[Rich Note: Comment related to preoccupation with Noah movie inaccuracies.]
Great Point, Vern!
Here's my 2 cents:
Re: "So Hollywood does a story about Noah...and rather than using the opportunity, most the faithful are busy bitching about accuracy..."
"Worshipping Words" as
"Graven Mental Images"
Is "Missing the Point."
Seems, here, that taking issue with inaccuracies in a "Divine Story" -- whether literally true, allegorical, metaphoric or mythological, it matters not which -- that only serves to point to the "Absolute and Eternal Nature of Being Itself" (as a particular Self-Expression of that Self-Same, Ultimately Unspeakable and Unknowable Nature) really is "missing the point."
[Rich Note: The General Semantic folks pointed out many years ago "the word is not the thing" (it represents) and never can be more than a "finger pointing to the moon" (and, as such, should never be mistaken for the moon itself).]
Speaking of Jesus:
ReplyDeleteJesus died to save
Us all from our delusion
Of self-existence.*
Jesus died to wake
Us from our dream of Being
Separate from God.
Re:"...Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light…" Ephesians 5:13-14 KJV
[*Rich Note: Self-existence = *Belief in Being a person separate from an Absolute God."]
Re: "Jesus uses everything..."
ReplyDeleteYes, from God the Father's Absolute (or Single-Eyed) Point of View, even that which we "double-minded sleepers" see as Bad is Ultimately Good!
Re: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; …" 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 KJV
Jesus died to wake
ReplyDeleteMe from my dream of Being
Other than I Am.
C: "Exactly Who do we think we are?"
ReplyDeleteR: And beyond that...who or what are we when we are not thinking at all?
Re: "The Sun Seeking Light"
Joshua BenAvides
All you see is words!
Strip the world
of its labels.
Strip the body
Of identification.
Strip the mind
Of belief.
What do you see now?
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ReplyDeleteA Wave that accepts
ReplyDeleteIt's Oceanic Nature
Has to pass away.
A Wave that accepts
It's Oceanic Nature
Must die to Itself.
Waves that accept their
Oceanic Nature must
First Die to Themselves.
Played Relatively
ReplyDeleteLife is a Zero Sum Game
Everyone Loses.
Lived Absolutely
Life is a "Win-Win Game" with
Out Any Losers.
To see as God sees
ReplyDeleteI must stop looking through a
Mental glass darkly.
"In the mind there are problems, and you look at reality through the mind. Thus, the reality becomes problematic." Sri Rajneesh "The Book of Secrets"
Awareness is the
ReplyDeleteAbsolute Ground at the Heart of
All Conscious Being.
Awareness is the
The Alpha Omega Ground
Of All Existence.
"I AM" the WORD that
Was in the Beginning that
Was With and Is God.
"I AM" the WORD that
Is the ALPHA OMEGA
Of ALL EXISTENCE.
"I AM" the WORD that
Is the ALPHA OMEGA
Of ALL THAT EXISTS.
"I AM" as the Pure
Aware Presence of Being
Is God in the Flesh.
"I AM" the WORD that
Is the ALPHA OMEGA
Witnessing Presence.
The Absolute Self
Witnessing Presence of All
As This Awareness.
[Rich Note: Dear long-time Friend and one time next door neighbor in our military days, Connie Schaeffer's recent resurrection of an old hay-ku (or hay-coo as she kindly and accurately anoints them) called to mind the following overflow endorsement of an Aussie "Enlightened No One" who first "coined the coo connection" in the closing endorsement to "Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses" (OOMM) that ends that "40 Year State of the Head Message".]
ReplyDelete"Richard’s Haiku’s are as little Blossoms on the Tree of Life. From the One source they arise, expressed through one man’s later life.
Ah! Autumn years see
Syllables expressed in
Form: a Haiku. Ah!
Silly syllables
What wisdom lies hid in the
Words: a Senryn. Ah!
His deft use of few words, in Haiku’s
Will delight all who this book peruse;
For they speak of the One
Who, when all’s said and done,
It is by, through, and for Him. . . . that Hay coos.
Echoes praising God through his own voice.
Reading them, One smiles in remembrance.
The following selection says it all. Read the book for the simple joy of it.
Pure awareness wed
To limitless sensation
Gives birth to being.
“I am that by which
I know I am” conscious of
Present existence.
For man to know God
It must really be God who
Knows Himself in man.
Though reflected in
The circumstance, God is
Found at the center.
Michael Haynes, Car Manufacturing Manager,Melbourne, Australia
[Rich Note: Response to the following Twit:
ReplyDeleteRe: "What place has authority in relationships?" J. Krishnamurti
Relativity
In any form is without
Real Authority.
The One and Only
Absolute Authority
Self-Authenticates.]
Self-referential
ReplyDeleteThinking limits Infinite
Potential to Be.
Self-referential
Thought limits your Absolute
Potential to Be.
Re: "'I am.' When you have all the power,
ReplyDeleteYou don't need all the words." Bob Goff
Reminds me of "Sailor Bob" who "Points" to the Truth by saying:
"I Am, Full Stop" (which is British for 'period')!
And Sri Nisargadatta's:
"All I can truly say is: 'I Am', all else is inference."
ReplyDelete[Rich Note: Playing with Steven Wolinski's "Rays if the Absolute," Sri Nisargadatta tribute this morning]:
"I take my stand in the original state where I was not aware I Am." SN
"That which makes you think that you are human is not human, it is but a dimensionless point of consciousness, a conscious nothing." Sri Nisargadatta (The Void)
The Absolute is without the Idea of
"I Am, Beingness or Presence..." SN
"We are all Rays of the Absolute." SN (Verse 5: The Shift)
"I Am The Absolute, The Absolute I Am."
"The Consciousness, Emptiness, Void, Supreme Witness (Awareness), are All Rays of the (Nameless) Absolute, the One and Only Absolute." SW
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witness as the
Father's Awareness.
The Supreme Witness
Awareness of the Nameless
Absolute I Am.
I Am the "Supreme
Witness-Awareness" of the
Nameless Absolute.
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witness as this
Awareness Itself.
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witness as the
Divine Awareness.
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witness as this
Present Awareness.
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witness as the
Awareness I Am.
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witness as the
Awareness of All.
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witness as the
Awareness of God.
Awake to Being
The Supreme Witnessing of
Divine Awareness.
I Am the Supreme
Witnessing Presence of the
Nameless Absolute.
I Am Being the
ReplyDeleteSelf Radiant Presence of
Divine Awareness.
This Awareness of
Being I Am is the Christ
Of God within All.
"Reality does not need
ReplyDeleteBeliefs,
Philosophy,
Assumptions,
Ideas,
Or Imagination
To be.
Reality Is
What Is
minus
Your thoughts
about it.
Joshua Benavides,
From "The Sun Seeking Light"
A Perfectly Still
ReplyDeleteBackground is needed to Know
Relative motion.
The Apprehension
Of Motion Requires a Still
Frame of Reference.
I Am the Stillness
That enables motion to
Be Experienced.
"...the Union of "Compassion and Wisdom..." is the reconciliation of "Head and Heart, Chit and Ananda, Light and Love, Seeing and Being.
ReplyDeleteWithout a horse in
ReplyDeleteThe race whatever happens
Is perfectly fine.
Re: "Why - Why can I not be creative when I actually need to be."
ReplyDeleteYou can only "Be Truly Creative" when "You Are Self-Forgotten" (Re: not thinking about yourself or "your needing to be" creative.)
PS: More pragmatically, Matt, place your attention on your Heart (the center of your chest), Be Still, Wait in Faith and the Natural Flow of Divine Creativity will return with "your needing to be creative" out of the way.