Hay-Ku of the Day (The Human Condition)

(1) Circumstance:

Existence is an

Energetic State of the

Awareness I Am.

"I as I think" is

A thought appearing in the

Awareness I Am.

I Am not "my thoughts"

But the Awareness in which

Thoughts arise and fall.

(2) Condition:

Identified with

What "I am not" I forget

"Myself as I Am."

Identified with

Relative thought I forget

Being Awareness.

Identified with

Thought I Am blind to Being

Awareness Itself.

"Identity" with 

An object is the shortest

focal length there is.

Identifying

With thought causes a case of

Divine Amnesia.

An extreme case

Of mental myopia is

Being overlooked.

(3) Cause:

Our addiction to

Self-thought causes a case of

Divine Amnesia.

Our self-obsession 

With thought causes a case of

Divine Amnesia.

Narrowing focus

And shifting attention is

Causing Amnesia.

Narrowed focus and

Sequential attention shifts

Is what thinking is.

Mental motion is

Caused by narrowed focus and 

Shifts in attention.

(4) Cure:

Being mentally

Still restores Awareness of

Being Awareness.

Be mentally still

And the veil of words and thoughts

is "rent asunder."

Being a Witness

Instead of a judge allows

The mind to Be Still.

Reducing mental

Variables serves to still

Apparent motion.

Opening mental 

Focus both stills the mind and

Reveals Awareness.

Wide-open mental

Focus extends focal length 

To "Infinity."

With no point of self-

Reference mental focal

Length is "Infinite"

Being Here and Now

Still and Silent as I Am

One with the Father.

(5) Cross-Correlating Context:

A) Scripture: 

"Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?" James 2:4 KJV

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." John 7:24 KJV

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" Philippians 2:5 KJV

"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." Matthew 6:22 KJV

"That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."  John 1:9 KJV

"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" Ephesians 2:14 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

"... for I Am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee..." Hosea 11:9 KJV

"And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" Matthew 27:51 KJV

B) Eckhart Tolle:

"The ego arises out of the state of identification with thought. The moment of freedom arises when we realize we are not our thoughts -- rather, we are the awareness."

(from Eckhart Tolle TV, Questions and Answers)

"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. 

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your inner most sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. Stillness is your essential nature. 

"What is stillness? The inner space of Awareness in which these words are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that Awareness there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that Awareness, disguised as a person."

(from the first chapter of "Silence Speaks")

C) Bill Samuel:

"'I' means identity. 'I' means identity, not a suffering human concept of self. I let go the role of an awakening student. I end the identification of a gendered mortal learning this or that. I’m not even a member of the human race, I’m not one among many, working, striving, struggling, arriving at truth. As it’s put in the bible “Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little” I take the divine Awareness of God to be my identity. I am that. That is Me. And I don’t hesitate to say so. Right here, right now, I don’t hesitate to say so, that I am the Awareness of God. Reminding myself, as often as necessary, that Awareness is who I am, Awareness is what I am, the why I am and that identity is not a human one, not a worldly one, not a sick, sinning, ignorant or quarrelling one, but the holy One, the whole One, the Perfect One." (from "Vignettes on Love 1")

"Yeah, God Awareness is my activity.

Faithful Witness of Harmony,

Honest Witness of Simplicity,

Eternal Action of Deity,

Indeed, this Now Awareness is Identity."  (from "The Woodcutter and the King")

Hay-Ku of the Day (Non-Action)

I wish to live

In the capital

Of non-action. 

"The Capital of

Non-Action" is Being the

Awareness I Am.

The Principle of

Non-Action manifests as

Divine Awareness.

Divine Awareness

Is non-interactive with 

Respect to content.

"The Capital of

Non-Action" is Being Still

And Knowing I Am.

"The Capital of

Non-Action" is a Point of

Absolute Balance.

A Point of Perfect

Peace is the Capital of

Divine Non-Doing.

A Dimensionless

Still Point is the Capital

Of Non-Doership. 

Inspired by:

"My one wish

Is to live in the capital 

Of non-action." -- KIBAI

Related Commentary:

"Mui is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese wi wei, the Taoist philosophy of 'non-action'..."

"Taoists define correct behavior as 'non-action,' which does not mean 'sit still and do nothing.' Rather, it refers to action in which natural processes are not interfered with -- actions as natural as the growth of sunflowers..."       

(Commentary by Yoel Hoffmann, from a compilation of poems entitled, "Japanese Death Poems, Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death")

Hay-Ku of the Day (Holding Fast)

"I hold fast to the

Integrity of What I

Am" as Awareness.

I hold fast to the

Integral Nature of this

Awareness I Am.

I hold fast to the

Integrity of Myself

As I Am in Truth.

***

I hold fast to the

Zero Point Energy of

Awareness Itself.

I hold fast to the

Dimensionless Point at the

Heart of Awareness.

I hold fast to the

Central Still Point Peace at the

Heart of Awareness.

***

I hold fast to the

Still Point Peace at the Heart of

Awareness I Am.

I hold fast to "This

Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,"

As the Light of All.

(1) Inspiration:

Re: "I hold fast to the integrity of who I am. At every moment, I'm in contact with that infinite value which is simultaneously Event and Nonevent, and nothing can take that from me."

Stephen Jourdain, from "Radical Awakening"

(2) Cross-Correlation:

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee." Isaiah 26:3 KJV

Re: "...set yourselves, stand ye still , and see the salvation of the Lord with you..."  2 Chronicles 20:17 KJV

Haiku of the Day (Suffering's Source)

I suffer because

I believe myself to Be

Other than I Am,

I suffer because

I am pretending to Be

Something I am not.

I suffer because

I imagine I am other

Than I Am in Truth.

***

Suffering exists 

To remind "me" I Am not

"What I think I Am."

Suffering exists

To remind me I Am not

What I imagine.

Suffering exists

To remind "me" self-thought is

A consuming fire.

***

Human Suffering

Serves as a reminder I

Am not what I think.

Human Suffering

Is a Divine Wake-Up Call

To Be What We Are.

Human Suffering

Is a call to wake-up to

Being Awareness.

***

Suffering is the

Mental equivalent of

Pain as a warning.

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 4:17 KJV

Re:  Suffering's Cure -- "Stop pretending to be what you are NOT and don’t refuse to be what you ARE”. Sri Nisargadatta

Or in haiku form:

Stop pretending to

Be what you are not and you

Will Be What You Are.

[Rich Note: The following extract from a Philadelphia Inquirer sports section article inspired today's haiku:

"(Justin) De Fratus' (a Phillies' relief pitcher) initial task was to answer a question proposed to him by a classmate in high school: 'If God is all good and all powerful, then why is there suffering?" A good question, De Fratus said."

"...The answer, he said, is a person's free will. Humans, not God, created suffering and evil, De Fratus said."

Going beyond the "free will defense," which still assumes separate self-existence, apart from an Absolute God, as its operating premise; I would suggest a case of mistaken identity and self-ignorance, that anchors Life in a false premise; which, in turn, leads to false conclusions (re: unrighteousness self-centered action, misery, suffering and, ultimately, death) is "suffering's true source" -- all of which is suggested more succinctly in the following and above haiku:

A fatal case of

Mistaken identity

This being human. ]

Hay-Ku of the Day ("What Do We Know For Sure")

Big Picture-Wise: All

I See is a State of the

Consciousness I Am.

***

Nothing is Ever

Experienced outside of

Awareness Itself.

Nothing is Ever

Experienced outside the

Awareness I Am?

***

Experiencing

All as a State of the Pure

Awareness I Am.

What We See as a

Direct Experience is

A State of Our Mind.

***

Life is a Pattern

Of Energy Arising

Within Awareness.

Everything is an

Energetic State of the 

Awareness I Am.

***

Can anything Be

Other than a State of the

Awareness I Am?

Can anything Be

Other than a Relative

State of Awareness?

***

How can I not Love

What is Being a State of

My Own Awareness.

You can't help Loving

What is a State of Your Own

Conscious Awareness.

You will Fall in Love

With Life when you See It's the 

Awareness You Are.

[Rich Note: The foregoing Hay-Ku were inspired by the following selected, sequential dialogue, as it appeared in Peter Brown's great book, "Dirty Enlightenment, The Inherent Perfection of Imperfection":

"In YOUR experience. In YOUR consciousness. The only thing you can know is your consciousness, your experience. Everything 'else' is a guess, a hypothesis. Right?

"Look for yourself. How could you possible know something outside of your consciousness?

"Have you ever had an experience that wasn't energy appearing in your consciousness.

"So what reality can be said to consist of as far as we know, is energy appearing in your consciousness. Right?

"Stay there.  Where else is there to go? And you ARE that consciousness.  Because anything 'else' that appears in that consciousness, is dependent on consciousness for its appearance to appear."

"Like your body is in your consciousness, this iPod is in your consciousness, or this room is in your consciousness; but the constant in this equation is always 'your' consciousness."

"So what you are is the consciousness, not any partial experience that is appearing in it. It's obvious.  This is the result of asking 'What we can know for SURE' as opposed to what is speculation."

"What I can know is 'you' AS ENERGY appearing in 'my' consciousness.  That's where I start and that's where I end."

Here's the Amazon Link to Peter's book: http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Enlightenment-Inherent-Perfection-Imperfection-ebook/dp/B00DIL3X16/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425390433&sr=1-1&keywords=dirty+enlightenment ]