Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Stop Thinking)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Thinking or Being? Photograph)

Thinking or Being? © 2009 RFHay; I cannot Be Consciously Aware I Am while I am thinking about It; Companion haiku: I cannot think and Be Aware I Am in the same instant of time.

Stop thinking about
Being Consciously Aware
And Simply Be That!

[Rich Note: Time to drag out that old Boeing 727 "trailing edge of technology" story about the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) that says "Don't Sink, Don't Sink, Don't Sink" when one is too low on an ILS Glide Path; but, due to the "trailing edge digital voice technology," really sounds much more like, "Don't Think, Don't Think, Don't Think"; and, as unintentional as it may be, sums up in a nutshell the advise I would offer to anyone who might ask (myself included -- lol) after 40 years of Truth seeking.]

© 2009 RFHay

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Trick)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Magic Hat Photograph)

Magic Hat © 2009 RFHay; This is as close as I could get to an image of “pulling a rabbit out of a magic hat” on short notice, so I used three surrogates; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The trick to Being
Happy as I Am is to
Stop trying to Be.

The trick to Being
Happy as I Am is not
Thinking about it.

The trick to Being
Happy is to stop thinking
And Be What I Am.

© 2009 RFHay

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (A Satisfied Mind)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Empty Bench Photograph)

Empty Bench (c) 2008 RFHay; A "satisfied mind" is a mind that "minds nothing" whatsoever and, as such, is necessarily “still,silent, empty, open” and “No Mind” at all, but rather the Pure Aware Presence I Am; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

A “satisfied mind”
Is an oxymoron
Of the first order.

(c) 2009 RFHay

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Love I Am)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Cloud Shadows Photograph)

Cloud Shadows © 2007 RFHay; Unusual picture in which clouds not only block direct apprehension of the sun’s presence, but project their own darkness in place of the light that would otherwise be self-evident; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The Love I seek is
The Love I Am when I stop
Thinking otherwise.

The Peace I seek is
The Peace I Am when I stop
Thinking about “me.”

[Rich Note: Any of the other seven "Fruits of the Spirit" (Gal 5:23-23), as well as Life or Being Itself, might also be substituted for Love and Peace in either piece.]

© 2009 RFHay

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Hay-ku of the Day (Innate Joyfulness)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Rushing Waters Photograph)

Rushing Waters © 2008 RFHay; The rushing mental waters of self-referenced, conscious and centered words and thought “veil" the Ground of our own Being from us in much the same way the rushing waters of this little waterfall hide the riverbed below; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Self-consciousness veils
The Innate Joyfulness of
Being prior to thought.

© 2009 RFHay

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Glassy Essence)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(1663 Shakespeare Engraving)

1663 Shakespeare Engraving (from The Holloway Pages); “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing." — Macbeth; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The "Glassy Essence"
Shakespeare referred to is the
Consciousness I Am.

[Rich Note: “But man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he’s most assured, his glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep” (Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.).]

© 2009 RFHay

Monday, April 20, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Fulfillment)

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(Lovely Sentiment Photograph)

Lovely Sentiment © 2007 RFHay; Although this short Browning verse offers a lovely sentiment, it assumes the future holds more potential for “fulfillment” then this "Present Moment of Being" (the only Real Time there is) and, as such, is a patent lie; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Can a separate
Person become whole and still
Remain separate?

© 2009 RFHay

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Hya-Ku of the Day (Real Time)

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(Time and Space Photograph)

Time and Space © 2009 RFHay; Time and Space are relative concepts of Being that the mind, because of its narrow, partial and self-limited perspective, needs to put what would otherwise be Infinite into a endless number of little, conceptual, mental boxes; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The “future and past”
Are thoughts about “there and then”
I think about “Now.”

The “future and past”
Are thoughts about “there and then”
I think “here and now.”

© 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Missing the Moment)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(In Time Photograph)

In Time (c) 2008 RFHay; In five minutes these clouds were gone and in twelve hours so was the sun's light, not as function of the passage of time, but as a result of relative mind and thought's partial and limited perspective of Being; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Thinking of future
And past I miss this Present
Moment of Being.

© 2009 RFHay

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Concptual Projection)

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(Conceptual Projection Photograph)

Conceptual Projection © 2008 RFHay; If Boddhi, the black lab in this image, is thought to be its subject everything else automatically becomes a complementing object, even though any such distinction is purely a conceptual projection; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Subject and object
Are apparent states of mind
Thought into Being.

Subject and object
Are relative states of mind
Conception projects.

© 2009 RFHay

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Double-Mindedness)

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(Mirror Mirror Photograph)

Mirror Mirror © 2008 RFHay; More “apparent duality” occasioned by the reflective nature of the water illustrative of the “reflective nature of mind” which likewise projects “conceptual double-mindedness"; Companion haiku: Thinking creates an apparent division in Consciousness Itself.

Thinking creates an
Apparent division in
The Knowledge I Am.

Thinking appears to
Divide the Aware Presence
I Am and You Are.

© 2009 RFHay

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Duality)

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(Duality Photograph)

Duality © 2008 RFHay; The seeming duality that self-reflective thought projects into Being is not significantly different than the “as above and so below” duality of the sky and ground's refection in this stream; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Relative thinking
Divides Consciousness into
Particular states.

Conception divides
Being into subjective
And objective states.

[Rich Note: A necessary caveat to this insight is that any such division is apparent only, as Being/Consciousness Itself is Integral and Ultimately Indivisible from an Absolute Perspective.]

© 2009 RFHay

Monday, April 13, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Awakening)

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(Resurrecting Sun Photograph)

Resurrecting Sun (c) 2008 RFHay; Apparently "dying each night and resurrecting each morning" the sun offers a perfect physical metaphor for the Ultimate Immortality of Being, irrespective of appearance; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Called to resurrect
Consciousness from the grave of
Carnal conception.

Dying to self-thought
Resurrects Christ from the tomb
Of self-consciousness.

© 2009 RFHay

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Resurrection Now)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Stone Rolled Away Photograph)

Stone Rolled Away © 2004 RFHay; This Heartbox pose looks a great deal like an old world tomb in which the stone (a lowered "I" in this case that becomes a “footstool” in the “standing cross” pose) is rolled away to reveal the “Heart"; Companion haikyu: Accompanying.

Dying to myself
As I think resurrects Christ
As the One I Am.

Dying to myself
As I think resurrects the
One I Am in Christ.

© 2009 RFHay

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Vineyard)

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(Beyond the Vine Photograph)

Beyond the Vine © 2009 RFHay; Beyond the “I Am the Vine” imagery of this cross is the less obvious symbolism of “individual grapes having to die” in order to fulfill their collective and unified destiny as Spirit imbued Wine; Companion haiku: Thinking crucifies the Aware Presence I Am on a carnal cross.

Carnal conception
Crucifies Consciousness on
A conceptual cross.

Egocentric thought
Crucifies Consciousness on
The matrix of mind.

© 2009 RFHay

Friday, April 10, 2009

Hay-Ku fo the Day (The Buzz of Being)

[Rich Note: Companion haiku may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Heavy Mental Load Photograph)

Heavy Mental Load (c)2008 RFHay; Egocentric thought harnesses "me,myself and I" as its "subject" to a heavy load of "past memories and future imaginations" that cost One the Fullness of Life in the Present Moment; Companion haiku: Thinking may extend Life in time but it also turns Life into work.

Thinking may extend
Life in time but it sure kills
The Buzz of Being.

Thinking may extend
Being in time but it kills
The Fullness of Life.

(c) 2009 RFHay

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Projected Limits)

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(Self-Projected Visions Photograph)

Self-Projected Visions © 2009 RFHay; “A dual state of mind projects its relative limits in much the same way that looking through a pair of binoculars projects circlar limits”; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

With no “relative
Perspective” I Am left with
An Absolute One.

(c) 2009 RFHay

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Existence)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Natural Bridge Photograph)

Natural Bridge (c) 2007 BKWright; As the sky seen through this rock bridge appears narrow and constricted, so does the boundless "Sky of Awareness" seen through the partial and self-limited perspective of egocentric thought; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Relative thinking
Creates a contracted sense
Of self-existence.

© 2008 RFHay

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (More Abundant Life)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Just Hanging Out Photograph)

Just Hanging Out © 2008 RFHay: Neither tree nor vine has any difficulty with “Being Present Here and Now,” as neither has any self-reflective capacity to “remember a past and project a future,” and so imagine Being anywhere but Perfectly Present; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

More Abundant Life
Is about thinking less and
Being more Aware.

More Abundant Life
Is about thinking less and
Being more Present.

© 2009 RFHay

Monday, April 6, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Loving the Lord)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Holy Communion Photograph)

Holy Communion (c) 2009 RFHay; This "metallic relief" of the Last Supper not only reveals how "apparent outer difference" and "essential inner oneness" go together, but how the "One can be Many and One" at the same time; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Attention paid to
Being Consciously Aware
Is Divine Worship.

Attention paid to
The Aware Presence I Am
Is Loving the Lord.

© 2009 RFHay

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Happy as I Am)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Happy Time Photograph)

Happy Time © 2008 RFHay; If the “Pre-Conceptual Nature” of Being is “Life, Light, Love, Peace and Joy” then it is only the apparent relativity that “minding this to the exclusion of that” creates that keeps us from knowing It; Companion haiku: "Happy to Be" the Conscious Aliveness I Am prior to conception.

“Happy to Be” the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
The rest is Gravy.

“Happy to Be” the
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Any more is less.

© 2009 RFHay

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Abide In the Vine)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(The Vine Photograph)

The Vine © 2009 RFHay; “I am the vine, ye are the branches; He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:for without me ye can do nothing.”(Jn 5:5); Called to Abide in Christ as the Aware Presence of Being I Am .

Abiding in Christ
As the Conscious Aliveness
I Am is the Way.

[Rich Note: "If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (Jn 5:4).]

© 2009 RFHay

Friday, April 3, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Living Light)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(Tree of Life Photograph)

Tree of Life © 2008 RFHay: Gnarled and twisted every which way (including back on itself) the branches of this tree originate from and remain rooted in the Same Ground; Companion haiku: This Vibrant Conscious Aliveness I Am lived as Jesus Christ.

This Vibrant Sense of
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Lives in Every Heart.

This Vibrant Sense of
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Is the Father’s Child.

This Vibrant Sense of
Conscious Aliveness I Am
Is the “Living Light.”

© 2009 RFHay

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Hay-Ku of the Day (Abiding in the I Am)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com; this is a delayed posting of the April 1st offering.]

(Living Stones Photograph)

Living Stones © 2005 RFHay; "Vibrant Conscious Aliveness" showing up in “apparent energy forms” normally "perceived and conceived" to be other than I Am; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Abiding in the
Vibrant Conscious Aliveness
I Am is the Way.

Abiding in the
Vibrant Conscious Aliveness
I Am is Freedom.

Abiding in the
Vibrant Conscious Aliveness
I Am is Pure Joy.

[Rich Note: I Am is Pure Light, I Am is Pure Love, I Am is Pure Life, I Am is Being, I Am is Living and I Am Free at Last all work equally well for the third line.]

(c) 2009 RFHay

Hay-Ku of the Day (Clear Seeing)

[Rich Note: Companion image can be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com; this is a delayed posting of the 31 March offering.]

(A Ray of Hope Photograph)

A Ray of Hope (c) 2004 RFHay; Fair weather and a sunny day made flying a "sunday walk in the park"; whereas, thunderstorms and bad weather made it like "going to work on a monday morning in a snowstorm"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Stop relating to
Yourself as a relative
Concept of Being.

Stop relating to
Life Relatively and Be
Absolutely Free.

© 2009 RFHay