[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Distracting 100,000 Minds Photograph)
Distracting 100,000 Minds (2010) Sports, movies, TV, games, dancing, music, art, reading, you name it, all provide temporary distraction and relief from mental preoccupation with self-referential thought, mind and consciousness: Companion haiku: Accompanying.
The Fulfillment the
Mind seeks comes in the Presence
Of its own Absence.
The Presence of Its
Own Absence is what mind seeks
With every action.
The Presence of Its
Own Absence is what mind seeks
With self-distraction.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (Presence of Absence)
[Rich Note: companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Going All In Photograph)
Going All In (2010); The "hold nothing back" credo proposed by this Leigh Standley (www.curlygirldesign.com) design (which appears on the back of a laptop in a Eugene, Oregon Starbucks) implies total self-giving and, thus, the Presence of my own Absence; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
In the Presence of
My own Absence I Am the
Happiest of All.
In the Presence of
My own Absence the Joy of
Being Overflows.
(Going All In Photograph)
Going All In (2010); The "hold nothing back" credo proposed by this Leigh Standley (www.curlygirldesign.com) design (which appears on the back of a laptop in a Eugene, Oregon Starbucks) implies total self-giving and, thus, the Presence of my own Absence; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
In the Presence of
My own Absence I Am the
Happiest of All.
In the Presence of
My own Absence the Joy of
Being Overflows.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Destiny)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Gator Photograph)
Gator (2010); "Gator-like" piece of driftwood photographed on the Oregon Coast that was "once living tree" now in the process of “defaulting” back to the State of Pure (and I would suggest Intelligent) Energy it only temporarily expressed; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Destined to Default
To the Absolute Nature
Of your own Being.
Destined to Default
To the Absolute Ground of
All Conscious Being.
(Gator Photograph)
Gator (2010); "Gator-like" piece of driftwood photographed on the Oregon Coast that was "once living tree" now in the process of “defaulting” back to the State of Pure (and I would suggest Intelligent) Energy it only temporarily expressed; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Destined to Default
To the Absolute Nature
Of your own Being.
Destined to Default
To the Absolute Ground of
All Conscious Being.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (Through the Looking Glass)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Dream a Little Dream of Me Photograph)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (2010);A lovely mural painted by Tony Troy in 2003 at Katrina's Greek Restaurant in Ocean City, NJ, that beautifully captures (in several dimensions) the dream-like quality that "thought following" naturally projects into Being; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Give thought a second
Thought and you're through Alice's
Famous looking-glass.
Give thought a second
Thought and you’re a character
In the mind’s movies.
Give thought a second
Thought and you enter into
A world full of dreams
(Dream a Little Dream of Me Photograph)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (2010);A lovely mural painted by Tony Troy in 2003 at Katrina's Greek Restaurant in Ocean City, NJ, that beautifully captures (in several dimensions) the dream-like quality that "thought following" naturally projects into Being; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Give thought a second
Thought and you're through Alice's
Famous looking-glass.
Give thought a second
Thought and you’re a character
In the mind’s movies.
Give thought a second
Thought and you enter into
A world full of dreams
Hay-Ku of the Day (The Price of Thought)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Surrogate Photograph)
Surrogate (2009); Just as this beautiful sculpture is a brass surrogate for a particular state of Being, so is thinking a conceptual surrogate for Being Itself; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Thinking is Being
Relatively unaware
Of Being Present.
Thinking is Being
Relatively unconscious
Of Being Aware.
To think is to be
Relatively unaware
Of Being Itself.
(Surrogate Photograph)
Surrogate (2009); Just as this beautiful sculpture is a brass surrogate for a particular state of Being, so is thinking a conceptual surrogate for Being Itself; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Thinking is Being
Relatively unaware
Of Being Present.
Thinking is Being
Relatively unconscious
Of Being Aware.
To think is to be
Relatively unaware
Of Being Itself.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (Gathering the Light)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Stone-Head Photograph)
Stone-Head (2010); Reminds me of my youth when I was oft-times a “rock-head, hard-head, bull-head, knot-head, fat-heat, butt-head and/or dead-head,” alternately and sometimes all at once; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Mind as a mental
Mirror appears to fragment
The Light it reflects.
A Still Mind gathers
The Light a moving mind
Can only disperse.
Still Mental Waters
Gather the Light of Being
With no intension.
(Stone-Head Photograph)
Stone-Head (2010); Reminds me of my youth when I was oft-times a “rock-head, hard-head, bull-head, knot-head, fat-heat, butt-head and/or dead-head,” alternately and sometimes all at once; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Mind as a mental
Mirror appears to fragment
The Light it reflects.
A Still Mind gathers
The Light a moving mind
Can only disperse.
Still Mental Waters
Gather the Light of Being
With no intension.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (Shards of Light)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
[Shattered Light Photograph)
Shattered Light (2009); Although not oceanic with respect to the the body of water involved, this image does offer a nice example of how surface turbulence in the reflective medium shatters and distorts the images it reflects; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Divine Reflections
Shatter in restless minds as
Sunlight on the Sea.
[Shattered Light Photograph)
Shattered Light (2009); Although not oceanic with respect to the the body of water involved, this image does offer a nice example of how surface turbulence in the reflective medium shatters and distorts the images it reflects; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Divine Reflections
Shatter in restless minds as
Sunlight on the Sea.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (Ghostly Galleons)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Ghostly Galleon Photograph)
Ghostly Galleon (2009); “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas…(The Highwayman Alfred Noyes)” -- Give up the Ghost and default to the Pure Light of the Sun; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Mind is Moonlight with
Respect to the Sunlight of
The Knowledge I Am.
Moonlight gazing back
At the Sunlight at its Source
Would say: “I Am That”!
[Rich Note: Direct or Non-Dual Consciousness -- as well as any of the alternative Names for Pure or Divine Consciousness suggested in subsequent comments to "Necessarily So" -- all work as "third-lines" in the first of today's offering.]
(Ghostly Galleon Photograph)
Ghostly Galleon (2009); “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas…(The Highwayman Alfred Noyes)” -- Give up the Ghost and default to the Pure Light of the Sun; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
Mind is Moonlight with
Respect to the Sunlight of
The Knowledge I Am.
Moonlight gazing back
At the Sunlight at its Source
Would say: “I Am That”!
[Rich Note: Direct or Non-Dual Consciousness -- as well as any of the alternative Names for Pure or Divine Consciousness suggested in subsequent comments to "Necessarily So" -- all work as "third-lines" in the first of today's offering.]
Hay-Ku of the Day (Necessarily So)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(The Isolated Christ Photograph)
The Isolated Christ (Wikipedia commons, Nelson Diaz, 2007-09); Painting illustrative of Diaz's theory that Da Vinci's strategic placement of the vanishing point in "The Last Supper" was Da Vinci's way of establishing Christ's transcendence; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
"Consciousness is All
There Is" and "You Are That" Is
What the Sages say.
"Consciousness is All
There Is" and "You Are That" Is
What the Mystics say.
"Consciousness is All
There Is" and "You Are That" Is
What the Ancients say.
[Rich Note: Worth noting is that any disagreement with this conclusion "takes place in, as and through" Consciousness and, as such, only serves to confirm it as necessarily so.]
[Rich Note: Biblically Speaking, God Is One (RE: "Hear O Israel: The LORD our God is One LORD" Deut. 6:4); ergo, God Lives in You (RE: "The Mystery hide from age...which is Christ in You, the Hope of Glory" Col 1:27-28).]
(The Isolated Christ Photograph)
The Isolated Christ (Wikipedia commons, Nelson Diaz, 2007-09); Painting illustrative of Diaz's theory that Da Vinci's strategic placement of the vanishing point in "The Last Supper" was Da Vinci's way of establishing Christ's transcendence; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
"Consciousness is All
There Is" and "You Are That" Is
What the Sages say.
"Consciousness is All
There Is" and "You Are That" Is
What the Mystics say.
"Consciousness is All
There Is" and "You Are That" Is
What the Ancients say.
[Rich Note: Worth noting is that any disagreement with this conclusion "takes place in, as and through" Consciousness and, as such, only serves to confirm it as necessarily so.]
[Rich Note: Biblically Speaking, God Is One (RE: "Hear O Israel: The LORD our God is One LORD" Deut. 6:4); ergo, God Lives in You (RE: "The Mystery hide from age...which is Christ in You, the Hope of Glory" Col 1:27-28).]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (Pure Subjectivity)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Unseen Mover Photograph)
Unseen Mover (2009); The wind moving the kite in this photo can only be seen and known through its reflection in material effects; Companion haiku: Pure Awareness can only experienced as a self-reflection.
Awareness as Pure
Subjectivity cannot
Know Itself as That.
(Unseen Mover Photograph)
Unseen Mover (2009); The wind moving the kite in this photo can only be seen and known through its reflection in material effects; Companion haiku: Pure Awareness can only experienced as a self-reflection.
Awareness as Pure
Subjectivity cannot
Know Itself as That.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Hay-Ku of the Day (333)
[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(333 Photograph)
333 (2010); This Celtic image illustrates a principle of numeric symbolism in which each Unity contains a Trinity and its threefold repetition represents its extension into Infinity, whose numeric expression in this case is 333; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
What is it that grows
My bones, breaths my breath, beats my
Heart and knows I Am?
(333 Photograph)
333 (2010); This Celtic image illustrates a principle of numeric symbolism in which each Unity contains a Trinity and its threefold repetition represents its extension into Infinity, whose numeric expression in this case is 333; Companion haiku: Accompanying.
What is it that grows
My bones, breaths my breath, beats my
Heart and knows I Am?
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