Hay-Ku of the Day (Pure Observation)

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

(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)]