A 2014 Memorial Day Tribute to TSgt Clyde B. Alloway, USAF, 18SOS, DaNang AB, RVN, at the "Wall that Heals," 9 Jun 2013
http://www.patriotconnections.org/vietnamwall/2013/06/10/rich-hay-at-the-wall-his-story/
(You might have to wait for the video to load)
Monday, May 26, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Hay-Ku of the Day (Memorial)
"God Bless and Keep" to
A long ago comrade who
Didn't make it home.
A 2014 Memorial Day Tribute to Technical Sgt. Clyde B. Alloway, a long-ago friend, fellow aircrew member and comrade in arms, who didn't make it back from Vietnam:
After more than 43 years, my general recollection of Vietnam is 3 months of "learning the job," 6 months of "cowboys and Indians," and 3 months of a “guy could get killed doing this."
What I do remember quite vividly, however, is the night of June 6th, 1970; the night we lost TSgt Clyde B. Alloway during an AC-119K Gunship emergency bailout after takeoff from DaNang Air Base, RVN.
The following poem was written as a tribute to Clyde in 1982 for a 4th of July POW/MIA speech [which can pretty much be summed up: "There are no good wars, only good men!" (a line mentioned during the talk a reporter who heard the speech asked to use)] I was honored make:
To One Left Behind
To one left Behind,
Who lives on in my mind;
To one I left there,
Beyond worry and care;
Who lives on in my heart,
And from whom I can’t part.
Though not with me here,
He has nothing to fear,
His duty is done,
And mine only begun;
For though gone from my sight,
I’ll still carry his light;
Nor forget what he’s done,
As a true, faithful son.
1982 Rich Hay
[Rich Note: Have to admit feeling a lot like the aged Private Ryan did at the end of "Saving Private Ryan," at least with regard to the 40 plus years of life I have been blessed to live since that “long ago night when our plane and crew went down and one of us didn’t make it home."]
A long ago comrade who
Didn't make it home.
A 2014 Memorial Day Tribute to Technical Sgt. Clyde B. Alloway, a long-ago friend, fellow aircrew member and comrade in arms, who didn't make it back from Vietnam:
After more than 43 years, my general recollection of Vietnam is 3 months of "learning the job," 6 months of "cowboys and Indians," and 3 months of a “guy could get killed doing this."
What I do remember quite vividly, however, is the night of June 6th, 1970; the night we lost TSgt Clyde B. Alloway during an AC-119K Gunship emergency bailout after takeoff from DaNang Air Base, RVN.
The following poem was written as a tribute to Clyde in 1982 for a 4th of July POW/MIA speech [which can pretty much be summed up: "There are no good wars, only good men!" (a line mentioned during the talk a reporter who heard the speech asked to use)] I was honored make:
To One Left Behind
To one left Behind,
Who lives on in my mind;
To one I left there,
Beyond worry and care;
Who lives on in my heart,
And from whom I can’t part.
Though not with me here,
He has nothing to fear,
His duty is done,
And mine only begun;
For though gone from my sight,
I’ll still carry his light;
Nor forget what he’s done,
As a true, faithful son.
1982 Rich Hay
[Rich Note: Have to admit feeling a lot like the aged Private Ryan did at the end of "Saving Private Ryan," at least with regard to the 40 plus years of life I have been blessed to live since that “long ago night when our plane and crew went down and one of us didn’t make it home."]
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Hay-Ku of the Day ("The Headless Way")
"I Am Seeing" out
Of the "Open Awake Space"
Atop my shoulders.
"I Am Seeing" out
Of the "Nothingness" of the
"Awake Space" I Am.
***
The "Awake Space" now
Perched on my shoulders is
What Consciousness Is.
The "Awake Space" now
Perched on my shoulders is
Letting "What Is" Be.
***
As the "Seeing Space"
Perched on my shoulders I Am
"Being Awareness."
As the "Seeing Space"
Perched on my shoulders I Am
"Consciousness Itself."
As the "Seeing Space"
Perched on my shoulders I Am
"Full of Everything."
***
"Unconditioned Space"
Is Very Happy to Let
"Conditioned Space" Be.
The Unconditioned
Awake Space I Am is Full
Of Everything Else.
The "That Which Is" of
Conditioned Space Exists in
Unconditioned Space.
[Rich Note: The following "Science and Non-Duality" YouTube, "The Headless Way (pioneered by DE Harding) as a path to enquiring 'Who Am I?'"by Rich Lang (which inspired today's "headless hay-ku") serves as a lovely experiential/experimental complement to (and visceral verification of) the great Fred David YouTube (Attention Practice: A Powerful New Way of Clearing) previously linked. ]
Re1: "Here's a short video from a Science and Non-Duality conference - me talking to the camera for ten minutes on the Headless Way." - Richard Lang
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=53.7x&m=JWvASHEfL2lX2P&b=WSfKWeAmaBs8QSGbTHRAbg
Re2: A Re-link of Fred Davis' great "Attention Practice" YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3CB0Twij7o
Re3: "My Emptiness is Full, My Silence Sings." Sri Nisargadatta
Of the "Open Awake Space"
Atop my shoulders.
"I Am Seeing" out
Of the "Nothingness" of the
"Awake Space" I Am.
***
The "Awake Space" now
Perched on my shoulders is
What Consciousness Is.
The "Awake Space" now
Perched on my shoulders is
Letting "What Is" Be.
***
As the "Seeing Space"
Perched on my shoulders I Am
"Being Awareness."
As the "Seeing Space"
Perched on my shoulders I Am
"Consciousness Itself."
As the "Seeing Space"
Perched on my shoulders I Am
"Full of Everything."
***
"Unconditioned Space"
Is Very Happy to Let
"Conditioned Space" Be.
The Unconditioned
Awake Space I Am is Full
Of Everything Else.
The "That Which Is" of
Conditioned Space Exists in
Unconditioned Space.
[Rich Note: The following "Science and Non-Duality" YouTube, "The Headless Way (pioneered by DE Harding) as a path to enquiring 'Who Am I?'"by Rich Lang (which inspired today's "headless hay-ku") serves as a lovely experiential/experimental complement to (and visceral verification of) the great Fred David YouTube (Attention Practice: A Powerful New Way of Clearing) previously linked. ]
Re1: "Here's a short video from a Science and Non-Duality conference - me talking to the camera for ten minutes on the Headless Way." - Richard Lang
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=53.7x&m=JWvASHEfL2lX2P&b=WSfKWeAmaBs8QSGbTHRAbg
Re2: A Re-link of Fred Davis' great "Attention Practice" YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3CB0Twij7o
Re3: "My Emptiness is Full, My Silence Sings." Sri Nisargadatta
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Haiku of the Day (In My Father's House)
That "Good Old Boy" Fred
Davis "Really Takes It to
The House" with this One:
Attention Practice: A Powerful New Method of Clearing"
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3CB0Twij7o
Davis "Really Takes It to
The House" with this One:
Attention Practice: A Powerful New Method of Clearing"
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3CB0Twij7o
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Hay-Ku of the Day (Single-Eyed vs. Double-Minded)
A "Double-Minded"
Perspective turns "Single-Eyed"
Heaven into Hell.
"Double-Minded" means
An "egocentric state" of
Mind and Consciousness.
"Single-Eyed" means a
Unified State of Mind or
Non-Dual Awareness.
"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." (James 1:8 KJV)
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil (Re: double), thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:22-23 KJV)
Perspective turns "Single-Eyed"
Heaven into Hell.
"Double-Minded" means
An "egocentric state" of
Mind and Consciousness.
"Single-Eyed" means a
Unified State of Mind or
Non-Dual Awareness.
"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." (James 1:8 KJV)
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil (Re: double), thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:22-23 KJV)
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Hay-Ku of the Day (Absolute Relatives)
Relativity
As a polar opposite
Implies Absolute.
Relativity
Requires a still observer
To know It's Present.
Science Worship is
Worshipping self-reflections
Instead of Being.
Worshiping Science
Is Worshipping the Letter
Instead of Its Source.
[Rich Note: These and the "pop-up response" that follows were inspired by a young friend, who seems, based on his comment and literal interpretation of Spiritual Light with respect to physical heat, to have swung to the materialistic side of the Mental Pendulum (of which the Balance Point, between all such apparent relative opposites is Pure, Still, Self-Transcendant "Awareness of Being" -- which naturally embraces and transcends all such relative mental extremes).]
Re: "Science -- if you believe in that sort of thing :)"
Yes, James, quite true, if one reads Scripture from the "partial perspective of relative thought, sense and feeling" (Re: from a "double-minded" instead of a "single-eyed" perspective -- with "head instead of Heart"); and, in so doing, unwittingly assumes "relativity" as an Absolute Premise (Re: as the "Ultimate Reality or Changeless Identity of Being").
However, James, if the "Unimaginable or Inconceivable Light of Heaven" being "pointed to" in that particular Scripture is seen (and so known) to be the "Pure Light of Awareness I AM" -- as the One Absolute Singularity (Infinite Potential to Be) made Manifest as "The Sun of God I Am" -- It would naturally produce Absolutely Zero Heat, as a Perfectly Integral and Frictionless State of Pure Awareness of Being (Re: Life or Consciousness) that is opposed to Absolutely Nothing.
[Rich Note: "...Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." (2 Corinthians 3:5&6 KJV)]
As a polar opposite
Implies Absolute.
Relativity
Requires a still observer
To know It's Present.
Science Worship is
Worshipping self-reflections
Instead of Being.
Worshiping Science
Is Worshipping the Letter
Instead of Its Source.
[Rich Note: These and the "pop-up response" that follows were inspired by a young friend, who seems, based on his comment and literal interpretation of Spiritual Light with respect to physical heat, to have swung to the materialistic side of the Mental Pendulum (of which the Balance Point, between all such apparent relative opposites is Pure, Still, Self-Transcendant "Awareness of Being" -- which naturally embraces and transcends all such relative mental extremes).]
Re: "Science -- if you believe in that sort of thing :)"
Yes, James, quite true, if one reads Scripture from the "partial perspective of relative thought, sense and feeling" (Re: from a "double-minded" instead of a "single-eyed" perspective -- with "head instead of Heart"); and, in so doing, unwittingly assumes "relativity" as an Absolute Premise (Re: as the "Ultimate Reality or Changeless Identity of Being").
However, James, if the "Unimaginable or Inconceivable Light of Heaven" being "pointed to" in that particular Scripture is seen (and so known) to be the "Pure Light of Awareness I AM" -- as the One Absolute Singularity (Infinite Potential to Be) made Manifest as "The Sun of God I Am" -- It would naturally produce Absolutely Zero Heat, as a Perfectly Integral and Frictionless State of Pure Awareness of Being (Re: Life or Consciousness) that is opposed to Absolutely Nothing.
[Rich Note: "...Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." (2 Corinthians 3:5&6 KJV)]
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Hay-Ku of the Day (Being Present and Aware)
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living Light of God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Father in the Flesh.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Father Manifest.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Holy One of God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Divine Comforter.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Spirit in the Flesh.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Christ of God in All.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Everlasting One.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Everlasting God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living God in All.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Absolute Father.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living Christ in You.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living Light of Love
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Child of God in All.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Holy Child of God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living Word of God.
Aware as I Am is the
Living Light of God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Father in the Flesh.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Father Manifest.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Holy One of God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Divine Comforter.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Spirit in the Flesh.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Christ of God in All.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Everlasting One.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Everlasting God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living God in All.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Absolute Father.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living Christ in You.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living Light of Love
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Child of God in All.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Holy Child of God.
Being Present and
Aware as I Am is the
Living Word of God.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Hay-Ku of the Day [A Raw Hay-Ku (RHK) Sampler]
Select 5-4-14 RHK:
As this Still, Silent
Aware Presence of Being
I Am That I Am.
As this Still, Silent
Aware Presence of Being
I Am Living Light.
***
Everything I See
Is a Movement within the
Awareness I Am.
Everything I See
Is a Movement within the
Absolute One Is.
***
Seeing I Am This
Awareness of Being is
The Object of Life.
Seeing I Am God's
Awareness of Being is
The Object of Life.
***
Recognize You Are
The Still Silent Awareness
Of Being God Is.
Awake to Being
The Still Silent Awareness
Of God that You Are.
Awake to Being
The Still Silent Awareness
Of God that I Am.
***
Pure Awareness of
Present as I Am
Is God the Father.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is Fundamental.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Ground of All.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is Our Common Ground.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is Basic to Life.
***
THAT which is Aware
Of Being This or That Is
Prior to This and That.
THAT which is Aware
Of Being This or That Is
Prior to Everything.
THAT which is Aware
Of Being This or That Is
Prior to Existence.
***
THAT which is Aware
Of Being Everything must
Be the Absolute.
THAT which is Aware
Of Being "All That Is" must
Be the Absolute.
***
Awareness that is
Not turned back on Itself is
Without Resistance.
Awareness that is
Not turned back on Itself is
Resisting Nothing.
Awareness that is
Not turned back on Itself gets (is)
Out of Its Own Way.
***
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing makes
One Omnipresent.
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing is
Absolute Freedom.
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing is
An Absolute Joy.
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing is
Zero Resistance.
***
Total Release or
Letting Go is a Matter
Of No Resistance.
Total Release or
Letting Go simply involves
Zero Resistance.
A Total Letting
Go of Self is a matter
Of No Resistance
***
Zero Resistance
"To What Is As It Is" is
Absolute Freedom.
Zero Resistance
"To What Is As It Is" is
An Absolute Joy.
***
Seeing things in a
Relative Way blinds us to
The Vision of God.
Seeing Life in a
Relative Way keeps us from
Single-Eyed Seeing.
***
The Fastest Way to
Make what you do not like stop
Is "Pay It No Mind."
The Divine Way to
Make what you do not like stop
Is "Stop Minding It."
***
"Letting What Is
Be As It Is" is the Best
Way to Be Happy.
"Letting What Is
Be As It Is" is How to
Be Happy Always.
***
Thinking Relative
Blinds Mankind to Being the
Awareness of God.
Thinking Relative
Blocks the Absolute Nature
Of One's Own Being.
Thinking Relative
Blocks Awareness of One's Own
Absolute Nature.
As this Still, Silent
Aware Presence of Being
I Am That I Am.
As this Still, Silent
Aware Presence of Being
I Am Living Light.
***
Everything I See
Is a Movement within the
Awareness I Am.
Everything I See
Is a Movement within the
Absolute One Is.
***
Seeing I Am This
Awareness of Being is
The Object of Life.
Seeing I Am God's
Awareness of Being is
The Object of Life.
***
Recognize You Are
The Still Silent Awareness
Of Being God Is.
Awake to Being
The Still Silent Awareness
Of God that You Are.
Awake to Being
The Still Silent Awareness
Of God that I Am.
***
Pure Awareness of
Present as I Am
Is God the Father.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is Fundamental.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Ground of All.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is Our Common Ground.
Pure Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is Basic to Life.
***
THAT which is Aware
Of Being This or That Is
Prior to This and That.
THAT which is Aware
Of Being This or That Is
Prior to Everything.
THAT which is Aware
Of Being This or That Is
Prior to Existence.
***
THAT which is Aware
Of Being Everything must
Be the Absolute.
THAT which is Aware
Of Being "All That Is" must
Be the Absolute.
***
Awareness that is
Not turned back on Itself is
Without Resistance.
Awareness that is
Not turned back on Itself is
Resisting Nothing.
Awareness that is
Not turned back on Itself gets (is)
Out of Its Own Way.
***
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing makes
One Omnipresent.
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing is
Absolute Freedom.
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing is
An Absolute Joy.
Willingness to Be
Absolutely Nothing is
Zero Resistance.
***
Total Release or
Letting Go is a Matter
Of No Resistance.
Total Release or
Letting Go simply involves
Zero Resistance.
A Total Letting
Go of Self is a matter
Of No Resistance
***
Zero Resistance
"To What Is As It Is" is
Absolute Freedom.
Zero Resistance
"To What Is As It Is" is
An Absolute Joy.
***
Seeing things in a
Relative Way blinds us to
The Vision of God.
Seeing Life in a
Relative Way keeps us from
Single-Eyed Seeing.
***
The Fastest Way to
Make what you do not like stop
Is "Pay It No Mind."
The Divine Way to
Make what you do not like stop
Is "Stop Minding It."
***
"Letting What Is
Be As It Is" is the Best
Way to Be Happy.
"Letting What Is
Be As It Is" is How to
Be Happy Always.
***
Thinking Relative
Blinds Mankind to Being the
Awareness of God.
Thinking Relative
Blocks the Absolute Nature
Of One's Own Being.
Thinking Relative
Blocks Awareness of One's Own
Absolute Nature.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Haiku of the Day (Awareness of Being)
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Child of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Truth of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Peace of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Joy of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Light of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Life of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Love of God.
Being Present as I Am
Is the Child of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Truth of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Peace of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Joy of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Light of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Life of God.
This Awareness of
Being Present as I Am
Is the Love of God.
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