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