[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Mind Stream Photograph)
Mind Stream (C) 2008 RFHay: Do I really control the words and thoughts I believe I think or are they more truly the product of a natural ebb of consciousness similar to the water flowing in this rocky stream; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Is thinking I am
The thinker a sound basis
For believing that?
Is "thinking I am
The thinker" a sound basis
For acting like that?
(C) 2009 RFHay
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Witnessing Presence)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Witnessing Presence Photograph)
Witnessing Presence © 2002 RFHay: The observer’s relative stillness is necessary for the sensory awareness of the airplane’s relative movement; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
The Knowledge I Am
Requires Still Awareness to
Witness Its Presence.
© 2009 RFHay
(Witnessing Presence Photograph)
Witnessing Presence © 2002 RFHay: The observer’s relative stillness is necessary for the sensory awareness of the airplane’s relative movement; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
The Knowledge I Am
Requires Still Awareness to
Witness Its Presence.
© 2009 RFHay
Monday, July 27, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Partial Perspectives)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Perennial Photograph)
Perennial (C) 2009 RFHay; This image offers one angle and frame of reference that eliminated a potentially limitless number of other possibilities, as well as an Absolute Perspective that would include all angles and frames of reference at once; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Can a relative
Perspective of Being know
An Absolute One?
(C) 2009 RFHay
(Perennial Photograph)
Perennial (C) 2009 RFHay; This image offers one angle and frame of reference that eliminated a potentially limitless number of other possibilities, as well as an Absolute Perspective that would include all angles and frames of reference at once; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Can a relative
Perspective of Being know
An Absolute One?
(C) 2009 RFHay
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Relativity II)
[RichNote: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Divine Alarm Clock Photogaph)
Divine Alarm Clock (C) 2009 RFHay: Acting on relative thought and sense as if it were the Absolute Ground of One's Being leads to self-inflicted wounds and suffering that serve as Divine Alarm Clocks and/or Cosmic Wake-Up Calls; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
"It's all relative"
Suggests relativity
Is an Absolute.
Relativity
Requires an Absolute to
Be aware it is.
A relative state
Necessarily implies
An Absolute One.
[Rich Note: To paraphrase a wise man who once responded to someone who declared, "There is no Absolute": "Perhaps, but you are treating both yourself and your opinion to that effect as if you and it were.]
(C) 2009 RFHay
(Divine Alarm Clock Photogaph)
Divine Alarm Clock (C) 2009 RFHay: Acting on relative thought and sense as if it were the Absolute Ground of One's Being leads to self-inflicted wounds and suffering that serve as Divine Alarm Clocks and/or Cosmic Wake-Up Calls; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
"It's all relative"
Suggests relativity
Is an Absolute.
Relativity
Requires an Absolute to
Be aware it is.
A relative state
Necessarily implies
An Absolute One.
[Rich Note: To paraphrase a wise man who once responded to someone who declared, "There is no Absolute": "Perhaps, but you are treating both yourself and your opinion to that effect as if you and it were.]
(C) 2009 RFHay
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Relativity)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Decoy Photograph)
Decoy © 2009 RFHay; Not a “real duck” but an “image of one” that resulted in a “perceptual false premise” that got a lot of "real ducks" killed 75 to a 100 years ago (just as identifying with one’s self-image is still fatal today); Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Relativity
As an Absolute Premise
Is illogical.
Relativity
As a Premise of Being
Is dysfunctional.
Relativity
As the Ground of One’s Being
Is Self-Ignorant.
(c) 2009 RFHay
(Decoy Photograph)
Decoy © 2009 RFHay; Not a “real duck” but an “image of one” that resulted in a “perceptual false premise” that got a lot of "real ducks" killed 75 to a 100 years ago (just as identifying with one’s self-image is still fatal today); Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Relativity
As an Absolute Premise
Is illogical.
Relativity
As a Premise of Being
Is dysfunctional.
Relativity
As the Ground of One’s Being
Is Self-Ignorant.
(c) 2009 RFHay
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Reflected Light)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Tulip Photograph)
Tulip (c) 2005 RFHay: The difference between “what is” and what “appears to be” lies in the eye of the beholder, as does the apparent "radiant beauty" of this flower; Companion haiku: Accomanying.
What I appear to
Be is a relative state
Of That which I Am.
© 2009 RFHay
(Tulip Photograph)
Tulip (c) 2005 RFHay: The difference between “what is” and what “appears to be” lies in the eye of the beholder, as does the apparent "radiant beauty" of this flower; Companion haiku: Accomanying.
What I appear to
Be is a relative state
Of That which I Am.
© 2009 RFHay
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Be the Light)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Behold the Light Photograph)
[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Behold the Light (C) 2009 RFHay; "I Will There Be Light" both Declares and Decrees What Everlastingly Is; Companion haiku: Accompanying.]
"I Will There Be Light"
Is a Perfectly Divine
Double Entendre.
"I Will There Be Light"
Applies at Every Level
Of Conscious Being.
[Rich Note: The Real Beauty of this Divine Declaration and/or Decree is that it works at both a "Macro and Micro Level of Perception" and, as such, might be called a "Quad-Entendre." ]
[Rich Note: Or, Biblically Speaking, "Ye are the Light of the World. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid." "Let your Light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." (Matt 5:14 & 16). And the Light of which Jesus speaks, "That was theTrue Light which Ligheth every man that cometh into the world "(Jo 1:9), I would suggest,is the Light of Awareness I Am, You Are and All Is.]
(c) 2009 RFHay
(Behold the Light Photograph)
[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Behold the Light (C) 2009 RFHay; "I Will There Be Light" both Declares and Decrees What Everlastingly Is; Companion haiku: Accompanying.]
"I Will There Be Light"
Is a Perfectly Divine
Double Entendre.
"I Will There Be Light"
Applies at Every Level
Of Conscious Being.
[Rich Note: The Real Beauty of this Divine Declaration and/or Decree is that it works at both a "Macro and Micro Level of Perception" and, as such, might be called a "Quad-Entendre." ]
[Rich Note: Or, Biblically Speaking, "Ye are the Light of the World. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid." "Let your Light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." (Matt 5:14 & 16). And the Light of which Jesus speaks, "That was theTrue Light which Ligheth every man that cometh into the world "(Jo 1:9), I would suggest,is the Light of Awareness I Am, You Are and All Is.]
(c) 2009 RFHay
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Boundless Vision)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(The Vine Photograph)
The Vine (C) 2009 RFHay; As grapes must give up their individuality (re: die to themselves) in order to release their Common Spirit, so too does carnal consciousness have to be sacrificed for the Aware Presence of Being I Am to Be Realized; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
In Mental Stillness
One's Awareness expands to
Embrace All Being.
In Silent Stillness
One's Focal length and breadth of
Vision is Boundless.
(C) 2009 RFHay
(The Vine Photograph)
The Vine (C) 2009 RFHay; As grapes must give up their individuality (re: die to themselves) in order to release their Common Spirit, so too does carnal consciousness have to be sacrificed for the Aware Presence of Being I Am to Be Realized; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
In Mental Stillness
One's Awareness expands to
Embrace All Being.
In Silent Stillness
One's Focal length and breadth of
Vision is Boundless.
(C) 2009 RFHay
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Mental Leverage)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Self-Entangled Photograph)
Self-Entangled (C) 2008 RFHay; Companion haiku: (Reprise) "Caught up in details, a web of my own weaving, lunch for the spider."
Mental leverage
Is zero for thoughts I am
Identified with.
Self-identified
With mind I lack both mental
Space and leverage.
(C) 2009 RFHay
(Self-Entangled Photograph)
Self-Entangled (C) 2008 RFHay; Companion haiku: (Reprise) "Caught up in details, a web of my own weaving, lunch for the spider."
Mental leverage
Is zero for thoughts I am
Identified with.
Self-identified
With mind I lack both mental
Space and leverage.
(C) 2009 RFHay
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Free to Be)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Sail Away Photograph)
Sail Away (C) 2009 RFHay; One way of temporarily escaping "me" (re: I as I think I am, the seer and/or ego) is changing one's "mental, emotional and physical perspective" through "personal" vacations in general and para-sailing in particular; Companion haiku: Accoompanying.
In Seeing I Am
Not me I Am Free to Be
Myself as I Am.
In Seeing I Am
Not me I Am Free to Be
Awareness Itself.
(c) 2009 RFHay
(Sail Away Photograph)
Sail Away (C) 2009 RFHay; One way of temporarily escaping "me" (re: I as I think I am, the seer and/or ego) is changing one's "mental, emotional and physical perspective" through "personal" vacations in general and para-sailing in particular; Companion haiku: Accoompanying.
In Seeing I Am
Not me I Am Free to Be
Myself as I Am.
In Seeing I Am
Not me I Am Free to Be
Awareness Itself.
(c) 2009 RFHay
Friday, July 10, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Not Me)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Self-Distortion Photograph)
Self-Distortion (C) 2008 RFHay: Though "seeing" emanates from "two eyes" both the field of vision "seen" and the "consciousness" in which it arises are "one" until conceptually distorted in a manner similar to the sun's reflection in this pool; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
In Seeing I Am
Not me but Seeing Itself
Only One Exists.
In Seeing I Am
Not me but Seeing Itself
I find what I seek.
[Rich Note: Some additional "third-line" options: There is no other, Self-seeking ceases, The Circle comes Full, The Beginning Ends, I Realize Oneness, Only God Exists, I Am Limitless, I Am Free at Last, I Am Free Indeed, I Am Full of Life, I Am Full of Light, I Am Enlightened, I Am What I Am, All is Enlightened, There is Only One and Perfection is Seen.]
(C) 2009 RFHay
(Self-Distortion Photograph)
Self-Distortion (C) 2008 RFHay: Though "seeing" emanates from "two eyes" both the field of vision "seen" and the "consciousness" in which it arises are "one" until conceptually distorted in a manner similar to the sun's reflection in this pool; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
In Seeing I Am
Not me but Seeing Itself
Only One Exists.
In Seeing I Am
Not me but Seeing Itself
I find what I seek.
[Rich Note: Some additional "third-line" options: There is no other, Self-seeking ceases, The Circle comes Full, The Beginning Ends, I Realize Oneness, Only God Exists, I Am Limitless, I Am Free at Last, I Am Free Indeed, I Am Full of Life, I Am Full of Light, I Am Enlightened, I Am What I Am, All is Enlightened, There is Only One and Perfection is Seen.]
(C) 2009 RFHay
Monday, July 6, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Beautiful Dreamer)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Plato's Cave Photograph)
Plato's Cave: A framed Andrew Wyeth print that reminded us of our yellow lab, Higgins, who at 13 plus is still able to make it up the stairs (with periodic "bunny hops"), but had to give up the bed and frisbee chasing a year or so ago; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Wake-up to Being
The Space-Like Awareness in
Which Life Arises.
Wake-up to Being
The Space-Like Awareness you
Can never not Be.
(C) 2009 RFHay
(Plato's Cave Photograph)
Plato's Cave: A framed Andrew Wyeth print that reminded us of our yellow lab, Higgins, who at 13 plus is still able to make it up the stairs (with periodic "bunny hops"), but had to give up the bed and frisbee chasing a year or so ago; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Wake-up to Being
The Space-Like Awareness in
Which Life Arises.
Wake-up to Being
The Space-Like Awareness you
Can never not Be.
(C) 2009 RFHay
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Offspring)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Vietnam Vet Show Photograph)
Vietnam Vet Show (82 or 83);Nearly all of these abstract drawings (most of which introduce chapters in OOMM) are "visual ideas" that point to the centrally radiant, vibratory implications of Pure Consciousness and Being as the Ground of Existence; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
The Awareness I
Am in Vibratory Form
Is What Being Is.
Still Awareness wed
To Vibratory Awareness
Give Birth to Being.
Still Awareness wed
To Moving Awareness gives
Birth to Consciousness.
[Rich Note: The first of these, which appeared (with five other variants) as a comment to the latest post on Gather, was inspired by Rene's request for a simplification in verbiage aimed at making the "amalgam" insight (and its "mind-blowing" implication that the Pure Vibratory Energy of Being is innately Cognizant, Intelligent and Self-Aware, in and of Itself) offered a bit clearer.]
(C)2009 RFHay
(Vietnam Vet Show Photograph)
Vietnam Vet Show (82 or 83);Nearly all of these abstract drawings (most of which introduce chapters in OOMM) are "visual ideas" that point to the centrally radiant, vibratory implications of Pure Consciousness and Being as the Ground of Existence; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
The Awareness I
Am in Vibratory Form
Is What Being Is.
Still Awareness wed
To Vibratory Awareness
Give Birth to Being.
Still Awareness wed
To Moving Awareness gives
Birth to Consciousness.
[Rich Note: The first of these, which appeared (with five other variants) as a comment to the latest post on Gather, was inspired by Rene's request for a simplification in verbiage aimed at making the "amalgam" insight (and its "mind-blowing" implication that the Pure Vibratory Energy of Being is innately Cognizant, Intelligent and Self-Aware, in and of Itself) offered a bit clearer.]
(C)2009 RFHay
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