Hay-Ku of the Day (Amazing Grace)

God as the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
Is Amazing Grace.

God as the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
Is the Living Lord.

God as the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
Is the Heart of All.

God as the Aware
Presence of Being I Am
Is This Awareness.

[Rich Note: This was originally written to share with close friends, but it felt right to memorialized it here:

"I was sitting with a friend named Robert last night over Pizza in a state of "Full-Emptiness" (Tangible Nothingness) simply smiling at him across the restaurant table, when Robert suddenly starts pointing in one direction, then another, repeating as he pointed, "God's not there there...God's not there!" Then Robert stops, opens his hands, and moves them, palms inward, towards his chest and says, "God's in Here, God's in Here!"  At which point, he is  clearly Blessed with a Glimpse of God's Presence in his own Heart, as he started to tear-up with the Sacredness of the Moment. Then Robert does it again with even greater emphasis to see if it rely happened, gets this Wonderfully Beatific Look on his face and begins to cry with the Joy of being given yet another Divine Glimpse.  What a Blessing and Joy to Be Presence to a Conscious Birth in Awareness of God's Living Presence in such a Dear Friend (one who would have been a great drinking buddy in the old days.) What a Sweet Wonderful and Unforgettable Miracle of Life!"]

Haiku of the Day (Letting It Be As It Is)

"Letting It Be As
It Is" is the only way
To "Be As You Are."

"Letting It Be As
It Is" is the only way
To "Be As I Am."

"Letting It Be As
It Is" is the only way
To Know "I Am That."

The "Inner aligns
With the Outer" by "Letting
It Be As It Is."

[Rich Note:  A "synchronous mutual arising" from a book I am presently reading:

"The way to the source begins with our appreciation of life as it is right now. With appreciation comes acceptance and integration, the keys to transformation -- the keys to the kingdom."

(From "I Am God -- And So Are You," by James C. Wilhelm; with whom I have some rather "interesting historical connections" {Re: Air Force, Vietnam, DaNang AB, AC-119K Gunships, a long search for Truth/God, multiple epiphanies, a Spiritual Friend named Richard...}).]

Hay-Ku of the Day ("Blessed are the Peacemakers")

A "single-eye" is
A mind undivided by
Mental reflection.

We play at being
Two through mental reflection
And self-projection.

A Peacemaker sees
Though a single eye and not
With a double-mind.

Re: "Can you guys explain what is meant by "seeing the world as separate". "We define ourselves as separate" ...(I'm)...not you...(and)...(you're)...not me ....(?)

Part 1:

Of TWAIN ONE NEW MAN***

(Introduction to Chapter 5 of OOMM)

"What’s going on within the geographic confines of your skull, behind your eyes, right now? Is it not everything you see before your eyes, and is this not actually composed of patterns of mental energy arising within your own head? Is it not also true that the patterns which you presently identify as yourself are composed of the exact same mental material you identify as other? This being true, how is it possible to be so intimately identified with one portion of your awareness,and so self-alienated from the other? Perhaps because the preponderance of your attention is habitually focused on the former, while you are proportional less sensitive and aware of the latter."

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Conceptual Fire Hose/Data-Dump

The Hay-Ku are Freeze
Frame Snap-Shots that Capture a much
Faster thought process.

"Languaging" that
Can't keep up with the speed of
Thought can't report (capture or record) It.

The mental keyboard's
Not capable of that kind
Of computation.

So it would seem you
Have found a sound reason for
Recording what's said.

[Rich Note: The following letter to a Friend offers some necessary context to both the origin of the Hay-Ku and the conceptual "data-dumps," both verbal and written, I have been prone to for the last 30 years or so:

It would seem "the circle has come full" here,  Kris, as this all really started with a ton of spontaneous "flow of consciousness" writing --all of which came like "one big sentence," in need of a ton of semi-colons in order to make it only somewhat intelligible to another (Re: I've still got 5000 3x5 Cards from the early 80's that break down into 250 + essays of the stuff, that haven't seen the light of day, and could only understood and interpreted here ) -- occasioned by a 1978 epiphany.

Thus, began a 20 year process (as reflected in the 2006 OOMM book) of "conceptual distillation" -- from "flow of consciousness" prose, to abstract drawings, to rhymed and unrhymed poetry, to journal notes, to one-liners, to short essays, to metaphysical metaphors (once suggested by a dear friend to scale down and unitize essential principles and concepts; which   itself resulted in more than 200 such metaphors in 1992 and the 18 or so favorites used to introduce each chapter of OOMM) -- in order to express the overall understanding (or "Big Picture") here, in "slowed and scaled down-mediums of expression," to make it intelligible to "particular human minds, states of consciousness and personal temperaments."

So it would seem that I now need to follow a "similar distillation process" with respect to the expanded "verbal flow of consciousness streams"c I have become prone to in the last 6 months or so.

Yours In Truth I Am ...Rich

PS1: I'm (re: the "me that says my" -- the "keyboard, not the computer") is really not that smart, Kris.  I just discovered how to "get out of the my own way" long enough for "Oneness" (Re: "Divine Mind, I AMness, Being, Presence, Consciousness, Awareness of Being, the Spirit of God, Source or Heart" which We All Ultimately Are and Express in Particular Unitized Forms or States) to speak to Itself; and, thereby, Externalize, Reflect, Re-Cognize and Re-member, in the medium of conceptual language, What It Already Knows Within, by Virtue of Being All That Is, Was or Ever Will Be Relatively or Self-Reflectively Knowable.

PS2: Now, of course, the particular personal character and qualities (Re: the passion, aggressiveness and emotional temperament of a Scorpio) of the delivery mechanism or medium  (Re: the Rich body-mind organism/unit or "Richness" as Fred Davis liked to refers to it) will naturally be conveyed in the transmission of any Truth shared; but only as a superficial taint or stain which must be overlooked or seen through in order to receive the full import and impact of what is being offered.

PS3: The "Heart" (or I AMness) referred to yesterday is the "Heart of Awareness," which is Non-Dual and Absolutely One (without a Second), and so Incapable of "Cringing" (or any other such emotional contraction); in the same way Pure Light cannot Be subject to the Darkness of Self-Ignorance or Pure Love Be subject to Fear's Contraction.  Ergo:  It was the body-mind organism (or "Krisness" ;-) that both cringed and then came up with a reason for the cringe. For Pure Oneness, in and of Itself, simply observes without comment, judgment, opinion, belief or any particular frame of personal self-reference; and, as such, is incapable of cringing at anything (that It Ultimately Is as "Nothing Being Everything"). Neither does it feel compelled to help another do something "better" when It Is the One and Only Doer.

PS4:  Still and All, Kris, I have been turning on the "Conceptual Firehose" rather indiscriminately recently, and what came up (and in the specific context of what Midge recently offered)from you is quite valuable here; and I am very much interested in exploring the subject with you further; as I have have been a number of related "outer warning signs" recently (Re: a traffic stop warning for an illegal turn on red the previous night), yours being the last.]

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OM Shanti Prayer

"Let there be Love and Peace
among all beings of the Universe.

Let there be Peace, let there
Be Peace.

OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti."

(as it appears in a Papaji title)

Hay-Ku of the Day (A "Short-Cut" Home)

Take a moment to

Rest as Awareness letting

Whatever Is Be.

Rest a moment in

Being Awareness and "Let

It Be As It Is."

Taking a moment

Abiding as Awareness

Just Letting It Be.

[Rich Note: The following synoptic extract from the Introduction to Scott Kiloby's "Living Realization" (which is highly recommended) -- an extract that, at least seen from here, offers the "shortest-cut" you will ever find back to the "Eternal Home" you never really left (except, of course, in the "story of me" that the "me that says my" is so fond of constantly telling itself):

"The main invitation in "Living Realization is this:

- Recognize awareness

- Let all appearances be as they are

- See the appearances are inseparable.

"There are many other pointers, tools and inquires in this book, but these simple pointers are all you need to recognize freedom in the midst of your life.

"We must start with something fundamental: basic, everyday awareness. What is awareness?  Right now, before you entertain your story of who you are and before any other thought arises, there is a basic awake, thought-free awareness here.

"Awareness is the simple capacity to be aware. It's as simple as that. If you try to understand that intellectually, you miss the simplicity of it.  Before you think about it, are you aware right now? That is awareness.

"Stop for one moment and bring your full attention to this basic awareness.  It is what allows the present moment to effortless be as it is.  Notice that when you are not thinking, this basic awareness simply allows, for example, the wall to be as it is. It naturally allows a table to be as it is.  It naturally allows the air in the room to be as it is.  It takes no effort to let everything be as it is. Discover this for yourself.

"Stop thinking for long enough to get one glimpse of the fact that there is a basic awareness already here.  All you have to do is notice that it is here.  Then notice that when a thought arises, this basic awareness allows even that thought to be as it is.

"At first, this awareness might not seem like a big deal at all.  Perhaps thoughts rush back in very quickly, one after another, and take over attention.  But that one glimpse of life without thought is actually monumental. It is a doorway to freedom.

"The more we return to this basic awareness, over and over, through out the day, the more we see that it is always already present. We discover for ourselves exactly what the words acceptance, freedom, love, peace, compassion, wisdom and selflessness are really referring to: our own immediate experlience in the here and now, free of the belief in separation.

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Hay-Ku of the Day (The Eye I Am)

A Prerequisite
To any Existence is
First Being Aware.

Awareness is the
Divine Eye of God that allows
Everything to Be.

Awareness is the
Divine Eye of God that allows
The "Seeing I Am."

RE: "...for the facts 'to be discovered' there is needed 'the eye to see them'."  Schiller FCS