Haiku of the Day (Addiction to Self)

Addiction to self
Is crucifying Christ on the
Matrix of matter.

Addiction to self
Crucifies Christ on the cross
Of relative thought.

Addition to self-
Thought is crucifying Christ
On carnal mind's cross.

***

Addiction to thought
Nails me to the cross of self-
Referenced thinking.

Addiction to self-
Thought nails us to a cross of
Carnal conception.

Addiction to self-
Thought nails mind to a cross of
Relative matters.

***

Addiction to mind
Crucifies Christ on the cross
Of self-conception.

Addiction to mind
Crucifies Christ on the cross
Of self-reference.

Addiction to mind
Crucifies the Awareness
Of Being Christ Is.

***

Addiction to mind
Crucifies the Awareness
Of Being You Are.

Addiction to self
Crucifies the Awareness
Of Being God Is.

Mankind's addiction
To self-thought crucifies the
Awareness of God.

Re: (related FB comment) "As Paul Hedderman so skillfully (and humorously) points out, with both his words and with his life story, all worldly additions flows from one, single fountainhead addiction: humanity's ongoing and unseen "addiction to self-referencing thought"; an addiction so powerful that we as Awareness Itself are so totally self-identified with and as thought (and its "presumed thinker") that this single-source of all addiction (and affliction) goes totally overlooked, ignored and unchallenged."

Hay-Ku of the Day ("The Holy Spirit")

The "Holy Spirit"
Is the "Conscious Awareness"
Of "God Manifest."

The "Holy Spirit"
Is the "Father's Awareness"
Of "Being Present."

We "All Live, Move and
Have our Being" in the "Pure
Awareness of God."

We "All Live, Move and
Have our Being" in the "Light
Of God's Living Love."

The "Holy Spirit"
Is the "Living Light" of the
"Awareness God Is."

The "Holy Spirit"
Is the "Living Light" of the
"Awareness I Am."

Or more Traditionally speaking;

"One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." Eph. 4:6 KJV

"For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring." Acts 17:28 KJV

Hay-Ku of the Day (Surviving the Story of Me and the World It Creates)

Thinking is "mental

Story telling" that evolved

To forestall danger.

Thinking connects the

Mental dots that noticing

Creates of my world.

Thinking can become a

Closed-loop feedback system that

Gets "stuck on itself."

To "pay" attention

Is to "give myself" as a

"Mental focal point."

My attention is

Captured by "My Story" as

A survival tool.

In "our world" it is

Fear that captures attention, 

In God's It is Love.

"Self-referenced thought"

Is an "evolved mental thumb"

That "crowns itself king."

The center of one’s

Conscious attention is both

An altar and throne.

Who abides on the 

Throne of conscious attention 

In your mental house?

If "self-thought sits" on

The throne of your attention

What do you worship?

Re: "Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has found that a story -- a narrative with a beginning, middle and end -- causes our brains to release cortisol and ocytocin. These chemicals trigger the uniquely human abilities to connect, empathize and make meaning. Story is literally in our DNA (p.6)." (from a FB Rev. Len Sweet Post)

[Rich Note: Aha! the biology reason behind mankind's present "self-entranced, enthralled, infatuation and unchallenged self-identification with and addiction to "the story of me" (a.k.a. "the me that says my" or "separate-self sense," etc.) that now takes up the preponderance of humanity's waking conscious awareness, attention and energy.  

So my "love of the story of me," and the energized sense of reality my obsessive attention to it naturally creates, stems from our chemically induced and reinforced capacity to empathize and connect with and so give meaning and a sense of reality to "My Story."  Really does sounds like we have been "biologically set-up" to feel and accept this "individual and collective story of me" that most of us are "programmed and conditioned to tell ourselves" and accept as our "only true or ultimate reality."

A discovery that also offers a good biological clue as to our seemingly natural human proclivity "not to let the facts get in the way of a good story"; and, especially so, if the "story being contradicted by reality" just happens to be "the story of the self-separate me" my mind is so fond of both "telling and selling" to maintain its place at the center (or throne) of my conscious attention, in the field of awareness I ultimately am.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Mental Space and Leverage)

Without mental space

Between me and my thoughts I

Am a slave to them.

Without mental space

Between me and my thoughts I

Am a slave to mind.

***

Detachment from thoughts

Creates the leverage one needs

To control one's thoughts

The mental space and

Leverage detachment creates

Allows thought control.

***

The mental space and

Leverage of detachment fosters

Mental self-control.

The mental space and

Leverage detachment fosters

Can save you from mind.

Or Scripture-wise:

"Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." Ephesians 4:8 KJV

"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" 2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

The Knowledge of God

Is "the Knowledge I Am"

Conscious of Being.

Hay-Ku of the Day (You Are the Light of the World)

An "Image of Light"

Is "One with Its Source" as the 

"Living Light It Is."

An "Image of Light"

Is rightly referred to as

"The Light of the World."

The "Common Nature"

Of All is the "Living Light"

"Being Its Substance."

***

I Am "Fore-Given"

The "Nature of God" as a

"Child of Living Light."

You Are "Fore-Given"

The "Nature of God" as the

"Living Light of Love."

We Are "Fore-Given"

The "Nature of God" as a

"Living Ray of Light."

One is "Fore-Given"

The "Nature of God" as the

"Light of Awareness."

Related Scriptural-Cross Reference:

"In him was life; and the life was the light of men...That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." John 1:4 & 9 KJV

"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." John 8:12 KJV

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

"Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;". Philippians 2:14-15 KJV

[Rich Note: KEY: "Spiritual Light" is the "Conscious, Energetic, Living Light of Awareness I Am" (You Are and All Is) -- The "Light of God that Never Fails in the Fullness of Its Eternal Victory and Dominion" (i.e. "the Father of All Light Manifest in Action," etc.).]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Ground Zero)

Being Mentally

Still puts You at Ground Zero

Of All Creation.

Being Mentally

Still puts You at Ground Zero

Of All Existence.

***

Being Mentally

Still puts You at the Zero

Point of Creation.

Being Mentally

Still puts You at the Zero

Point of All Being.

***

The Zero Point Field

Of the Aware Energy 

I Am is Boundless.

Re:  "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

Hay-Ku of the Day (First Hand Knowledge)

Heartfelt Awareness

Of Being One with God in Christ

Is our Salvation.

Heartfelt Awareness

Of Being One with God in Christ

Resurrects Glory.

Heartfelt Awareness

Of Being One with God in Christ

Is our Saving Grace.

Heartfelt Awareness

Of Being One with God in Christ

Overcomes the World.

***

Heartfelt Knowledge of

Being One with God in Christ is

All that can Save us.

Heartfelt Knowledge of

Being One with the Father

Is our High Calling.

Heartfelt Knowledge of

Being One with the Father

Belongs to the Son.

Heartfelt Knowledge of

Being One with the Father

In Christ is the Way.

Re: "It is firsthand knowledge of that counts in the hour of testing." -- Watchman Nee

Hay-Ku of the Day (God Is Good)

Good is God with a

Double-Eye and God is Good

With a Single-Eye.

Re: "G'oo'd" is "G'o'd" with "double-vision"; "G'o'd" is "G'oo'd" with a "Single-Eye."

Hay-Ku of the Day ("How Do I Know I Am?")

If you ask me "How

I Know?" I'll say "I Know in

The Way I Am Known."

If you ask me "How

I Know?" I'll say "I Know by

Virtue of Being.

***

I Am Known as a

Direct Apprehension of

Being Awareness.

Knowing I Am by

Virtue of Being the Self-

Awareness of God.

***

Knowing "Even as

I Am Known" is "Knowing by

Virtue of Being."

Knowing "in Spirit

and Truth" is "Knowing in the

Way the Father does."

***

Knowing by Virtue

Of Being what I Know is

How I Know I Am,

Knowing I Am by

Virtue of Being Present

And Aware as That.

***

Knowing by Virtue

Of Being the Presence of 

Divine Awareness.

Knowing by Virtue

Of Being the Awareness

Of God the Father.

***

"Knowing as I Am

Known" is "Knowing as a

Function of Being."

Knowing in the way

I Know I Am is "Knowing

With a Single-Eye."

***

I Know I Am by

Virtue of Being Divine

Awareness Itself.

Being the Seeing

Of the Awareness I Am

Is the Way I Know.

***

Living without a

Central self-reference is

Being Awareness.

Being without a

Central self-reference as

Awareness Itself.

***

I Know by Virtue

Of Being the Self-Knowing

Of God the Father 

I Know by Virtue

Of Being the Self-Knowledge

Of the Absolute.

Re: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. [12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Corinthians 13:11-12 KJV

Hay-Ku of the Day (Taking Sides)

To: Rich
From: Abba
Subject: Taking Sides
Date: 10/5/15

Anyone choosing
A side is both off-center
And out-of-balance.

Taking a side means:
You are off-center and out
Of Mental balance.

***

Mentally choose a
Side and you are off-center
And out-of-balance.

Taking mental sides
Creates off-centeredness and
Mental imbalance.

***

Valuing "One Thing"
Over "Another" creates
Mental imbalance.

Choosing "This" over
"That" creates off-centeredness
And mental imbalance.

Choose "One Thing" over
"Another" and you're off center
And self-imbalanced.

Love Daddy

PS1: Wisdom's making a
Worldly decision without
Taking mental sides.

PS2: Wisdom is solving
A worldly problem without
Taking mental sides.

PS3: Problems arise from
Partial perspectives and can't
Be resolved by them.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Renting Mental Space)

The only "place" I

Have to give anything is 

A "space in my mind."

The only "place" that

I can give anything is 

A "room in my mind."

***

Minding anything

Is renting mental space to

An invited guest.

Paying attention

Is renting mental space to

An invited guest.

***

Renting my mental

Space to anything but God

Gives a devil place.

Renting mental space

To anything but the Light

Gives darkness a place.

***

To entertain a

Negative thought is to give

Place to a devil.

One who entertains 

A carnal state of mind is 

Sleeping with a snake

Re: "**11. Darkness and Light: Darkness is not light's opposite, but its relative absence. It never did or could exist as a substantial reality, in and of it self, capable of opposing light. As such, there never was any real possibility of war between darkness and light, and so any apparent battle is necessarily mock. Extrapolating a bit further, and assuming that goodness arises from the light of understanding and evil from the darkness of ignorance, must we not likewise conclude that any seeming battle between good and evil is also illusionary?" 1993; 9/2002

Hay-Ku of the Day ("Christ the Center")

Centered in the One

Abiding in the Balance

at Peace in the Lord.

As the Central Still

Point Peace of God at the Heart

Of All Christ is One.

While the Wheel of Life

Spins Its Unmoved Center is

Both Peaceful and Still.

As the Eye of the

Storm is Calm and Peaceful

So is "Christ in You."

***

Peace is a state of (1) 

Pure consciousness in which all (2) Mental motion stops. (3)

(1) Peace implies a state of mind that is "still, silent, present and unitary."

(2) Pure consciousness (or heart) implies a non-dual (100% and thus unitary) state of awareness that is still and, thus, peaceful because of its non-relativity.

(3) When all mental motion ceases the field of one’s awareness becomes "unmoved, non-linear and peaceful."

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

Re: "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." (Rom. 8:6)

[Rich Note: "Christ the Center" is the title of a book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Only Way)

Christ in You as the 

Divine Awareness of God

I Am is the Way.

Christ in You as the 

Present Awareness of God

I Am is the Way.

Christ in You as the 

Living Awareness of God

I Am is the Way.

Christ in You as the 

Quantum Awareness of God

I Am is the Way.

Christ in You as the 

Witnessing Presence of God

I Am is the Way.

Christ in You as the 

Self-Radiant Light of God

I Am is the Way.

Christ in You as the 

Living Light of Divine Love

I Am is the Way.

Christ in You as the 

Living Light of Father's Love

I Am is the Way.

Re1:"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 KJV

Re2: "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God." Luke 18:19 KJV

[Rich Note: The "Way, Truth and Life" are all inter-changeable terms that character the "Light of Awareness of Being," Christ, as the "One I Am in All," Is, Now and Forever.  As such "Truth or Life" may be substituted for "Way" in any of the above haiku.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Love's Golden Glow)

The Golden Glow of 

The All-Glorious White Light

Is Love Manifest.

Infinite Rays Shine,

Blazing from One Central Sun,

Universal Light. 

A bright, blazing sun, 

Mirrored in a mountain lake,   

Self-reflecting glory.

All I Now See are

Self-Reflected Images

Of Divine Glory.

PS1: There is no more Iconic Symbol of God then the Self-Giving Sun; which, though it appears to be "out there," is actually the Central Source of All Light, Life and Love Itself.

PS2: And this FB image of that "Iconic Image" is a Living Testament to That.