Hay-Ku of the Day (Moving Stillness)

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(Moving Stillness Photograph)

Moving Stillness (2009): The apparent reality of our conceptual world is much like the apparent solidity of the whirling blades of a fan whose substance disappears when the motor of the fan stops and one can see through and beyond the blades; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Attend to the space
Between thoughts and you will
See beyond the mind.

Attend to the space
Between this thought and that and
Remember Yourself.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Going Home)

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(Sky Light Photograph)

Sky Light (2009); Like the space between clouds, so is the Clear Sky of Awareness in which impulse and action, as well as thought, sense, feeling and desire, arises and falls; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Let your attention
Rest in the still space between
Impulse and action.

Let attention rest
In the conscious space between
Impulse and action.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Pure Observation)

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(Innocent Eyes Photograph)

Innocent Eyes (2009); Grand Daughter Gabriella’s motiveless observation of a pile of books (two involving visual illusions and two related to history) that serve as an impromptu metaphor for a world of memory based, self-referential concepts of Being; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Pure Observation
Without Self-Referential thought
Is Selfless Seeing.

Pure Observation
Without Self-Referencing thought
Is Being Yourself.

Pure Observation
Without Self-Referencing thought
Is Enlightenment.

[Rich Note: Today’s offering was inspired by the following revelatory quotation by Manual Schoch from “Bitten by the Blacksnake” (re: ego):

“The words ‘I am’ means that there is no distinction between the observer and the observed. One is that state of observation…The problem in understanding this lies in the struggle of the mind to become the observer. Why can’t the mind “do” observation? This is because observation is our very nature. You are observation…The observation is you: therefore you can never escape observation. Observation is not a process of doing; it is a continuous product of living, of being.” (pg 44)]

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Bliss of Being)

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(Oh Happy Day Photograph)

Oh Happy Day (2009); As nothing makes Grandma and Pa happier than being with the Grandkids (Natalie, Gabrialle, Sasha and Josiah) this is the best accompanying image I can imagine; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The Bliss of Being
The Pure Witnessing Presence
Of All is Boundless.

The Bliss of Being
The Vibrant Aware Presence
You Are never ends.

The Bliss of Being
That by which You know You Are
Is beyond the mind.

Hay-Ku of the Day (World Weaver)

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(Burma 115 Photograph)

Burma 115 (Wikipedia Commons, jmofro, 12-20- 09); Chosen over several other nice weaving images due to the many colored spools and the lovely background of sunlight; Companion haiku: Prismatic rainbow, a coat of many colors, shattered white light.

Mind is the Weaver
Of Garments of Light or Shrouds
Of Self-Ignorance.

Mind is the Weaver
That Clothes the Knowledge I Am
In Mental Garments.

Mind is the Weaver
That Clothes Divine Awareness
In Garments of Light.

Hay-Ku of the Day (A Still Mind)

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(Starburst Photograph Reprise)

Starburst (Reprise); A Still Mind reverts to the Alpha Point or I Am Perspective of the Witnessing Presence at the Center of this abstract; which, in totality, might be viewed as a Cosmic Projector of the Pure Light of Awareness into particular forms; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

A Still Mind becomes
The Witnessing Presence of
All Conscious Being.

[Rich Note: Or, more Biblically speaking, “Be Still and Know That I Am God” (Ps 46:10).]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Default)

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(Bright Idea Abstract)

Bright Idea (1978). Reprise of an 1978 abstract drawing used on the dedication page of OOMM that serves as a good visual icon for today's offering; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Mind without any
Self-reference defaults to
Present Awareness.

A still mind loses
Self-reference and defaults
To Pure Awareness.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Heart of Awareness)

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(Life Giving Sun Photograph)

Life Giving Sun (2009) The Sun, as a Radiant Center of Life Giving Energy and Light, has always been a perfect metaphor for the Witnessing Presence of the Light of Awareness at the Heart of All Being, both Universal and Local; Companion haiku: Companion haiku: The Witness of All Is the Heart of Awareness Essential to Life.

The Witness of All
Is the Heart of Awareness
Present as One Is.

The Witness of All
Is the Heart of Awareness
One is looking from.

The Witness of All
Is the Heart of Awareness
The Absolute Is.

[Rich Note: These were directly inspired by the following quote from "The Heart of Awareness - Ashtavakra Gita" translation by Thomas Byrom:

"Earth, fire and water,
The wind and the sky --
You are none of these.

If you wish to be free,
Know you are the Self,
The witness of all these,
The heart of awareness."]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Absolute Context)

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(Passing Sunset Photograph)

Passing Sunset (2009); The temporal clouds that reflect the beautiful golden glow of this sunset come and go in an underlying sky that is itself clear, transparent and changeless; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

In What Is Every
State of Conscious Awareness
Coming and Going?

In What does Every
State of Your Own Consciousness
Now Arise and Fall?

Hay-Ku of the Day (Mental Myopia)

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(Too Close to Call Photograph)

Too Close to Call (2009); Although we can surmise this is a clock, we cannot tell what time it is, or even whether it is working, based on the narrow perspective this particular visual (as well as mental) focal length provides; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Step back mentally
And you will see All things in
Their Proper Context.

Step back mentally
And you will see you are not
What you think you are.

[Rich Note: The “short focal length and narrow breadth of vision” we are subject to when self-identified with the "subject-object/self-other" orientation of "relative thought" has the effect of blinding us to the Totality of Being.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Out of the Box)

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(Outside the Box Photograph)

Outside the Box (1992); First posted in June of 2007, this HB arrangement is a perfect visual metaphor for the “boxed in nature” of Being defined in terms of self-reflective thought and the “Free Nature” of Being beyond the “mental box" of mind; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

Life outside the box
Of mental experience
Is Paradise Found.

Life outside the box
Of conceptual matters
Is self-transcending.

Life outside the box
Of self-reflective thought is
Beyond conception.

Hay-Ku of the Day (You Are the Light)

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(Light of the World Photograph)

Light of the World (2009); Without the direct light of the sun, neither its reflection as moonlight nor the moon itself would appear as an object in Awareness; Companion haiku: Accompanying.

The Light by which you
See All that appears is the
Light of Awareness.

Even the Darkest
Night is seen in the Light of
Awareness You Are

Without the Light of
Awareness You Are All You
See would disappear.

[Rich Note: ”Ye are the Light of the World…”(Matt 5:14).]