sun falling

sun falling 

on dark and light branches

a black clearing separating

dividing left from right

 poles of the morning green..

these oppositions remind us

that all in each day

even a finely ground mix

has a tree of duality birthmark...

Forgetting

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:  

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,  60

        Hath had elsewhere its setting,  

          And cometh from afar:  

        Not in entire forgetfulness,  

        And not in utter nakedness,  

But trailing clouds of glory do we come  65

        From God, who is our home:  

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"

(William Wordsworth,

Intimations of 

Immortality...

excerpt)

BE AWARE OF BEING AWARE (Rupert Spira)

BE AWARE OF BEING AWARE

Everyone is aware but not everyone is aware that they are aware.

Be interested in the experience of ‘Being Aware’ rather than the object or situation that you are aware of.

Having noticed the experience of ‘Being Aware’ or ‘Aware Being’, we may wonder about its nature. 

What is the nature of the Awareness with which we are aware of our experience?

The desire to know the nature of Awareness draws us ever more deeply into the experience of simply ‘Being Aware’ or ‘Awareness Itself’.

In time the desire to know its nature is gradually replaced by the love to simply be knowingly this presence of unlimited Awareness.

This presence shines in each of us as the experience ‘I am’ or ‘I am aware’.

Be aware of being aware.

In this Self-abidance the qualities of peace, happiness and love that are inherent in Aware Being or pure Awareness are gradually revealed.

Perennial Philosophy

Perennial Philosophy    

start with Awareness

aware of itself..

+

separate selves with

Awareness hidden

+

ego

veiling Awareness

forgetting

+

now return 

end as beginning

remembering

recognizing at last

start with Awareness...

Hanging in there

Hanging in there

this the greeting of

the man in a truck

a friendly exchange

friendliness surrounding

we might suppose

his daily oppositions

which again we suppose

are multiples growing

of worldly discomforts

 existence particulars..

yet that greeting

hanging in there:

a possible recognition

of separation and duality

awaiting non-dual rising...

Anita and Leigh

Anita and Leigh

Our friend Leigh

keeps us informed

of your recovery

which we pray

is well underway..

not hearing today

we with expectation

await healing's flow..

Leigh blesses all 

her channel overflows

carrying a community's

love and light

 enveloping this hour

Anita's passing storm...

Division

Division

is what we seem to know

and know until discomfort

at last directs a search

and the search finds division

and expectation of finding

comfort within new division..

momentary comfort is born but

fades as a new search begins..

but finally a teaching Arrives

it arrives when not sought..

we now know that our searches

were to locate the searcher

who could not be found

midst the unending divisions

we had filtered and grasped

on those so many pathways

before...

Deo

Deo

My cat-sitting adventure

for several days..

Deo's greeting each day

then lap-sitting and tuna

Finally my departure

with a promise of return..

A temporary relationship

solitude with edging

and some dozing

a simplicity interlude...

Buddha in Glory

Center of all centers, core of cores,

almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead. 

Rainer Maria Rilke

Place

Place

The location the place where one stands 

this morning..sitting or standing..sun or

clouds of a new day..interplay of inner

and outer..all in the location of our

Awareness of which we now have 

become aware..the Place has become

created and will be created again only

to reflect an Awareness which has

no place...

THE GREAT TRANSITION

Amazon Review:

This is a significant book published in a time of much interest in the topic of
afterlife.  The value of the book lies in Ann Frazier West's consideration of afterlife
from two perspectives:  Her own experiences relating to three personally significant
persons who have made "The Great Transition," and secondly, the relational way
of understanding the elements of consciousness which give all of us the tools for
our own experiential learning and approaches. Simple scientific concepts of
dimensionality and energy (frequencies) point to the interconnectedness of
this-life and after-life.  With these holistic understandings, provided by modern
science and by teachers of consciousness, we (as has Ann) might overlay our unique
stories and participate in a life which discovers new perspectives, and brings more
fulfillment in the hectic present... Highly recommended as an experiential
supplement for those engaged in pursuing the Question..!

How might I iterate today

How might I iterate today

The wave of early day

prior to rising with

potentials vague and specific

 expanding our wave..

A liberating Question

might replace the many

constricting plans:

How might I iterate

today..?

Seeds and gaps

Seeds and gaps

Henry David Thoreau

theorized in his time

that all greening grows

from a lowly but

powerful seed..

This strange view

stood to replace

a quantum stand:

Simultaneous new birth..

Enter here our

modern attachment

to evolution truth:

Henry seems then

ahead of his time..

Yet we might pause

Darwin's gaps may

have quantum fillings

and Henry's seed

may have quantum

gaps..!

Headlights

Headlights

An afternoon errand to replace headlights

followed with a visit to Safeway and purchase of

a sole orange and finally a walk of the aisles

with a most decided lack of purpose..

These variations with intention freeing the soul

from stealthy gathering habit..

The orange was not juicy as expected

 Aisles appeared silent with welcome..

Two new headlights 

 a mediocre orange

 a purposeless walk

Yes..strange parts of an

afternoon experience

of release and Whole...

Alpine notes

Alpine notes

A nature excursion

with added intention

grieving the death

hailing his elevation
in Christianity:

 the great Mahler..

a burden accepted

evolution of human

each step and phase
reaching Superman
as Zarathustra spake

on an Alpine climb...

Referring to
Richard Strauss'
Alpine Symphony

Peaks and Valleys

Peaks and Valleys

Waiting in our valley

for the peak of Now

to show once again..

Another transcendence

to experience very soon..

Then to discover

the peak and valley

name the same Now

and we need only

breathe...

Fractal Awareness

Fractal Awareness

Named iterations..branches from Roots..

our sensing IS iteration..this truth lies

in the similarities we find and find again..

The similarity of branches speak of Root

and indeed are joyfully Root joined..

So for similarity..now for difference

the creation also iterates as difference..

branching everything new..beauty

and energy..independent and free..

Displays of colors..yet a forgetting brings

  up-rootedness casting life shadows..

Awaiting finally a Root awakening...!

Awakening to Fractals

Awakening to Fractals

STRETCH

May 19th, 2014

The story of Chaos begins in number, specifically in the mathematics and geometry of the fourth dimension. This is the home of Complex numbers and Fractal Geometry. Unlike the other dimensions - the first, second and third dimensions composed of the line, plane and solid - the fourth is the real world in which we live. It is the space time continuum of Man and Nature where there is constant change based on feedback. It is an open system where everything is related to everything else. Prior science and math was concerned with closed systems in the first, second and third dimensions. It emphasized "left brain algebra," and ignored "right brain geometry." Since Einstein, however, we know that even the third dimension - solid bodies - is just a model for reality, it does not really exist. We in fact live in the fourth dimension of the space-time continuum. Since Mandelbrot, we know what the fourth dimension looks like, we know the fractal face of chaos.

Simulation

An early universe simulation shows dark matter (left) transitioning to gas (right).
Credit: Illustris Collaboration

Simulation

With streaming code
and superfast computing
we can now watch
the amazing evolution
of a galaxy..this is
astronomy without
observation..
With our senses and
telescopic extensions 
we process light from
vast distances..a method
ancient and linear..
But now a method
much more profound:
black energy and light
large and small scale
a simultaneous dance 
embedded in code..
Might the question 
arise: is our code
an image pointing
to a grander Code...?
polarityinplay...

See www.illustris-project.org




From National Geographic:

Everyone loves cartoons, even cosmologists. They just call them simulations.

Now, one of the great triumphs of modern cosmology—our understanding of how the universe evolved its kaleidoscope of stars, worlds, and galaxies—has been visualized in its first realistic simulation:

“Until now, no single simulation was able to reproduce the universe on both large and small scales simultaneously,” Mark Vogelsberger of MIT and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the simulation team, says in a statement. Using a computer program, the team grew the virtual galaxies in simulated time, starting from 12 million years after the big bang (which kicked off about 13.8 billion years ago), they report in a study released this week by the journal Nature.

Named Illustris, the simulation built its universe out of 10 billion tiny cubes stuffed inside a virtual box measuring some 350 million light-years on each side.

Stuffed inside those cubes was simulated cosmological gas, which cooled, compressed, and formed filaments of galaxies that resemble ones seen today. As it evolved, its early cosmos resembled the real one, which is filled with small, energetic galaxies revealed by Hubble Space Telescope observations.

“If this all sounds somewhat complicated, do not be fooled: It is extremely complicated,” University of Maryland astronomer Michael Boylan-Kolchin, says in a commentary accompanying the study.

The simulation still has a way to go, Boylan-Kolchin adds, since it does not produce the biggest of black holes seen in the early universe or the dwarf galaxies that circle the Milky Way today. But thanks to the simulation, he says in the commentary, “creating a realistic virtual Universe of gas, stars, black holes and dark matter is already a reality. ”

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BOOKS Used and Rare

BOOKS Used and Rare

A bookstore's back door is foreground

of the snowy spring peak in the background..

This juxtaposition gains attention in this new morning

when we remember that there are places.. remote and rare..

both near and far..without visitors..seeming empty.. but just perhaps

contain a secret that would..on this morning..

set us free..

VISIONS OF NEW BEING

    

VISIONS OF NEW BEING

A Poetry Reading & Book Signing

You are invited to join poet Robin Izer in exploring what it means to be

on a path of creative and sacred transformation.  Robin will read a

sampling of poems from her newly published book Visions of New Being:

Meditations & Poems.  The writings in this book reflect Robin's growing

understanding and appreciation of Buddhism.  She considers Buddhism a

spiritual path of mindfulness and wisdom practice that does not conflict

with the truth of other spiritual traditions.  A portion of the sales of

Visions of New Being will go to fund the work of non-profit organizations

that support Earth sustainability. 

Friday, May 23, 2014

The Pillar Classroom

202 E Cheyenne Mtn. Blvd. Suite 1

10:00 to 11:30 AM

Cost:  Free

Please join Robin and others for refreshments, discussion, and tips on how

to publish your own creative work.

Robin's book has my Palmer Park photograph
on the cover...!

The dead fledgling

The dead fledgling

On a sidewalk
a fateful fall..
Over this dead one
two persons meet:
One wishes a disposal
quiet and away
from trafficking feet..
The other with a kick
and quick disregard
of this morning moment's
sudden dark streak..
A brief encounter
two teachers
on her path..
Each holding a mirror
for the other...

but Wait!..

but Wait!..

So it is..whether through Advaita or other
scripture..vital to learn of Consciousness
as unmoving and as unmoved light..simply
Aware of itself..then the reflection in our mirror..
providing light to see out there or in here..
but Wait!..we now see that there is nothing
to see..that we have only named once again:
Consciousness as experienced in our place..
but Wait!..we have no place...!

Organizations in dysfunction

Organizations in dysfunction

Again and again..a sign of our times..we lack awareness

of how separate members become an organization..

the oft intractable problem is not-knowing:

Who am I..?

Who are they..?

What is it..?

The not-knowing cancer infects..

The need now is for new software..

Software which recognizes in a

simultaneous Eye the uniqueness

in the light of each member..

Each identity is created by 

embedded knowing brightness

which is All in all..
With this known
the Organization resurrects
knowing itself at last
for the first time and
finds new uniqueness
an enlarged creation 
of unchanging Light...

A similarity

A similarity

Centered radials

uncovered in tree cutting

Hidden universe expanding...

Substitutionary

Substitutionary

An unfavored word

the speaker implied

wishing to replace

with this word: 

participatory..

The question of

responsibility..

Yet allowing each

of these words

to transform

to the other..

Might then

substitutionary

grace become 

an earned gift..?

Reality anew

A perspective shift

from encroaching shadows

to Awareness itself..

This visit to freedom

only letting go

finds Reality anew..

States

States

In a patch of sundried earth

dark cracks emerge.. forms resembling maps

remembered from schooldays and Google..

Appearance of arbitrary lines depicting 

States newborn..

Our everyday maps also born of the Sun..

the Sun's artistry with rainfall..the points

of assembly of water in place and flow..forms of

unique identities each subdivided patch..

Raising the question of new possibility of finding

an Awareness.. becoming the Sun and seeing

the patches and lines and States anew 
as images projected.. from that projector..

those many miles away...