Hay-Ku of the Day (I Am What I Think in this World)

It's not what others

Think about you, but what you think

Of yourself that counts.

[Rich Note: Inspired by a quote by Seth Joyner, a former Philadelphia Eagle All-Pro, regarding Buddy Ryan's influence on fellow players, in a 6-29-2015 Philadelphia Inquirer article by sports colomunist, Bob Brookover.]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Heartfelt Still Silence)

Abiding as the

Heartfelt Still Silence of the 

Awareness I Am.

Abiding as the

Heartfelt Silence Stillness of

Awareness Itself.

Abiding as the

Heartfelt Radiant Stillness

Of Pure Awareness

Absolute Stillness

Is apprehended by mind

As Infinite Peace.

Heartfelt Still Silence

Is apprehended by mind

As Sweet Simple Peace.

"Go to the source for that movement where the "I Amness" begins." Sri Nisargadatta

Hay-Ku of the Day (A Backlit Beacon)

I Am a Beacon

Of the Self-Shining Light of

Awareness Itself.

Being a Beacon

Is Shining the Light of the

Awareness I Am.

***

Being a Beacon

As the Backlit Screen of the

Awareness I Am.

The Backlit Screen of

Of the Light of Awareness

Shines in Every Heart.

***

Radiant as the

Backlit Screen of the Light of

Awareness I Am.

Self-Radiant I

Am as a Backlit Screen of

Awareness Itself.

"...This Awareness can be likened to a backlit ‘screen’ displaying the thoughts and sensations, occurring a any given moment, that the mind views and then decides which of these it will focus on and ‘process’..."

-- Colin Drake (from Introduction to his new book: "Enlightenment Is For All: Pointers To Awakening")

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."

You Can't Be A Beacon -- Donna Fargo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZu4i63Y6k0

One Little Candle: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDRzaQQMA0

This Little Light of Mine:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QCN893hzueQ

-- performed by our junior choir of Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church

Hay-Ku of the Day (Surrendering the Sword)

So dam hard for those 

Cut of the warrior cloth to

Surrender their swords.

[Rich Note: This was inspired by the following "one hell of a brutally honest (which is so him) testament" by my dear friend Charlie Hayes, who many years ago, observed that he and I were of the same tribe (of those whose worldly profession involved living on the razors edge between life and death on a continuing basis); as is my friend, Teddy, who was an electrical lineman, and all others called to consciously live in "harms way."

Charlie: In the matter of non-dual spirituality 

"The truth of the matter is, very simply, the pains and suffering of the body have blanked out any pure understanding I used to have regarding my true nature..... it is simply too much, I cannot handle it; the mind is sort of in charge these days. With all due respect to Bob Adamson, whose teachings made a big difference for me over the years, I cannot claim to have the knowledge of my true nature anymore. So that's what's so. So what? 

"No matter. Just a sincere wish to leave this dirt ball. Full Stop! 

"With love for Bob and Sabine Hamm."

Rich:

So dam hard for those 

Of us cut of warrior cloth

To surrender the sword.

I love your, Charlie,

and my prayers (such 

as they are) are with

You daily, my friend,

as am I!

(Said the "Flyboy" to the "Racer")

Hay-Ku of the Day (An Uncloudy Day)

Mirroring my Face

Clouds of Divine Energy 

Suspended in Space.

A cloud enshrouded 

Sky momentarily masking

A prodigal Sun.

Slowly drifting off

Clouds of thought and feeling part

Revealing the Sun.

Clouds of Energy

Floating in the Clear Sky of

Awareness I Am.

Awareness I Am

Embodied as a Sense of

Self-Radiant Light.

Awake to Being
The Self-Radiant Light of
Awareness I Am.

[Rich Note: An arrangement of new and old.]

[Rich Note: A link to an old related favorite, "Uncloudy Day" (with an unexpected, but welcome, down-home, patriotic motif):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=36GmuyYvuRs ]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Feel the Burn of the Firey Heart)

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

Is the Life I Am.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

Is the Light I Am.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

Is the Love I Am.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

Is the Peace I Am.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

Is the Joy I Am.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

Is the Truth I Am.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

Is the Child I Am.

***

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Way.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Truth.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Life.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Light.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the One.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Lord.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Child.

***

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is God's Life.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is God's Light.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is God's Love.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is God's Peace.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is God's Joy.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is God's Sun.

This Self-Radiant

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is God's Child.

***

Keeping in mind this

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Way.

Keeping in mind this

Self-Radiant Awareness

I Am is the Way.

Keeping in mind this

Aware Presence of Being

I Am is the Law.

Keeping in mind this

Self-Radiant Awareness

I Am is the Law.

[Rich Note: See if these Light the Same Fire There as they do Here.]

Haiku of the Day (The Living Word)

Haiku-Wise:

The Word of God is

This Awareness of Being

I Am and You Are.

The Word of God is

This Awareness I Am Now

Conscious of Being.

The Word of God is

This Aware Presence I Am

Being Here and Now.

***

The Living Word of

God is this Aware Presence

Of Being I Am.

The Living Word is

God's Idea of Being Here

And Now as I Am.

The Word of God is

This Awareness Right Here and

Right Now as I AM.

Scripturally Speaking:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1

"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." Isaiah 40:8 KJV

"Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God." Psalm 20:7 KJV

But the word of the Lord endureth for ever..." 1 Peter 1:23-25 KJV

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105 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

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:14 KJV

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom..." Colossians 3:16 KJV

"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Peter 1:23 KJV

Metaphorically Speaking: 

"If a 'word' is defined as an external vibratory pattern of energy intended to express or convey an inner thought or idea, is it not possible to characterize each and every man- made object you now see before you as a 'living word?' For is not each such object simply a recurring pattern of physical energy that expresses an inner idea that once impressed another person’s mind? Do you yourself not also speak your mental ideas into physical being through words—vibratory patterns of external energy—in a similar fashion every time you speak or write? Might this same characterization not also hold true of the natural world?" 

Hay-Ku of the Day (Single-Eyed Seeing)

A Single-Eye Sees

The House as Whole a mind builds

It with mental bricks.

Enlightenment sees

The House as Whole a mind builds

It with mental bricks.

To Know I Am and

Just Be That is the Headstone

The Builder's reject.

A related quote from a Chapter 10 , Creation from a book by Neville Goddard entitled, "The Power of Awareness":

"I am God, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. Isaiah 46:9, 

"CREATION IS finished. Creativeness is only a deeper receptiveness, for the entire contents of all time and all space, while experienced in a time sequence, actually coexist in an infinite and eternal now. In other words, all that you ever have been or ever will be in fact, all that mankind ever was or ever will be exists now. This is what is meant by creation, and the statement that creation is finished means nothing is ever to be created, it is only to be manifested. What is called creativeness is only becoming aware of what already is. You simply become aware of increasing portions of that which already exists. The fact that you can never be anything that you are not already or experience anything not already existing explains the experience of having an acute feeling of having heard before what is being said, or having met before the person being met for the first time, or having seen before a place or thing being seen for the first time. The whole of creation exists in you, and it is your destiny to become increasingly aware of its infinite wonders and to experience ever greater and grander portions of it..."

Hay-Ku of the Day ("Light, Light, More Light! --The Living Light I Am!")

The Living Light of

The Awareness of Being

I Am is the Way.

The Living Light of

The Awareness of Being

I Am is the Truth.

The Living Light of

The Awareness of Being

I Am is the Christ.

The Living Light of

The Awareness of Being

I Am is the Lord.

"As long as I Am in the world, I Am the Light of the world." John 9:5 KJV 

"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

"Ye are the Light of the World. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."

Matthew 5:14 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

***

"O Blessed Flame of Divine Love I AM Thy Pure Presence Forever." 

"Because I Am Thee and Thou Art Me, I Am Protected, Illumined, Supplied and Free."

"I AM Christ, God in Action, the Light of God that Never Fails, in the Fullness of Its Eternal Victory and Dominion." 

"Light, Light, Light!  More Light, the Light of God which Never Fails."

-- St. Germain I AM Religious Activity

PS1: A notation system I am fond of for conceptual computation:

I am (Son of Man);

I Am (Christ in You);

I AM (God the Father)

PS2: A Prayer:

"'May All Beings Be Well, 

Happy and Free From Suffering;

May All Beings Be at Peace'";

May All Beings Know I Am."

[Rich Note: A forth line expansion on a prayer suggested by Stephen Levine.]

PS3: Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

"...I have found no confession of faith to which I could ally myself without reservation. Now in my old age, however, I have learned of a sect, the Hypsistarians (Greek for "Most High" God), who, hemmed in between heathens, Jews and Christians, declared that they would treasure, admire, and honour the best, the most perfect that might come to their knowledge, and inasmuch as it must have a close connection to the Godhead, pay it reverence. A joyous light thus beamed at me suddenly out of a dark age, for I had the feeling that all my life I had been aspiring to qualify as a Hypsistarian. That, however, is no small task, for how does one, in the limitations of one's individuality, come to know what is most excellent?"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsistarians

PS4: A reprise of Bill Sameul's "Lil' Lijah, the Luminous Lightening Bug" Story, Illustrated by Sandy Jones:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6uLwKI_rA

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Knowing Aware Sky)

Peace in Action is

Temporal, whereas Peace at

Heart is Eternal.

***

Mirroring my Face, 

Clouds of Divine Energy 

Suspended in Space.

Still and Quiet this

Sky of Perpetual Grace 

Abiding in the Heart.

***

Clouds of Energy

Floating in an Infinite

Sky of Awareness.

Shifting focus from

Clouds of thought to an Empty

Sky of Awareness.

Shifting focus from

Thought to the Self-Knowing Clear

Sky of Awareness.

***

Shinning Clarity

As the Self-Knowing Sky of

Awareness I Am. 

Shinning Clarity

As Self-Knowing Awareness

Of Being Itself.

Shinning Clarity

As Self-Knowing Sky of the

Awareness I Am.

Shinning Clarity

As the Self-Knowing Single

Eye of Awareness.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Memorial to Ali)

"To One of a Kind!"

(1) "A Eulogy"

"This be a day to exult,
For the Here be far richer
And the Knight hath rid
Home wearing the colors,
His Shield battered,
his Trappings worn,
but his Spear bright."

-- Patience Worth

(2) Haiku:

"Rivers, Ponds, Lakes and
Streams" are All different Names
For States of Water.

(3) Inspiration:

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams --
they all have  different names. But they
 all contain water. Just as religions do.
They all contain truths. Islam is peace."

--Muhammed Ali  (While visiting the site
of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001)

(4) Companion Image: From an article by
Don Steinburg in the Philadelphia Inquirer, June 5, 2016.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Cloudy Mental Sky - Part 1 & 2)

"Pleasure and pain" are

Mental clouds passing through the

Sky of Awareness.

These Clouds of mental

Energy floating in space

Cannot touch the Sky.

***

Clouds of Energy

Cannot disturb the Peaceful

Sky of Awareness.

Mental hurricanes

Can not touch the Clear Sky of

Awareness Itself.

***

Awake to Being

The Clear Sky of Awareness

Underlying All.

Awake to Being

The Clear Sky of Awareness

You Already Are.

***

Clouds of energy 

Float in the Clear Sky of the

Awareness I Am.

Clouds of Energy

Can't disturb the Clear Sky of

Awareness I Am.

Part 2

I Am the Clear Sky

Of Awareness clinging to

Self-created clouds.

Neither Seer nor

Seen but the Clear Sky of the 

Awareness I Am.

***

Being the Seeing

Instead of a cloud in the

Sky of Awareness.

Being the Seeing

Of Clear Sky Awareness and

Not a mental cloud.

Being the Seeing

Of Clear Sky Awareness and

Not Seer or Seen.

***

Overlook the clouds

And Notice the Clear Sky of

Awareness You Are.

Stop chasing mental 

Clouds and See you are Clear Sky

Awareness Itself.

***

Focusing on clouds

Causes me to overlook the

The Clear Sky I Am.

Focus on mental

Clouds caused me to forget

Being Awareness.

***

Missing the Clear Sky

Of the Awareness I Am

Chasing mental clouds.

[Rich Note: Inspired by the following Dr. Pedro Cortina post: 

"The only way to end the cycle of pleasure and pain is to let go of seeking both. Who are you then?"]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Alchemy)

Transmuting ego 

Lead into spiritual gold 

Is suffering’s job.

***

Ego's a serpent

That eats its own tail till it

Give's birth to Glory.

Ego's a serpent

That eats its own tail till its

Rebirth in Glory.

Ego's a serpent

That eats its own tail until

Only Light remains.

***

Auger of Desire, 

Sharp cutting edge of despair, 

Bursting into Light.

My Soulful Anguish, 

Mid-wife to Eternal Glory, 

Cosmic Labor Pains.

***

"For our light affliction, 

which is but for a moment,

 worketh for us a far more 

exceeding and eternal weight

of glory." (2 Cor 4:17 KJV)