Saturday, July 8, 2017

Hay-Ku of the Day (Heaven and Hell)

Life's either a Joy
Ride or Nightmare depending 
On One's Perspective.

One can turn a Joy
Ride into a Nightmare based
On what One believes.

Whether Life is a
Joy ride or nightmare depends
On the way one thinks.

***

The Perspective One
Adopts determines whether 
Life's Heaven or Hell.

Hell is in your Head
Heaven is in your Heart and
Love is All-Around.

Heaven and Hell aren't
Locations but Potential
States of Consciousness.

[Rich Note: With the exception of the "Love is All-Around" OOMM Oldie, the above Haiku were inspired by a Francis Bennett post, a related stream of reader comments and the following response thereby evoked:

Re. "...so many dimensions and so many fascinating beings...";...only One....BE-ing"; and "...life is more fun that way..."

(Prefatory Note:  Funny/strange how I don't see/feel any contradiction in any of the above referenced discriminative descriptors.)

"Only One BE-ing" with an Infinite Number of Particle State Perspectives (or Dimensionless Still Point Frames of Absolute Self-Reference) from which to View (and so Experience) THAT; (All of which are a direct function of Mental Focal Length and Breadth of Vision) in a Zero (Absolutely Still) One (Energetically Vibrant) Way (of SEE-ing/BE-ing).

In Seeing this, the "One" (Quantum Potential to Be) is no more "Real" than the "Many" (Potentiated Particle) States of Consciousness, seen in an Absolute Context or by Absolute Standards. For even directly perceived, apprehended or intuited "Awareness Aware of Itself as THAT" (prior to Cosmic Consciousness) still implies Relativity or a Zero-One mechanism of Absolute Self-Reflection.

PS1: So why don't We All just "Sit back, relax and enjoy" the Co-Creative Trip/Flight this Divine Amusement Park (or Cosmic Joy Ride) of "Infinitely Creative Absolute Potential to Be" (as Awareness of Being or Consciousness) offers (once one no longer relates to it as "a matter of life and death").

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Hay-Ku of the Day ("I Am THAT I AM")

“I AM that I AM”
Is a declaration of 
Absolute Being.

***

Quite Simply I AM:
"Being Being Being" prior
To self-conception.

Quite Simply I AM:
"Being Being Being" or
"Zero Being One."

***

"I Am" is "The First
Person Singular of the
Present Tense to Be."

Re: "I Am That I Am" - From the standpoint of rational thought God's response to Mose's question about His (His/Her or It's works too) Name would appear to be a nonsense statement. In truth, however, it is, perhaps, the clearest declaration of God's Absolute Nature (metaphysically speaking, name and nature are equivalent) possible. In the case of God, His (Her or It works too) most essential nature is that of Absolute, Self-Existent Being (both in Still Potential and Vibratory Actuality) as in "being all in all" an so the only One. And how, exactly, is this reflected in the statement, "I Am that I Am"? Simply by stating that He is not only "I Am", the "first person singular of the present tense to be", as the One and only Subject of All, but the One and only Object of All, as well. So in perfectly clear and concise grammerical terms, God was simply saying that He was the Only One or the Subject and Object of All and Everything. Which is just another way of saying that He was All in All, both the First Cause and the Only Effect. Which is simply a way of affirming absolute oneness; affirming that He/She/It was the "One" (Absolute) God and Father of All, Who is In All, Above All and Through All" (and, in more technically correct metaphysical terms, actually Being) All) 1992; U/D 2017

Re: "One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." Ephesians 4:6 KJV ]

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Hay-Ku of the Day (Form and Formlessness, Part 1 of 5)

Form's subject to the
"Laws of Relativity"
Formlessness is not.

Form is subject to
"Newtonian Principles"
Formlessness is not.

***

Form is subject to
Relative Laws and that which
Is Formless is not.

Formless Energy
Is of not subject to Laws of
Relative Being.

***

To "Be Nothing" is
To Be in a "Formless State" of
"Conscious Energy."

To "Be Nothing" is
To Be in a "Formless State" of
"Conscious Awareness."

***

True Emptiness is
Absolute Potential to
Be Prior to Being.

Real Nothingness is
Absolute Potential to
Be Prior to Being.

***

Particular States
Of Quantum Consciousness are
Patterned Energy.

Particular States
Of Quantum Consciousness are
Like Ocean Waves.

***

Particle States of
Awareness of Being are
Temporary forms.

Particle State Forms
Of Conscious Awareness are
Forms of Formlessness.

[Rich Note: The following spontaneous thread of a great Francis Bennett Face Book post this morning inspired the above (only the first 12 of 54) stream of Haiku:

Re: Francis Bennett 7-1-17 FB Post 

(1) The Stream:

"An amazing revelation is when one sees with deep clarity that the emptiness of shunyata and the compassion of Karuna are one."

Stephen Bae: Ugh now I have to learn what shunyata is

Francis: Both are unconditional openness.........   :)

Rich: Yes, Francis, and the seeming paradox (but not the amazement and wonder) is resolved with the realization that what is experienced as both emptiness and compassion is the same formless energy in the absence and presence of form; and, further, that emptiness is not really nothing, as normally supposed, but only a present absence of form or patterned energy.

Ergo : "Form is Emptiness (Formless Energy) and Emptiness Form (Formed Energy) -- with the Energy Itself  Being Vibratory (zero-one; on-off) Absolute Potential to Be (or Absolutely Nothing playing at Being Everything).

Jerry Freeman: "shunyata karuna garbham" ...

"Emptiness, the womb of compassion"
~ Nagarjuna

Rich: Jerry, this correlates perfectly with the "Contemplative Living Silence," as a Quantum Field State of Energy (that is Synonymous with both Universal, Energetic Consciousness and/or Vibratory Emptiness), referenced in Robert Sardello's "Silence, the Mystery of Wholeness" and "Heartfulness."

P.S. Something also implied when Neville Goddard said, "Now, let us enter the Silence," at the end of many of his talks.

(2) Related quotes:

A. The Heart Sutra:

"O Sariputra, Form does not differ from Emptiness
And Emptiness does not differ from Form.
Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form.
The same is true for Feelings,
Perceptions, Volitions and Consciousness."

B. St. Paul:

"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." Colossians 1:15-17 KJV

"Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen." I 1 Timothy 1:17 KJV

C. Bill Samuel:

"A new world had been revealed in the morning of a spring day. The chimerical nature of the old world was seen in the afternoon. That night, in the cold and dark of a human night, only a meager memory of the Light at the pond remained. In the place of Joy, desolation and depression had descended. My confidence in the old world had been smashed during the day; yet in the dark of night, there was only a fading memory of Something Wonderful to take its place, and, as I looked at the stars, I was aware of my human nothingness and emptiness. Though I didn't know it then, I was coming to discover the nature of learning."

D: Robert Sardello:

"The way of Silence is the way of feeling, and the heart is the center of feeling.  When we are able to place our attention into the center of the heart, we develope the cognition of Silence because feeling is a mode of knowing."

D. Rich Poetry:

"On again, off again, round and around, One moment lost, the next moment found; Movement and stillness, silence and sound, One moment free, the next moment bound..."

"...Flesh and spirit, body and soul, One moment part, the next moment whole; Mary and Joseph, manger and stall, One moment Nothing, the next moment All."

Circa 1982

(First and Last Verse of "One Moment" Poem)]


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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Hay-Ku of the Day (Pure in Heart)

What I die to is
My delusion of Being
What I Imagine.

What one dies to is
One's delusion of Being
Separate from God.

***

What I die to is
My delusion of Being
Other than I Am.

Jesus died to save
Us all from our delusion
Of self-existence.

(1) Neville-Wise:

"Man is purified by the death of his delusion." -- Neville Goddard

"Like gold in the furnace He has tried us and receives us unto Himself as Pure Gold" -- Neville Goddard

"As gold in the furnace he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them." -- The Book of Wisdom of Solomon

(2) Scripture-Wise:

"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8 KJV

"Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." James 4:8 KJV

"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee."  Psalm 51:10-13 KJV


[Rich Note: Here's a pop-up Haiku related to today's abstract:

An Open Heart is
A Heart Willing to Receive
"What Is As It Is."]

Monday, June 26, 2017

Hay-Ku of the Day (God Related Oldies and Newbies)

The Question is not
Whether there is a God, but
Who's Playing the Role?

God is Real as the
Aware Presence of Being
I Am and You Are.

God is Real as the
Aware Presence of Being
Not as a Concept.

***

The Mind of Jesus 
Took us from a “God Without" 
To a “God Within." 

Life "Outside the Box"
Of "Mental Experience"
Is "Paradise Found."

***

Out of My Mind and
Back to My Sense of Being
Consciously Aware.

Out of My Mind and
Back to My Sense of Being
Present and Aware.

Out of My Mind and
Back to My Sense of Being
What I Am in Truth.

***

To See Harmony
In Chaos or God in Man
Be Mentally Still.

In Silent Stillness
I become That which I Am 
In Spirit and Truth.

Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
There is Only One.

Metaphor-Wise: 

*111. Our God is One: Reference to God as one is really a reference to God as absolute, as a state or condition of all-enclusive, all-encompassing being. It is also to say that God is the only true One and that all other states or conditions are merely aspects, parts or degrees of that one self-same whole that God is." 1992; U/D 4/7/96

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Saving Grace of Silence)

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

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

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

[Rich Note: The following related passages on Silence are from Robert Sardello's "Silence, The Mystery of Wholeness":

"We live, within our ego consciousness, with a sense of complete self-sufficiency that denies the presence of the spiritual worlds. Silence transforms these two unconscious aspects of the ego, it's fear of the earthly world and fear of the spirit world, for Silence takes fear away. Silence heals fear.

"In Silence then, we still have the capacity of focusing, which characterizes the functioning and true purpose of ego consciousness, but we also have the new capacity of diffuse and whole consciousness that characterizes soul-spirit consciousness. When these two forms of consciousness meld the world is seen as holy. When our ordinary perception combines with Silence, we perceive everything in its holiness."

***

"Perceiving the world in Silence makes us think differently. We begin to be aware that our thinking about spiritual matters has been materialistic...Silence, however, is being on the way to spiritualized thinking. The very form of our thinking has to be 're-formed' from 'thinking about' to 'thinking within,' and Silence is the teacher."

***

"Silence is intelligence.  It is a mode, a form of intelligence. It is Wisdom. As we enter into the Silence, we enter into Wisdom."

P.S. Simon and Garfunkel's related "One for the Ages":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4 ]


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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Hay-Ku of the Day (OOMM Favorites List 8)

Mind: 

A Still Mind becomes
The Pure Witnessing Presence 
Of Being You Are. 

Mind is the Weaver 
Of Garments of Light or Shrouds
Of Self-Ignorance. 

This mind of mine is 
A terrible master and 
Wonderful servant. 

Mind is Moonlight with
Respect to the Sunlight of 
Direct Consciousness. 

Divine Reflections 
Shatter in restless minds as 
Sunlight on the Sea. 

Mind as a mental
Mirror appears to fragment 
The Light it reflects. 

A Still Mind gathers
The Light a moving mind 
Can only disperse. 

Still Mental Waters 
Gather the Light of Being 
With no intension. 

Observing without 
Self-referential thought is 
Being the Seeing.

Truth:

The Truth is “Dirt Simple” 
It’s the mind that complicates 
Things to keep its job. 

Truth in a Nutshell: 
“Being Is, You Are That and
Everything is Fine.” 

My “American Dream” 
Is to share the Good News: "You
Are not what you think.” 

Moonlight gazing back 
At the Sunlight at its Source 
Would say: “I Am That”!