Hay-Ku of the Day (Mental Self Mastery)

Self-Mastery is

A Matter of Being the

Awareness I Am.

Being the Presence

Of the Awareness I Am

Is Mastering Mind.

Awareness Masters

The process of minding by

Seeing Selflessly.

***

I Am presently

Addicted to thinking self-

Referentially.

Addiction to thought

As a self-focused process

Blinds One to Being.

Human Being's an

Addiction to minding self-

Referential thought.

***

Identifying

With self-thought blinds the mind to

Being Awareness.

Identifying

With self-thought blinds me to the

Awareness I Am.

Identifying

With self-thought blinds me to the

Field of Awareness. 

***

Identifying

With self-referential thought

Is "missing the mark."

"I miss the mark" if

I live self-identified

With relative thought.

***

Addiction to "me"

As a self-referenced thought

Causes amnesia. 

Addiction to self-

Reflective thinking causes

Self-forgetfulness.

Addiction to self-

Referenced thinking causes

Divine amnesia.

***

Awareness that is

Self-Identified with thought

Is blind to Being.

As Awareness self-

Identified with thought I

Am blind to Myself.

Blind to Being the

Awareness I Am though my

Addiction to thought.

***

Paying Attention

To both Awareness and self

Thought's not possible.

Awareness can Be

Aware of Itself and thought

But thinking can not.

I can't master mind

Until it is seen from a

Higher perspective

***

I cannot master

Mind until I see It from

Outside the process.

I cannot master

Thought until it is seen from

Outside of the mind.

I can't master mind

Until I see It from a

Selfless Perspective.

***

To stop thinking I

Only have to See I must

Not be the thinker.

I can't think and Be

Aware I Am Awareness

In the same instant.

***

Mastering thought is

A matter of not minding

Thought at inception.

Stop labeling what

You See and simply Be Its

Witnessing Presence.

Seeing thought from the

Perspective of Awareness

"Sets the Captive Free."

***

A Master Mind is

One who has Seen he is the

Awareness of God

The Only Way to

Overcome myself is See

I Am Awareness.

Re: "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Revelation 3:21-22 KJV

[Rich Note: Although these all go together. It may take come "Contemplation" to see it.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Knowing Myself as I Am)

Knowing Another

Is Wisdom; Knowing Myself

Is Enlightenment.

Knowing Myself as

I Am in Spirit and Truth

Is Enlightenment.

***

Self-Ignorant to

The degree I think I am

Other than I AM.

Self-Ignorant to

The degree I Imagine

I am separate.

***

I Am Enlightened

Of the idea I am a

Separate person.

I Am Enlightened

Of the belief that I am

Other than I AM.

***

Enlightened when I

Recognize I Am That by

Which I Know I Am.

"To know others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."  Lao Tzu

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Self-Shining Light I Am)

The Light I Am shall

Come to Outshine All I Now

Think myself to Be.

The Living Light of

God I Am will Outshine All

Mind can Imagine.

At some Point the Light

Of What I Am Outshines the

Light of what I think.

***

The Light I Am will

Eventually Outshine all

My self-conceptions.

The Light I Am will

Eventually Outshine all

Human conceptions.

The Light I Am will

Eventually Outshine All

That Was or Will Be

The Light I Am will

Eventually Outshine All

Conscious Existence.

"If you are seeking truth, reality, God or whatever you like to call it, I suggest that you start with the only reality you are absolutely certain of—that is the fact of your own being. There is no one sitting here who can say 'I am not'. Each one of us knows 'I am'. But that thought 'I am' is not the reality. It is the closest you will ever get to it with the mind. That 'I am' is just a translation by the mind of that sense of presence, the awareness of presence or the presence of that awareness. That is the only reality we are absolutely certain of. Nobody under any circumstances can say 'I am not'. That knowing is constantly and ever with us. And that is why we say that what you are seeking you already are.

"We base what we talk about here on what the ancient traditions tell us. In Advaita, for instance, they call it non-dual—one-without-a-second. The one-without-a-second part means that even one could imply that there is something other than one. In the Dzogchen scriptures they call it non-conceptual, ever-fresh, self-shining, presence awareness, just this and nothing else. And if you look at that, that is describing you, me and everything else. That presence of awareness is non-conceptual. You don't have to hold a concept about it. It's ever fresh because it has no beginning and no end. It is self-shining like the sun. It shines of itself. It doesn't need a light to say 'I am shining'. And that is what it is, just that which you cannot escape from, which you cannot get away from-presence-awareness..."

-- Sailor Bob Adamson

[Rich Note: These are the first two introductory paragraphs from a piece entitled "Introductory Talks"  by Sailor Bob that can be accessed at the following link:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~adamson7/intro.html ]

[Rich Note: Or more Biblically Speaking (with respect to "I Am" or the "I Am that I Am"), in order to provide rather "clear, cross-cultural, conceptual correlators":

"I AM Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:8 KJV

"...I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, (the Absolute) but by me." John 14:6 KJV

"...lo, I AM with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Matthew 28:20 KJV

"Be still, and know that I AM God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10 KJV

"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." Exodus 3:14 KJV

"...I AM God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city." Hosea 11:9 KJV

"As long as I AM in the world, I AM the light of the world." John 9:5 KJV

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." Matthew 5:14 KJV

"Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I Am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts." Jeremiah 15:16 KJV.]

Haiku of the Day (The Animating Principle)

Life's Animating

Principle is the Divine

Awareness I Am.

"This Awareness of

Being I Am" is "the Way,

The Truth and the Life."

***

Divine Awareness

Breaths Life into Being through

Focused Attention.

The "Animating

Principle or Life Force" is

Focused Attention.

***

Quantum Awareness

Focused on particulars 

Breaths Life into them.

Conscious attention

Is a Contracted State of

Quantum Awareness. 

Conscious Attention

Collapses the Wave Function

Of Pure Awareness.

***

The mental objects

I pay attention to are

Thereby enlivened.

I make real in my

Imagination what I

Pay attention to.

I energize in 

My mind whatever I fix

My attention on.

***

Focusing on what

I fear is manifesting

What I do not want.

Turning attention

Away from personal fear

"Pulls the Plug" on it.

"The Stoic philosophers identified the term (Logos or Word) with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe." Wikipedia 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God (the Father, Absolute or Un-Manifest), and the Word was God” (the Son/Child, Relative or Manifest)  [John 1:1].

"In the beginning was the unconditioned awareness of being, and the unconditioned awareness of being became conditioned by imagining itself to be something, and the unconditioned awareness of being became that which it had imagined itself to be; so did creation begin." Neville Goddard

"Your nature is awareness, which uses the mind for the purpose of promoting survival. Once you start seeing this clearly, you’ll allow the mind to do what it does and not identify with it. This is how you awaken to your true nature. You don’t do anything to accomplish awakening, but simply ALLOW yourself to see what is real and lasting – which is awareness (your Presence)." Burt Harding

"One may say that at this moment consciousness seems to be filled with problems. But the believing that this is so merely gives authority to the seeming. We do not deny the seeming, we leave it, we let it alone and the power goes out of it. If the bird appears to eat a cricket, so what? Isness still Is, Perfection is still Perfect, All is still All, this Identity being us is still God’s Self Identification and nothing we say or believe, or do not say, or fail to understand, an alter this Fact one iota."  Bill Samuel

Hay-Ku of the Day (Seeing the Difference)

Father I wish to

See the difference between

Thought and Awareness

***

Lord God I wish to

Know the difference between 

Awareness and mind.

Lord God I wish to

Feel the difference between 

Thinking and Being.

***

I wish to See the

Difference between thinking

And Being Aware.

I wish to Know the

Difference between thinking

And Being Present.

Re: "What became clear to me is that ‘knowing’ the difference between thought and awareness is what tips the scales towards clarity, peace and acceptance."  Burt Harding

[Burt's quote is from an e-book entitled, "The Perfection of Awareness" (also available on Amazon in an greatly expanded version), which will show up in a Google search list if "Burt Harding PDF" is entered in the search engine.]

[Rich Note: Burt goes on to suggest the "priceless payoff" of learning to differentiate between thought and Awareness (of Being) as follows  :

"I can assure you that the understanding of the difference between awareness and thought and seeing their complimentary oneness brings far more benefit than can be imagined. Here are some benefits from this clarity:

"-- It will bring clarity and that’s the most important step in understanding.

"-- It will help you to see what is real as opposed to what is relative and unreal.

"-- It will bring peace because the attachment to thought starts to fall away through clarity.

"-- You will feel more relaxed, comfortable with yourself since effort and struggle is practically diminished.

"-- You will finally understand what it means to love yourself and the question of self-esteem is forever resolved.

"-- Fears start to drop by themselves as clarity becomes more established.

"-- There is a quiet enthusiasm for life and living with a heart open to wonder.

"-- Self-concern begins to drop until self-consciousness is diminished.

"-- When questions arise, there is almost an immediate seeing of the answer imbedded in the question itself.

"-- When problems arise there is no panic or even agitation as understanding between awareness and thought brings detachment.

"-- The world is seen with new eyes and begin to also see no separation.

"-- All seeking to attain, overcome and fix drop away like leaves in autumn.

"-- There’s a continual feeling of release from tension and stress even when presented by worldly activity.

"-- There’s compassion towards others since you see no separation.

"-- There’s a quiet inner excitement about ordinary things and activities. 

"-- Someone commented that even washing dishes became a pleasant experience.

"-- There’s an incredible release from mental enslavement and conditioned nervous system with the realization of what thought is.

"-- Our greatest fear of emptiness gradually becomes our greatest joy.

"-- We finally wake up to what is real and lasting.

"-- Above all, we discover who we are and have always been."

"...(the) First important step (there’s nothing to find but understand what-is)..."   

(Burt Harding, from "The Perfection of Awareness").]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Optimum Prayer)

Father I Wish to

Experience Being the

Awareness I Am.

Father I Wish to

Be Still and Experience

Being Awareness.

***

Father God I Wish

To Experience Being

Thy Infinite Peace.

Father God I Wish

To Experience Being

Thy Eternal Love.

***

Lord God I wish to

Experience Being Thy

Everlasting Light.

Lord God I wish to

Experience Being Thy

Absolute Fulness.

***

Father-Mother God

I wish to Experience

Being Thy Presence.

Father-Mother God

I wish to Experience

Being Thy Seeing.

***

Absolute Father

I Wish to Experience

Being All There Is.

Absolute Father

I Wish to Experience

Being Thy Vision.

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:.." Matthew 7:7 KJV

"For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." Matthew 7:8 KJV

[Rich: The Heartfelt Affinity, here, with respect to a relational Name for the Absolute or God the Father, is Father (or Father God), as Jesus suggested.  In any event, whenever the word "God" is used here it is with reference to the "Nameless Absolute." Paradoxically, it's a personal thing, so I would suggest using the particular appellation that resonates with your Heart.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Thinking Otherwise)

I Am Never Not

The Awareness I Am but

May think otherwise.

I forget about

Being Awareness because

I focus on form.

I forget about

Being Awareness because

I fixate on thought.

(Minding what does not

Matter in the Grand Scheme of

Things troubles my mind.)

"There is never a time when you are not awareness. However, you forget about being awareness because you focus on what you are being aware of..."

"You are always aware, but, because you take everything personally, you place awareness into a thought form instead."

(Burt Harding, from "The Perfection of Awareness") 

Hay-Ku of the Day (Be Still and Feel)

Being Here and Now

Still and Silent as I Am

One with the Father.

To Know I Am and

Just Be That is the Headstone

The Builders Reject.

In the Still Silent

Presence of the Awareness

I Am God is Here.

In the Still Silent

Presence of Being Aware

I Am One with God.

"Truth is available right this moment if you can just be still long enough to feel it."         -- Burt Harding

"Be still, and know that I am God:" Psalm 46:10 KJV

"...for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee..." Hos. 12-9

"...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 KJV

"Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation." Zechariah 2:12-13 KJV

"...Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." Ephesians 5:14 KJV

Haiku of the Day (Speaking the Truth in Love)

Hay-Ku of the Day (Speaking the Truth in Love)

Speak the Truth in Love

And Grow up into Him in All

Things, which is the Christ.

"But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:" Ephesians 4:15-16 KJV

***

All Things I Am, can

Do and Be through Christ the Truth

Now Living in me.

"All things I am,

Can do and be,

Through Christ 

the Truth

That Lives in me."

-- James Dillet Freeman

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13-14 KJV

[Rich Note: Here's full version of that Joel Goldsmith closing to "Practicing the Presence" that's has stuck with me for 30 years (but wouldn't fit as a comment under the previous post).]

"The Babe of Christ"

"You can rise no higher in consciousness than to that place where the spiritual Presence enters the heart, and you realize it has happened the Presence is within you. A new dimension has entered your heart when you entertain the Presence, but I must say to you that it is your responsibility to nurture it. That Is the only way to be sure that you will not lose what you have gained. What You have gained is only a Babe; you must let it develop into full Christhood: Many times a day turn your thought as if in the direction of your heart—not because your physical heart has anything to do with your spiritual demonstration, but because the heart is symbolic of love. Thinking of the heart as a symbol of love, as a symbol of the resting place of the Christ within you, turn your thought several times each day to that heart in recognition that the Babe is enthroned there, that the Christ has entered, and that It lives with you. It is you who must keep the Babe from wandering out of your heart and getting lost. It is there, but I say to you that it is a Babe: You must watch It; you must nurse It; you must acknowledge It, love It. Watch It grow as you learn the ways of loving God and of loving man. No Improvement has ever been discovered, no alteration has ever been made in the two great commandments, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . . and . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

"No longer plead with God for things; let this Babe do all that for you. It will not have to plead: It will experience Itself as the added things. Do not look to God for favors and do not look to God for strange powers to do things for you. Turn your gaze now to the place where you have already felt that gentle Presence. Smile at It. Secretly and sacredly know that It is there and that It Is fulfilling Its function and is about the Father's business. This Babe is given unto you to restore the lost years of the locusts and to return you to the Father's House and to your conscious union with God.

"It is the function of this Babe to reveal that you are living in the midst of Eden where you will always be tempted with only one temptation: There is only one evil in the Garden of Eden, only one sin, the belief in the power of good and evil.You, sitting back inside your own temple, must be able to look at that tree of the knowledge of good and evil at all times and resist the temptation to believe in it. You, yourself, must be able to say: 

"Beautiful as you look, or horrible as you look, I now know there is no truth in you.There is no power for good or for evil in any form, that is, in any person, place, thing, circumstance, or condition. God in the midst of me is the only good, the only power, and the only presence. The only evil there is, is the belief in a selfhood or a condition separate and apart from God.

"Even when you have overcome for yourself every form in which this one temptation may appear, the problems of the world will tempt you: storms at sea, disaster, war, poverty, and disease; but whatever the temptation, it will always be the one great temptation to accept two powers. This is when you must turn to the Christ within:

"The Christ within me is my assurance that only It has the power the Son of God, the Spirit of God in me. It will never leave me nor forsake me as long as I realize and recognize It and as long as I live the life It tells me to live. I look to It For guidance; I look to It for wisdom. Whenever a question is presented to my mind, I look down toward my heart, and the answer comes forth in whatever form is necessary. 

"Oh, do not be too literal about this. Sometimes this Presence will seem to be looking at you from over your shoulder or sitting right on your shoulder; sometimes It will appear as a face in front of you, sometimes smiling, but always reassuring. Keep It alive. 

"The presence of this Christ, gentle and small as It may be, is the substance of every experience that you will have on the outer plane. Seek neither health, nor wealth, nor fame, nor fortune. Seek first the realization of this inner kingdom and be a beholder as these outer things are added unto your experience. Do not hesitate to turn to It for revelation. Why should not revelation be given to you as well as to others who have lived before alteration has ever been made in the you?  "God is no respecter of persons."Gautama was only the Buddha because he worked for twenty-one years to receive illumination; Jesus was only the Christ because he gave himself to the world; and you will be whatever degree of love there is in you for God and for your neighbor. You will be whatever you permit yourself to be, but only by acknowledging that you, yourself, can never be anything; it is this gentle Presence that you have felt that is to carry you throughout your days back into conscious union with God.

"You know what the goal of life is to be reunited with the Father, to be consciously one with God. You know the way, the prayer of inner contemplation and meditation, the recognition of the Christ, the love of God, and the love of man. Now carry this message in your mind where you will always remember the principles; and in your heart, dwell upon the gift which has been given you, delivered to you from the Father the gift of the realized Presence within you. Bless It always that It may increase.

"FINI. "                 -- Joel Goldsmith

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Holy Child of All)

(An Ecumenical Pre-Christmas Card for All Ages.)

The "Child of God" Is

This "Awareness of Being"

You Are and I Am.

The "Babe of Christ" Is

This "Awareness of Being"

That "Underlies All."

The "Living Lord" Is

"One's Awareness of Being"

Consciously Present. 

The Presence of "This

Awareness of Being I

Am" is the "Christ Child"

***

The Christ Child is the

Alpha Omega Presence

Of This Awareness. 

The Christ Child is the

Self-Witnessing Presence of

Quantum Awareness.

This Awareness is

The "Fullness of the Godhead"

Witnessing Itself.

The Truth is I Am

The Child Heart of God as This

Present Awareness.

***

The "Christ Child" is "This

Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,"

Now Reading these words.

The "Christ Light" is "This

Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,"

Seeing through Your Eyes.

The "Christ Babe" is "This

Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,"

As "Light's Living Love."

The "Christ Child" is "This

Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,"

As "Godhead's Witness."

(1) "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this." -- Isaiah 9:6-7 KJV

(2) "My Guru used to say no matter how old you are you are, you are only a child. (The body gets older. Yet Consciousness is always in the present moment. It is like a new born child in every moment.)" -- Sri Nisargadatta

(3). "To the objective view, there is God and a sinful mankind struggling to return to God's grace. To the subjective view, there is God and God's Self-Awareness appearing as all possible individual states. The “return” is leaving the bonds of objectivism to re-embrace the Original Child, the subjective “Mind of God”—to let the Awareness be us, which is also the Christ Truth. Then, if we are willing to continue, we find and live the balance. Here, the objective world is understood, not denied. The balance is a step beyond subjectivism, just as the subjective idea is a step beyond the objective view of things. But, listen, listen: The Child within can be found anywhere along the line at any moment! When the Child is found, we go quickly to the balance of things." -- Bill Samuel

(4) "You can rise no higher in consciousness than to that place where the spiritual Presence enters the heart, and you realize it has happened the Presence is within you. A new dimension has entered your heart when you entertain the Presence, but I must say to you that it is your responsibility to nurture it. That Is the only way to be sure that you will not lose what you have gained. What You have gained is only a Babe; you must let it develop into full Christhood: Many times a day turn your thought as if in the direction of your heart—not because your physical heart has anything to do with your spiritual demonstration, but because the heart is symbolic of love. Thinking of the heart as a symbol of love, as a symbol of the resting place of the Christ within you, turn your thought several times each day to that heart in recognition that the Babe is enthroned there, that the Christ has entered, and that It lives with you. It is you who must keep the Babe from wandering out of your heart and getting lost. It is there, but I say to you that it is a Babe: You must watch It; you must nurse It; you must acknowledge It, love It. Watch It grow as you learn the ways of loving God and of loving man. No Improvement has ever been discovered, no alteration has ever been made in the two great commandments, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . . and . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself..."(TBC).  -- Joel Goldsmith

(From the concluding pages "Practicing the Presence")

Hay-Ku of the Day ("Making Myself Zero")

I Am Invincible

In the Instant I become

"Zero in Myself."

In "Making Myself"

Zero" I Am "Seeing" with

No "Seer or Seen."

Allowing Oneself

To Be Zero lets One See

From Zero Distance.

When "I Make Myself

Zero" I Am able to "See

From the Inside-Out."

In "Making Myself

Zero" I See by Virtue

Of Being what's Seen.

When I Am Zero

In Myself I Am All and

Everything in God

"Being Zero in

Myself" reveals the Clear Sight

Of Pure Awareness.

Re: "Compassion in Action"

"MISHLOVE: It's a pleasure to be with you. You know, I think if we were to go right to the core of the issue, it strikes me that at the very bottom line, at the root of things, the spiritual premise is that we are all one, and therefore politically we would want to treat the whole world as if it were our own body, in a sense. That would seem to me to be the basic premise of spirituality and politics."

"DASS: Well, yes, but there are many levels to understand that. You can understand it with your intellect, and you can understand it because you are that, and that's a very different place to act politically. It's like Mahatma Gandhi said, "When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible." Now, any politician, or anybody in the life of trying to institute social change in society, would like to have that power of the invincible, but it only happens when you aren't, but it is. And that's the one that is really hard -- that you have to in a way die into "not my but thy will" for that kind of potential impact on social change..."

(Opening dialogue on a "Compassion in Action with Ram Das" transcript from the "The Intuition Network, A Thinking Allowed Television Underwriter"...series (entitled) "Thinking Allowed, Conversations On the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery, with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove.")