Hay-Ku of the Day (The Still Small Voice of Whispering Wisdom)

(1) Haiku-Wise:

The "Still Small Voice" is

Is a "Beautiful Feeling"

Of "Sweetness and Light."

The "Still Small Voice" of

"Sweet Simple Peace" is felt as

"Living Light and Love."

The "Still Small Voice" is

Is a "Beautiful Feeling"

Of "Joyous Delight."

This "Feeling of Sweet

Simple Peace" and a "Sense of

Weightless Surveillance."

***

While Arising the

Child is Sensed as a Heartfelt

Feeling of Goodness.

The Child Heart I Am

Stirs as a Heartfelt Sense of

Being Awareness.

***

The "Voice of Inner

Stillness and Silence" whispers 

"Wisdom from the Heart."

The "Wisdom of the 

Ages" whispers Its "Heartfelt

Knowing in Silence."

The "Wisdom of the 

Ages" Whispers Its "Heartfelt

Knowledge of Being."

***

"Listening" is the

"Mental silence" needed to

"Feel the Still Small Voice."

"Listening" affords

"The Silence" needed to hear

"Wisdom Whispering."

(1) Scripture-Wise:

"And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord . And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice." 1 Kings 19:11-12 KJV

(2) Bill Samuel-Wise:

"This marvelous experience of It, early in our lives, has us searching for It again, the rest of our days.

"When IT happened, the Child of us was alive and well.  The Child within us was lively, nimble and alert, clapping hands and laughing.  Now, here we are, reaching out for that Same One IT again.

"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..." 

[Rich Note: This excerpt is from "The Grandest Gift of All" Woodsong Note. The full audio version, titled "This is It! Part I-IV by Bill Samuel," can be accessed at the following YouTube link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O036NAgySvs .]

(3) Syd Banks-Wise:

 

"Syd always talked about the power of deep feelings. He would say things like,  “Just listen; if you get a beautiful feeling, that’s it. That’s what you’re looking for. That beautiful feeling is where all the answers lie.”  

"I wanted to believe him, but found it very, very difficult. Nonetheless, in spite of myself and my resistance, I sought out Syd’s company so I could feel happy by osmosis. Little did I know that the deep feeling I was experiencing was my inner self being woken up, little by little..."

“Dearie, you don’t have to save that feeling. It’s your true self coming to life. Just enjoy it and you’ll find even deeper feelings. If you try and hang on to it, you’ll lose it. Just know that you are that feeling, and trust that it’s there for you, always.”

(Quoted from Elsie Spittle's autobiographical, "Beyond Imagination: A New Reality Awaits")

Hay-Ku of the Day (Unwitting Self-Worship)

Part 1

Minding is paying

Attention to this to the 

Exclusion of that.

Paying attention 

Is equivalent to self-

Sacrifice and love.

I am worshipping 

Whatever I'm paying the

Most attention to.

Part 2:

"Me, myself and I"

Is the "object of worship"

While "I am thinking."

"Thinking all the time"

Means I am unwittingly

"Worshipping myself."

Part 3:

Minding the "Aware

Presence of Being I Am"

Is Worshipping God.

Paying Attention

To Being instead of thought

Is worshipping God.

Part 4 (OOMM Oldies):

Pay attention kids! 

Repeated so many times --

Life’s only lesson!

Paying Attention

To Being Aware pays the

Biggest Dividends.

Worshipping the past 

Imagining the future

Missing the Moment.

[Rich Note: All of which points to the operative or "Saving Grace Principle" behind of the First and, according to Jesus, Great Commandment (of the Law of Life):

"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matthew 22:37-40 KJV

Which in more pragmatic, psychological terms becomes :

We can "stop minding

Thought" by "Loving God with All

Out Heart, Mind and Soul."

Or simpler still:

I can "stop minding

Thought" by "Minding God" as the 

"Awareness I Am."]

Or more Metaphorically Speaking:

Pay Attention (to Being Instead Self-of is Loving God): "We as centers of conscious attention, as focal points of light in a limitless field of awareness, sacrifice ourselves to whatever we attend to in any given moment. As such, paying attention to any outer phenomena, mental, physical or emotional, actually constitutes “waiting upon and thus serving” the object we attend to mentally. So it is that the moment to moment center of our conscious awareness may be rightly categorized as the object of mental attraction, affection and/or love, be it positive or negative. In this regard, paying exclusive attention to anything, be it oneself or another, for any length of time, is to worship and pay homage to that object. Seen in this light, paying conscious attention actually involves a sacrifice one of self as subjective state of mind and consciousness, as a field of pure awareness, to some graven mental image or idol (thought, sense or feeling) that arises in the field of conscious awareness." 1992 U/D 3/28/96; 4/03.

Hay-Ku of the Day (The "K.I.S.S." of Natural Security)

Naturally secure

The Instant I See I Am

Awareness Itself.

Naturally Secure

As the Awareness I Am

At the Heart of All.

Naturally secure

When not thinking of Being

Other than I Am.

***

Focused on Being

Awareness Itself I Am

Naturally Secure.

"The Story of Me"

Appears in the Context of

Being Awareness.

***

The "Rock of Ages"

Is the Awareness required

To Know that I Am

The "Rock of Ages"

Is the Awareness I Am

That Underlies All

*K.I.S.S." ("Keep It Simple Stupid or Silly):

Inside-Out Living

Is Simple while Outside-In

Living is Complex.

Inside-Out Living

Is Heaven while Outside-In

Living is Hellish.

[Rich Note: Haiku Inspired by the following extract of a "K.I.S.S." essay by Judy Sedgeman, who is a proponent of Syd Banks' potentially revolutionary, "Three Principle" Insight" (which is, perhaps, best captured in the following three conceptual distillates: (1) "Life comes through us, not to us"; (2) "Living from the inside-out instead of from the outside-in"; and (3) "Thought, and not circumstance creates, feeling and experience"):

"...It popped into my mind a number of times over the last several days, when I found myself over-thinking situations and decisions that really didn’t need anything more than a commitment to the simple and a quick check of the obvious... 

"...Here’s the “simple” and “obvious” K.I.S.S. I recently received. Not my first K.I.S.S., to be sure, but one of the best yet: 

"The only way to become insecure is to think about the life drama of me, myself and I. When I’m not thinking about myself personally, I am naturally secure, and can respond to anything in life with confidence, good cheer and a clear head.

"This is hardly new news and it certainly isn’t the first time I’ve written it down or seen it written down by others. But the neat thing about a K.I.S.S. is that something familiar comes to you in Technicolor, with special effects and glorious intensity as though you’d never known it before.

"So the message that zoomed at me and filled the screen of my mind was “REALLY get yourself off your mind because you are always fine, except when you think you’re not..."

(Or as Sailor Bob Adamson so clearly put it in a classic "non-dual pointer" book title:

"What's Wrong with Right Now, Unless You Think About I?")

Here's a link to Judy's all downloadable Reflections (extrapolated insights into Syd's Three Principles):

http://www.three-principles.com/3p-reflections-essays/ ]

Hay-Ku of the Day ("Who Am I?")

"Who Am I?" is the

Alpha-Omega Question

At the Heart of All.

"Who Am I?" is the

Alpha-Omega Question

One's born to Answer.

"Who Am I?" is the 

Alpha Omega Question

That answers Itself.

(1) Related OOMM's Subtitle

"The Object of Life

Is to Find Out Who I Am

Before Time Runs Out!"

(2)  From the rhymed poetry archive:

WHO AM I?

Who is this I that I seem to be, 

That I feel I am, yet cannot see; 

The one in me I’ve yet to know, 

Though ever present wherever I go. 

Who can it be, this I in me, 

The I that I am, yet never see; 

The one in me that still goes on, 

When all about has come and gone. 

The one in me that always knows,

That never comes and never goes;

That’s always here and never there,

Ever present and so nowhere. 

The one in me, the one in you, 

The I in us and all else too; 

The root and core of all that lives,

The essence and soul of all that is.

The I in all which cannot fall, 

Alive in the hearts of great and small;
That’s never apart and always near,

Knows no hunger and has no fear. 

The one in all, the one in each, 

The one all seek, but never reach;
The I that I am, that you are too, 

The I that answers the question who?

Circa 1982

Hay-Ku of the Day ("What Is Truth?")

Truth is the Aware

Presence of Being I Am

Prior to any thought.

Truth is the Aware

Presence of Being I Am

Pre-conceptually.

***

Truth is the Holy

One I Am as the Light

Of Pure Awareness.

Truth is the Holy

One of God I Am as the 

Light of Awareness.

***

Truth is Being the

Awareness I Am prior to

Any conception.

Truth is the Quantum

Nature of Awareness prior

To self-existence.

***

The Truth is I Am

One with the Father of All

When mentally Still.

[Rich Note: Chrissy Morales stopped  my mind cold yesterday, during an interview for her "Unsung Hero" internet show, with a "What do you mean by Truth?" question in response to my saying: "I sought the Truth as the Common Tread in All"; and then again, later, when she asked, "What was the Truth I saw during a 1978 Epiphany."

Don't know exactly how I replied (I'll be interested in seeing the replay😉) but, in hindsight the haiku above are what came up this morning.]

(1) Scripture-Wise:

 "Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."

Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all." John 18:37-38 KJV

(2) Metaohor-Wise: "Truth may be likened to a mountain that offers different views from different sides and elevations. While all views are relatively true, none are absolutely true. Thus the relative merit of any particular view must be judged solely on the basis of how much mountain it is able to embrace. The wider one ranges and the higher one climbs, the broader and more encompassing individual perspectives are likely to become. Higher understanding results from higher and broader perspectives. Higher views necessarily include and transcend lower views. Only one view, however, includes and transcends all others–that of the entire mountain as seen from the summit’s all-inclusive perspective." (metaphoric Introduction to Chapter 4, "In Spirit and Truth," of "Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses")

Hay-Ku of the Day (One, Done, Whole, Complete and Perfect)

Your capacity

To know anything depends 

On everything. 

Logic reflects the 

Perfect order of all parts 

Related to the whole. 

The whole integrates 

All its parts perfectly and 

Without any thought. 

Re-collecting the 

Whole of which I am part is 

The object of life.

[Rich Note: A correlated sequence from Chapter 4, "In Spirit and Truth," of "Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses" (OOMM).]

Hay-Ku of the Day (The "Man of Sorrows")

A Divine Mind would

Be perfectly sensitive

To all vibrant states.

Still Awareness would

Be fully conscious of It's

Self-suffering states.

A "Man" subject to

"God Consciousness" could be called:

A "Man of Sorrows."

(1) 109. "Man of Sorrow"s: An open heart implies a heightened sensitivity to ones enviornment. It also implies a heightened awareness of the pain and suffering of others. Unfortunately, our natural response to this heightened awareness is a reflex emotional contraction of the heart. We retreat from the pain by closing mental ranks and excluding others as its source; by building mental walls to reduce the amount of suffering we have to share to emotionally managable levels. In building these mental walls, however, we sacrifice feeling, senstivity, awareness, consciousness and, ultimately, life. We become, quite literally, numb and dumb. We don't hurt so much because we have become mentally and emotionally enethized, but at the price of being less conscious and alive. U/D 3/31/96

(2) "Man of Sorrows is paramount among the prefigurations of the Messiah identified by Christians in the passages of Isaiah 53 (Servant songs) in the Hebrew Bible" - Wikapedia

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Calculator and the Computer)

Mind's a CRT

On a Cosmic Mainframe that

Images Being. 

"Carnal mind" is a

Mental "keyboard" trying to

Be a "computer."

"Bicameral mind"

Is a "input devise" that

"Thinks it is thinking."

"I as I think's" a

"Calculator" trying to

Be a "Computer."

79. CRT and Main Frame II: "As Alexander Maltz, who wrote a book entitled “Psycho-Cybernetics” once suggested, man's conscious mind may be likened to a local CRT (computer remote terminal) linked to a central and/or cosmic mainframe. In this regard, that which is called the subconscious mind plays the role of the mainframe computer itself. Consider, for instance, the relative genius of this subconscious mind in the local context of our own bodies, where it simultaneously coordinates and integrates bodily functions too countless to number. Extrapolate this metaphor, first to Jung's idea of the “universal unconscious”, then beyond, to a non-local, all-inclusive state of pure awareness -- a unitary state of consciousness that both includes and transcends it’s own conscious and subconscious components. This, in turn, provides a solid theoretical basis for the innately creative power of mind and consciousness, at any level, across any apparent boundary (local or non-local). For seen in this light, any and all thoughts would automatically become those of the One All Inclusive Mind; and said One Mind’s thoughts (the Mind and/or Consciousness of God, if you will), being unopposed by any other mind or will, would be absolutely creative." '92;UD 12/19/97; 6/12/03.

Hay-Ku of the Day (Light, Light, More Light)

Infinite rays shine, 

Blazing from one central sun,

Universal light. 

A bright, blazing sun, 

Mirrored in a mountain lake,

Self-reflecting glory. 

Pure white light hidden

In a prismatic rainbow

Of endless color.

Cloud enshrouded sky 

Momentarily masking 

A prodigal sun. 

[Rich Note: The first correlated sequence from Chapter I, "In the Beginning Was the Word," of "Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses" (OOMM).]

Hay-Ku of the Day (Natural Wonders)

Playful old puppies, 

She frolics, he gently paws— 

Love in furry coats. 

One’s caterpillar 

Nature must die to give birth 

To the butterfly. 

A basement cricket 

Competing with my daydreams, 

Who is more alive? 

Soft chirping chorus, 

Surrounding blanket of sound, Covering silence.

[Rich Note: Another correlated sequence from Chapter I, "In the Beginning Was the Word," of "Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses" (OOMM).]