Sunday, July 31, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day (Self-Equation)

"How dare you bother
About others when you don't 
Fully know yourself."

[Rich Note: A near natural haiku paraphrase of the last sentence of the first reply by Sri Nisargadatta, from the following page 51 extract (which carried a "direct hit message" for yours truly) from "Consciousness and the Absolute":

"...Q: Then these others do not have the knowledge, and that's why they come back?

M: You speak for yourself! Other people may be more knowledgable then you, why do you equate them with you? You have committed a grave offense by equating these people with the level of your wisdom. Take care of yourself, don't worry about others. How dare you bother about others when you do not fully know yourself?

Q: There is some link which binds us together.

M: Never criticize others..."

(Q=Questioner; M: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj) ]

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day ("This Is IT!")

Once again Flying
On the Wings of the Spirit
To my own Dear Heart.

***

The All Seeing Eye 
At the Heart of Awareness
Is looking through yours.

A Dimensionless 
Still Point Eye at the Heart of 
Awareness I Am.

The Quantum Field of
Conscious Space that now contains
All You're Now Seeing.

***

When Awareness of 
Field and Form Coincide One's 
Eye becomes Single.

(With the exception of the last haiku, inspired by a Pedro Cortina's posting of a "This Is IT!" the-minder image, as is the following collection of related quotes, posted on FB.)

[Rich Note: That which follows is cross-correlative collage of "This Is It!" quotes that attempts to point to what is essentially a "dimensionless still point," with cross-correlative pointing vectors or lines of thought from different conceptual angles," compiled in the same spirit as the following metaphoric "word picture":

"Although we can not fully define an absolute state in relative terms, we can use analogies, metaphors and similes in an attempt to evoke or recall a direct sense or perception of that state. Thus, if I have an experience I wish to share, I can use a metaphor to indicate what it felt like with the hope of evoking a similar feeling in another. This is the verbal equivalent of having someone balance a coin to convey what balance feels like. This is because balance, as an absolute or non-relative state, cannot be captured in words, yet can be known as a direct experience. Thus, by moving a coin back and forth through its balance point, while progressively reducing said movements, one may get a feel for almost balanced. Then, suddenly, as the coin comes to rest, perhaps a direct sense of balance, as a non-relative state, may be experienced."]

(1) "This is IT!" Burt Harding-Wise:

"...This reality is experienced as unconditional love, peace, clarity, oneness and joy. These feelings are NOT emotional qualities, in fact not qualities at all. They are our true nature as pure presence. If this is your first "looking experience, it may feel scary and even disappointing because the mind's thinking will exclaim, "Is this IT?" -- Burt Harding

(2) "This is IT!" Bill Samuel-Wise:
 
"...What is It? Listen, listen: It is a tiny moment of sweet inner lightness and delight. It is a moment of relief from the world's heaviness. It is an instant of recognition and weightless surveillance of the scene. It is a flawless moment that lets us say, "Hey, this is a fine minute! I feel all right! I feel good! I feel joy! Everything is all right!" That's It. That goodness and lightness is IT! That's what It is. 

"Unfortunately, It's no big event to the intellect of us, yet its recognition and acknowledgment is the most brimming inner understanding anyone will ever acquire-and the heart of us knows this is so. It's the grandest thing one can imagine, because, in the midst of It, suddenly everything IS all right -including the universe and all therein, including our own most personal experiences and our interface with everyone. That's all right too.

"The Marvel of Marvels begins as a tiny, mustard-seed of sweet, innocent peace. The conscious perception of this is the Big Bang of the Future, awaiting the world. When we recognize It, and acknowledge It, It grows and grows. It comes back again, large, and more apparent. It returns, again and again, at other unexpected moments, still larger-until it grows into the Tree of Paradise wherein the angels play.

"We have all needed someone in our personal life who recognizes It and says, "That's it! This is IT!" The It I write about is the purpose of all the human disciplines. It is the objective of the philosophies, all the religions and secret societies intended to bring us to Light. When they are successful, they bring us to this tiny moment wherein we finally recognize It for what it is-peace, simple peace.

"The inner delight we feel, even as we read this, is It. Here It is! Right here as the awareness reading these words. It hasn't gone away, you see. It never left us nor forsook us. We are It. It is us. It is me and thee and everyone. And, It is still right here, a tiny moment of peace in the world, ready to explode into the New World and make all things new..."

A link to a full transcription of the William Samuel Woodsong Note titled, "The Grandest Gift of All" the above "This Is It!" related quote comes from:


(3) "This is IT!" Alan Watts-Wise:

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” 

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” 

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.” 

“Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.” 

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.” 

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.” 

― Alan Wilson Watts

Here's a link to a great compilation of 92 of Alan's quotes (all of which might be viewed as conceptual pointers to "This Is IT!) those above came from:


http://www.awakening-intuition.com/alan-watts-quotes.html 

(4) "This is IT!" Rich Hay-Wise:

Here's link to a circa 1990 cross-correlative arrangement of "This Is IT!" (a phrase I first encountered as a title to an Alan Watt's essay of the same title) quotes selected from 11 different source books (also done in the same spirit as the coin balancing metaphor above):


Hay-Ku of the Day (Divine Self-Reflection)

Divine Reflection
In the Still Silent Waters
Of a Peaceful Heart.

***

A Bright, Blazing Sun,
Mirrored in a Mountain Lake,
Self-Reflecting Glory.

All I Now See are
Self-Reflected Images 
Of Divine Being.

Only a Still Mind
Reflects a Perfect Image
Of Divine Glory.

Divine Reflections
Shatter in turbulent Minds as
Sunlight on the Sea.

Prismatic rainbow,
A coat of many colors,
Shattered white light.

[Rich Note: In addition to the new one that appears first, the following five are from Chapter 1, In the "Beginning was the Word," of OOMM; and wee shared as a comment, with one addition, in response to a "still water reflected image" photo posted by a FB friend, I felt worth my of a Hay-Ku reprise.]

http://rfhay333.blogspot.com/?m=1

Hay-Ku of the Day (Not Being Me)

"I do not wake-up
To Being God, God Wakes-Up
To "not being me."

[Rich Note: A paraphrase of a John Wheeler (to the best of my recollection) rather self-humbling "non-dual pointer" that can't be hijacked by ego (i.e. "carnal mind," the "me that says my," "separate self-sense" or "the story of me."]

"Imagination is the very gateway of reality. "Man," said Blake, "is either the ark of God or a phantom of the earth and of the water." "Naturally he is only a natural organ subject to Sense." "The Eternal Body of Man is The Imagination: that is God himself, The Divine Body. Jesus: we are his Members."

(A quote from Neville Goddard's "Awakened Imagination.")

"When you see the world you see God. There is no seeing God apart from the world. Beyond the world to see God is to be God. The light by which you see the world, which is God is the tiny little spark: ‘I am’, apparently so small and yet the first and the last in every act of knowing and loving."

(A quote from Sri Nisargadatta's "I AM THAT.)

[Rich Note: Awakened Imagination = Creative Power and Imagination of God the Father (or Nameless Absolute Potential to Be) = Right Hand of God = Consciousness (Nectar of the Lord's Feel) = Awareness of Being = Aware Presence of Being = Conscious Aliveness = Witnessing Presence= the Word of God = Lord = I AM, Etc., Etc.]

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day (Dead Man Walking)

Identified with
"Self-referenced thought" I am
A "dead man walking."

Identified with
"Self-reflective thought" I am
A "dead man walking."

Identified with
"Self-conscious thinking" I am
A "dead man walking."

***

Identified with
"Dualistic thinking" I am
A "dead man walking."

Identified with
"Relative thinking" I am
A "dead man walking."

***

Identified with 
"Carnal mindedness" I am
A "dead man walking."

Self-identified
With "carnal thinking" I am
A "dead man walking."

Inspired by: 

"Time only exists when we haven't let go of death." -- Pedro Cortina

Related Scripture:

(1) "...Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ (I Am) shall give thee light." 

-- Ephesians 5:14 KJV

(2) "I Am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." 

-- Revelation 1:18 KJV

(3) "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 

-- 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 KJV

(4) "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 

"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.

 "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. 

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (Love)."

  -- 1 Corinthians 13:9-13 KJV

[Rich Note: Perhaps, this is the unconscious reason for the seeming fascination (and, in some cases, complete infatuation), in a large segment of the public consciousness, with "zombies," as reflected in movies and on TV, for the last five years or so?]

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day (Being as Little Children)

The "Child of God" is
The "Light of the Awareness
Of Being I Am."

"Christ in You" is the
"Child Heart" of the "Light of the
Awareness You Are."

***.

"Christ in You" is the
"Child Heart of Awareness" that
You have forgotten.

"Christ in You" is the
"Child Heart of Awareness" that's
Being overlooked.

***

"Christ in You" is the
"Child Heart of God I Am" as
"Awareness Itself."

"Christ in You" is the
"Child of God I Am" as the
"Light of Awareness."

***

"Christ in you" is the
"Aware Presence of Being
I Am" in Your Heart.

The "Only Real Choice"
Is between "Christ in your Heart"
And "You in your Head."

***

"Christ in You" is the
"Imaginative Power"
Of the "Mind of God."

The "Absolute Peace"
At the "Heart of Awareness"
Is the "Christ in You."

***

"Christ in You" is the
"Light of Awareness I Am"
And "not what you think."

"Christ in You" as the
"Light of the World in your Heart"
Is the "Prince of Peace."

***

"Christ in You" is the 
"Child Heart of God I Am" now
Witnessing Being.

"Christ in You" is the 
"Child Heart of God I Am" that
"Loves Being Alive."

[Rich Note: Child = Christ = Soul = Awareness of Being = Consciousness = I Am = Identity]

(1) "10 Year Old, Little Ray" Quote-Wise: 

The great photo quote is from an article entitled, "The Sportswriter and the Receiver," (Ray Didinger's play explores his relationship with his boyhood idol), by Frank Fitzpatrick,  in this morning Philadelphia Inquirer.

(2) Scripture-Wise:

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

"...Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3 KJV

(3) Bill Samuel-Wise:

Here's a related sequence of "10 year Old, Little Ray/Child" synoptic quotes from Bill Samuel's "The Child Within Us Lives" (B: Bill; M=Mary):

B: "...The fact is, the Original Identity, like the photon, is everywhere in time and space, constantly— there being no human condition we can get into that the Child-Image doesn't know the way out of..."

"...The Child is ever the Christ Light, Soul of OurSelf, capable of hearing our every needful desire along the slopes and absolutely willing to help us make the upward propelling decision and movement on the slope of...(the worldly mountain of "seeking and finding" human life is)"

M: “William, you say I'm to find the Child within myself. How do I actually do that beyond dreaming about it?” 

B: "First—and absolutely essential to the process—we affirm the Child's existence and presence. Like God, the Child doesn't seem present to the old nature's eye; there are no intellectual proofs immediately at hand. We accept its existence and presence on faith just as we accept the presence of God on faith. Before long, the Child will stir within and prove it is very much alive and present."

M: “What will I feel?” 

Oh, goodness, Mary. The Child within is actually the child we were, still here, a child. It laughs for us, it sings in our heart, it remembers. It is interested. It is curious, thoughtful, full of love, excited sometimes, just as we felt as a child. These very feelings begin to return inside us. In small ways at first, like remembering how the freshly cut grass smelled when we were children..."

"...But, listen, listen: this time—now that you have been here to hear these strange words—we will know it is the Child within—and that knowing is essential. Identity is hoving back into view! This time we know it is the Original Child coming back to consciousness, stirring and renewing itself. This time we know it is the real of us coming again to re-prove the nature of Reality. It is coming to enliven us and we are glad..."

M: "That sounds wonderful, William. What do I do first?” 

B: Mary, we just said. We affirm the Child's presence within us. We admit wholly, fully, faithfully that the Child still lives right here, right now where we are. We determine to let it up and out, to bring it forth from the stultifying sophistication and guilt of adulthood and time. You see, the Child of God IS here—our real Identity, our Original Identity. It is that part of us that will survive when the finite body falls away. It is the soul of us that existed before this tangible body came into being. Before Abraham was, the Child of God is. We are IT..."

M: “This child is still in us, you say. Is this the soul that religion speaks of?” 

B: "Yes! Precisely that. And isn't it wonderful to finally know what that mysterious and nebulous concept is all about? To know what it is and where it is and how it is felt and that it lives in such a tender and wonderful manner? And especially, that it is still filled with enthusiasm and joy? And that its re-discovery brings renewal right here in the world?"

M: “This certainly puts the notion of the immortal soul in another light, doesn't it? (thoughtful pause) It clarifies the doctrinal and theological statement, doesn't it?” 

B: "Yes. But much more, Mary. We are finally doing what we are supposed to be doing." 

“Lest ye become as children you will in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven.” And remember another statement as well, “...a child shall lead them.”

 M: “If the Child comes alive again, as you say, what does that do for me here in the flesh?” 

B: "So many things I can't count them all. A twinkle in the eye comes back. Fear falls away. We aren't so concerned about time, the body and its affairs. We know the Child is us. We trust the Child to lead us straight to a knowledge of truth. As a matter of fact, the Child is the God of us." 

M: “The child is God?”

B: "No, the other way around. God is being the Child. The Child within is the perfect Image of the Ineffable, the first identity made in the image of God as the Bible relates. It lives and moves and has Its being in God. It has never been sick. It has never suffered nor made a mistake. It isn't vaunted up nor bowed down. It isn't guilty. It is not bound by temporality or space, and It understands what time and space are all about."

M: “The bubbling I feel inside at this minute is my real identity?” 

B: "Yes!"

M: “What about this awareness right here, as I look at you and listen to you?” 

B: "This Awareness is the Light of life and belongs to God. Awareness is the Child I am. Awareness becomes US as we have a change of heart, let go the old man and return to the Child within. This present awareness becomes sharper and clearer because it has things to do in the world. It bubbles a lot more, Mary..."

(4) Amazon Kindle Link-Wise:

Here's a link to Bill Samuel's "The Child Within Us Lives":

https://www.amazon.com/Within-Synthesis-Science-Religion-Metphysics-ebook/dp/B007WVO5DS/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1468772590&sr=8-1&keywords=the+child+within+us+lives ]

(5) Complementary PDF-Wise:

If your interested in going deeper into Bill's pragmatic, yet profound  masterwork, but your budget presents a problem, just send me an e-mail address on messenger and I'll reply with a PDF copy of "The Child," complements of Sandy Jones, Bill's literary executor.

Monday, July 11, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Fear of the Lord)

What we fear we pay
Attention to and become
Mentally one with.

Nothing attracts mind's
Attention like Fear or Love --
Two sides of One Coin.

***

Perfect Love casts out
Fear because they're alternate 
States of Awareness.

Perfect Love casts out
Fear because they're vibrant states
Of One Awareness.

"Love casts out all fear"
For the same reason that Light
Casts out All Darkness.

***

To overcome fear
I must transcend all sense of 
Being separate.

To overcome fear
Belief in Being other
Than I Am must go.

(1) Inspiration-Wise:

"When you fear God, 
You fear nothing else, 
Whereas if you
Do not fear God,
You fear everything 
Else."   -- Oswald Chambers

(2) Poetically-Wise:

A. Goodbye

Dream of future, ghost of past, 
Gone forever, awake at last; 
There’s no tomorrow, yesterday’s gone, 
Realize this truth, don’t be a pawn. 

Gone tomorrow, once dear friend,
Your hope was false, offered no end;
You too yesterday’s siren song,
Love’s soft memory, dead so long. 

Once you see, you’re always here,
Need not move, and have no fear;
Live as you are, love where you’re at,
Nothing and nowhere better than that.  (Circa 1983)

B. The Tiger (Nature)
  
TIGER, tiger, burning bright  
In the forests of the night,  
What immortal hand or eye  
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?  
 
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?  
On what wings dare he aspire?  
What the hand dare seize the fire?  
 
And what shoulder and what art  
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,  
What dread hand and what dread feet?  
 
What the hammer? what the chain?  
In what furnace was thy brain?  
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?  
 
When the stars threw down their spears,  
And water'd heaven with their tears,  
Did He smile His work to see?  
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
 
Tiger, tiger, burning bright  
In the forests of the night,  
What immortal hand or eye  
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?  
 
-- William Blake
 
(3) Scripturally Speaking:

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Proverbs 9:10 KJV

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 1:7 KJV

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments : his praise endureth for ever." Psalm 111:10 KJV

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18 KJV

(4) Alan Watts-Wise: 

“…the undivided mind is aware of experience as a unity, of the whole as itself, and that the whole nature of the mind and awareness is to be one with what it knows, suggests a state usually called love.”

Alan Watts (from “The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety,” pg. 130)

(5) Definition of Fear-Wise:

"The word translated "fear" in many versions of the Bible comes from the Hebrew word yirah (יִרְאָה), which has a range of meaning in the Scriptures. Sometimes it refers to the fear we feel in anticipation of some danger or pain, but it can also can mean "awe" or "reverence."  In this latter sense, yirah includes the idea of wonder, amazement, mystery, astonishment, gratitude, admiration, and even worship (like the feeling you get when gazing from the edge of the Grand Canyon). The "fear of the LORD" therefore includes an overwhelming sense of the glory, worth, and beauty of the One True God."

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Parashah/Summaries/Eikev/Yirah/yirah.html

http://rfhay333.blogspot.com/?m=1

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day (Interpretive Self-Division)

Interpretation 
Involves a conceptual
Division in mind.

Interpretation
Divides the Awareness
Of Being I Am.

Interpretation
Creates a sense of Being
Other than I Am.

***

Self-focus divides
An otherwise integral
Field of Awareness.

Reflection divides
An otherwise integral
Field of Awareness.

Conception divides
An otherwise integral
Field of Awareness.

***

Self-reflective mind
Creates a pseudo sense of
Being separate.

Relative thinking
Creates a sense of Being
Other than I Am.

Thinking creates a
Sense of Being Separate
From Being Itself.

[Rich Note: Inspired by Pedro Cortina's: 

"Connection arises naturally
In the absence of interpretation."]

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

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

Is Anything more
Empty than an Absolute
Potential to Be?

***

A Formless Field or
State of Anything would be
Felt as Emptiness.

A Quantum State of
Experienced Emptiness
Is not Emptiness.

A Quantum State of
Experienced Emptiness
Is Replicative.

***

A Quantum Field of
Self-Radiant Awareness
Would Know It Is That.

Self-Knowing I Am
As a Quantum Field of the 
Light of Awareness.

Monday, July 4, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day (Freedom to Be Both Nothing and All)

I Am Free to Be
The Witnessing Presence or
What I Imagine.

I Am Free to Be
Self-Witnessing Awareness
Or what I believe.

***

I Am more Truly
Awareness of Being than
An image therein.

I Am more Truly
Awareness of Being than
A temporal state.

***

The Freedom of the 
Light of Awareness I Am
Is Our True Nature.

Absolutely Free
As the Self-Knowingness of
"The Natural State."

***

The Freedom of the 
Light of Awareness Exists
Because "I AM THAT."

The Self-Witnessing
Presence of Awareness is
Free of what It sees.

***

The Self-Witnessing
Presence of Awareness is
Free of mental states.

The Self-Witnessing
Presence I Am is Changeless,
All else is changeful.

***

That which Witnesses
Being is Changeless while that
Witnessed is changeful.
.
The Living Light of
The Awareness I Am stays
While all else changes.

Inspired by: "We are already free in any circumstance." Pedro Cortina

Related Scripture: 

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

"In him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:4 KJV

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

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day ("Be Still!")

Uncle Joe’s, “Richie 
Be Still!” was Divine Counsel 
Of the First Order.

***

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
One with the Father.

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
Mindful of the Light.

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
Prior to conception.

***

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
The Child Heart of All.

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as the Child
Heart of God I Am.

***

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
As Pure Awareness.

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
Being Awareness.

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
Awareness Itself.

***

Being Mentally
Still Increases focal length
And breadth of vision.

Being Mentally
Still Increases focal length
To "Infinity."

Being Mentally
Still expands breadth of vision
To "Infinity."

"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