Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Complements)

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(Full Emptiness Photograph)

Full Emptiness (2009 Reprise); A Glassy Earth representing Everything as a Vibratory State of the Clear, Aware Space this Empty, Bodily Cup localizes in Space-Time; Companion haiku: The Emptiness of Clear Aware Space Gives Rise to the Fullness of All.

Aware Space is an
Absolute Complement to
The Fullness of All.

Conscious Fullness is
A Perfect Complement to the
Aware Space One Is.

[Rich Note: “Truly I forget in what my wealth and true grandeur lie, how inexhaustible they are, and how my title to them is my absolute poverty (DE Harding, Open to the Source, WEALTH, page 116, edited by Richard Lang).” ]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Looking Both Ways)

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(Janus Photograph)

Janus (from Wikipedia Commons): As the Roman god of gates, doors or beginnings and endings, Janus is depicted with two faces and (as Van Morrison’s “Dweller on the Threshold” also suggests) is able to look both ways at once; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Two-Way Attention
Unifies Still and Vibrant
States of Awareness.

Two-Way Attention
Sees Still and Vibrant States of
Aware Space as One.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Two-Way Attention)

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(Two-Way Seeing Photograph)

Two-Way Seeing (2009): “(Two-Way Attention)…simultaneously to view the thing you are looking at and the No-thing (Aware Space) you are looking out of” (Douglas Harding discription, as quoted in “Open to the Source”); Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Two-Way Attention
Simultaneously Sees
Within and Without.

Two-Way Attention
Simultaneously Sees
Both Seer and Seen.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Genesis II)

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(First Communion Photograph)

First Communion (Reprise - 2009); The Genesis of Consciousness (or Being) as the Divine Offspring of the Original Wedding of Still and Vibrant Aware Space; Companion haiku: The Aware Space You Are is the “Holy Grail” through which Creation Flows.

Conscious Union of
Still and Vibrant Aware Space
Gives Birth to Being.

Communion between
Still and Vibrant Aware Space
Begets Consciousness.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Love Is)

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(Open and Shut Photograph)

Open and Shut (2007 Reprise); The basic contrast of “boxed” (self-centered ‘I as I think I Am’) and “un-boxed” (self-less, all-embracing, “I as I Am in Spirit and Truth”) Aware Space appear well represented in this Heart Box arrangement.

Love is Seeing All
As a Vibrant State of the
Aware Space One Is.

[Rich Note: One might also say that Love is Self-Transcendent, Conscious Union with All as That which One Is, You Are and I Am; or, alternately, a Unitary State of Mind and/or Consciousness in which Subjective and Objective Conceptual States meld (conceptually speaking) in Original Oneness. As this suggests, "You Are and I Am” make nice substitutes for “One Is” in the third line.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Consciousness)

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(The Deep Photograph)

The Deep (2009); "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."(Gen 1:2); Companion haiku: You are clear aware space and existence is a vibrant state of That.

You Are Clear Aware
Space and Consciousness is a
Vibrant State of That.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Vibrant Aware Space)

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(Face to Not Face Photograph)

Face to No Face (2009): The "Vibrant Aware Space" of this humorous "tree face" presently faces the "First Person No Face" of the “Still Aware Space” that now sits on your shoulders and out of which you presently look; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

All Is a Vibrant
State of the Clear Aware Space
Of Being One Is.

Life Is a Vibrant
State of the Clear Aware Space
Of Being You Are.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Sky of Perpetual Grace)

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Skyof Perpetual Grace Photograph)

Sky of Perpetual Grace (2009); It’s hard to notice the Clear Aware Space out of which one looks (particularly if one is conditioned to value “form over space”) when the Sky of Awareness into which one looks reflects such Divine Beauty; Photo Companion haiku: Still and Quiet this Sky of Perpetual Grace abiding in One’s Heart.

Seeing One Is Clear
Aware Space is a Simple
Matter of Looking.

To See You Are the
Aware Empty Space of All
You only need Look.

Hay-Ku of the Day (You Are That 2)

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(You Can't Touch This Photograph)

You Can’t Touch This (2009); Another DE Harding, “Pointing Here” Experiment (www.headless.org) inspired image; Companion haiku: Present Evidence Reveals I Am Aware Space and not what I think.

The Clear Aware Space
You see where your shoulders stop
Is Your True Nature.

The Clear Aware Space
You see where your shoulders stop
Is the same as Mine.

[Rich Note: Other, more philosophical and/or theological, third-lines include: Is the Ground of All, Is the Holy Grail, Is the Father's Son, Is the Holy One, Is the One I Am, Is That Which I Am, Is All I can Be; Is the Son of God, Is God Manifest, Is the Holy Ghost, Is Paradise Found, Is the End of Days, Is the Eternal, Is the Absolute, Is Everlasting, Is Fundamental, Is What We All Seek, Is I as I Am, Is God in the Flesh, Is Being Ignored, Is Knowledge Itself, Is Pure Awareness.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Home Sweet Home)

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(Here's Looking At You, Kids! Photograph)

Here’s Looking At You, Kid! (2009); A D.E. Harding, “Pointing Here” Experiment (that can be found www.headless.org) inspired image; Companion haiku: What this finger points to is the Clear Aware Space of Being You Are.

The Aware Space You'll
Find on Your shoulders is "the
Home You never left."

The Aware Space You'll
Find on Your shoulders is the
"Ultimate Good News."

Hay-Ku of the Day (One Embracing All)

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(Out on a Limb Photograph)

Out on a Limb (2009); Since a number expressed enjoyment with the “kitty pictures,” here’s my favorite; Companion haiku: "If you get caught out on a limb you may as well make yourself at home."

Notice the Aware
Space on your shoulders that is
Full of Everything.

Hay-Ku of Day (Home Free)

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(Are You Looking at Me? Photograph)

Are You Looking at Me? (2009); This Aware, Empty Space (or Space-Like Awareness) out of which One looks is the Changeless Ground of All the Self-Reflective States (including kitty’s face) of Consciousness that arise and fall within It; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Home Free attending
To the Aware, Empty Space
Out of which One looks.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Your End)

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(What's Happening Here? Photograph)

What’s Happening Here? (2009); What’s happening Here (in the “Space-Like Awareness Your Are and I Am”) is Granddaughter (and Phillie Fan-atic) Natalie at Thursday's game; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Look into your end
Of perception and see what
You are looking from.

Look and See You Are
The Aware, Empty Space in
Which It All happens.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Face to No Face)

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(Up a Tree Photograph)

Up a Tree (2009); Tabby here turned a corner and came “face to no face” with Yellow Lab Higgins this morning and, as you can see, ended up a tree (she got down safely); Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Is there a “face” on
Your “end of perception” or
Only Aware Space?

[Rich Note: The title of today’s offering comes from a book that presents transcriptions of workshops once done by DE Harding; who also happen to write one of my all time favorite books:“The Trial of the Man Who Said He Was God.”]