Saturday, August 22, 2015

Hay-Ku of the Day (Seven in One)

Hay-Ku of the Day (Seven in One)

As Awareness I
Am the Presence of THAT which
Is Being Aware.

***

Awareness refers
To the Presence of THAT which
Is Being Aware.

Awareness simply
Means: The Presence of THAT which
Is Being Aware.

***

Awareness is the
Presence of THAT Which Is Now
Aware as I Am.

Awareness Is THAT
Which is Being Aware and
Present as I Am.

***

God the Father is
THAT which is Being Aware
As I Am Right Now.

THAT which is Being
Present and Aware is the
Nameless Absolute.

[Rich Note: The first one is as viscerally pregnant (and as spiritually explosive) as any "string of words yet strung together"; and directly inspired as a "distilled summary version" of Rupert Spira's masterfully insightful  answer to the "Who Am I?"question we are all born to answer, as it is so clearly conveyed in the following passage from "Presence, The Art of Peace and Happiness, Vol.1":

"...our self knows that it is present and aware by itself, through itself alone. It doesn’t need any other agent such as a mind or a body, let alone an outside source, to confirm its own aware presence. It knows itself directly. 

"So it is clear from our own intimate and direct experience that ‘I’ am not just present but am also aware. It is for this reason that our self is sometimes referred to as awareness, which simply means the presence of that which is aware. The word ‘awareness’ indicates that the being we intimately know our self to be—that knows itself to be—is inherently present and aware. 

"In this book our self is also referred to as ‘aware presence’ or sometimes simply ‘presence’. It is also sometimes referred to as ‘consciousness’ or ‘being’. But most simply this aware presence is known as ‘I.']

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