. Although the “haiku and senryn” tend to deal with “outward, worldly or natural” perceptions; while “hay-ku” tends to deal with “inward, mental or intellectual” perceptions.]
(3) “In one sense haiku and senryu have a single subject matter – realization of the moment ‘now’; in another sense, the true subject of the verse is the reader.” (Forward, pg ix)
[Rich Note: Once again, “spot on” with respect to what haiku, senryu and hay-ku as they all have the same "Subject Matter" and "Ultimate Intent."]
(4) “As we read, we are taken to the writer’s moment of experience without needing an explanation or rationalization to share the insight of that moment.” (Forward, pg ix)
[Rich Note: This is where some true difference begin haiku and hay-ku enters with respect to the particular “insight of the moment” shared; as a “hay-ku” insight is more often than not relates to the “nature of the mind and relative thought” (instead of Physical Nature); and, as such, appear in the form of a logical explanation of same.]
(5) “The mark of a fine writer of haiku and senryu is the precision with which the experience is conveyed to the reader and the awakening that results.” (Forward, pg ix)
[Rich Note: Although the nature of the “experience” being conveyed appears to be “conceptual or mental vs. natural," the general criteria would still seem to hold for hay-ku.][Rich Note: By the way, why do we consider conceptualization “unnatural” if it is “natural for mankind” and “mankind is part and parcel” of the Nature?)
(6) “The haiku is free from the rules and restrictions which bind orthodox waka, but it does have canons of good taste –- unwritten rules to which its voltaries conform with common consent.” (pg 33)
[Rich Note: The “…free from rules and restrictions which bind orthodox (haiku)…” fits “hay-ku” perfectly; but seldom meet “the canons of good taste or unwritten rules” criteria of Japanese haiku suggested below.]
(7) “For example, a true haiku should be a simple and direct ..sometime an exclamation) of pure response to a glimpse or scene in life, with no intervention from the logical intellect. The good haiku is a picture in words, rich in suggestiveness – not explanation or argument.” (pg 34)
[Rich Note: Well, hay-ku again meets the criteria up to the point of being “a glimpse or scene in life,” for an “intellectual conception or insight” is just as much a “scene in life,” abet a mental one, as anything else. Admittedly, however, it hay-ku are “intellect Insights into the Nature of Being; thought, perhaps, not Natural Being as normally defined.]
(8) “Its severity suggests that the ego-reflecting mirror of the poet has been shattered by a Zen-like impact, leaving un-obscured that universal mirror which reflects the Natural World.”
[Rich Note: Although hay-ku offer direct insights from the Heart (the Universal Mirror – Direct Light of the Heart versus the Self-Reflective Light of the Head)and not the “mental constructs” of “Rich Hay’s” relative, egoic state of mind and consciousness, "Ego-less-ness," in this particular case, is not being claimed.
(9) “To summarize the difference, a haiku expresses a moment or insight into the world of nature; a senryu is a satirical statement on the nature of the world.” (pg 36)
[Rich Note: Hay-Ku would also seem to meet both these criteria (although skewed toward senryu) if one concedes that the “world of man’s mind and intellect” are necessarily an “integral part” of the “World of Nature.]
(10) Several examples of Mr. Verity’s senryn that “I find" particularly enlightening” and which may actually fall into the “hay-ku” category follow:
Peering out through our
Eye-windows, pretending that
We are inside ourselves.
Religion, ever
Maintaining duality
And separation.
The “not knowing” of
Knowing, is non-conceptual
“Knowledge of Being.”
[Rich Note: The quotes from Mr. Verity’s book are used under the Fair Use doctrine of the copyright laws in the hopes they might help expanded the collective understanding of a Subject that is Near and Dear to All Hearts.]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Being Prodigal)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(I Want Photograph)
I Want © 2009 RFHay; A sweet and happy child a vast majority of the time, Josiah is trying on his new found persona (impersonating “me”) as a contracted, egocentric sense of separate being with its accompanying bundle of lacks, needs and wants; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
God as Being is
The Consciousness of All
Present as I Am.
Not Knowing I Am
Consciousness Itself makes “me”
The “Prodigal Son.”
© 2009 RFHay
(I Want Photograph)
I Want © 2009 RFHay; A sweet and happy child a vast majority of the time, Josiah is trying on his new found persona (impersonating “me”) as a contracted, egocentric sense of separate being with its accompanying bundle of lacks, needs and wants; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
God as Being is
The Consciousness of All
Present as I Am.
Not Knowing I Am
Consciousness Itself makes “me”
The “Prodigal Son.”
© 2009 RFHay
Haiku of the Day (Being Prodigal)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(The Endless Path Home Photograph)
The Endless Path Home © 2008 RFHay; Seeking ends in the instant I Realize “I Am What I seek,” and could never be other than That, except in my imagination; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Seeking ends when I
See the Consciousness I Am
Can never be found.
Seeking ends when I
See the Consciousness I Am
Is what I now seek.
Seeking ends when I
See the Consciousness I Am
Is the Ground of All.
© 2009 RFHay
(The Endless Path Home Photograph)
The Endless Path Home © 2008 RFHay; Seeking ends in the instant I Realize “I Am What I seek,” and could never be other than That, except in my imagination; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Seeking ends when I
See the Consciousness I Am
Can never be found.
Seeking ends when I
See the Consciousness I Am
Is what I now seek.
Seeking ends when I
See the Consciousness I Am
Is the Ground of All.
© 2009 RFHay
Monday, March 16, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Freedom)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Sea of Shrubbery Photograph)
Sea of Shrubbery © 2008 RFHay; There’s a house buried in this overgrown shrubbery that offers a pretty good metaphor for Consciousness as a “mental house” self-identified with a jungle of past memories and future concerns that are never pruned; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Freedom is Knowing
I Am Consciousness Itself
And not its Contents.
Freedom is Knowing
I Am Consciousness Itself
And not what I think.
© 2009 RFHay
(Sea of Shrubbery Photograph)
Sea of Shrubbery © 2008 RFHay; There’s a house buried in this overgrown shrubbery that offers a pretty good metaphor for Consciousness as a “mental house” self-identified with a jungle of past memories and future concerns that are never pruned; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Freedom is Knowing
I Am Consciousness Itself
And not its Contents.
Freedom is Knowing
I Am Consciousness Itself
And not what I think.
© 2009 RFHay
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Seeker and Sought)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Waves of Light Photograph)
Waves of Light © 2003 RFHay; Self-enfolding, interpenetrating Waves of the Light seeking their Source as a River seeks the Sea; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Consciousness that is
Unaware of Being That
Is Seeker and Sought.
© 2009 RFHay
(Waves of Light Photograph)
Waves of Light © 2003 RFHay; Self-enfolding, interpenetrating Waves of the Light seeking their Source as a River seeks the Sea; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Consciousness that is
Unaware of Being That
Is Seeker and Sought.
© 2009 RFHay
Saturday, March 14, 2009
HayKu of the Day (Consciousness Is)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Cup of Consciousness Photograph)
Cup of Consciousness ©2009 RFHay: (Reprise) Two phases (youthful woodworking and military flying) amalgamate in a piece that is reminiscent of the “flying hour-glasses” found on gravestones in the old churchyard near Boston Commons in Boston, MS; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Consciousness is the
Aware Presence I Am now
Conscious of Being.
Consciousness is the
Aware Presence I Am some
Call the “Living God.”
© 2009 RFHay
(Cup of Consciousness Photograph)
Cup of Consciousness ©2009 RFHay: (Reprise) Two phases (youthful woodworking and military flying) amalgamate in a piece that is reminiscent of the “flying hour-glasses” found on gravestones in the old churchyard near Boston Commons in Boston, MS; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Consciousness is the
Aware Presence I Am now
Conscious of Being.
Consciousness is the
Aware Presence I Am some
Call the “Living God.”
© 2009 RFHay
Friday, March 13, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (I as I Am)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Pure Spirit Photograph)
Pure Spirit © 2008 RFHay; The “white light” at the center of this beautiful image sure looks like a heart and, as such, suggests the Spiritual Light of Awareness at the Heart of All Being; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Awareness fully
Aware of Being is the
One I Am in All.
Awareness fully
Self-Aware as I Am
Is God Manifest.
Awareness fully
Conscious of Being Present
Is “I as I Am."
2009 RFHay
(Pure Spirit Photograph)
Pure Spirit © 2008 RFHay; The “white light” at the center of this beautiful image sure looks like a heart and, as such, suggests the Spiritual Light of Awareness at the Heart of All Being; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Awareness fully
Aware of Being is the
One I Am in All.
Awareness fully
Self-Aware as I Am
Is God Manifest.
Awareness fully
Conscious of Being Present
Is “I as I Am."
2009 RFHay
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Fully Self-Aware)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Form and Space Photograph)
Form and Space © 2007 RFHay; As the underlying space in this image is fundamental to the many, beautiful, will-of-the-wisp, cloud forms that arise in it, so is Awareness of Being Present basic to any of the apparent temporary forms that arise therein; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Awareness Fully
Aware of Itself as Such
Is Fundamental.
Awareness Fully
Aware of Itself as That
Is the Holy One.
Awareness Fully
Aware of Itself as That
Is All “I” can Be.
© 2009 RFHay
(Form and Space Photograph)
Form and Space © 2007 RFHay; As the underlying space in this image is fundamental to the many, beautiful, will-of-the-wisp, cloud forms that arise in it, so is Awareness of Being Present basic to any of the apparent temporary forms that arise therein; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Awareness Fully
Aware of Itself as Such
Is Fundamental.
Awareness Fully
Aware of Itself as That
Is the Holy One.
Awareness Fully
Aware of Itself as That
Is All “I” can Be.
© 2009 RFHay
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (The Awareness I Am)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Recollections Photograph)
Recollections (c) 2000 RFHay: Applying "self-referential thought" to this photo, Rich recollects a cross-country road trip taken with his buddy Jimmy four years prior to his airline retirement five years ago; the Pure Field of Awareness in which those memories now arise (and which One Ulimately Is), however, has not changed one iota: Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Awareness without
Relative self-reference
Becomes Absolute.
Awareness without
Personal self-reference
Is Transcendental.
Awareness prior to
Any self-reflective thought
Is beyond the mind.
© 2009 RFHay
(Recollections Photograph)
Recollections (c) 2000 RFHay: Applying "self-referential thought" to this photo, Rich recollects a cross-country road trip taken with his buddy Jimmy four years prior to his airline retirement five years ago; the Pure Field of Awareness in which those memories now arise (and which One Ulimately Is), however, has not changed one iota: Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Awareness without
Relative self-reference
Becomes Absolute.
Awareness without
Personal self-reference
Is Transcendental.
Awareness prior to
Any self-reflective thought
Is beyond the mind.
© 2009 RFHay
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (A Divine Wedding)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Mysterious Union Photograph)
Mysterious Union (c) 2005 RFHay; It would seem there is no more mysterious wedding of seeming opposites then that of a human male and female -- in my own case, after 41 years, she remains as much a mystery (and seems to like it that way) as ever; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Intellect wed to
Heartfelt Knowledge of Being
Unifies the mind.
Intellect wed to
The Heartfelt Knowledge I Am
Resurrects Glory.
© 2009 RFHay
(Mysterious Union Photograph)
Mysterious Union (c) 2005 RFHay; It would seem there is no more mysterious wedding of seeming opposites then that of a human male and female -- in my own case, after 41 years, she remains as much a mystery (and seems to like it that way) as ever; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Intellect wed to
Heartfelt Knowledge of Being
Unifies the mind.
Intellect wed to
The Heartfelt Knowledge I Am
Resurrects Glory.
© 2009 RFHay
Monday, March 9, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Stop Thinking)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.com.]
(Far Away and Long Ago Picture)
Far Away and Long Ago © 2000 RfHay; The qualities of “time and space” this image appears to "freeze" are actually abstract concepts that a partial perspective needs to assume in order to rationalize its self-limited, sequential frame of reference; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Stop thinking about
Being separate and you
Will find you are not.
© 2009 RFHay
(Far Away and Long Ago Picture)
Far Away and Long Ago © 2000 RfHay; The qualities of “time and space” this image appears to "freeze" are actually abstract concepts that a partial perspective needs to assume in order to rationalize its self-limited, sequential frame of reference; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Stop thinking about
Being separate and you
Will find you are not.
© 2009 RFHay
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (The Greatest Prayer)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Praying Hands Photograph)
Praying Hands © 2009 RFHay; The Stillness and Unity of two hands, which are normally active and functioning separately, in a symbolic gesture of self-surrender and conscious communion with the Divine; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
The Highest Prayer is
“Being mentally still” and
Humbling the mind.
The Highest Prayer is
“Being Mentally Still” and
Awaiting the Word.
The Highest Prayer is
“Being Mentally Still” and
Waiting on the Lord.
© 2009 RFHay
(Praying Hands Photograph)
Praying Hands © 2009 RFHay; The Stillness and Unity of two hands, which are normally active and functioning separately, in a symbolic gesture of self-surrender and conscious communion with the Divine; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
The Highest Prayer is
“Being mentally still” and
Humbling the mind.
The Highest Prayer is
“Being Mentally Still” and
Awaiting the Word.
The Highest Prayer is
“Being Mentally Still” and
Waiting on the Lord.
© 2009 RFHay
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Seeing Face to Face)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(An Open Mind Photograph)
An Open Mind © 2002 RFHay: When one's mental box opens, the inner and outer space of Consciousness are seen to be one, the apparent gap between “self and other” is transcended and “one sees "face to face," instead of self-reflectively; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Consciousness emptied of
Objects is “Poor in Spirit
And sees “Face to Face.”
Consciousness empty of
Thought is “Poor in Spirit and
“Knows as I Am Known.”
(c) 2008 RFHay
(An Open Mind Photograph)
An Open Mind © 2002 RFHay: When one's mental box opens, the inner and outer space of Consciousness are seen to be one, the apparent gap between “self and other” is transcended and “one sees "face to face," instead of self-reflectively; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Consciousness emptied of
Objects is “Poor in Spirit
And sees “Face to Face.”
Consciousness empty of
Thought is “Poor in Spirit and
“Knows as I Am Known.”
(c) 2008 RFHay
Friday, March 6, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Outside the Box)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed with rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Open and Shut Case Photograph)
Open and Shut Case © 2002 RFHay; One’s “self-image” may be likened to a mental box in which the outer walls, constructed of “relative thoughts and ideas about who I am,” are used to define the Aware Presence of Being I Am "self-reflectively"; Companion haiku: It is difficult to “think outside the box” when thinking is the box.
“Thinking outside the
Box” is listening to the
“Voice of the Spirit.”
“Thinking outside the
Box” is listening to the
“Heart’s Inspiration.”
© 2009 RFHay
(Open and Shut Case Photograph)
Open and Shut Case © 2002 RFHay; One’s “self-image” may be likened to a mental box in which the outer walls, constructed of “relative thoughts and ideas about who I am,” are used to define the Aware Presence of Being I Am "self-reflectively"; Companion haiku: It is difficult to “think outside the box” when thinking is the box.
“Thinking outside the
Box” is listening to the
“Voice of the Spirit.”
“Thinking outside the
Box” is listening to the
“Heart’s Inspiration.”
© 2009 RFHay
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Still Waters)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Unstill Waters Photograph)
Unstill Waters (c) 2008 RFHay; In the same way the surface ripples caused by these fountains make it impossible to see the pool stones clearly, so does identifying with the constant flow of thoughts in one’s mind disturb and distort mental clarity; Comapanion haiku: Accompanying.
Knowing myself as
I Am in Spirit and Truth
Requires a "Still Mind."
Knowing myself as
I Am in Spirit and Truth
Beside "Still Waters."
[Rich Note: As a wise man (or woman) once said, "A fast mind is sick, a slow mind is healthy and a Still Mind is Divine."]
© 2009 RFHay
(Unstill Waters Photograph)
Unstill Waters (c) 2008 RFHay; In the same way the surface ripples caused by these fountains make it impossible to see the pool stones clearly, so does identifying with the constant flow of thoughts in one’s mind disturb and distort mental clarity; Comapanion haiku: Accompanying.
Knowing myself as
I Am in Spirit and Truth
Requires a "Still Mind."
Knowing myself as
I Am in Spirit and Truth
Beside "Still Waters."
[Rich Note: As a wise man (or woman) once said, "A fast mind is sick, a slow mind is healthy and a Still Mind is Divine."]
© 2009 RFHay
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (The Way)
[Rich Note: Companion haiku can be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(True Fortune and Real Wealth Photograph)
True Fortune and Real Wealth © 2009 RFHay; “To Be Still and Know that I Am God” is Scripture oft-times used to point out the “essence” of what mediation (“Contemplation” in the Christian Tradition) ultimately is: Companion haiku: Accompanying.
To “Be Still and Know
That I Am God” is “The Way,
The Truth and The Life.”
To “Be Still and KnowI
Am is God” is “The Way, The
Truth and The Life.”
To “Be Still and Know
Being is God” is “The Way, The
Truth and The Life.”
[Rich Note: A conceptual wedding of Old (Ps 10:46) and New (Jo 14:6) Testament Scriptures.]
© 2009 RFHay
(True Fortune and Real Wealth Photograph)
True Fortune and Real Wealth © 2009 RFHay; “To Be Still and Know that I Am God” is Scripture oft-times used to point out the “essence” of what mediation (“Contemplation” in the Christian Tradition) ultimately is: Companion haiku: Accompanying.
To “Be Still and Know
That I Am God” is “The Way,
The Truth and The Life.”
To “Be Still and KnowI
Am is God” is “The Way, The
Truth and The Life.”
To “Be Still and Know
Being is God” is “The Way, The
Truth and The Life.”
[Rich Note: A conceptual wedding of Old (Ps 10:46) and New (Jo 14:6) Testament Scriptures.]
© 2009 RFHay
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Being Itself)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Bullseye Photograph)
Bullseye © 2009 RFHay: The Aware-Presence of Being I Am is “…with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matt 28:20 KJV); Companion haiku: “I Am That I Am”(Ex 3:14 KJV) is a way of saying “I Am Being Itself.”
Declaring “I Am
That I Am” is saying “I
Am Being Itself.”
© 2009 RFHay
(Bullseye Photograph)
Bullseye © 2009 RFHay: The Aware-Presence of Being I Am is “…with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matt 28:20 KJV); Companion haiku: “I Am That I Am”(Ex 3:14 KJV) is a way of saying “I Am Being Itself.”
Declaring “I Am
That I Am” is saying “I
Am Being Itself.”
© 2009 RFHay
Monday, March 2, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (I Am Being)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Footprints Photograph)
Footprints © 2009 RFHay; As these footprints will only last as long as the snow lasts, so will the “memories of me” I confuse with “I as I Am” last only as long as the relative state of mind I now identity lasts; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
“I” is a name for
Being often misapplied
To “I as I think.”
“I” is a name for
Being now mistaken for
A concept of That.
“I” is a name for
Being now confused with a
Self-conception.
© 2009 RFHay
(Footprints Photograph)
Footprints © 2009 RFHay; As these footprints will only last as long as the snow lasts, so will the “memories of me” I confuse with “I as I Am” last only as long as the relative state of mind I now identity lasts; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
“I” is a name for
Being often misapplied
To “I as I think.”
“I” is a name for
Being now mistaken for
A concept of That.
“I” is a name for
Being now confused with a
Self-conception.
© 2009 RFHay
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Mental Self-Reference)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Sun Down Photograph)
Sun Down (c) 2009 RFHay; Ever-changing clouds of words and thought veil and distort "I as I Am in Truth" into a variable concept of Being called "I as I think I am" in much the same way the clouds in the photo distort and veil the sun’s image; Comapanion haiku: Accompanying.
“I” as a point of
Mental self-reference is
Not “I as I Am.”
“I” as a point of
Mental self-reference is
Not “Being Itself.”
“I” as a point of
Mental self-reference is
"Only a concept."
© 2009 RFHay
(Sun Down Photograph)
Sun Down (c) 2009 RFHay; Ever-changing clouds of words and thought veil and distort "I as I Am in Truth" into a variable concept of Being called "I as I think I am" in much the same way the clouds in the photo distort and veil the sun’s image; Comapanion haiku: Accompanying.
“I” as a point of
Mental self-reference is
Not “I as I Am.”
“I” as a point of
Mental self-reference is
Not “Being Itself.”
“I” as a point of
Mental self-reference is
"Only a concept."
© 2009 RFHay
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